’Tis with him e’en standing water,
Between boy and man.
Shakspeare.
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Longfellow.
ABLUTION, ETC.
302. Have you any remarks to make on the Ablution of boys and girls?
How is it that a mother thinks it absolutely necessary (which it really is) that her babe’s whole body should every morning be washed; and yet who does not deem it needful that her girl or boy of twelve years old, should go through the process of daily and thorough ablution? If the one case be necessary, sure I am that the other is equally if not more needful.