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Cr-an of the 3o:rgia Teachers Association-
O'ran of the State School Commissioner, G. J, Orr.
W. I?. I5()N> ICT/L, Editor.
This Page.
By the extreme liberality of the publishers,
Messrs John IL A W. B. Seals, is wholly at the
disposal of the Georgia Teacher’s Association.
It will be occupied in part by the proceedings
o: the annual meeting, or by essays and address
es delivered before the Association, and in part
' v contributions, selections and communica
te rs on educational subjects.
Space will also be allotted for items of intel
ligence concerning our schools and colleges,
with notices of any changes in their manage
ment or progress.
B r ok publishers and manufacturers of school
furniture, apparatus and other facilities,will, of
course, ask a place on this page, and we shall
endeavor to present and represent cmly those
houses and goods that are substantial and reli
able.
In connection with this feature it is proposed
at an early day to establish an agency for teach
ers wishing to find employment, and for insti
tutions or families desiring to obtain instruc
tors. This, we have no doubt, will be hailed
with delight by our Southern teachers.
AH these things considered, we are warrant
ed in entertaining the most saDgnine hopes for
the success of the Sunny South and its Educa-
eational Department.
Special Notice.
All who are influenced in the slight
est degree l>y an interest in this, the
educational feature of this paper, will
please he sure to address all communi
cations and remittances to the editor
whose name appears at the head of this
page.
Whether you subscribe for yourself,
or for some one else, send the name with
the money, direct to him, if you wish
the paper sent to a teacher or friend of
education.
Official Organ of State School Com
missioner.
he State School Commissioner will!
c this department of the Sunni/ South
the medium of his official decisions and ;
communications.
All Countv School Commissioners!
ichers employed by the State, |
common school law will find
it important to have the paper for this
reason. Let the County Scnool Com
missioners take note of our special
rates, published elsewhere;
exert himself to send to the
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editor of this
of subscribers.
department a large list
Woman.
To Members of the (*a. Teacher’s As
sociation.
(OFFICIAL.)
Some of these letters were irresistibly ludi
crous. One I recollect, was from a California
widow, who had heard nothing from her hus
band for a year. ‘As to waiting for him any
longer,’ she wrote, T don’t intend to do it.
Most likely he’s dead, but if it should so hap
pen, which heaven forbid ! that he should re-
To make a pretty and economical hanging
basket take an old earthen bowl or deep dish
that has a piece out of the bottom, so that it
turn after my second marriage, I have no doubt
he could be persuaded to yield his claims.’
‘There’s an affectionate wife for you,’ said
Fred: ‘If he should return, which heaven for
bid ! ’ Bass that by.’
I shall give entire the next letter, which came
in a browD envelope, and was directed at the
very top to Mr. A. B. C., Esq., in a handwriting
executed by fingers plainly more accustomed to
the rolling-pin thnn the quill.
‘Mr. A. B. C.,
Bear Sir:— Happening to take up the news
paper the other day, I saw your advertisement.
Didn’t think much of it at the time. After a
while I happened to think —you must know I
keep a boarding-house—that if I was married
my husband could look after the marketing, I
and do the carving for the gentlemen. Now, I |
have to get one of them to do it, by boarding j
him at half price. So. thinks I to myself, as |
this seems to be a proper sort of a gentlemaD, j
(judging from the advertisement, you know.) I j
guess I’ll write ana see what he thinks about it. j
My boarding-house A No - 3 Central Street, and
I should he happy to have you come and take
dinner with ns to-morrow. The boa.ders need
not know that you have come for anything par
ticular, and then you can see how it suits you.
| Yours to command:
‘Polly Stubbs.
‘P. S. — Dinner hour at one o’clock, precisely.
! Please be punctual.’
‘Mrs. Stubbs is a sensible woman,’ said Fred,
after reading the communication, ‘and a thor-
j ough l'ankee. I’ll be bound. She looks at the
f practical side of things, she does. Shall you
| take dinner at No. -j Central Street?’
i ‘Not I. I neve? could carve decently, as my
! Aunt Penelope can testify, But what have we
l here?’ I asked, taking up fl perfumed note, writ
ten in a small hand, which could be deciphered
health was poor, and as it was inconvenient
to spare a room, she regretted that I would be
compelled to seek another boarding-place.
