The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-23

greatly affected a whole lot of new ap-
petites and the dietary is apt to become
freaky. 1t Is q sign of mal-develop-
ment not to have a weh-balanced appe-
tite for a great variety of foods. The
ear is greatly sensitised. The voice
changes three, four or six notes, and in
extreme cases almost an octave.
All animal noise in the world is
known to be primarily sex calls. Color
and form are developed. Dress and
fashion develops. We can tell almost
to a month the dawn of this adde's
cence by the dress.
Personality begins, there is a reti-
cenee in some things. Boys can't speak,
except in slang, they can't write well,
but it is a time of receptiVity and
diet of hints germs, suggestions, is
assimilated. How the school mutilates
the soul by expecting to get back every
thing it gives out! Cast your bread
upon the water and it will return to
YOU not on examination papers, but
after many days. But it must be in
germs, maXims, object lessons, exam
pies, and don't bore the children.
The passivity of the soul is at its
best 1t was found that the memories
which are most instistant, are those
Of the early teens. Even old people
remember best those things which hap
pened in the first year Of adolescence.
1t is q second infancy, in fact. The
great artist is that man who puts
with pencil or in poems those things
which impressed him in the early years
of adolescence.
There is a great passion for confess
sional outpouring, for making friends.
These friendships are exceedingly close
and very fleeing. The passion for
change is great; children do not like
to go to school. They want to get out
and see the world. 1t is need of the
soul for enlargement. The emotional
life undergoes great change. The life
of feeling is to the life of intellect some
thing as the sympathetic system is to
the cranial system of nerves.
The passion for lying, exaggeration
and for affectation, are closely related
here. The swagger stage in boys the
mincing among girls, the giggle clubs,
the stole sort of affectations are SAM
pes of Ibis make-believe tendency.
children are good or bad at this pc
Rod. They love with an intensity and
conceive hates equally as intense They
are sad and then they are hilarious
with joy. They are selfish and the,
they alternate to extreme altruism. II
is the circummutation period Emotion
al insanity begins at this time in life
Ambition is strong at this time. Who
the impossible. He wants to do fool
hardy things. He won't take dare.
The larger number of offsprings live
to grow up, when the mother is about
26 to 80 and the father from 80 to AZ.
When the parents are too young, the
children do not mature, and when the
parents are too old the children de-
velop too soon.
Exposure is important during Adde'S
cenoe, wind and wealth, plenty of plain
food. hard beds, not too warm clothing.
The emotional life should be kept pure
and strong. When you see the youth
without interest. without enthusiasm,
you will know that either his parents
or he have sinned
1t is better that our academic youth
paint the town red and k1Ep people up
at night, than that they do something
worse. They must have enthusiasm
Of some sort The tendency to criti-
else is strong, in America, like Holmes
"Pooh-pooh Club" 1t is a symptom
Of degeneration and decadence.
Six business firms have pooled to
each young men who are perfectly well,
perfectly normal, but who fear that
they are burned out who fear that they
lack manhood. These advertisements
develop symptoms in the youth Of our
land and do incalculable harm. Haven't
leaCnerS ana preachers something to
do here? The fear of disease has
killed more than disease itself. The
best cure for all the ills Of youth is
inspiration, enthusiasm
The world has recognized this change
of life everywhere except in this coun-
try. The English high school fails
most utterly to use the methods most
beneficial at this period of life, and has
made itself only a link between the
great public school and the college and
universities.
In savage life we find adolescence
recognized. All sorts of tests of cour-
age and strength were given; churches
have recognized it, must conform to 1t
at this time. Crime is most prevalent
at this time. The powers of good and
evil struggle for the soul of the Adde'S
cent. The idea Of immortality comes
at this time, and hence the danger of
early piety in children, it rubs off the
bloom.
Races that are kept pure pass
through the stage rapidly; mixed races
as US Americans have a much harder
time. The struggle between our an
cestral tendencies have much to do in
making US the nation that we are, and
here, when the full maturity of man
hood and womanhood is reached, it is
the best maturity in the world. The
test of a nation, home, church or state,
is whether they are doing the best for
this period OF life.
l am inclined to believe that the story
Of Adam fs g. tale true to life of the
dawn of puefberty, the tree of good
and evil, the paradise Is this period Of
lie, Adam Is the true adolescent, and