an increase of tasks and confinement
to the house, thus overtasking still
more a brain already overtasked, anil
depressing still more, by robbing it of
jxvgen aud of exercise, a system al
ready depressed! Are you aware, I
ask agaiu,of all thist I speak earnestly
upon this point, because I speak with
experience. As a single instance, a
medical man, a friend of mine, passing
by his ow n school room, heard one of
Lis own little girl sscrearaiug and cry
ing, and went in. The governess, an
excellent woman, but wholly igtiorant
of the laws of physiology, complained
that the child had of late become obsti
nate, and would not learn: and that
therefore she must punish her by keep
ing Ler indoors over the unlearned les
Mins. The father, who knew that the
rl.il.l was usually very pood one.
looked at her carefully for a little
while; sent her out of the school room;
and then said. "That child must not
open a book for a month." "If I bad
not acted so," Le said to me "I should
have Lad that child dead of bnun
disease within a year."
Xow,in the face of such fact as those
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IS It IW HI 11V u v .,
ters aunts
inirsin- irovci iiesses an
who may lc occupied iu the care of
rliildrcn, especially u. tn ......