My Aunt Penelope died about a year since. I
had firmly expected to her heir. But she never
forgave me lor my share in the events which I
have described. Witness the following item in
will :
‘Item.—For my nephew, Henry Dobbs, know
ing his partiality for roses, I direct that a suffi
cient sum be laid aside to purchase for him two
rosebushes—one white, the other red.’
It was thought a singular r< quest, but I un
derstood it. The house and $1,300 invested in
railroad shares went to another member of the
family.
Header, I am still unmarried. The first trial
was sufficient, and the remaining forty-six let
ters, against the persuasions of my friend Fred,
tfere consigned to the grate.
The red and white rose-bushes, my aunt's be
quest, still grace my bachelor’s apartment.
Whenever I feel matrimonially inclined, which
is not often, as I am over forty, I look at them—
consider—and decide in the negative.
Health Department,
By Juo. Stainhack Wilson, JI. D.,
Atlanta, Ola.
Time of Wea
iiing-IMe! After Weaning.
Never (Iopr her claim to suffering appeal so
forcibly to the conscience and the heart as when
she stands and asks for power to protect the i T • , ~
home ami those she loves better than life itself difficulty,^ I read. as follows^
from the temptations with which legalised vice !
assail them; but justice to Woman is also safety j
The Committee on Publication, appointed at | to the State, and in this, as in so many cases", [
ov.r last annual meeting,and consisting oi W. B. ; the earnest radical is the true conservative; for
Bunnell, W. F. Slaton, J. H. Chappell, B. Mai- I surely when her purity and disinterestedness
ion and G. J. Grr, met on September 2d, in the ! come as an added force for good, into the
office of the S‘ate School Commissioner. After • higher politics, the foundation of civil prosper-
c-onsultatien in regard to the matter of the effi-1 ity will be strengthened and broadened.
cial organ, it was decided to authorize the sec
retary of the association to issue a circular in
viting proposals from several of the leading pa
pers of the Slate.
In pursuance t f this resolution, the following
circular letter was prepared and sent to the pub
lishers ot the principal journals.
OFFICE OF SECKETAKY.
Georgia Teacher' s Association.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2d., In78.
Dear Sirs.—It is the wish of the Georgia Teach
er’s Association to procure as the medium for
the publication of its annual proceedings, the
essays read at its meetings, and other education
al intelligence, one of the leading weekly news
papers ot the State.
It is proposed when such an organ is selected,
to have this department edited by one elected
from and by the Association (at present the Sec
retary beiDg editor) and he is to receive for his
IDVERTISIHG fie 1 WIFE.
From a Bachelor's Note-Book.
BY CART CANTAB.
‘Dobbs,’ said my intimate friend, Fred Hop
kins, as we sat together one summer evening in
my cosy bachelor’s apartment at the house of my
Aunt Penelope, with whom I board, ‘Dc-bbs, if
it is not an impertinent question, will you tell
me your age ?'
‘Certainly,’ said I; Tam twenty-seven, or shall
be if I live to see October.'
‘Very well,’ said ho; ‘and how does it happen
w that you have reached such a mature age and
services such compensation as may be agreed , and gave not married? Did you never reflect
upon. _ j how pleasant it would he to sit by your own
The State School Commissioner is also invited fireside, with your wife opposite and perhaps
to make the paper his official organ. | two or three little ones crowding around you ?’
It is Loped and believed that such a feature ‘AnI jj, 1 „ .</ never r«.H vt ’ T c n
would aa :i materially to the interest, value and ; the pleasure of being kept awake all night, baby
circulation of the journal selected, while it would j crying, wife scolding, coming down in the
prove no less advantageous to the Association | morning tired and sleepy to a comfortless meal,
and the cause of general education. j Drepared by an unskillful servant? But to
\Ye therefoie solicit from you, the most libe- , answer you in serious earnest, I have thought of
| marriage. There is bat oue objection.’
