Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-19

| ing RttrAct1ve a00ut tno OccupHtl0n or TIT
place of its performance. Yet many othel
employments are open to ths same objeo
ton. It is just possible that this is the
object for which some of our athletic
| young women are now in training, and Il
| may be that switch ladies will soon be
found doing good and faithful work all
along our own Consolidated.
THE WORLD WAS NEVER YOUNGER.
| From the German
The world was never younger,
| Whatever poets say;
ras %hsn xor'd What III L nstes IS tedsS. younger
| The air is alive with the singing
OF birds in hollow and glen;
o, well for those feather'd poets
That they have not the thoughts Of men.
For then there would be in their music
A low, sad note that would blend,
And hint Of the struggle of sorrow,
With death and the grave at the end.
But theirs are the song for the sunshine,
For the sweet blue sky over all;
They sing that the flowers may hear them,
And grow wider as they call.
The world was never younger
Than what 1t is to-day;
1t has turn'd its back on the winter,
And flung all sorrow away.
There Is life in the grass beside me,
A ripple of light on the streams;
The leaves for the winds are waiting
To cradle them into their dreams
They will dream Of the ripe, rich summer,
OF the chirp of birds In the nest;
or clouds that for ever are sailing,
And Of winds that come from the west.
The world was never younger,
Whatever poets may say;
o, would that my heart could answer,
And be young again today.
Alexander Anderson.
A NEEDED LESSON.
A little girl of four years, daughter of
Congressman Whitney of Michigan, died
not long ago from congestion of the brain,
brought on, It Is supposed, by fright. The
child was seemingly in excellent health;
che had played happily out of doors that
day, and was in good spirits when she was
put to bed; nothing had occurred that any
one was aware of to frighten her, yet she
awoke screaming with terror that could not
be allayed, and, congestion being devel-
oped, she died in short time.
The fright may have been induced by
dreadful dream, such as visit even little
children. The dream may have been
caused by some experience that left pain
ful impression upon her mind, but of
which she had not spoken. 1t Is we'll
known that children often suffer mental
sgonies from some cause that could be re.
moved by little discussion and explana.
ton, but of which, from a curious and un-
speaking. Often they are told distressing
stories, or mysterious threats are made by
some injudicious person in charge of them,
and the little mind is burdened with vague
terrors that, almost forgotten by day, re-
turn with overwhelming force at night,
when the child is left in loneliness and 81
lence and darkness. From these may be
evolved the frightful dream from which the
little one awakes shivering and crying and
with wildly beating heart, to be comforted
by the cheering influences of light, sooth-
ing presence, and the csress of affection.
The thoughtless cruelty of those who
so harrass and disturb the mind of little
child can hardly receive too severe a con-
demnation.
The Woman's Tribune of Washington, in
commenting upon this occurrence, advises
that child should be early accustomed to
be Indifferent to darkness. Where there
is not an inherited fear, or where the
mother or nurse is not too timid to be SEN
sible, this may be done with little difficult
ty. The Tribune says:
"In that beautiful evening hour which
precedes tucking the child in bed the
mother should sometimes rock and sing to
it In q dark room, taking 1t to the window
TO see tn0 llI0 eblll acIlVe III tne stre6t6 ana
the cleaning lights which show where
other little people are going to bed. Every
thing should be done to teach the child
that the room is absolutely the same when
the light is out. Call attention to some
object, put the light out and ask the child
to bring the object. Tho lesson can be
conveyed under guise of pleasant games.
Even the shadows which make the terror
of the dark can be turned into objects
of delight. Il so 'fraid,' said little one
not long since as she glanced around the
er's arms to hide the pictures made on the
wall by lights from the street. "Do you
see that bright spot on the wall?" asked the
mother; "now let's see what we can put
there" Then the mother made q series of
pictures on the wall with head, hands and
feet of baby and herself. The child Joined
in the frolic and learned from that how to
delight in the shadows and to try to find
out what they are pictures of. Finally
there is the moment of pause after the
child is ready to be left for the
night and the lesson has been i'm
pressed that God has given us the
sleep and now we must let it into the
room, and the mother tells her child to
repsat after her, "Goed night, light, come
again in the morningl" and with one more
kiss after all is dark the child is ready for
sleep, and should be left alone.
If the mother makes a point from the
earliest infancy of her child of attending
to its wants in dark room, she will make
1t physically possible for the child to re-
spond to her teaching later when 1t comes
to her az 1t inevitably will with its fear of
the darkness. The fear grows with the
child's Imagination, but practical Lessons
L. koI hor x,yl1 he
darkness from the realm of the unknown
and dreaded"
This is presupposing that no one has
threatened to sell the child to the rsgmsn,
or give 1t to the gypsies, or to frighten it
with stories of ghosts and goblins, as some
misguided persons are prone to do, and
thus people the darkness with shapes of
terror. The stories that are told to chill
dren even when they are not more than
ordinarily nervous, especially bedtime
stories, should be selected with q view to
cheerfulness, and pictures should not be
| shown that are mysterious and depressing.
Frightful and frequently recurring dreams
have been caused by pictures in very ex-
| cellent books, pictures that make little i'm
preston upon the adult mind because they
we're understood, but printed themselves
deeply upon the child's brain because they
were thought to portray dreadful realities.
All these things become
''Night-riding incubi
Troubling the fantasy"
and manya a child has grown more and
I more timid, fretful and Irritable, with an
| over-wrought Imagination and shattered
nerves, in the years when It should be
most happy and csre-free, because of the
thoughtlsssness, or ignorance, or positive
malice of those to whom the little life has
been intrusted. To such, the dreadful
death of the child alluded to conveys 9
solemn warning, by which, 1t is to be
hoped, they will have the good sense te
profit. HILARY.
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