Industry & sloth. [graphic] : What a sight! The sluggard stretched out in his bed with the bright light shining upon him and his mother and sister at work as busy as bees. Let him lose his breakfast two or three times and he will learn better ways.

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Contributor	American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title	Industry & sloth. [graphic] : What a sight! The sluggard stretched out in his bed with the bright light shining upon him and his mother and sister at work as busy as bees. Let him lose his breakfast two or three times and he will learn better ways.
Publisher	Philadelphia : American Sunday S. Union 116 [sic] Chestnut St
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date	[ca. 1850]
Physical Description	1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 28.5 x 39 cm.
Description	Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a mother scolding her young boy, and making him stay in bed past breakfast for his laziness. The boy's belongings are scattered on the floor near his bed. Also in the room is a young girl who sweeps the floor near the fireplace.
Notes	Not in Wainwright.
	Date supplied by cataloger.
	Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853).
	Originally accompanied by text titled "The sluggard!" moralizing against keeping late hours for "vain or sinful amusement, the hours that ought to be given to sleep" since healthy children need to use their "rested minds and bodies in useful ways".
	Philadelphia on Stone
	POSP 118
	Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject	Children -- Conduct of life.
	Arts in Christian education.
	Laziness.
	Boys.
	Mothers.
	Girls.
Genre	Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
	Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer	American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Print Department\| *GC - Morality [7822.F.5]
Accession number	7822.F.5