Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-03
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Putting Children TO Bed

The mother who puts the timid child to
| bed and takes away the light, goes down
| stairs and leaves him to his aonjuring,
| careless and Indifferent and disbeNeving
or bent on overcoming the mischief fOrcIbly,
| is destroying something that one would
| think of small worth to her-nOt only his
| nervous fibre, but his love of herself, and
| the day will come when rate will have Its
| revenge on her in his own Indifference to
her, and she will recognize it, even if he
| behave III all outward respects like dutl-
full son. 1t is her part to examine the mat
ter, to reason with the child, to comfort
him, to see how far it Is possible with him
to subdue the fear. If she cannot stay
with him herself, she can at least leave the
door open SO that he may hear the cheer
full downstair voices, the hum of life. not to
| be shut into his roOm as the unformulated
| thought of his desperate little mind makes
it; she can leave lamp on the hearth, and
so let there be some light to dispel his
fancies and to keep back the dark and It's
unShlped visions. She may regard 1t as
triHing. but to him it is tremendous; and
if she is wise either in mother love or nu-
man kindness she will not let the imagina-
tive and sensitive child suffer more than
it must. remembering that. that tempera-
ment, if it has more to enjoy through
life than Others has also much more to
suffer.
When few nights have failed to bring
calm to the little beng out of the experience
and the last going to bed alone is as bad as
the first, and all threats have only made
the matter worse. and all reasoning has
produced no good result; when he has tried
to conquer, and the effort has left him
trembling as violently as if he had an ague
by harsh or rough or peremetory measures,
and the mother should see to it that this
child has some active physical exercise just
before going to bed that will make his
little body glad to raSt, and she would best
lie down beside him, or find some work
that she can do upstairs until he falls
asleep, In order to afford him the comfort
and cOmpanionShlp and the sense of her
embracing love, and soothe his irritable
nerves 10 repose instead of rouSing them
to action.
These nerves never would have been ir-
ritable if she had not insisted on her own
way too long in the beginning, if she had not
given him a chance to get on fire, then to
go on exciting themselves. If she had put
the child to bed alone from the very outset
of his career, so that it was the natural
order of things to him, and he had the
habit established of quiet sleep and absence
of fear from the first, in ninety-nine cases
out of hundred there would never have
been any trouble of the sort But if
through any idiosycraSy of the child, or
any IemisSneSs of her own. the fear has
come upon him, she will never in all the
years remaining have greater love outpour-
ed upon her than that child will give her
who sees her lowering over his pillow,
moving about his room. or feels her pres
sure on the bed beside him till the drowSy
warmth steals over and wraps senses and
Imagination and all together. and lets her
off again to the duties that are less I'M
perative than the care of that child
nerves, to the pleasures that are less
pleasant than the love he gives her in re-
urn.-Harper'S Bazaar.
TIE peanut vine is a plant similar to the
sweet potato. The most remarkable fea-
ture is that when the flower falls the stalk
supporting the small undeveloped fruit
lengthens, and bending toward the ground
pushes the fruit into the ground, when 1t
begins to enlarge and ripen. The pea
nut may be cultivated in northern gardens
by those who wish to witness the strange
habit of pushing the rod under the ground
! to ripen. but the fruit viii not come to
perfection, aS 1t requires long, warm
summer in which to develop. The peanut
is planted in the early part of May in
ground prepared as for wheat or corn. the
! kernels being placed about two feet apart.
The crop natures in the latter part of De-
tobeT when il i gathered and put through
sweat for about a month The nuts are
then picked from the stems or main vine
by hand and are sent to the various clean
ing establishments to be cleaned and
graded.