The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-06
LOOK TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS.

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LOOK TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS.
For some time past there has been
considerable said in relation TO our boys
in collections on the street corners nights
and Sundays, and we have often heard
the remark made that our boys are grow
ing worse. We have heard such re-
marks in substance in the public DIS
course, in social conversation, and In
personal interviews. In such interviews
it has been said of boys that it was not
believed their fathers knew where they
were when they were out, and of others,
having no fathers, that their mothers
knew where they were, much less know
ing they were in the saloons where they
were sometimes reported to be. And in
these interviews the necessity of some-
thing being done, and what could be
done, to rescue and save CHEESE boys
have been brought into consideration.
Remarks have been made of our girls
to much the same effect as OF our boys.
Many remarks have been made of girls
collecting at the Postofice in the the
evening and when they are expecting
neither letters nor papers. But short
time ago one of cur most respectable
clergymen when in our Office spoke of
sucn collections in the postofice when
the girls were not expecting letters, and
said that something should be done to
prevent such collections. To the renal K
that some girls sometimes got letters,
that we had seen even small girls watch
the boxes for letters and that when a
letter was put in girls box the remark
had been made to her companions with
apparent delight II have got letter. +"
To this it was replied that making due
allowance for all who expected or got
letters, there we girls who collected at
the office who neither got nor expected
to get letters.
In the Telegraph of the 10th of March
there was an article headed, OUR BoYs,
and in the following issue an article
headed, Our GIRLS. These articles
were intended to call public attention to
our boys and girls in hopes of enlisting
concert Of action for their benefit. Soon
after the appearance of the article, Our
Girls, the same clergyman above referred
to being in the office spoke in common
dalton of both articles. The writer being
in the office we referred the clergyman
to him, saying that he was entitled to
the credit for writing the articles, where
upon the clergyman complimented both
the writer and the articles.
On tie other side there appeared two
articles in the Kenosha Union of last
week, one of them purporting to be by
A Parent and the other by one Of the
Traduced. Usually we pay no attention
to ANONYMOUS articles and refer to these
only to point out th cir evil tendency. 1t
matters little whether they were written
by the lowest and vilest scalawag, or the
highest and most dignified official, or by
others any place between, the tendency
of the articles is and will be to the detri-
ment of the boys and girls In whose
defense they profess to write. Juding
from the spirit and tone as we'll as the
language of the articles one would think
they came from the vilest of the vile
whose object was to entice our boys and
girls away down into the deepest depths
of the Viiest vileness occupied by them
selves. The articles show what may be
expected of the writer's. Whether the
Union will continue to help them in
their despicable work by giving them
space and furnishing them facilities may
yet be an open question. Wehad hoped
better of the Union under its present
management.
That we have some good boys and
girls In Kenosha is we'll known. That
we have some who with the ordinary
course pursued with them, will continue
to 90 from bad to worse may be about
equally well known. And we undoubt-
edly have some, partly under the saving
influence of parents but also partly under
the evil influence of others worse than
themselves, who are In danger ofgrowine
worse instead Of better. And certain II
is that the veal or woe of some CT oul
boys and girls is with the parents anc
the people. By the loving influence O.
parents rightly directed, and by concert
of action wisely exercised by the friends
of good morals, they may be rescued
from their downward course and chengeC
TO good boys and girls giving joy ano
0ladness to their parents and friends
And to thus rescue and save the boy
and girls is work worthy of the bes
efforts of their parents and friends anC
il Is to be hoped that there will be n