The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-22
Lssk After Lads.

From an article under this head in
the Chicago Journal Of Commerce, we
take the following extracts:
Gin our cities, where trade drives and
is exacting, and whore amusement and
fashion hold such despotic sway, this
evil-for it is an evil-of absenteeism
from paternal and maternal duties, is a
growing enc, End threatens to injure
both individuals and society more than
we may expect. Hurried life; life too
exclusively confined to the counting
room; life with the crowd in the board
ing houses or hotel; life that is restless
and gay to the verge of dissipation
this sort of life, with its obviously de-
moralizing effect upon America in its
teens, is quite too common. Verify it
might properly be said, that parties
have ne moral right to be married, and
have the little 'olive plants spring up
around any table on their own dom
icil, unless they can and are anx-
ious to look after the welfare, the
growth, and the culture of their offspring.
"The Psalmist says that God setteth
the solitary in families which means,
We suppose, that the way people ought
to live is in households, where the nat
ural relations and the natural affec-
tions shall have the privacy, the separa-
ton, from the great bustling world, and
the concourse of people, they require
for their right enjoyment and the pure
and healthful exercise; yet how sadly
is this ordination of Providence inter
fered with and disregarded, ominously
so, in our great and multitudinous
towns! Indeed. it is, or is becoming, a
very serious question, how what are
assumed to be the imperative demands
of business, and what are felt to be the
most irresistible solicitation of society,
can be reconciled to decent and faith
full regard to tho claims of domestic
life. n
"We dread the street and the gutter
for little chaps; we talk of the pre-
mature old-headness of the boot-blacks,
news-boys, and other vagabond young
sters; but really it admits of doubt
whether rags and rowdyism in blind
alleys are worse in tl;eir influence on
the rising generation than hotel. entries
and bathrooms in company of grooms,
eoachmen, and other servants. The
contagion of vicious and loose habits
is not warded off by the fine clothes,
and little gentlemen may get infected
by it quite as easily, perchance, as lit
tie gamins. Certainly, terrible infants,
in costly attire, are about rs fire.
quently met with as those whose
chief argument is a coating of dirt.
at is, therefore, very desirable with
the rich as we'll as the poor, that we'll
ordered family living should not pass
away; and the intercourse and associ-
alton between parents and their chill
dren should become less intermittent
and closer. Of what advantage will it
be to make fortune for ones heirs, and
to seat them in luxury, if meanwhile
they are left without watching, with
ont special and solicitous care for their
moral training and watching, and care
that cannot be safely entrusted to hire
lings 7 1t would be well for some mer-
chants and professional men to put this
inquiry to themselves, as they remem-
Der how they daily come ont of their
front doors in'the morning not to re-en-
ter them until evening, and then only
to prepare for giving a good portion Of
the night to engagements, in which
home matters have no lot or part"