Telegram-herald., 1889-12-15
JARED PERKINS RELIC.
Josiah Allen VIE Gives Her Some
Sound Advice.

SOunc Advice
One o. ne relations On ny own SIDE
cane aerea vlsi-- -n week before lsst Slo
tha. vas Arsl-.g Smith. or a. she calls
hs-se.f u53, -r-e re1c q Jared Per
kas.
s1e staia twelve days ard thirteen
nlrlts.
Size bad her Young chn3 with her
I.aciIla. Aagust4 Perkins.
Anllf Arg-IIy said "Luciila Augusta,
don 1. Il SIZE sad that once duFin' them
twelve days aad thirteen nights. she
sad Itsse hundred times. And ! haint
se,,.Il' it zoo high.
WAY, good laDd. I have sometimes
rheugnt h-t seen uouse- ole watched
close b. cat. Bat 40 place Of any de-
scription VAS ever watched IS that
NOT e- watched tlat child.
IL LucillA blt q apple on one side, it
was:
"Lucilla. don't Don't bite it In 50 FAR,
youu breAk OF your teeth"
IL she drinked a glass of water, IL was:
"Luc.llA, don sVal,er such big mou'-
fuls OF water. you'll ltll Jour A.tle throat
too fun"
Or, "Luc.ila, swa''er faster or tho
water VIII run al over your little chin
II she sAt down by rhe fire, il was;
"Luciua Augusta, don'tsltso near the
fre, or youu burn your lir,le tace"'
And z she sat away from II, il was:
"Lucila, don't set away from the fre
so far you1l chill your little veins"
And SO it went on. II she talked with
me and Josiah, Il was:
Don't talk so much, Lucills you'll
wear ont Cousin Josiah and Cousin Sa-
mantha
Or, II she didn't talk, il Was:
Don't keep SO still, Lucilla Augusta,
or Cousin Samantha and Cousin Josiah
viii think you have lost your little
tongue"
And so ArviIly KEEP on deep, anx-
iOus expression a-plowing into her face
from day 70 day; and little Lucilla not
dastin' 20 speak word. or move move,
without l0oSin 10 her mother Why, /
got SO wore out With IL that one day /
up and told ArvillY what J thought ont.
argied land il v2s hon a deep sense
OF duty that l aId it)-I argied that it
split disposition b. keeping it riled
up all the time; it learnt her to be de-
pendent on somebody else always. Sho
didn't know what 70 do. betn' told so
many different things 20 crce; and,
finally, | hrung up deep simely had
heard Mother Smith use, and says /:
AS it has been said. and well said:
Watch pot never biles,' which l 'spOse
means, If sou watch a kettle too clost,
and keep a movin' st back and forth,
and pokin OF the Goals under 10, 4, Won t
} bile. Thefo IS such thing as a wise
supervision oyeslookin'. that don't
annoy or disturb. sort O distant, and
near, too like the warm watchfulness Of
the sunlighs bendin' over us on sum
mer days, sootbin' and ccmfortin', and
yet guidin' and lightin' our pathways.
But this constant and open tagging
after child. or. as TIC poet would say:
This taggin' and laggin' is enough TO
ruin amp child whatsomevers 1t jest
/ takes away any trankness ard tndepend-
ence OF character hey may have set out
/ with ~~.~~<
"Oh, that is what want % do want
I Luciua Augusta t. lean onto me always.
I don't wAatLe ever to noge 81 inde-
I pendent of NE
/ And then says % Arvilly, with asort
( OF deep look onto her: You'll have 70
Z in the end!" ana .0sn I kinder looked
right through A-yiuy orto great things,
eternal truths and consequences, and
/ says I;
J NO human soul can te helped only
I Jest SO fur. Loasly they come into this
world. lonely they'll SO out OF it. And
all along through life nc lonesome SOU,
/ though surrounded ~ watchfulest rela-
! tives and friends. yet in a certain
I sense il has got - Live alone. dwell by
/ itself n the deep places where no eve
/ can toller II. no ear hear what Il says
no one but the One who made that soul,
made the deep places lneo which it hides
| Itself
Now. nat irocpeuiont Individual
/ life has Is riEals l. mus: have en-; IL
i5 \ separate mothers tou' 3 want
/ 20 think so. but .tis. A mother may
/ want 20 TAX 80 hlIl child. clothes and
al. and pa: Is right In TIC middle of
her own heart; bat she cant; her heart
haiu't big enough. o. she may want 20
get right outside o. her cbild's heart.
, and all it full. so .-. hat nothia' else
+ can get in. and she velrhln' as she does
p over hundred, but SIZE cant, she is too
/ big
Tho bess love. ~ trucs. and no