Dear Sir: - Or rather, may I not address you
as beloved friend? Yes—yes, I will ! Away
with the cold conventionalities that would deny
me the privilege! Yes, my friend, there are
some characters that we read at a glance.
Yours I read in the terms of your advertise
ment—so modest, so concise, so appropri
ate.’
•Y’on must apply that to yourself,’ interrupted
I, laughing, ‘for you know, Fred, you drew up
the advertisement. But let me go on.’
•My heart is drawn to you—I blush not to con
fess it; I feel that we were made for each other;
I have long pined for a congenial spirit—an in
timate of the other sex for whom I might live,
and to whom I might cling with fond affection.
Trusting to hear from you ere long, I remain,
•Yours in the closest friendship,
‘Georgiana Dale.’
‘I will leave Miss Dale to you, Fred, as she
has evidently fallen in love with your character,
not mine. Hope she won’t be disappointed.’
So we went through the list. We do not in
tend to faco:- the reader with the contents of
the forty-seven. One was from a milliner—two
from ladies in reduced circumstances— seven,
from widows with large families—seventeen
from professional old maids -the remainder were
not explicit upon this point.
One thing I noticed in regard to these letters.
None of the ladies who were over twenty, made
allusion to their age.
Time for •Vrsmiiilf — As a general rule,
the time for weaning is when the child is about
a year old; but mothers should be governed more
in this matter by thejdegree of genera! develop
ment, stateofthe child's health, and progress of
the teething, than by the age. Ualess there is
something in the condition of the mother im
peratively requiring it, the child should not be
weaned until Nature shows her readiness to set
up lor herself by exhibiting a mouth pretty well
tilled with teeth. It is well known that the teeth
ing period is not fixed with any definiteness—
that it commences much earlier and progresses
much more rapidly in some children than in
others; and as the indications of Nature should
always be our guide, as far as possible, we should
be governed in deciding on the propriety of
weaning more by the number of teeth "than by
the number of months from birth.
It is also well known that the heat ot summer
strongly predisposes to ‘summer complaint’and
other fatal affections of childhood, and, as ex
citing causes of disease in the form of improper
and txcessive eating, are much more likely to
come into play after a child is weane i, the sum
mer season should, as far as possible, be avoid
ed in weaning. To do this, the child should be
weaned some time before the beginning of warm
weather, so as to become accustomed to the
change of diet, or the weaning should be post
poned until the heat of summer has passed.
Mothers are not justifiable in subjecting their
children to ttie dangers of summer weaning with
out very good cause. Still, if a child can have
pure country air, and if its diet is properly reg
ulated, the dangers of summer weaniDg can —
to a great extent, be obviated. But, as things
are generally managed, weaning is at all times
rather a critical process. Therefore, no undue
risk should be incurred in choosing a season
which increases the dangers. In the present
unhygienic mode of living, there are not a few
women who are so feeble and delicate that they
are incompetant to afford a sudiyiency of pure,
healthful nutriment for their offspring; hut the
difficulty both as to the quantity and quality of
the milk can generally be obtained by the change
of habits on the part of the mother, and a more
correct manner of living. And this forsaking of
most healthy and vigorous. It is a mistake to
suppose that meat is more nourishing and bet
ter adapted to growing children than vegetables.
The truth is, most of the articles of vegetable
diet in common use are more nutiitious than
i meat.
| Vegetable diet should be preferred to ariimal
I in early life, because it is sufficiently nutritious
1 aud because it is more cooling and less stimu
lating; and therefore better suited an age pecu-
{ liarly prone to inflammatory afflictions.
Toothache.
A man with the toothache doesn't care about
anything else. The glories of the world pall on
his taste, the wonders of creation seem as
naught. The tooth becomes a volcano of beleh-
I ing tury, and the rest of life hidden in a cloud
| of billowing smoke. You can’t borrow anything
! of the man with the toothache. You can’t in-
j struct and improve him. Y'ou can tell him that
J the world travels at the rate of a thousand miles
; in a minute, and it doesn’t startle him in the
| least. He simply groans. You say to him: ‘My
! friend, there are stars so far off that their light
: has not yet reached this world,’ but he don’t
I mind it; he only howls. You teil him that some
of the sun-spots are 100.000 miles in diameter,
j and that one of them would take in Jupiter at
; one mouthful, but it is nothing to him. He
[ goes on swearing and weeping. Sometimes a
man’s tooth achts so hard, the pain is so ago
nizing, that several strong men have to hold him
down by mam force, while some important sci
entific fact is being communicated to him.
