Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01

ward rolled:
The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are
singing" --Rrskn.
Dust on thy mantle, dust,
Bright August! on thy livery of green
a tarnish as OF rust,
Dms thy late brilliant sheet;
And all thy glories-leaf, and bud, and
flower
Change oometh over them and with
every hour"
1t seems a sin that the real young
people, nay even the babies. are al
lowed TO attend any of the numerous
and sundry shows, with which the city
abounds, of a Sunday evening. Max
ing this evening, the seventh day no
better than any other during the week.
Perhaps II is not, to the grown ups
who attend, but It is of those of ten
der age OF whom we are speaking
Not to enter into any discussion of
religious things, or to advocate any
one particular doctrine, few scruplcs
might aid In keeping children still uu-
spotted from the world Sunday even
ing Is usually given over to leisure
hours and entertainment, but why
make it ordinary, to say the least?
The shows are on every evening of the
week. and there are. or should be. bet
ter and higher amusement and enter
tainment for Sunday eVening-goOd
music, not necessarily sacred, good
books, nature, and communion, If not
with God, with friends and acquaint-
ances and folks at home Young folks
are not supposed TO be exercising much
religion of the head; this is left for
the older heads. and unless they teach
the young idea how to spend Sunday
evening, The lure Of the footliShts is
going to gather them in Young folks
follow a religion Of the heart, and are
therefore easily led, and VIII listen.
The skitS and skirt dancing meaning
less Songs and monologues, do not
seem altogether the proper deites to
mould young and tender morals And
IT Is hardly reasonable to suppose that
the Sunday evening theaters are the
gates through which it is suffered the
little ones to come unto me" Older
heads can discriminate. though not
always, II would seem, else they would
stay away themselves in order to be
examples of their own tcaching-that
rs supposing, Of course, they do preach
against Sunday evening resorting and
attending Of shows. Some of the fin
est men and women in our midst, to-
day, will tell YOU Of the rigid sun
day evenings lessons doled out at
their parents knees when they we're
young people; and, indeed. many of
them fretted and fumcd and rebellod
and you would sympathize with them
IN the telling, too-saCred books. Bible
from cover 70 cover prayer and hymns
etc" resulting i'm an honest dread ana
hatred of Sunday evening: but they
will tell YOU at the same time. It was
the moulding Of their morals and char
uctcts. this form of Sunday evening
pastimc, though It placed them mo-
where, religtously. The Sunday even
ing thcatcr has not the moral attach
ment that win turn childish minds 10
a love OF the highest. II is sore
temptation, ana without the propcr
guidance its attendance win be large
ly the coming generation
lf instead Of COndemniug the SIM
day evening show. We can ind hlgh-
cr and better amusement: II instead oC
rebulng the child. We can appeal Ia
his morals If instead of holding over
him certain punishment If he rebel.
we can lead him to IAN all-beneficent
Deity whose presence makes the earth
itself heaven perhaps there would
be fewer deaf children sitting in Inc
market-placc'
The hollyhpcks
Are blooming I'm our town:
I'm gorgeous smuCkS
They're cleaning up and down.
StraiEht-luccd
And pll-our grandmammas, are they.
Sweet faced
And quaint i'm visions dim and gray.