The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-20


He can never take warming from old=fash-
He must iehi a boy; he must drink as a
Now listen to thati If had a boy
/ would rather leave him out in Rose.
lIin one of these bright mornings, to-
sleep forever under the clover and the
snow, than raise him to either preach
or practice such doctrine as that. If
somebody had taken the man who signs
his name to that bit of rhyme when he,
was about year old and put him in
the care of the right sort of woman
he would never have turned out a
writer of such aeresy. / do not be-
| lieye he had good mother, poor boy,,
and that 10 the trouble with half the.
men. A genuine mother could never
have raised such poet any more than
robin could raise hawk. And by
a genuine mother l mean something
more than mother who teaches her
boy texts and sends him to Sunday
school, Both these things are good
and Indispensable as far as they 60,
but there is a lot more To do in this
world than praying and committing,
verses out of the Bible, just as there
are things necessary to make garden
grow other than reading Wick Man.
uel To get roses and corn enc has
got to weed, prulie and hoe constantly
Po make a boy into pure man IA
mother must do more than pray. She
must live with him and be- his COM
rade, his contidant and his best friend.
She must stand over against him i'll
the time of temptation as the pilot
stands at the wheel when rapids are
around. She must never desert him
to go off to attend to outside issues,
any more than the engineer deserts his
post and goes back into the passenger
coach to read up on engineering when
his train is flying across country. at,
considerable more than ''ten mile
per hour rate of speed.
Many IL boy starts out all right, but
his mother has too much housewoFk
OH her hands, or she goes into society
too much, or she expends her energy
OH other issues, SO that the boys soul
rs left to take care of itself, and when.
,h.. has grown to manhood 5 estate his.
soul bears about the same relation To
his big, over-fed body that shrivelled
pea in a frosted pod would bear to il
forty-pound pumpkin. The boy ought
to have had n chance to make some
but lie didn't, and SO io
developed as he did.
If there is any girl reading what
write tonight let her ponder what /,
have to say. There is no law more
for women than for men,.
An impure man, IL Tiotous drinker Of,
strong wine, a dissipated man, IS no
better than woman of the same kind,
and who among lis would associate:
with "a woman who governed her life,
by such role of .'musts' as the ones
that appear i'll the quoted poem that
heads this article? There IS no code
more binding upon the queens than
upon the kings of society, and whoever
teaches that there Is, through the mt
dunn of a poets pen. prostitutes the
gift the Lord gave him, and barters,
his heritage for pottage. When girls
grow so queenly-natne that they de-
mand their lovers should be from out
the royal family rather than stoop to
mate their fresh young lives with worn
and base wrecks of impurity and wee,
there will be u chance for the future.
When Victoria Of England seeks IA .
suitor for one of her children she takes
her pick from out the blue-bloods OF
Garth, but there is a blue-blood of the.
soul that is of purer and loftier desceiIt
than any prestage of gold and ances-
try. Such may be the choice of the,
humblest girl among you, If she cares
to make the selection.
When you go to buy fruit do you
purchase or do you avoid the speckled
and the spotted fruit! When you walk
through the garden do you pick or do
yot, pass by the worny buds and the
fiy-eaten blossoms? When you select
a dress do YOU put up with the Soiled
fabrics or do you insist upon fresh and
unsoiled pattern? Your answers to all
these questions are prompt enough,
but when L ask you what choice you
make of gentleman friends what reply
can YOU make? DO yOu choose the m.-
spotted, the clean of record, the fresh
and undeliled natures? How about
the tobacco expectOTators, and the
whisky tipplers, and the souls grown
honeycombed with evil thought and
practice? How about the .Profane of
speech and the lewd testers? Do-you
think that by and by at the upper
courts, whittier We all are tending,
quickly as the old patrol-wagon OF
time can hustle US on our way, there
will be any distinction made between
the men and women, or that the latter
shall get off easier because of any such
plea as the one embodied in the par
TALLY quoted stanZa that heads this
column? Think you "a man Is going to-
find ali easier chance to gain mansion
among the many up .yonder than
soTrowiug. and SINFUL woman, merely p
because the world taught him that the =
exigencies, of his nature demanded
greater latitude than hers?
. OH l often think what hubbub .
there will be when the future reveals =
it's surprises. Many who have the ell e
tree here to the best and the choicest =
will not fnd even a .scullions corner
there, and many who have scarcely
been tolerated, and have walked apart :
from the high-iieaded and. the full
throated, shall find their long shame :
turned to the brightness of unsuliied
delight -.
Mothers, bring UP your boys and I
girls to the same code OF, honor AND
purity. If the boy must fight and
drink. and make . roBsdy or q Iake of
himself, give the girls tie same Iati-
tude. If he ssmust'1 drink at foTbidden
springs, lead her to the same bitter
waters and sully heT pure lips with the
same poison. There is no greater
misery III. wrecsiDg her life than his
| IL he pays. no. heed To old-issliioiieti
virtue spur her onto 1;e SAME lneAieI-
eilce if you dare. Let the HqueF MI
her glass side by side with .liis, and al
/ low her the same indiScriminateiic iiceli'