Remarkable Diamonds.
From so many writers, I found it difficult to j bad habits is the only true and proper course lor |
.12 - yh. - as—I co Id j tdgo, . *11 mothers w howr -uirk uf ib'eUxUcioDt $p qoun- ;
would best Huit ife. At length, I decided ; tity or impure in quality. This will succeed in 1
ral offer you can afford. State defini’ely.
1st. How much space of each weekly issue
you will place under our control lor education
al matter ?
_. What compensation you will agree to give
the edit'r, either as salary or a per cent of the
subscription. If the latter, state what per cent.
j. What per cent of proceeds of advertise
ments obtained by the editor will be allowed?
4. The extent of your circulation G^is confi
dential, if you desire.
Furnish us, also, with an estimate of the cost
of publishing 300 copies of the proceedings
alone in pamphlet form.
A copy of our last proceedings is herewith
‘What is that ?
‘I should never have the courage to pop the
question, and if I did I don’t think I could find
any one willing to have me.’
•Pooh ! my dear fellow, this is perfect folly.
‘Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.’ Depend upon
it, there are hundreds who would jump at the
chance of becoming Mrs. Dobbs.’
I shook my head incredulously.
‘As I eball make evident,’ pursued Fred, au-
thoritively, ‘by referring to statistics. Aocord-
though with hesitation, to answer one from a
lad who professed to be gifted with an amia
ble disposition and domestic tastes, and who,
moreover, owned a small house in the city,
with $1300 in railroad stock.
I wrote veiling my real name as she had done,
all cases where disease has not become irreme- >
dable from inheritance or long persistance in ■
wrong living.
After all, the principle thing to be considered !
in weaning, is the condition of the child and I
of the mother. If the mother gives a sufficien- I
appointing an in interview with her at the South | cy cf good, wholesome milk and remains in good
part of the Common the next day at ten o'clock.
She was to carry a white rose in her hand, and
1 a red one—that we might thus be able to dis
tinguish each other.
Let me, before proceeding further, sketch for
you my Aunt Penelope Baxter, with whom I
boarded. She was now somewhere about fifty
years of age. She had never been very prepos
sessing in personal appearanc. A sharp, wiry
j ing to the last census, the number of females j figure, ncse long and thin, gray eyes, and com-
| in Massachusetts was found to outnumber ihe ; pressed mouth were my aunt’s characteristics,
males by C$,000. From which we may infer physically. Shs was a good woman in llie main,
mailed to your address, on which you may base , that more than six'y thousand of the opposite
the estimate.
We hope to receive a favorable reply at an
early date, not later than the 2o:h inst.
Respectfully your obedient servants,
B- BoEnri! (Chairman )) Committee 0D
W F. Slaton, J. H Chappell, - Pabllcation .
B. Mailon, G. J. Orr. )
sex are destined to single blessedness.’
‘Well! said I.
though somewhat disposed to scold. Aunt Pene
lope was an old maid—from choice, she said
She often declare she wouldn't marry for any
D^n’t you see, therefore, that this large num- | money. ‘Do you think,’ said she, ‘that I would
her will be old maids from necessity, not from
choice, and would probably take up with the
first offer? Consequently you have sixty thous
and chances to marry.’
This was certainly a startling conclusion.
‘But consider my bashfuiness.’
‘I have thought of that,’ said he, ‘and I would
advise you, under the circumstances to adver
tise for a wife. That, you see, would obviate all
difficulties. Shall I draw one up for you ?’
Considering that such a proceeding would not
necessarily bind me to matrimony, I consented,
and Fred soon placed before me, for my appro
bation, the following:
‘Wife Wanted !-A young gentleman of quiet
and unassuming manners and good moral char
acter, is desirous of securing a parther for life.
