Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-11-25

YOUNG GIRLS ON THE STREET.
Duluth News Tribune: Young
girls, with trim little tailored suits
and natty hats. with snooded hair and
fresh round faces, girls who ought to
be home with mother and father, are
to be seen upon Superior street with
out escort or in groups of twos or
threes at hours long past curfew time
on any night in the week. There is
something in the round faces that
grips little at the heart, however,
and there's too often a swaggger to
the light-footed walk that seems ont
Of harmony with sweet girlhood.
There's quick retort and flip
pant JEST from lips that should be
repeating the multiplication table at
home, and bold glance or brazen
stare for eyes that should be yelled
in maiden modesty. Poor little girls,
not to know how much more precious
than all things born they are, when
they properly estimate their own
w'rth and prize themselves at it..
Victor Hugo once said that he was
of those VINO fall speechless in the
presence Of young girls and flowers
daeming them holy. And still they
come to be unprized by themselves
neglected by their proper protectors
and taken at their own estimate by
the world.
And it isn't their fault. Most of
them have mothers and fathers who
can tell them of the pitfalls that lay
in the path Of vanity and disobedi-
ence. Most of them have homes that
should be their shelter after the sun
goes down, and most of them would
listen to advice properly given-and
in time. The mother ana father who
think their duty done in sending the
young daughter out to school dressed
as we'll as the neighbours little girl
will have lot to answer for some
day, and and they are lucky beyond
all reason, if they do not pay the price
of their criminal neglect in tears of
remorse and shame.
It isn't to the police that one looks
for the care Of the families of city.
It isn't with the school teacher that
responsibility for character building
lies-but at home with the parents.
Many an indulgent father and mother,
who are carelessly blind to the danger
threatening their unguided girls, have
heartbreaka coming to them. Many of
them are drinking their bitter cups
now.
. Long ago statesman whose name
is engraved on the scroll of deathless
fame, said that eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. Eternal vigilance
is the price of the young girls safety
and honor in this wicked world that
has no pity for blue eyes and golden
ha1r.''
The public dance, the street corner
meeting, the chance looks and imper-
tinent advances disguised under a
laughing spirit Of fun, are dangers
that lure young feet to the precipices.
Don't lcok to the police and the
teacher and the minister to care for
your girls-fathers and mothers Of
Duluth, but look we'll to yourselves
that you betray not the sacred trust
imposed upon you IN parenthood
Corn Birds Will Not Bother.
A well known farmer says he vets
his seed corn with coal oil before
planting it, and as result the birds
and insects do not bother it before II
comes up. The oil does not injuro
the germ and keep it from sproutinE.
This has been proved by experience.
as he has never had to replant.-Fil
more (Mo.) Lever.
New phones: Albert Trzebiatcweki,
24-5; E. M. Terrell 52-2; J. B. Con-
nell 57-2.