The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-19


initiate the conduct of some of til
young girls 1 see every day, shoul
put my arm around her some day an
say to her as gently as could: "Don'
dear! Don't tramp the streets o
Sunday when it is very evident tina
you are there for no other purpOs
than to tramp. Don't go on the street
any day unless you are going some
where. Don't go walking with
young man i'm the evening and sta,
out till eleven or twelve o'clock. Don
exchange chatting remarks with
group of boys as you pass them at tin
corner. If you go alone to churcl
don't accept an escort home from tin
hangers-On about the door; If bo,
doesn't respect you enough to call 70
you at your home and take you t,
church like a gentleman, you shoul,
respect yourself too much to submit
to the humiliation of his company
back. Don't be cloud" i'm dress, o.
talk, or actions. Don't seek 10 attrac
the notice of strangers. Don't assO
ciate anywhere with anyone whom
you would not invite to your fathers
house. Don't do any of these things
Think minute, dear, and you will
see why you should not do npy o.
them. They do not make you any
happier They do not help you get
your lessons at school. They do not
make you prettier or better. They dc
not make your father or your mother
prouder of you. They do not help tC
make you good musician or a good
artist or a good house-keeper. And
most of all, dearest, they do not win
you good name. \ good name! All,
child, you have lost everything
though you gain the whole world, il
you have failed to win that! \ good
name is wOman's most priceless pos
session, and she would better part
with life than lose it. 1t takes years
of prudence to win it; an hour of i'm
prudence may lose 1t. Guard 1t, my
dear child, as you would your soul
Some of these years it will be time for
you to marry. Flushing? That Is
right. am glad you can still blush.
But your very bushes tell that the
time is coming, that your heart is
And when the time comes,
and from somewhere out of the big
world there comes high-minded,
clean-hearted, strong-handed man
whom your very soul will 90 out
toward, don't you think you will he
glad, dear, that you observed the
'DOn'tsn | have been telling you?
Don't you think you will he glad that
YOU didn't waste your time at school,
that you didn't neglect the tasks your
mother set you, that you didn't make
yourself common, that you didn't for
felt your own self-respect? Don't you
think you will he glad that he doesn't
hear your name tossed about from the
lips of loafers whose highest cOmpli-
ment is contamination? Don't you
think you will be glad that you can
give him cultured mind and pure
heart and spOtless name? Take an
Did mans word for 1t, child, you will
be very glad of all these things. No
woman ever regretted being a lady.
Be lady, dear.
Last Fourth of July two brothers by
he name of McLain got into trouble
With a negro at Humboldt and one of
he brothers hit the negro with ball
hub, nearly killing him. a warrant
vas issued for his arrest but he allud-
ID the officers and escaped. a short
ime afterwards Sheriff Hobart re-
'eived a letter from the sheriff of
summer county saying there was a
,all player OF Wellington who was
,Oasting that he had "laid niger
ut" at Humboldt on the Fourth of
Iuly and asking if such a man was
wanted in Allen county. Sheriff HO- /.
art replied by giving a description
# McLain. The description Tailed
o closely with the man at Wellington
hat the sheriff there arrested him and
Wired Hobart to come after him. HO-
art went down, but after seeing the .
nan and talking with him became 4
Onvinced that he was not the man he .
wanted and released him. Nothing
more was heard of the matter until /
his week when Mr.. Hobart was serv- /
d with a notice that he, together
With the sheriff of sumner county,
lad been sued in the sum of 5000 for ,
alse imprisonment, by their quondam
prisoner! There is no possibility
hat Il Judgment will be rendered
gainst the officers. but they will be
nut to annoyance and expense TO de-
end the suit.
Readers of the REGISTER who num-
er some of our Swedish citizens
mOng their acquaintance, will enjoy
he following story which Del Valen-
inc tells about a scandinavian friend
f his:
"How comes mae gray headet so
DON? Ay tai yO. Won tam Ay play
nean treek on neighbOr mans (fell hes
wit mud wen hae was gomez
e haze say haze vii git efen if it tax Off
es laig. Val, Ay gat mae feline claim
OPP hare by Five Creeks, Ell Ay build
nae leeta hole cen deh riffer bank for
ause. Ay come dawn here to Clay