Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-09
u. S. Z. & l.. A.
D. D. Hare.
Secretary.
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The Library and Literary Association
OF this place held its first regular meet
ing in the Presbyterian Lecture room,
on the evening of New Year. The Pres
ident of the Association. 7. E. GriselI.
Esq, delivered Lecture. entitled,
Social Improvement" The speaker
was t-equen;ly appauded and we would
gladly lay the entire address before our
readers. but have room for only the con-
Guiding part which is as follows:
All men admire the beautiful and true
AL men love virtue and goodness. and
it is doubtless the desire of all that the
community in which they live shall be
made up of hoaest. intelligent, industri-
GUS and happy people. Ii you were
seeking new home, and happened to be
attracted to a certain village by its out
ward signs of prosperity, being a p:u
dent man, you would not be content
with mere outward appearances, You
would look beneath the surface. You
would seek to learn the extent OF its in
teilectual att .inments, the state of its
mor4ls and the habits of its people.
If YOU had sons, you would want to
know something of its young men. and
for the purpose of making their acquain-
tance, you would start in search of them
You first visit the school room, on the
supposition that you will find them there
but no. they are not there. The young
men of that village graduate at sixteen.
You next look into the churches, and
Sabbath Schools, but the young men are
not there. You make one other effort.
You find your way to meeting of
the Library and Literary Association of
The village, but discover that the young
men who attend its meetings, have
grown gray and bald-headed. Your Gu
Tiosity is row excited, and you begin to
make inquiry as to their whereabouts.
You suggest that perhaps they are at
College, completing their education.
But 70, you arc told, they are not
You conclude they must be in the coun-
try teaching, but here again you are
doomed to disappointment. Impatient
at last you demand to bs informed OF
their whereabouts. In answer to your
demand, an individual with averted
face, and down cast countenance, silently
points his finger in the direction of GER
tain suspicious looking establishments
You inquire what business they pursue
there, and the answer comes in a sepul-
chral voice. they loaf"
You have daughters, and want to know
something of the young ladies OF the
place. You seek their society, you are
impressed; you are forced to eXclaim
that Solomon, in all his glory, was not
arrayed like one of these. On further
acquaintance. you discover that they are
in possession of. and carry CONSPICUOUS
lv about with them, a holy horror of
brooms and dishwater, and every thing
that pertains to housekeeping. As to
any knowledge of literature or the arts
and sciences, they are as innocent as the
babes in the woods. In the matter of
entering ball room, or the steps to be
taken when there, you find them equal
to any dancing master. AS to who were
at the last ball, what each one wore and
what attention this or that one receiv-
ed, from such and such persons present
you find them perfect, living, walking
cyclopedlas.
You carry your investigations further
you find that if there is man any
where on the roads with a stupendous
humbug, he is sure to find his way to
that village. IT there is lazy WORTHLESS
scalawag anywhere who has worse than
worthless wares and nostrums for sale.
he is sure to pitch his tent in its streets
And that when he spreads out his thin
BILE rigging, cheating apparatus, he can