Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-09

what we are suffering from day to day. Shame
To man who has by long dnt of patient ap-
pIication acquired any thing like an education and
cherishcs the memory of his Alma Mater. and the
Professor who taught him, must feel somewhat
mortified to see such an unhalowed use made of
this respectable title To be met here and there
with every turn of the street by foreigner and
the greater the distance the greater the enchant-
ment) with bunch of hair upon his upper lip
not more than three grains of sense IN his head
so proud and stiff that the Devil would be asham-
ed of his disciple, calling himself the professor q
de fine arts, of de graceful polteness, of de grand
entrance of de parlour, and de general grand flour
ish of de fantasticle toe amusement" is horrible
and lamentable feature of the progressive age.
These fashionable amusements of the present
age are nectars given in the Devils chlorform-
innocent amusements they tell you, yet they put
the moral faculties to Sleep and while the poor
victims are soothed by its sweets, they are led a
few steps farther, and if you desire to know who
they be that prowl the streets in the still hours of
night you'll find them to be the votaries of fash
ionabe aEusements, enjoying only little recrea-
ton in the extended dance, or circus, or soiree
magicale.
But to be plain and to the point, these amuse-
ments and frolics of the present day, although IN
moderation, may be rather innocent than other
wise grant it at least, when carried to excess,
as is matter of history in this community, are
sources of great and lasting evil, which no candid
man can deny. Go, ask your faithful and honest
teachers, if this everlasting ddling and dancing,
circus going, jump up and jump down, hellow and
hurah kind of conduct does not unfit their pupils
for close and attentive study? Are you father,
and do you love your own children? you wish
to leave them happy and useful? Then educate
them for that purpose. This education is not to
be left to the professor alone Education may
be classed intellectual, moral and physical. How
will you give him an Intellectual education Will
you give him books to read that contain nonsense,
void of truth and principles, and let him commit
to memory poetry as foolish as the couplet that
heads this article? Let him pour over sickly no
wells, and when he attains to maturity, expect him
to understand mathematics, philosophy &c. No!
you will see that he first acquires correct tongue,
and next, that through this medium he acquires,
step by step, truth in philosophy, a fact in ma
ture, in chemistry &C., and avoid with the utmost
scrutiny errors of every kind. In short, you will
train him to Minb and acquire knowledge.
And next, how will you give him moral edu-
cation How will you train his young faculties
that he may, when your head is pillowed upon the
tomb, take high and noble stand in the walks Of
men Will you teach him to be liar, that he
may speak truth the better? curse, that he may
use better language in after days a? send him tc
houses of illfame, that he may appreciate virtue
Leave him to get drunk and gamble, and that he
may become disguised with these habits in future
life? Let him fiddle and dance away the precious
moments of his youth, that he may undo these
habits when older? No blind philosophy of this
kind can induce you to try such doubtful expert
ment. Though just such education has beer
impaired to the child ofmany an indugent parent
while he has been all the time deeply absorbed in
making money to make him more accomplished in
his vices, to his utter astonishment and when &
flood of iiicht has broke upon his vision, the reali
ty how certainly sure will his gray hairs go down
with sorrow to the grave while there is an ndi
vidual responsibility resting upon every father
there is collective responsibility resting upon the
community, which l charge upon this people as
being wofully neglected Then above all things
let each father watch with his own eye every STEP
of his childrens moral growth. Keep him in the
path in which he should walk, by kind and early
training if possible, ard the rod if necessary, e.
ven should it be the last act of your life; and i
YOU want to save his soul from He'll, make him
stay at home every night.
Then pray tell me when it comes to physical ed
ucation, why do you teach, or rather, why do you
suffer children to loaf upon the Streets lounge up
on counters, drink whiskey, ride on horse back
stave about in buggies, go to dancing schools, jab
bering around church doors in time of service, at
tend the circus and learn to curse, hunt gamble
fish and soon? You were not taught by your ia
theirs so to do No indeed. You were trained
to industrious habits To be sober in church-gc
home when service was over; in short to be boz
and not man. Our old grand sres made you
follow the plough, drive the OK, feed the sheep
go to the mill in Short toll and labor made you
contented and happy. You had no time to frol
and dance or to howl about the streets in the deaC
hours of night, shocking the nerves of delicate
gossiping, hysterical young ladies with scream
like wild lion, or an animal that has longer ears
you are not the less happy for having Stunned thes
miserable vices-not the less respected, becaus
you can't now enter fashionable parlour in thu
double quick step of dance. You look back Oh