He is engaged in mercantile pursuits, which af
ford him a moderate income. Adj t one who may
deem it worth their while, may hear further par- j senting the rose,
To this, all the responses were quite liberal.
Tne different propositions were submitted to
the committee, and after due deliberation it
was the decision t f those present that the Sun
ny South should be selected as our official or
gan.
In many respects we deem this a wise and
most fortunate cboic9. While there are reasons
that operate powerfully in favor of a paper which
is more purely educational in its character, still,
in view of the partially developed condition ot
education in this and our sister states, and in
consideration of the circumstances of the vast
number of our Southern teachers, it was exceed
ingly desirable and important that an organ
should be selected which would prove more gen
erally attractive to the people.
The large circulation and extensive patronage
of the Sunny South, together with its fine lite
rary, domestic and agricultural featurs, ren
der it the best medium of communication that
the Association could obtain. The subscription
p rice is w ithin the reach of almost every farmer
and mechanic in this broad land, and these are
the persons who need to he reached by the in
telligence which we desire to disseminate. The
teacheis, W6are sorry to say, have shown them
selves either unable or unwilling to encourage [ ^^^jn^g^ignTticantiy,'’'neve7fails
and support an educa tonal journal, and as they ceiye €arly attention.’
are presumed—though the presumption is false
— to need such information as educational asso
ciations and their organs can and will furnish,
less than any body else, we purpose to address
the intelligence cf the people directly.
The great questions of education touch every
man in a vital point, and in order that every
man may understand his rights and interests
in this best gilt of God to man, we the educa
tors and educationists of the country, should
use a 1 1 means, this among the rest, to enlighten
and instruct him,
We therefore call upon all friends of educa
tion, whether private or public, partial or com
plete, rudimentary or liberal, to come to our aid.
Write, contribute, discuss if yon feel so dispos
ed, but be certain to subscribe to this capital pa
per, and thereby bless yourself, your family and
your country.
tie my self to a husband and children, when I
can live independent?’
To return. About nine o’clock the next day,
arrayed in my best, I set out with palpitating
heart for the Common. My rose I kep>t out of
sight,till I arrived at the place designated,when,
health, the weaning should be delayed until the
teething is pretty well completed and the sea
son is favorable. And, after the teething with
its ailments is passed over, if the child is feeble
and predisposed to consumption, scrofula, or
any other hereditary disease, it is well to defer
the weaning still for several months. It is the
opinion of some of our mo3t distinguished med
ical authorities that the children of consumptive
parents should be kept at the breast eighteen
months or two years,as the surest means of ren
derring them healthy and robust. But in giving
this view, it is always presupposed that the
mother gives enough good milk,or that the child
is supplied by a healthy wet-nurse.
IMet Alter Weaning.—When weaning
has been decided on, the ebange of diet should
be made gradually, and special care slould be
taken against over-feeding. This over feeding
is a common error, and a fruitful source of
bowel complaints, convulsions, general ill
health, and death in all stages of childhood, and
The most perfect brilliant in Europe is the
‘Pitt 1 or ‘Regent* diamond. It was found forty-
five leagues from Golconda, and weighed 110
carats. It was purchased by Mr. Pitt, the Gov
ernor of Madras, in 1702, for £20,000. He took
it to London and had it cut as a brilliant, reduc
ing its weight to 13G carats, and in 1717 sold it
to the regent duke of Orleans for Louis XV., for
£130,000. At the time of the first French revo
lution it was sent to Berlin, but afterward reap
peared, adorning the state sword of Napoleon I.
The largest stone which is claimed to be a di
amond is the ‘Braganza, ‘ found in Brazil in
1711. It is as large as a hen's egg, and weighs
1 u*o carats. It is supposed by some to be a to
paz, but the Government of Portugal, to which
it belongs, will not permit it to be examined for
the purpose of ascertaining.
The largest undoubted diamond is the'Orloff,
which adorns the imperial sceptre of Russia.
