The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-30
MANY KINDS OF MEASLES.

/ \ child cannot be said to be seasoned mn
! Til it has had the measles II isn't fairly
started in the world until that experience
is safely passed. Along with the measles
comes the mumps and the whooping cough.
and a whole troop of similar infections.
But if you say your child has had tie
measles, all these other kindred ills are
understood
! There are mental and moral disorders
that are a species Of measles, or a variation
of them, which are equally inevitable.
There are the T-can't and I-won't mea-
sizes, which are apt to be prevalent at an
early age.
There are the slang measles. which 50
affect the tongue Of the child that it can
/ hardly make itself understood by its father
| or mother.
/ There are the lying measles, the disobe-
dent measles the disrespeetlul measles
and whole lot more Of the same sort
which require prompt and firm treatment,
as most parents know to their discomfort
and sorrow
Perhaps the most stubborn Of all is that
form Of measles that is ant "a deyelon in
the early teens, when 4 boy knows more
than his ra,he, and ,,;rl tso,rs Mr. +l,a,
her mother The enre in Ills case is same-
times very painful for the child. for reasons
which reauir.. ma exclamation
A wholly different sort Of measles and
all children ..l,avo ,e,, :. 4ako 4,,o f,rn, ~
recnlar rocu,.inq fn,eryais or dolls and
play-kecn-bonse and lav-kee,,-sebool wifi
airls If tons and l,ites and marI,lo, and
skates and sleds Of "shinny,. and .lean
rroo Of baseball and bicycle .f oire,sas
and minstrel shows intbe harm and ,i,
stores and host Of other tbina. viii tbe
bows.
These ara all very yirn1c,t Will. 4bey
last. but. happily, are intermittent, and no
one of them lasts long at a time.
Under proper conditions and iudicious
management All these are healthfnl and
helpful, and are productive Of good rather
than harm.
Still another universal form Of measles.
inseparably connected with the develop
/ mcnt Of the boy and Girl into The man and
/ woman. is the mania for making eallee-
tions.
had an attack of it that lasted all
through my boyhood. and from which I
have never fully recovered.
FIRST got interested in collecting curl
| ouS rocks and stones that | found about
my fathers farm, and that gave me an IN
terest in the study Of geology and miner
alogy.
Then went IN for butterflies bugs, in
SFc'S anu reptiles ana from every walk
through llie iiei'lS' or f'mples III tie woods
| came nome ioa'ieu down Win sPecl-
mems am aif'iu, also lhat Dlfds nests
anu olio9 eggs suffered ABOUT ti1t Time.
In due course OF time ! had a botanical
craze, and every big book in the house was
filled with flowers leaves and ferns ia the
process of being pressed for my hcrbarium.
got interested in astronomy, and
studied the stars with sleeplcss diligence,
but as ii was not practicable tn collect
/ - " - 49, - - 49, - iA - 49,
soon turned my attention in other diree
tionS.
Coins, postage stamps, old books, anto-
graphs, antique articles old ehina-ware.
| relies Of all SORTS each had its turn. and
all helped to swell the museum of natural
history and cariositieS into which my room
was transformed.
not only took great pride. but solid
comfort, in it all, and then made the be-
ginning Of Investigations and studies that
have been useful to me all my life
Nor should the printno press and little
nrint;no Office bo omitted from tbe list n
do NOT know Of 4 tbina-t that may nrove Of
NOR, r.al hepetit to . .briobt how than a
nriptiuo Office Of his own If teaches him
10 smell Correctly as no school can do 81
encrtuallv and i beneficial in many ways
in bnlning ON nractieal es;ucatiop
This COLLECTING mania in children is an
awful hother IN the narents and "a every
ono CONCERNED bpt rood i almost spre ia
.,row mt If # r,stead n discan,.agino
or langbino at me. nv narents belned me
al, they conld natioptly and ;ntellioentlv
diroctin., my ofio,+s