The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15
Nov. 5.
FROM A LATE CONFER.
Suggestions to Teaching and Guild
ing the Young People.

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ing the Young People.
Dear Howard Friends-When I wrote
before 1 intended to write again before
the reunion, but alas, circumstances
alter cases. 1 know some of the How
ard sisters will feel like excusing me
when / tell them / have a bouncing
boy here. and to say he cries would
only give you a faint idea of his lung
powers.
Oh, "Jessy Clyder' Yes, he is a demo-
crat, but let us not discuss politics, but
try and do some good for our club or
else it will be lost. What is the matter
with all the members? Have they all
got a cross baby to take care of and
cannot write? Oh, why cannot we all
work together without any disagree
ment? II one member does not suit all
remember both sides of the question.
Life is too short to spend in idleness,
and l believe we ought to grasp every
opportunity to do good ere il is too
late. We must not spend all the time
after the almighty dollar. Let each one
contribute little mite. DO not sit
down in a ten-acre lot and wonder why
the COW don't come back to be MIXED,
but let's up and be doing. Oh, what
can we do? The fact is we do not all
try. The season has come again that
1 would again call your attention to
that of the public schools As long as
we have teachers with high moral char
acterS and a full sense of their duty we
need not worry half so much but how
few Of the teachers ever realize that
they have anything 10 do except to
teach the lesson in the book. Where,
oh where, can the youthful generation
gather ideas of right or wrong except
at home or at school, and we often see
children allowed TO do as they please
about attending school, and when they
are grown are ashamed of their ignor-
ance and blame their parents for not
making them go when they were just
lazy or else following a childish within.
Oh, parents, how can this Howard band
advance and improve or benefit any
one when honor does not maintain our
morals at home and love never shows
itself outside our own door, and charity
does not begin at home by not trying
to better affairs at home? We should
also teach our children the necessity of
labor. Do not hire your children to
obey you, but teach them that it is
their bounden duty to obey and that
necessity must be obeyed not the fleet
ing moments pleasure.
Do not let either boy or girl rush
blindly on to matrimOny, but let them
know what a serious thing it is to be
bound to one that they like but do not
love. some Oh you ask as 10 couples
of certain ranks or education marrying.
They certainly ought to marry if they
truly love each other, for If they both
have good morals and a full sense of
honor their education will not make an
egotist of either of them. When you
find some one you love we'll enough TO
stand up by through everything you
ought not to blame them if their pa
rents We're too soft-headed to send
them to school, Our children when
first taking their feeble. tottering steps
look TO us TO steady and guide them;
now later on they are just MS helpless
and dependent on us for guidance in
right or wrong They do not realize it
now and you let them go on their way
and later on you cannot impress any
thing on their minds. They think, "oh,
always did as / pleased and L get
along" What is more hateful to see
than a disobedient child, and don't you
fathers and mothers blame the child
and say they do not mean any harm.
IT is you to blame them for their dis
obedience. They should learn to obey.
IL we had all stuck to our duty our
club would not be rolling down hill and