Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-04-06
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LATE lloURs.-IIate hours are carrying
more people to untimely graves than the
deadly missiles of warfare The bullet and
the crashing shells mangle the limbs and
infiict flesh wounds, but midnight dissipa.
tion impairs the whole system, and hurries
all ages and reccs under the sod This
growing tendency to turn night into day is
one of the most serious Of our social evils,
and should receive the earnest considera-
ton of those interested in the welfare of the
human race. BY looking back at the news
papers of that time, it will b, found that
New Norkers, in the beginning of this cent
tury, departed from places of amusement
not far from the time at which they now en-
ter them. The doors OF the theatre opened
ut halt-p9st five O'Clock. and the curtain
rose ut half-past six. The early Knicker-
bockers attended parties and ether social
gatherings at seven and returned home be-
tween nine and ten O'Clock.
Now all this is changed, and between
nine and ten is the fashionable hour for 90
ing out. And what is true of grown peo-
pie is rapidly true of juveniles. Young
sters in roundabouts, and misses in short
dresses are arranging their tlnery long af-
ter the hour when the children of the last
generation were tucked away in trundle-
beds. Little ones scarce loosened from
D
ed in carriages to ''chidrcn's parties''
from half-past nine, and brought home at
midnight or later.
Don't have the carriage yet," said a
little miss in our hearing n few evenings
since mo one else will be there until half
past niue,n and with that she gave a toss
of the head, as much as to say that she was
not going to keep any less fashionable hours
than her mamma.
There is certainly no reason to 90 be-.
yond this condition Of affairs for an eXpla-,
nation Of the physical deterioration of sex
es. How very few robust men and women
are to be found nowadays. Can we not
each count on our fingers ends all the
friends and aCquaintanCes who are FREQ
from bodily ailments and enjoy good
: health We comment upon the fact that
young men become bald and prcmaturely
grow old that young ladies are almost in
variably complaining Of pain in the head
or side, have pale, weary look, and rarely
exhibit those ruddy countenances which arc
so common with their English sisters. But
does 1t ever occur TO parents that they are
to great extent responsible for this that
they arc mainly to blame that fashionable
rcvclry and dissipation arc now protra cted
far into the night robbing old and young
alike of health If they, in throwing open
their houses to company, wish that the
guests shall depart at Il reasonable hour,
the guests will do 50.
The prevailing fashion cannot be pcrpct-
uatcd without the consent of the heads of
the establishments. However late the
young folks may desire to protract their fcs-
tivltics, they must conform to the require
meuts Of the old folks, the householders.
We say then, it is not the young, the youth
ful pleasure seekers, who are responsible
for the late hour folly so much as the pa
rents, who have it in their power to stop
it. so far as children are concerned, pa
rents do them Il great wrong in either en-
couraging or permitting an Indulgence in
late hour festivities and entertainments.
If they will not themselves conform to the
laws Of health, the least they can do is to
prevent their children from adopting their
own ruinous practices.