It is said to have formed one of the eyes of an
Indian idol, and to have been stolen by a French
deserter. Another story is that it belonged to
Nadir, Shah of Persia, and on his murder came
into the hands of an Arminian merchant, who
took it to Amsterdam. In 1772 it was purchased
by Prince Orloff for the Empress Catherine, for
£30,000 besides a large annuity and a title of
Russian nobility. The weight of this diamond
is l‘J3 carats, and its pattern is a rose.
The largest diamond belonging to the British
crown is the Koh-i-noor, a brilliant of great pu
rity. According to the Indian legend, it was
found in one of the Golconda mines near the
Kishna River, and worn 3,000 years ago by Kar-
na, one of the heroes celebrated in Mahaharata,
one of the great epic poems of India. It passed
through many hands to Baber, the founder of
the Mogul dynasty, in 132G, and was shown by
his successor in 1GG5 to Tavernier, the French
traveller. He describes it then as of the shape
of half an egg, and weighing 280 carats, having
been thus reduced by an unskilled stone-cutter
from 703? carats, which it once weighed. In
il i“ it passed to NadirShaii, the Persian 'nvad-
er ot India, who gave it the name of Koh-i-noor,
or Mountain of Light, and from his successors
in 1813 to Sunject Sing, the ruler ofLahore. At
the capture of Lahore, in 1810. it fell into the
hands of the British troops, and in 1830 it was
presented to Q xeen Victoria It has been recut
in the rose form, and now weighs 10G 1-16 car
ats. It is displayed in the Record or Wakefield
tower, along with the other crown jewels.
seating myself on one of the benches, I awaited j especially at the time of weaning,
my unknown visitor. I After a child has been weaned it should he
I did not have long to wait. My eye soon . restricted for some time to the light, blond
caught the figure ol a lady advancing towards j semi-fluid jrreposaton/ vegetable diet recom-
me, with a white rose in her hanc.. She was j me nded in a previous article, where feeding is
thickly veiled, so taat I could not catch a , resorted to before weaning. After continuing
glimpse ot her face. $ae seemed „o be looking | f or three or four months,such diet as rice, onion-
around her, doubtless for the Ivnight of the j roast, grated crackers, mush, sweet milk, etc.,
Red Rose. I concealed it until she was close at
hand.
Summoning all my courage, I rose, and with
a rapid step, advanced towards the lady.
‘Knowest thou this token ?’ I whispered,
pre-
PricceFS Marie of Germany, the bride of
Prince Hc-nry of the Netherlands, is one of the
most highly cultivated women in Germany.
Devoted to the scientific studies, she is also a
good musician and artist and excellent linguist,
being particularly well acquainted with latin.
After her engagement with Prince Henry was
; decided she at once began to learn Dutch.
ticnlars by addressing A, B. C., box 33, Post-
Office.’
This document, being considered on the
whole, sufficiently explicit. I carried it next
morning to the office of a daily paper.
‘A friend of mine,’said I, not caring to iden
tify mvself with the ‘Gentleman in Search of a
Wife,’ wishes this advertisement inserted in
your paper. How many times will it probably
be necessary to insert it?’
‘Three times,’ said the clerk, ‘will be amply
sufficient. ‘That sort of advertisement,’ he
o ^ to re
ceive early
I had resolved not to open any letters until
the end of the three days on which the adver
tisement was to appear. I sent to the office
three times a day, and never failed to receive a
letter for A. B. C.
On the third evening, when Fred and I sat
down to examine the pile which had accumulat
ed in my letter-case, we counted forty-seven !
‘Didn’t I tell you, Dobbs,’ said Fred laughing,
‘that there was still a chance for you ? And
now let us plunge into the midst of things, lor
we have a night’s work before us.’
It was a motely collection—no less various in
outward appearance than in character of the
contents. Some were inclosed in envelopes,
others without. Some of the former were on
delicate, cream-laid paper, others were written
on a single half sheet of common letter-paper,
and inclosed in a brown envelope. Some were
sealed with a wafer, pressed by a thimble,
others,—those of greater pretensions—were fas
tened with sealing-wax, or with small motto-
seals, with various devices and inscriptions,
Of these inscriptions I recollect a few as , Wholly
thine,’ ‘Faithful till death,’ ‘We .are one,
‘Forget me not,’etc. Then for devices, there
was a pair of clasped hands, a heart pierced
with darts and others of the same character.
