Year: 1859

Then YOU send Charley to school and
hope YOU are fairly rid of him for a few
hours at least. But he comes home noisier
and more breezy than ever, having learns
ed of some twenty other Charleys every
separate resource for keeping up COM
motion that the superabundant vitality Of
each can originate He can dance like
Jim Smith-he has learned to smack his
lips like Joe Brown-and Will Briggs
has shown him how to new like cat,
and he enters the premises with a new
war.whoop, learned from Tom Evans.
He feels large and yalorous; ne has
learned that he is boy, and has gen
eral impression that he is growing I'M
mensely strong and knowing; and dis
pises more than ever the CONVENTIONAL
ties of parlor life; in fact, ne IS more
than ever an interruption In the way OF
decent folks who want to be quiet.


Ii is true, that if entertaining persons
will devote themselves exclusively TO him,
reading and telling stories, he may be
kept quiet; but then this is discouraging
work for he swallows story as Rover
uOCS q pICCC VI anu lOOhS at yOu
for another and and another, without the
slightest consideration, so that this re-
source is of short duration, and then the
old question comes back : What is TO be
done with him?


But after all, Charley cannot be Who'll
ly shirked, for he is an institution-a sol
emn and awful fact; and on the answer
to the question, what is to be done with
him depends future.


Many hard, morose, bitter man has
come from Charley turned off and ne
elected many parental heartache has
come from Charley let run the streets,
that mammas and sisters might play on
the piano and write letters in peace. 1t
is easy to get rid of him; there are fifty
Z, ways of doing that. He is a spirit that can
be promptly laid, but if not laio Alright he
will come back by and by, strong man
well armed, when you cannot Stave him
off at pleasure.


Mammas and sisters had better pay a
little tax to Charley now, than terrible
one by and by. There is something sig
niicant in the old English phrase, with
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man child-a man child. There you
have the word that should make you
think more than twice before you answer
the question: What shall we do with
er Charley?


For to-day he is at your feet; to-day
you can make him laugh, you can make
cry, persuade, coax, and turn him at youl
pleasure; you can make his eyes fill and
bosom swellwith recilals of good and no.
; bic deeds, IN short, you can mould him il
you take the trouble.


But look ahead some years, when thai
, little voice shall ring in deep. bass tones
when that small foot shall have a mans
4 weight and tramp, when a rough beard
shall cover that little round chin, and the
wilful strength of manhood fill out thai
S, little form. Then you would give world:
for the key to his heart; to be able tc
turn him and guide him to your will bu
if you loose that key now while he i:
little, you may search for it carefully
with tears some other day and never fine
it.


Old housekeepers have proverb, tha


one hour lost in the morning is never
found all day. 1t has a significance il
this case. One thing is to be noticed
8 about Charley, that rude, and busy, anC
noisy as he is, and irksome as carpe


rules and parlor ways are to him, he i


still a social little creature, and wants t.


be where the rest of the household are


a room ever so well adapted for pla7


cannot charm him at the hour when thC


family is in reunion; he hears the voice


in the parlor, and his play-room seem


desolate. 1t may be warmed bya furnact


and lighted with gas, bat it is human


warmth and light he shivers for; h


yearns for the talk of the family whicl


ne so imperfectly comprehends, and b.
II. longs to take his playthings down an


play by you, and he is necessarily prom


ising that of the fifty improper thing


which be is liable to do in the parlor, h
-. will not commit one if you will let hiu
=" ~ stay there.


nd This instinct of the little one is na
is ture's warning plea-God's admonilior
ow o, how many mother who has negleC
nd ted it because it was irksome to have tn
,es child about, has longed at twenty-one t
10 keep her son at her side, and he woul
no not Shut out as little Arab; constant
n. ly told that be is awkward and needle
for some, and plague in general, the bo
he has found at last his own company in th


streets, in the highways and hedges
do where he runs till the day comes whe
he the parents want their son, ond the 81:
.ok ters their brother, and then they are scal
he ed at the face he brings back to them, q
Ike he comes all foul and smutty from th
he companionship to which they have doom
3D. ed him. Depend upon it if ii is too muc
lie trouble to keep your boy in your societ,
nm there will be places found for him
hat warmed and lighted with no friendlyirt
ind where he who finds some mischief still
at for idle hands to do, will care for him,
OK you do not. You may put out tree an
ish it will grow while you sleep, but SC
ks, you cannot-you must take trouble f
m him, either little now or a great deal
md and by. l


ca Let him stay with you at least son
err portion of every day; bear his noise al
art ignorant ways. Put aside your book
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