Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-31

a Nut FOR THE BoYs TO CRACK" Cease
70 DO eUlI-Learn to do sceH Here's a text
ior you, boys; what do you think of it, Read
II again and again. Remember it, Paste it
IA the crowns of your hats, so that it will stare
you In the face as often as you place them on
or Oft your heads. When you are about to 90
out tor an evenings walk, and pick up your
hats for that purpose, (boys seldom forget to
put on their hats, though they sometimes for,
get to take them off, } let it remind You to
= cease to do evil" Repeat 1t in your minds
o. speak it out, if you choose-you need not Q
ashamed to repeat it In any society, or in any
place; but if you are ashamed to repeat it, you
may be sure that you have not made an effort
to "cease to do evil.' Do You know. bows.
that all the time you are not doing we'll. YOU
are doing evil. It's fact. DO You ever do
nothing? How do you do it? When you are
doing nothing, you are doing evil, because
the time i spent in doing nothing ought to be
What do you read? Novels, love stories
songs. You are doing evil you had better
do nothing, if it is possible to do nothing. As
long as you continue to read such trash YOU
are not "ceasing to do evil, ;" because YOU are
not benefited thereby, and because your time
might be and ought to be employed in read
ing some good, useful book, which would fill
your upper story with information, and fur
| nish you with ideas and the means of making
your conversation agreeable to yourself and
profitable to others. Perhaps YOU do not read
at all. Then you are doing evil simply be-
cause you are not doing we'll When you are
reading good books you are " learning to do
we'll, for 1t is by making yourself acquainted
with She thoughts and opinions of good and
able men that you are enabled to form correct
notions of men and things for your guidance
through life. ;
Il xyArr ID - =
leisure time-your evenings Do YOU con
verse? What about! If you do not read, your
conversation must be very, gerry improbable,
for you have nothing to talk about-no fund
upon which to draw. You have made no de-
posltes-you have not stored your minds with
the golden treasures of knowledge, and there
fore your drafts-if you are tempted at times
to draw upon an empty treasury-are sure to
be dishonored, and yourselves laughed at for
pretending to that which you do not possess
shame, shame on the boy who, amid the light
and knowledge of this day, does not begin to
cease to do eviP' and to ''learn to do well -
tell you what, boys, suspect, nay l
know, that much of your leisure time is spent
In running after the girls-in getting up and
| giving parties for their amusement, at a cost
Of time and money which is ruinous to you
and most improbable to them. g Mother .
SAID young girl some time ago, 81 met
young j. to-day, and be asked me if he
| might come and court me tonight" "Wen,
Miss Impudence, and what did you say ~
| 60. told him he might come; for L wanted
to see how the fool would actu' Ha. ha ha !.
| put that in your pipes and smoke it, BOYS
| How do you like the flavor? real Havana,
| isn't it?
" When / liv'd in Tennessee
1 Sally 'courtin used to be
| Jenny Weaver lived there too
| low them both-what could do!
| Wipe your eye and don't you cry,
| I'll marry both you gals by'm-byen
| - MORE ANON
ENIGMA.-Iam composed of Is letters:
My 3, z, 4, is a part of the day.
My IL, z, 2, 9, 10 is an article used in war.
My A, 9, IA, Is is a range Of mountains in
| Europe.
My IL, IL, 10, 16, is what great many peo-
pie do when they undertake an impossibiiity.
My and is an adverb.
| Ny Z, 2, 8, 10 is very useful
| My y, 2, is disturbance.
My 9, ii, 1, 10 is part of the body.
My 3, IA, l, 10 is useful to house keepers.
My z, III, and 8 IL an irregular verb.
| Ny l3, 2, is proposition.
| My Z, IL, lis an awful thing
MY whole Is an excellent motto. JULIAN