The lady who had been looking in the oppo-
j site direction, turned round at the sound of my
| voice. I was quite unprepared for what follow*
I ed. With a shriek of surprise, she exclaim
ed :
| ‘Good Heavens ! It is Henry •’
‘What Attiil Fenelojc said I, with a surprise
j equal to her own. ‘Cm it be possible?’
‘Yes,’said she, t: Jog to recover herself, ‘as
it was so pleasant luis morning, (it was very
cloudy and the sun bad not once made its ap
pearance ) ‘ I came out to visit your Aunt
Mary.’
‘But,’ said I, who was determined to confuse
Aunt Penelope as much as possible, ‘I thought
Aunt Mary lived in quite a different part of the
city.’
I thought,’ said my aunt, hesitatingly, ‘that
A Funny Custom*
That was a funny custom in olden times when
a >onng Prince was being educated. A boy wa3
taught with him called the ‘whipping boy.’
When bis Highness was idle, did not know his
lessons, forgot his Latin verbs, spilled the ink
on his desk, or made caricatures of his master,
then the poor boy was whipped and scolded for
his misdemeanors. They thought it would
punish the Prince sufficently to see an innocent
boy punished for the faults he himself com
mitted, besides no one would dare lay violent
hands upon a prince.
soft boiled eggs, rice pudding or custard, hom
iny, syrup or molasses and steamed fruits may
be added by way of variety. It is a common
error to have the food of children too concen
trated too much divested ot those husky innu
tritions matters that are necessary for the prop
er performance of the functions of the bowels.
After the laxness and irritation of teething have
subsided, corn bread, mush, hominy, potatoes,
Graham or brown bread, etc, are much better
food than fine flour, farina, starch, sugar, con
fectioneries and all such concentrated food. j
Another very prevalent error is the mistaken J
notion that growing children require a great !
deal of meat. Many mothers commence stuffing !
their children with meat—and that the wo st S
kind of meat, fat bacon and pork—even before
weaning, and before nature has provided teeth
for chewing solid food. No wonder that chil
dren thus fed are liable to bowel affections, con
vulsions, fevers, foul symptoms, and severe in-
flamations from the slightest injury or expos
ure. Children thus raised must suffir physical
I would take a little walk on the Common d . er angement, and mentai and moral deteriora-
tirst.
‘I see,’ said I, still in the tormenting mood,
‘that you have a white rose for her. How kind
of you ! By good luck I have a red one. Please
present this with the other.’
My aunt stammered some unintelligible an
swer, took the rose and departed—not to my
Aunt Mary’s, but homeward.
I did not meet her at the dinner-table. She
sent word that she was indisposed.
‘What is the matter?’ I asked.
‘I don’t know,’ said Bridget; ‘she’s acted un
common queer this morning. About eight
o’clock she sent me down town, to get a white
rose. Said she was very particular about its
being a white one. So I got it, and she went
out about nine. She was very much flustered
like, and ran right up to her chamber.’
My Aunt Penelope did not soon recover from
the mortification of that day. It became painful
to her to have one continually present who was
acquainted with the circumstances. She sent
for me one morning, and told me that as her
tion. A sound mind cannot exist in an un
sound body; and a child who is forever sick and
puny, must as a necessary consequence, become
fretful and ill-tempered; and feeling badly will
act badly, ‘in spite of good counsel, parental
authority, the nurses lullaby, or the barbarians
rod.’
Physical and moral health are with very few
exceptions, inseparably connected; aud mothers
cannot reasonably expect to nurse bright, sweet-
tempered children when the habits of the latter
are such that they must inevitably be tortured
with multiplied and intolerable physical disor
ders. Such Job-like trials are often too much for
the philosophy and Christianity of the best men
and woman; and what hope for a child under
such circumstances !
A vegetable diet is best for children, even to
adult age. When a child reaches three or four
years, it may be allowed animal food. But it is
not necessary then; and abundant experience
and observation prove that children raised ex
clusively on milk and vegetable diet are the
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