The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-26

well-mannered child than II she had tri-
umphed- All mothers. however. are not
ike this one In large shop the other
day there was small child who objected
10 waiting while her mother did her shop
ping. They left. the child having a
stronger will than her mother. Later on /
met them in street car. the small imp
had eaten candy. drunk soda water and
consumed bananas until she was sick and
cross. She wouldn't SIT still and her
mother said TO me. Marie is so sensitive
that l never dare contradict her" Marie
heard her mother say this and announced
that unless she could play with her
mothers watch she would scream herself
into a nervous attack. She got the watch.
Now, what Marie wanted badly was 10 be
taught that she had three meals a day
and that she was TO eat what she wanted
at those times; that when she went out
with her mother she was to behave herself.
and that the first time she threatened TO
scream herself into nervous attack she
would be permitted TO do So
/ think II dreadful TO brighten children.
and anyone VINO does il should be whipped
but do believe in raising children so that
they will be decent members of society
and not general nuisances. Speaking of
frightening children. there came under my
observation not long ago young girl who
was so nervous that she scarcely knows an
hour Of good health, and this nervousness
was caused by the wickedness of a nurse
Years before, when she was a baby. this
girls mother was called TO the deathbed
Of relation. She went leaving the chill
dren in the charge of a nurse; and there
was also a cook in the house.
The mistress said that she did not
think she would be back until the next
morning. 1t happened, however, that she
returned at midnight. In going upstairs
with her husband. she heard the Oldest
boy, years of age. and a girl of (. crying
bitterly. In a second the mother was IN
the nursery. The little tots were crouched
in a corner in their night-dresses. the
light was out and the baby wasn't visi-
bic. As soon as he could. between his
sobs. the boy told this story: Nurse and
and cook have gone out, and when baby
wouldn't go to sleep. nurse had put her
in the cupboard and told her that If she
cried the rats would eat her. and she did
cry. and sister and l would have gone
TO her. but we We're afraid the rats would
eat US" The baby was discovered uncOn-
scious in the cupboard. and when the doc
tor was gotten, he said she had gone
from one spasm into another as a result
of the fright, and he did not know wheth-
er she would ever get over it. For a year
none Of these children could be left alone
day or night, and the baby, now this girl
of &c. has a nervous spell to-day If she is
left alone in the dark. All that could be
done was to discharge those wicked SER
wants, and yet, think they ought to have
been whipped and lynched. They had. OF
course, counted on the mistress not COM
ing back until morning. on their getting
home before her and frightening the chill
dren into silence. A man who heard this
story told-an Englishman. ~ years old,
6 feet inches in hight. with the shoulders
of an athlete-said that, when he was a
boy, he was told of bogy men and ghouls
who eat up boys until even now, although
he knew 1t was nonsense. he wauld trem-
BILE in the dark If he thought of them.
All this is true. 1t is hoped that these
stories have adorned a tale, and it is
most earnestly trusted that they will point
a moral to people who believe that chill
dren can be governed by fright and made
to do right because of fear. 1t is wrong.
all wrong, on the word of Bah.