Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 26, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 August 1827 — Page 4

Poetical.

' ! is amusing to remark the obstacles ! I which oppose its adoption, when

TFriu wAcnnQPTnxT 13 u,Sru y e pnysicians. ai OENLRAL WASHINGTON ru i c . . I the first mention of it. the look of -n he following facts are derived from an ' r.i n ... i

u bid Officer" who as present on the oc- dfc,ncm,ul 1 ,,e mrou,.er 1S rt ia.ion. , ted by a gance of still greater j

When General Washington was appointed to command the armies of the United States, he repaired immediately to the camp at Cambridge. He found the army stationed at that place arid its vicinity, ardently devoted to the cause of liberty but without subordination, and almobt wholly undisciplined. Soon after his arrival he inspected the troops, with some of the generals and field officers, who ac

companied him to htad quarters, when il

astonishment from the nurse, who,

while she appears to be busy with I

the affairs of the room, is listening ' eagerly to the monstrous doctrine, 1 ever and anon casting a look of

extreme contempt at the speaker, j

and smothering the wrath which is ready to burst forth on his

counsel the moment he leaves the

A was expected he would make an address apartment. " Did vou ever hear

r . - I'V: i the like o that t To make a oo ing to listen to him : ne took from his I ,f . .. . , , pocket, Watts' version of Psalms & read : ? the ,,tt,c dear No, no. ma am !

in fv solemn and impressive manner, the j I knows better. .No baby that

comes through my hands shall never be so treated. Without a cap, forsooth ! I wonders indeed, what he would do with the open of the head? Perhaps lie would not put a piece of flannel on that, neither ; I always puts two pieces. What would people say to see the poor child so served ; and all these beautiful caps, in which he looks so handsome to be thrown aside ? What would Lady Busy body and Mrs. Lackwit. and all

me genieei laaies mat visit you.

19 1st Psalm.

Mercy and judgment are my s-ng! And since they both to thee belong, My gracious God, my righteous King, To thee my Songs and vows I'll bring." If I am called to bear the sword, . I'll take my counsels from thy word : Thy justice and thy heav'nly grace Shall be the pattern of my ways. Let wisdom all my actions guide. And let my God, with me reside ; Ko wicked thing shall dwell with mc, Which may provoke thy jealousy. No sons of slander, rage and strife Shall be companions ot my life. The haughty look, the heart of pride, Wiiiun my doers shall ne'er abide. t I'll searcft the land, and raise the just To posts of honor, wealth and trust ; The men that work' Thy holy wilV Shall be my friends and fav'rites still. The impious crew, that factions band. Shall hide their heads or quit the land ;' And all that break the public rest, Where I have power shall lie suppress'd. dressITfchTldren. Concluded.

As I strenuously recommend

the preservation of the warmth of

the trunk and ot the extremities.

it is natural to inquire why the

Head is to he left uncovered ? To explain this apparent inconsistency, it proper to inform my readers that the head is the part of the child most perfected, and more freely supplied with blood than the extremities. a circumstance depending on the mode in which the child is furnished with the maternal blood before birth, and the fetal circulation. Th nigh this determination of blood to the head be natural, and productive of no bad consequence in a healthy infant, yet it renders the head more susceptible of diseases of excitement and increased circula tion of the blood, than other parts of the infantile body, and thence the greater frequency of inflam mation of the membranes of the brain, and of its sequel water in the head in infancy than at any future period of life" The head, therefore requires to be less cloth ed than the trunk and extremities; and experience has confirm cd the benefit to be expected from leaving it altogether without a cap, or any other covering, except when the child is carried into the open air ; and then the bonnet or hat employed should he formed of the lightest and least heating materials. By attending to these rules, and leaving uncovered the heads of infants, and washing them daily with cold water, and at the same time regulating the diet, and keeping the bowels open, children strongly predisposed to water in the head have escaped this disease, though others of the same family, with whom these precautions were not observed, have fallen the victims of attack'

But the recommendation of this !

iiiiiicuuuiiuu ui mis i- i ,i

practice is makinir a nnuerfnl s u as me ouicr parts t

assault on the prejudices of both ' " i 1 pi'CCS? 'S "nt. fa' the mother and the nurse ; and it , Cllltatcd b any external covering,

dear ma am sav ? Poor child !

you shaYft be treated so ! Bless his prettv face !" The idea of be

iug the object of criticism, and the dread of appearing singular, are at ell times powerful motives against any attempt to walk out of the beaten track ; and when these are backed by long fostered preiudi

ees, it is not wonderful that mothers are shaken in their re so lution to follow the advice of the physician in this matter, even when the' are convinced thai, ii is right ; but when they believe that the nurse's experience is paramount to what they consider the theory of the doctor, the dec i son is soon given; and, til! disease makes its attack, the infant is p.-o duced as an instance of the sagacity of the nur se, and of the good taste of the mother. II there were, however, no other reason for disusing caps for infants but the improvement which it produces in the look of the child. I would maintain that t His is a sufficient inducement. Nothing but custom can reconcile us to the cap, with all its lace and trumpery ornaments, on the beautiful head of a child : and I would ask anv

one to say candidly, whether they think the children in the pictures of Titian and UatVaelle would be improved by having their heads covered with caps, instead of the silken curls, the adornment of nature, which cluster round their

smiling faces. With regard to the never-failing argument, 'founded on the necessity of covering

the opening of the head, it may be

proper to miorm our fair readers that this is not a defect in the head of the child, nor a par t which

