The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-02
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cnauce TO use his tacultleS. Is IL strange
that the growing mind should long for
new sights, when it is by sight seeing that
the child is chiefly to learn the wonderful
things written for him in the pool of ma
ture? AS with the eye SO with the other
organs of sense. They should have op-
p%ortunities to take in all the good, the
true and the beautiful that they are capa-
BILE of receiving. Let the ear be accustomed
to the melodies of loving tones, the nos
trils to the smell of pure air, and the
tongue to the taste of simple, healthful
food. Careful eating will often prevent
tie thirst that leads to drinking. Milton
says: THAT which is not good for us is
rot delicious to a well governed and wise
appetite"
Teach your children regular habits in
sleeping. for sleep, you know, is natures
tonic. Surround them with every hygienic
condition, and teach them the fear of
natures laws and penalties. Teach them
that it is their sacred duty to care for their
bodies, that a sound mind in a sound body
is the best gift of God. Let them learn
the structure and functions of their bodies
as openly and as plainly as they learn their
problems in mathematics. Ignorance is
not innocence, and knowledge is a power
full weapon against temptation. Let them
know and realize the Independence of
moral, mental and physical health. A
child who is perfectly well, well nourished,
we'll rested, is almost invariably good
tempered and joyous. 1t is as natural for
a child to be happy as it is for a bird to
sing, but O, the tempers that ave been
soured. the characters that have been
marred by means of ill-ventilated rooms,
bad diet, and irritating words. The inn
pressions made upon your children nov
will be recalled in after life. One little fell
low who was told many times a day that
he was a naughty boy, wOnld wake up in
the night and plaintively ask: SIS | a
naughty boy, mamma The popul ar
theory that the maternal instinct is pos
sessed by all mothers. I am led to believe,
is a mistake, and that it belongs to the in
diyidual and not always to the office.
Merely physical maternity is good for
little; the maternal heart alone makes the
mother. Give time to your children, play
with them; you must come down to them,
they cannot come TO you, and sshappy is
the man who can at times be a child
again." by these intimate associations
the child will come to love all things God
has made, and will find enjoyment in them
that will turn him aside from a thousand
avenues OF temptation. From q sincere
love OF nature the transition is not difficult
to the love of Him who is the author of all
wonders which nature unfolds. Let us
study carefully the inherited tendencies in
our children.
In the psychologist order heredity is an
Influence, or rather a combination of in
tlnences, and while it penetrates the very
centre of our inner being, is not a fatality,
but as an influence should be guarded with
the utmos care, combatted and depressed
as far as possible that it may not become
too heavy a weight upon the life Of the
generations to come after us. 1t has been
said that ga mid all the influences which
affect man one of the most powerful is the
influence of the dead.' One long since
passed away may weigh upon us, and it
depends upon US that the present which
we are fashioning shall lay with a less
heavy weight upon our descendants. Let
us at least make the task less difficultthan
it has been made for us, making better, as
far as possible, everything round us and
the moral nature within us, so whether an
evil Inheritance falls to our children from
us or from some ancestor far removed we
should make every effort to root it Out.
Socs ates said he would like to go up to
highest part Of the city and cry out:
"What is the matter with you that you
use every effort to get money, but pay no
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leave alp" Thankful are we, though,
that a bad inheritance does not necessarily |
mean a bad life. The author of the laws
of inheritance is also the author ofhygienic
and principles by which disease NAV
be controlled. He who permits evil to
pass from generation to generation prom
Uses us regeneration by which we may be
freed in a measure from this evil, and has
also given the promise most precious to
the tired and tempted soul that His grace
will be sufficient to enable him to over
come and be at last free, entirely and for
ever, from all sin and u~ncleanness. In all
you will find it pays to obey the
commandments laid upon us, and TIE
recorded for our guidance.
Looking at it from a worldly point of
view it would pay the public, the State,
the individual, the world the race, to
practice hygienic laws, but we feel that
Christians must lead off in these things
which indeed lie at the foundation of all
the good that heaven designs for man.
Health, why the very sound of the word
seems to remind one of rosy cheeks,
bright eyes, and a rounded form, with in
telligence beaming from each feature and
grace from every movement. But this
state OF affairs cannot be reached, aye,
dare not aspire to having once more a
race of healthy men and women (even if
do practice hygiene in our every day
life) while our lovely girls are laced up in
set up ON stills of heels Oh their
shoes, bandaged up by tight belts, and
carrying pounds of material in a skirt, the
weight of which falls entirely upon the
hips. All, there is not an ill to which
oman is heir which may not be either
alleviated or aggravated 10y the mode of
DIR. Mary A. Allen says many
women are constantly putting large fees
into the hand of the doctor, who says no
to her about her dress, When she
be entirely cared were she instructed
to relieve her hips of the burden Of cloth
ing and her waist of the restriction of
cOrsets.
The statue of the Venus de Milo, a rep
of whose figure we find often
in books or papers, stands in the
Louvre at Paris and is admired as p per-
feet model of the female form. Corseted,
high .hecled, society women, with not the
least idea of what the natural human
figure is, (never having seen one, except in
very young children, whom they at once
began to deform, } stand before the majestic
figure of the Venus and say: GLOW lovely;
too lovely for anything" and then snub
the first woman they meet who approaches
in any degree in naturalness OF figure to
the marble statue, and exclaim, what a
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