Show MAIM malm C CHILDHOOD HAPPY it should ever be urged upon parents the high importance of preserving in childhood a cheerful and happy state tate 9 of temper by indulging them in tb the tho v various rl pleasures and diversions suited to their years those who are themselves either from age or temperament tempe ramen t grave or serious will not yat attempt tempt to cultivate a similar disposition in their children such however is a manifest violation of the law lawa s of the youthful constitution each period of life has its distinctive character and enjoy ments and gravity and so sedateness which fond fona parents commonly call manliness liness appears to be quite as inconsistent and unbecoming ing in the character of childhood as p puerile herile levity in that of age the young if unwisely restrained in their appropriate amusements or too much confined to the society of what are termed serious people may experience in consequence such a dejection of spirits as to occasion a sensible injury to their health and it should furthermore be considered that the sports and gayeties gaieties gaye ties of happy childhood call forth itose those various muscular actions as laughing shouting jumping etc which are in early iii lir life lioe e so absolutely essential to the healthful development of the different bodily organs again children when exposed to neglect anh ana and unkind treatment treatment for to such they are far more sensible than wa we are prone to suspect will not unusually grow sad and spir spiritless liless their stomach and nervous system becoming enfeebled and deranged and various other painful infirmities and even premature decay may sometimes owe their ori ginto such an unhappy source let them also ever remember that nature is industrious dust rious in adorning her dominions and that those to whom this beauty is addressed should feel and obey the lesi son let them too be industrious in adorning their domain in making home tile the dwelling of self wife and children not only convenient and an comfortable for table but pleasant let them as far as circumstances will wiil admit be industrious in surrounding it with pleasant objects in decorating it ift within and und without with things that tend to make it itt agreeable and attractive let industry make home the abode of neatness and order a place which brings satisfaction to every inmate and which in absence draws back the heart by the fond associations of comfort and content let this be done and this sacred spot snot ot will become more surely the scene V of cheerfulness and peace ye yo parents i who would have your children happy be careful to bring the them i m up tip in the midst of a pleasant a cheerful and a happy home waste not your time in mulitin wealth for them but plant in their minds and souls in the way proposed the seeds of virtue and prosperity CAUSES OF or beadil the british registrar ikram general reports one hundred lis Sis distinct distinct causes of death in england but more than half the deaths in every ivery year behr are due to one or the other of ten teli diseases thus in persons died from phthisis isis 9 from bronchitis from pneumonia from froni heart disease deaths from old age 20 8 from convulsions from atrophy and debility 29 noo woo persons from from typhus and from froni diarrhoea A INCIDENT at a second class hotel in frankfort ky j a few days since a little girl entered tilo the bar room and in a pitiful tone told the barkeeper that her mother sent her har there thero to get eight cents Eight cents said the barkeeper yes sir what does docs your mother of hight sight cents I 1 dont owe her any thing well said the child father spends all his money here hero for rum and wo we have no bread today mother wants to buy a loaf of bread I 1 A loafer suggested to the bArkee barkeeper pep to kick hick her out no said the barkeeper ill give her mother the money and if her father comes back again ill kick him out humanity awes owes that barkeeper voto aboto a of thanks among the knapsacks now in use in europe the lightest when packed with a niela field kit idt is that of the I 1 austrian army weighing ten con pounds the heaviest the english weighing fifteen pounds bounas but when to this is added tile the weight of arms ments monts 1 clothing and provisions the total c carried bythe by the foot soldier of each nation is as follows austria 51 lbs ibs boz england 54 ibs lbs boz france 55 lbs ibs boz Prussia 56 ibs lbs boz russia 71 lbs ibs roz |