Year: 1860

There is an extensive fund of strong, whole
some common-sense Ia most uncommon possess
sion by the way,) in the following plain para
graph from the Springfield Republican, and pa
rents may save themselves and their offspring
much unnecessary suffering, by taking to heart
its excellent suggestions:


A somewhat extended observation, and soil
tary experience, have convinced us that first
babies have Il hard time. Parents must have
two or three children before they know what a
baby is, know how to treat it. and acquire pa
tience to treat it properly. The poor little fel-
lows that have the misfortune to come along first,
have to educate parents to their task, and in the
process they get spanked, and shaken, and abus-
ed. After a man has three or four children, he
learns that whipping or striking child less than
two years of age is barbarism. We know one
':paterna head" who struck his first child when
only six weeks old, the ass actually believing
that the child knew better than to cry and that
he stopped crying at that particular time be-
cause he struck him.


We carry certain notions of children and of
family government into married lfe and the first
child is always the victim Of these notions.-
And not alone of these for the parents have not
learned self-control, and a baby is whipped quite
as often because the parent is impatient or an
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inflict on our first children the foggings we
ought to have for our own impatiencc or fretful-
ness. This pounding children before they be-
come, in Gods eye, morally responsible beings,
is very strange business. Patience, good peo-
pie patience! Don't wait to learn
it until one of your little ones shall be hidden
under the daisies


WEAVING GLASS WITH SILK-Not many
persons, probably, are aware that glass is in
geniously woven with silk, although its brittle
ness of nature would appear to render such a
method OF manufacturing it impossible. 1t is a
very unique process. the glass being substituted
when thus woven with silk, for gold and silver
thread. than either of which it is found to be
more durable possessing the additional advan-
tage Of never furnishing. What is technically
called the warp-that is, the long way of any
loom manufactured ARTICLES composed of silk,
which forms the body and groundwork, on which
the pattern in glass appears as the weft or cross
work. The requisite fexibility of glass thread
for manufacturing purposes is ascribed to its
extreme fneness, has not less than fifty or sixty
of the original threads-produced by steam
power-are required to form one thread for the
loom. The process, however, is necessarily
slow and not more than yard can be manu-
featured in twelve hours. But the work, when
we'll done, is extremely beautiful in its appear
ance, and comparatively cheaper than gold and
siver-mixed stuff, and is also, so far the glass
is concerned, mperishahle. 1t is woven by
means of the Jaquard loom.


/ TOLD You So.--An old lady, who was in
the habit of declaring after the occurrence of any
unusual event, that she had predicted it. was
one day very nicely ''sold" by her worthy spouse,
who, like many another we have heard Of had
got tired of her eternal, 81 told you So! Rush
ing into the house, breathless with excitement,
he dropped into his chair, elevated his hands
and exclaimed, 80, wife, wife! What--what
do you think The old brindle COW has gone
and eat up our grindstone!' The old lady was
ready and hardly waiting to hear the last word,
she broke out at the top of her lungs 81 told
you so, you old fool! told you sol You al
ways would let it stand out-a-doors J!