The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-24


 ever so hubble, there is no place like home.''
 Now just word to the girls girls do rot begin to think about the boys until you are about eighteen years of age, and not then unless you have your educa . tion. Be careful as to whom you associate with; talk to those, only, who have clean character and moral habits, and above all do not talk to drunkard, g gambler, or a boy who will loa1 around the street corners after night, and his parents do no know where he is. Garry your self above drunkard, and 2 gambler, and you will receive the best company.
 A boy who will leave home without a cause, is no better than an inebriated person. Dc not marry a man to reform him; i you cannot reform him before marriage, you are sure to no succeed afterwards. 1 have friend who married when she was only child of fourteen short years. She married the boy tc reform him, but, Oh! the sad sad fate, she and her boy hus. band only lived to gether a short. time, when they found married life not to be what they had sup. posed. They did not know wha, love was, they did not love each other with pure heart love, as they had once supposed. Girls, don't m arry man who will leave his mother on dark night tc find her way the best she can. If you do twill not be long till he will leave you on dark and stormy night to find your way as best you can, while he goes to his lodge or dance or theatre, or somewhere else, where he can have fun and pleasure. then he will come home, perhaps drin king, and beat and whip his poor wife because the fire had gone out or the supper was not hot for him. If you are going to marry l would advise you to take boys with moral habits. If not, l would say for you to live and die an old maid, for old maids very often do better than girls who marry while they are just in their teens. Some say "tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." The old adage is very true; but do not begin to love when you are too young for love is blind and very often false. Some girls think if they don't marry by the time they are twenty, they will die an old maid. Do not get uneasy yet a while, for there is plenty of time for you to find the man you like, especially if you are the right kind of a girl.
 Do not take a man who will turn up his nose or curl a scorn- full lip, when religion is spoken of, or one who is not gentle to the little children and kind and loving to the old people, and respect them just as much as they would their own parents.
 ''Be kind and gentle to
 those who are old,
 For loving kindness
 is better and dearer
 than gold"
 If boy will do just as his par- ents tell him, whether he thinks it right or not. he will come out better in the end than if he had gone his own way and not paid heed to what his father said. If a father will let a boy know when he is small, that he must do just what he tells him, he will always mind him, but if he lets him do as he pleases when he is small, he will never mind him. As soon as your boy gets large enough to work learn him to do good work. At night have:plen- ty of good books and papers for him to read, do not allow him to go to dances, don't let him learn to swear, and when he has grown to be man, he will never forget what his parents learned him, and above all do not allow him to drink, and he will be a model young man.
 My Best Friend.