The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-15


and can with impunity force vile slim
ulants between their unwilling lips, and
yet go UNPUBLISHED in this world,
there must be a place waiting for them
hereafter of uncommonly high temper
allure.
1t is the bounden duty of every pa
rent to understand the laws Of life and
faithfully teach them to the children.
Many will say they do not understand
and have no time to investigate physi-
ology. This may or may not be true.
Every adult is familiar with some of
the general principles, one Of which is,
that every excess mental Or physical,
has it's physical punishment. It is not
necessary to pursue the subject in de-
tail. Suffice it to say that by reading,
hearing or personal experience, what
ever we know to be injurious to body
or mind, that should we warn our chill
dren against; yes, more than this, com
pei them to shun. Let us teach them
that mind is supreme and immortal,
and that whatever reason and con-
science dictates, the appetites, the pas
si0ns, and the whole animal economy
must submit to. Have we always done
this consistently? I fear not. To il
lustrate. Intemperance, for instance,
we all know is very prevalent and is
doing untold mischief in the world, de-
stroying mighty intellects, making mil
lions of paupers and filling our prisons
with an army of irredeemable wretch
es. Every father can take his son
aside and tell him to be sober, and warn
him Of the everlasting shame of the
drunkard. Yet some will add, always
use moderation my son, and you will
never come to this. I can and do drink
/ liquor but never to excess" What a
piece of fools advice is this. Such a
father will not scruple TO drain his glass
in the presence Of his own or his neigh
boris children, and boast in their hear
ing, Of his moderation and perfect
self control. And by way of exaltine
himself still more will tell of some tenn,
perance man who has died drunkard
OF Of another who has been caught
i down cellar posing a suspicious look
| ing. jug in the air. Now if there is a
man in the world above the rank of a
common criminal, whom deteSt, it is
the vain boaster. He will do thou
sand times more harm to the rising
generation than the worst drunkard in
the land. We need not fear that our
children will be lured away by that
wretched piece of humanity who is
rolling in the gutter, covered with rags
and filth, helpless to supply his own
wants, and talking maudlin nonsense
which a born idiot would be ashamed
of. He is the most powerful temper
ance lecture extant, and one which none
can gainsay. IF not respect, there is
certainly pity due to the father, who,
for the sake of his children has tried to
be a sober man and failed. When he
secretly steals away to the cellar or
closet to seek his destroyer, he knows
his own disgrace and would gladly hide
it from his family. Not so with the
braggart who drinks his glass and
boasts Of his moderation before the
young and innocent. He, in effect,
leads them blindfolded to the brink of
Niagara and says that it is a safe play
ground. When he sees them slipping
off, one by one, and going down into
the seething whirlpool of intemperance,
he peers over after them, and remarks,
''poor fools, they should have known
better and stuck to moderation" So
long as such fathers exist, drunkards
will grow and flourish.
Pardon this depression and let us re-
turn to dress. Common sense would
dictate that this should be clean, plain
and suited to the weather. But fash
/ ion dictates that it shall consist of
tucks, rufies, frills, cores, feathers,
furbelows, bustles, and wadding piled
on a dozen thicknesses where least
needed, while the extremities must be
clothed in cotton stockings and pair
of very thin shoes. Leaving the phys
| ical result Of such dress to the care of
the doctor, [ pass on to the mental, and
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