The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-21
Present-Day Thoughts
BY s'NEMO."

! 'ifuOA "iohO; fOl az MolSt VI UcSt
these are only acquired tastes o
the human race; but it is impos
sible by teaching to make thu
youth indifferent to those of til,
opposite sex; for such teaching
would run counter to a deep seated
impulse of his nature and nature
will win. The story is familiar
to all of us of the father who de
terminedly brought up his son in
ignorance of the fact that there
was such a creature as woman
in the world. When at last, the
boy, now grown to manhood, met
a beautiful girl-described by the
father as "a silly creature called
a gOose'-his request immediate.
~ thereafter was that he might
have goose for himself. He
was quite right, too; for he was
natural.
The new man as youth will
not be ignorant of the existence
of girlh0od nor will he be indif
ferent to the charm and the policy
of female society. But he will
not look on women with bold and
inquiring eyes, for he will already
know all that is necessary to
know regarding the difference of
sex that makes sex attractive.
And whence this knowled ge?
Learned by his mothers knee. or
at his fathers side, little by little.
as questions arose: the whole
strange provision of nature I'M.
folded before him as sacred
page of divine revelation and its
personal bearings gradually
brought home to him by the anal
ogies that exist between the
plants Of the field. the beasts and
himselt-the intelligence and self
honoring apex of creation. Thus
shall his knowledge have been
gained and not from the whisper
lngs and hints and filthy inscrip
tlonS of low minded companions
who learn and who teach a divine
truth, as though it sprang from
the darkness of debasement.
The new man as a youth goes
forward toward manhood. enjoy.
ing the company of the pure of
both sexes, fully as conscious of
his own powers as are the debased.
But, because of the source of his
knowledge, conscious t0o-where
the debased are ignorant-that he
bears within him a power whose
trust is as sacred as is the virtue
OF a woman; for in her virtue and
In his power are wrapped up not
the pOtentialitieS of pleasure
merely, but all the myriad posi-.
hilities of the race that is vet TO
be. His self knowledge Stimu.
lates him to effort and does not
blind him TO the value of effort as
is too often the case with nnholy
self knowledge. He is right. too.
for to be natural is to be the Oh.
posite of prOmiscu0us.
The new man as youth faces
the world fearlessly. He under
stands full well that mans con.
quest of material things has come
from muscle under control of
mind and he cultivates both. He
knows by the way his parents
have led him forward in his edu-
cation that there is one defini te
thing which he would like to do
above all others, and yet he like,
wise knows that no success will
come to him even though he be
ambitious unless the ambition is
sustained by his strength and
maintained by his enthusiasm
through long stretches of time.
His reading has shown him a hun
dred such instances, like our own
pine knot president. He there.
fore watches his strength and in.
creases it, knowing that even a
mental battle has a physical basis
and the winner is seldom the man
whose body is puny and weak.
He also knows that the mere
getting of wealth is far from the
true measurement of the divine
within us; that his purposes in
life must have a quality in them
far above greed, if, in any way,
his journey from the cradle to the
grave is to be benefit to the day
in which he lives. He knows
that the "tuppence" of the Samar.
ltan is a greater power in the
world than the most bountiful
gift from the selfish rich. He
also percieves that civilized life
is made up largely of give and
take, so that he soon recognizes
and curbs the tendency inherited
from savagery that would make
him trample roughshod over the
rights and feelings of others in
order to attain his own end.