The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
How to Keen the Children Pure.

VIII you not use your influence in
trying to deter large boys from contami-
Mating the minds of small boys ?
Things which should be told IN whole
some manner and as solemn truths are
distorted into vile shapes, and pefma,
nent injury is done to children's minds
Would it not be better for the body to
be poisoned than the mind, that parents
might see the harm done, and thereby
be Snabled to use cares and Rutidotes ?
But am sorry to say that think the
trouble lies deeper than with the big
Eoys. I have been looking around, and
am quite sure that it does. A jury
might acquit them with the verdict,
more sinned against than SHINING. It
is the men that am coming at for lust
so long as they meet in groceries; on
street corners, and in shops, telling
stories unfit for the ears of their moth
ers, sisters, wives and daughters, just
so long big boys will listen and think it
cunning to emulate the filthy example.
Is it not terrible thing to look into
young mans face and think Of the inn
purities his mind must be loaded with
unless he has strength to cast of
the uuclean thing and be a nobleman ?"
No subject more vital in its bearing
OAA HAAC A44OAoAS "a bAAO JOalS5 OOaAA AahC
place in this column, says the New York
Tribune, in reply to the above letter.
There are parents who recognize among
the duties they owe their children that
of instTucting them with respect to The
origin of life. This is left shrouded in
impenetrable mystery, and all manner
of lies are told IN reply to the questions
which at a very early age children will
ask. The mother leaves this matter for
her daughter to be told about by any
chance schoolmate, who, with the few
grains of truth she may communicate,
is more than likely to SOW tares that
never can be weeded out. The inno-.
cent-hearted boy learns from his rongh
companions what his own father or
mothershculth have told him sVith per-
feet simplicity and inge u0asaess, and
learns a great deal that they would never
have had him to know. Truth is sacred,
truth is pure and never cOrrupts any
one. It is the vile admixture of false
hood with it that eontaminates. Every
fact in human physiology can be so
communicated to a pure mind that its
delicacy shall not be in the least Of
Tended. The time to make these facts
known is VIII the desire to inquire
into them manifests itself, and the best
b6acnef Is the parent. AS D6GW0on nus
band and wife, SO between parent and
child there is no place for shame.
Where virtue ireigns shame cannot
come.
A child thus taken into sacred init
macy with its parent will instinctively
revolt from whatever is vulgar and base
and obscene. At every period in the
d velopment of the young life the
parent should be before everybody else
in preparing and forthying his son or
daughter against the dangers which lie
in his or her path. There is nothing
that so strongly binds child to virtue
and honor and chastity, as perfect and
unrestrained intimacy between it and
the father and mother. We are careful
about the sewage of our houses, about
yentilating them, and see to it~With
diligence that every nook and corner is
kept neat and sweet. Let as carry the
Something into character and open all
the doors and windows of the soul by
total frankness and transparent sim
plicity, that the pure air and sunshine
of heaven may have access to them
and keep them pure, ~ &
One word more. If home Is made so
attractive that boys and men prefer ii
to the corner groceries, an ounce OF pre-
vention will be found better than many
/ pounds of cure.