requires more covering than the

other parts of the head, but that it

is an admirable device of nature

to facilitate the birth of the child

and to admit the rapid developement of the brain which occurs

during infancy. As soon as ossification can take place with

safety, bony matter is deposited on

the edges ol the bones in the vicinity of these fontenelles, or open parts, & these bones stretching forward till they meet, what

was belore only membrane, be-

of

nor is it possible that cold, or any

disease, can becommunicatedthro the membraneous parts of the skull, were they never to close When the head is kept totally un covered, the hair grows rapidly ; dandriff and other scurfy diseases rarely attack the scalp; catarrhs, snuffles, & similar complaints, seldom show themselves ; & the pe riod of dentition, the most precari

ous in the life of an infant passes

without trouble. Another custom of nurses. thatot laying children al

together Under the bedclothes, so

that the head and face are as much covered as the other parts of the body cannot be too much reprobated It renders the child much more susceptible of cold than it would otherwise be ; and many of the instances of thrush and the lamentable cases of morbid snuffles, which sometimes occur, may be attributed to this custom. As the child advances in aore, nd is capable of exercising its limbs, and especially alter it can walk and run, 'he blood b?ing then more fieely circulated, and the animal heat more equally diffused over the body, the trunk and the extremities require less external warmth from clothing than in infancy Still, however, the dress, whatever ,may be its

fashion, should allord protection to the chest, to the improper exposur e of which, in this change ale climate, many consumptive attacks may be traced The clothing should also continue to be light and loose ; boys should be left in petticoats much longer than is customary ; and the trnwsers now put on gir Is should be al together discarded In very young girls, also, stays, and all articles ot attire which press tinequally on parts of the body, and all ligatures and bandages, should

he avoided ; lor instead of afford ing support t? a weak frame, slajs and bandage's lavor deformity It is a cunous hut an undoubted fact that the majority of deformed persons aie of the female -ex a circumstance which probably is ouii g to the restraints in dress imposed on this part ot the species, from the mistaken notion that the' delicacy of their bodies requires artificial support. In proffering these remarks, it must not, however, be supposed that I am an enemy to dress ; on the contrary, if cleanliness be justly considered a virtue, an attention to neatness and elegance in attire, as having a considerable share in the formation of character, ought to be early inculcated , but these attributes of dress are not incompatible with warmth ; and surely the primary object of clothing is to guard the body from the impression of those atmospheric alterations which are likely to prove hurtful.

few steps at the threshold of his own dwelling. T. Whiskey, Vinegar, Sf Pickles. To the editor of the American Farmer. Sir From the scarcity of vinegar the last season, I was led to make trial of a mode of preserving cucumbers, ( pickling if you will.) that I should not have attempted

under any other circumstances But it succeeded so well with me, that I am desirous that other housewives should partake of the benefit. I gathered the cucumbers from the vines, and without any further preparation than washing them clean, dropped them into a stand containing a mixture of whiskey and water, one part of the former to three of the latter. I secured them against gnats, flies, and external air, by tying a flannel cloe over the top, and laying over this a board and stone, and neither moved or examined them until Christmas, when I found them, not nearly equal, but decidedly superior to any pickles I had ever tasted Theywere hard and of a fioe flavor, and what has been particular ly admired in them.thev retained the original color of the cucumber, not exhibiting the greeh poisonous appearance of pickles that had been salted and scalded in copper My whiskey and water (no salt having been used, or heat employed ) was now excellent vinegar for the the table. I beg you will give this a nlacp.

in your useful paper, and oblige

your constant reader and occasi

onal correspondent, Cousin Tobitha. P. S. I have no doubt but vinp-

gar. for all purposes, might be

marie in this way cheaper than

from eider Instead of cucum-

bers. their might he added to the whickev and water, some other variables, as grape leaves beets, straw ben ies. &c. &c w hen making t iiiegai w as the only object to be accomplished.

We have no doubt that many may imagine that the attention which I have recommended to dress in infancy, savors too much of the labor incptiarum, the toil of trifling cares " To those who think in this manner, I would reply, that much of the comfort of life depends on attention to trivial circumstances ; and that, as a beam, when accurately balanced, is turned by a feather, so health may be lost by inattention to matters in themselves apparently the most insignificant Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, alter surviving a thousand dangers during his adventurous enterprise, fell avictira to carelessness in descending a

A Judicial Anecdote Not many years ago, a judge of the interior of Pennsylvania," whose character for parsimony was well known, went into a shop to buy a horn comb- The lady waiting on him aked eight cents for it. The judge offered sx. which was finally accepted He took the comb

and laid down a jive penny bit,

w men is exactly, six and a quarter i cents After staying an unusual j length of time in the store a serv- ! ant entered with information, that ! dinner was on the table. I'll he

there presently, said the judge.' another message came the judge still lingered behind 'why do you stay' said the lady I am waiting for n.y change,' said the judge What change inquired the lady 'Why, the difference between six cents and the JTpenny bit' said the judge I know not how to accommodate you, but by cutting a cent into four equal parts, and giving you one of them.

replied the lady!' On savinn-

! which the judge stepped up to a : box containing snuff, and putting his hand into it, observed Well then, I'll take it out in maccouba V j kBless me,' said the lady, dike a ! hound on a scent, yon pinch hard,

anu give no quarters r Dr. Johnson once speaking of

a quarrelsome tellow said, " if be had two ideas in his head they , would fall out mth each other