Connecticut western news., 1883-11-14
THE BOY AT NIGHT.
His UneasIness at Home and His Anxiety
 be Out With the Boys.
[From the Milwaukee Sun

From the Milwaukee Sun.l
 There are scores of boys in every city, town and village in the country who have habit of spending their evenings on the streets or in places of question able reputation. A most dangerous practice, morally, yet why this should be so no one can explain, as eight in ten of these boys have good homes; homes that to some would be 8 paradise, yet when they are kept at home for an ,sgening they appear to be uneasy and out of their element. These boys, whose ages range from fourteen to nineteen, have been permitted to go out of an evening, from time to time until it has become regular habit, and be- fore their parents realize it, or know where the boy spends his time, they have become affected with the immoral atmosphere surrounding the corner loafer, and the poison thus absorbed has begun it's awful work.
 Then it is parents begin to lead life of worriment and anxiety as to the fu' ture of their boy. They realize that no one would want to employ them when they desire work Not very pleasing outlook for the future welfare of the boy, to say the least. When boy who has @ pleasant home with everything about him that elevates, with indulgent parents, begins to feel uneasy, restless and out of his element; when he feels that he would rather be in the society of the low and depraved, listening to un- clean talk. than at home; then it is that an extra effort must be made, or the fu- ture of that boy is ruin. Then it is. too, that the parent awakes to a knowledge of the fact that desperate struggle has got to be made to reclaim the boy.
 There are hundreds of mothers who realize this and who have sons that have grown by their indulgence, beyond their control, and they feel that it is all but an impossible task to undertake. to check them in their downward course. Yet those mothers are ready to do what they can. But how often they fail in their good intentions. simply because they went at it wrong. They began course of lectures, instead of making home, especially the boys room, more attrac- tive, providing interesting reading and other diversions, to interest the boys mind. Invite good company to your house, mothers, this coming winter. Let the mothers of neighborhood club together and devise series of entertain ments and amusements that will so oc. cupy their boys attention they will not find time to loaf on the corners or set around bar-rooms, listening to the vrll- gar talk of the depraved.
 The winter months are more destruc- tive to the morals of young men, who seek for amusement away from their homes than any other time of the year, as they are forced by the weather to seek out warm and comfortable places where lively company is to be found. Where else, than the saloon, is such a place 10 be found away from the home Fathers and mothers have it in their power to counteract the evil influences that beset youth, if they will but devise ways and means suited to the tastes of the young and not forget that they were once young and did not enjoy continual lecture on morals any more than their own children do to-day. Boys should also remember that corner loafing con- tains no element for the building up of 8 successful future, while it contains everything that tends in 8 contrary di-