Occupation of Children, —Tho habits of children prove that occupation is a necessity with most of them. They love to be busy, even about nothing, and still moiv to-be usefully employed. Children inclined to it should be disciplined in performing for themselves every little office relative to their own toilet which they are capable of pel-forming. They should also keep their own clothes and other possessions in neat order, and fetch for themselvoe whatever they want. In short, they should learn to bo as independent of tho services of others as possible, fitting them alike to make good use of prosperity, and to moot with fortitude any rovorso of fortune that ■ may bofall them, A Drunken Crabs.— Tho loading amuse-, ment at Atlantic City consists in making ; crabs dermic. Bread is soaked in whisky, ■ ' and the crabs come out in myriads- to in.- - dulge. Those who furnish tho treat find • their reward in watching tho queer antics i of the crustacean inebriates, as soon as tho t fierce stimulant «»toals away what 5 brains tl
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 5, 8 December 1869, Page 1 (Supplement)
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