Year: 1877

good ransom for recovery, he is very unwise to run the risk of being obliged to do it, or of giving the rascals chance to try whether he will or not.

 We have seen parents whose wealth has been counted by the million send their little bevy of babies out to play in the square alone, or perhaps with only one of the nurses, and she very likely with novel to fill the gaps of her fir tatiOn with the roundsman, when, in view of the Opportunities afforded, it seems to us question whether they ever saw the whole number again or not.

 We have only to consider the reckless lives of such black-hearted men as those supposed to be implicated in the great outrages of this sort which has made the hearts offs many mothers the world over beat with pity and fear, to sec the possibilities, if not the probabilities, of d repetition of the outrage wherever It can be made profitable, and thus to feel the necessity of every precaution that can be taken.

 | We do not mean, of course, that the children of cities and their neighbor- hood are thus to be refused their out door life and sports, but only that they are not to be unObserved during any moment of it, and that nurses are to be fully impressed with the responsibilities Of their position, and be shown all the horror resulting from unfaithfulness or negligence, not merely in that of the loss of the child, but of the child's fate among ruffiins, the effect of the degra- ding influences upon its own nature, and the terrible uncertainty always to hang over the family thenceforth as long as they live.

 One is often obliged to wonder why mothers of children have them so little with them in public; why it has become almost matter of taste to send a child out with nurse, and so seldom go out with it ones self. It is only the moth CTS among the poor who have their children always with them. One would think it would be luxury in which the mothers among the rich might be glad to indulge themselves. Certainly, as merely ornamental lux ury, they might allow it, for there is no sight so attractive-not even that of a young and lovely single woman, with her damask cheeks and glowing eyes as that of mother with her flock of rosy cherubs about her and the greatest ornament that any pleasure-carriage can have, it is freely admitted, is d group of children, or even one gaily dressed little darling, on one or the seats, for the bright colors, dimples, floating locks, sweet voices, and genera sense of accompanying innocence and helplessness, make the thing lovely as if the carriage were overflowing with flower.

 Still, even the idlest of mothers has social duties in which she will be obliged to absent herself from her chil- dren; and their stout little legs can do an amount of fatigue that would put most mothers under the sod if they at temped to keepup with them at all and it is to no bondage of this sort that we "OA'AOe s'UNAoC CAIClA, OttC ulCIcIy CO UIIc weighty instruction of servants, to the intelligent enforcement of rule that their nurses never lose sight of the children for one instant when outside of the hall door, and to their own recogni- tion of the danger which they run in community where so many wretches go at large, if they fall into any habit that may be observed of leaving the children unprotected. Among parents there is no father but would offer his whole for tune to the last dollar for their redemp- tiOn, no mother of them all, rich or poor, but would give her hearts blood to save them, since love of children is the strongest trait in all human nature but in the mean time, little precau- tion, little thought, little more in sistence in their training, would obviate the necessity of any such sacri- flee or suffering.