The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-02-20
SOME "DoNT's."
Especially Intended for BOY and Cir


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SOME "DoNT's."
Especially Intended for BOY and Girl
Readers.
Dear boys and girls, may say few
'dont's" to you, il I'll be very smiling
and pleasant about it? They are not
agreeable. know. but like some other
bitter medicine. they may sometimes do
good. So come, all you who are will
ing-hearted." and want to grow up into
the very best of men and women, and
listen to me just for few minutes.
Doni chew gum! 1t hurts you. You
we're not made to chew cud like cows,
and any departure from the plan on
which your bodies were made will bring
evil upon you. in some way. 1t may not
make you feel bad in any way, for a
while, but yon are opening wide the door
for that terror, King Dyspepsia.
Then, you'll lose your rosy cheeks and
bright eyes: in fact, you will lose all en-
joyment Of living. Will the present
pleasure Of chewing pay for the future
misery?
And, oh. boys, it will make you an
easy prey to the temptation to chew to-
bacco-it is a stepping-stone to tobacco
and that form of temptation is about
hard enough to resist now. Don't make
1t any harder.
streets. or any public place. Don't do
any thing to attract attention to your
selves in public assure you that old
er people have eyes and opinions; and
they watch you more closely than you
think: don't think they don't see be-
cause they make no sign. They judge
you by your actions. and the quiet,
modest boy. or girl, is the one who Is
most admired.
Don't be selfish in public. Don't be
so busy having a good time yourselves
that you prevent others around you from
enjoying any thing: it is unkind. and
you don't want to be unkind, know.
Don't 60 to public place to have .
frolic. If You do not want to give atten-
ton to what is going on there, stay
away. and have your frolic at home.
Don't drink tea and coffee. Tea is
very injurious more SO than most peo-
pie know. For one thing, it Fuckers up
the lining Of your stomachs and tough
ems it; which. you must be able to un-
dcrstand, would not help to keep it
healthy. BESIDES. not containing one
particle of nutriment--but rather poison
lit dries up your blood.
As for coffee: 1t is indigestible and
has much the same influence on the
heart as does whisky. 1t weakens them;
and. by and by. you will need all your
strength to bear the strains upon you
which are sure to come.
Don't heat your blood with hot things,
rs spices. etc, if you want to keep your
complexion fresh.
Don't, oh! don't rob yourselves of your
necessary sleep: and your necessary
sleep is great deal. 1t calls you early
to bed and not too early to rise, in spite
of the old proyerb. There is nothing
that wastes your future vitality SO fast
as lack of sufficient sleep.
l doubt if one who lacks necessary
sleep at that time ever catches up"
| You may violate this, and any of the
laws of health. for awhile, and perhaps,
feel none the worse for it just now: but
you will surely suffer for it sometime,
If you live.
Girls, don't use powder on your faces.
That custom is heathenish, relic of
barbarism! Don't be deceived by the
plea that it will take off the ''shine." 1t
is very perverted taste that can think
that death-like, leprous look more beau
tiful than the wholesome ''shine" given
by soap and water.
Don't delude yourselves with the idea
that powder, properly applied, won't
show. 1t ai,rdys shows, and the results
of it's use show. The skin, as you prob
ably know, is full of little pores through
| which the insensible perspiration is all
the time passing. If you clog up these
pores with powder, it gives nature a
hard struggle to do her work-which she
must do-and the result, in time, is in
famed and enlarged pores, which cause
! the skin to look coarse and red.
Boys, don't adopt the very mistaken
idea that it is manly to smoke and
drink; to treat and use bad words How
is it manly?' Any fool can do all that.
! 1t is the really manly, strong boy who
can refuse. and is determined to keep
his lips clean. viii you not try to be
such boys?
And girls, dear girls, don't help boys
to do any Of those evil things. Perhaps
! girls are about as much to blame, in such
matters, as the boys. Boys, as q rule,
want to make themselves agreeable te
the girls; and there is no surer way, per.
haps, to make boy leave of smoking
! and kindred habits, than to let him sec
that his girl friends disapprove Of him
and avoid his society on account of it.
So. girls. discountenance it!
Don't let boy whom you know is Civ
en- to such ways visit you, or even &
home from church with you. Let hin
see that he must make himself fit for ,
lady's company. If he would have it,
nOSa Thorn in Santa Claus.