Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-04-15

The Christian Registor has an article on
"The Village Loafcr, and loafers in eenc-
raj, and after very full and accurate de-
scription of the miserable shambine fellows
who loaf around village stores and tnverrs
il says:
Such is the village loaier, What is to he
done with him Is il possible To do any
thing for him lie is Il hard case to manage
Ii we cannot propose any remedy Tor him,
we wish TO suggest preventive.
The biame Tor luailng boy, who /. any
where more AT home than in his own home,
belongs i'll large measure to his parents,
Young people must have amusement: with
out it they can neither work or study.
Neither. when night comes after q DAVIS
work al books or trade or behind the
counter, can they sit down at home like
| quiet old people until bedtime. There is a
certain amount of spirit, or Young Amer
lca, That must have vent. II must dance
| and laugh, crack jokes and make love. 1t
has no idea OF giving up the solid pleasures
| oil sentiment and fiction. Of amusement and
i recreation, while fresh blood courses in its
veins. But parents overlook this necessity
oil youth. Ii they have fault, il is in not
| understanding the fact that amusement slim
ulales healihiul mental activity, and that
IN abundance of home plcasuiep creates for
young people love and attachment for their
homes, which no amount of parent
| preaching about staying at home, and moi
going away to spend the evenings, will ever
succeed in bringing about. In village homes
there is too much hard work and too little
play too little evening society; too little
hospitality; too little provision for the en-
terlainment Of the boy S and girls. The par.
| lOr ID hardly npn xVn -, l..
ter the table is never spread for u Young
company the companions of the children
are not made free to run in, and spend the
evening with games and music there is No
dancing in the large dining-room there ire
| no card-partles, at sensonabe hours, ia the
presence of parents and grandparents
presence so sacred that il Should regulate
times, manners and habits
Now these amusemcnis young people will
fin out aud have. They cannot he kept from
them. Try all the expedients you please
and they will learn how TO play cards and
will go to dancing-pariies and stay out late.
Unless they can have these amusements and
others still Of more innocent and child-likt
nature, At their own homes, they will have
them elsewhere. They will go to disreputa.
bic places, minglc with cxccptionabe com.
phny, carry their amusemenis to excess. and
contract along with them vicious and desrad-
ing hadits. Give the girls liberty to invite in
their companions, once Il week, to spend an
evening in dancing,o or singing, or games. Lei
the boys have the same privilege. Smile up.
on them. Don't leave them feel that you
have kind Of holy horror OF these things,
hut encourage them by providing little en-,
tcrlainment. Ii will disturb the house, make
work, be iiresome, perhaps, add trinc oil
expense. But which had you rather have,
the noise and trouble of party once Il week,
or night after night of anxiety and watching
and waiting for your boys TO come home
from the saloons and shops? Which do you
prefer dancing-party at home. or to have
your young people at the tavern ball." un.
til morning.
Neither is It enough for you to make no
objection to having amusemenis at home.
You must encourage them, not fail to pro-
vide them. II must be duty to make home
hospitablc, attractive to the young, free for
| all Droper festivities.