The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-03

IL you are ever gOluS 10 cllmU,
Why don't you do it now?
In short, no matter what you've
planned,
Why don't you dbit now?
If You have work fight at your hand,
Why don't you do it now?
Successful men areIhever late
You'll fail if you Iprocrastinate, n.
If you have vowed TO conquer late,
Why don't you do it now?
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WHAT BOYS THINK THAT THEY
SHOULD LEARN.
According to the idea of many
of the rising generation young
man should learn TO lie, to flirt.
to cheat, 20 swear. TO drink, to
play billiards, to swagger in the
streets, to live without work, to
ogle every pretty girl that he
meets, to treat his elders without
respect, to talk loud in the pres
ence of others, to put on style
whether he can afford it or not,
to boast of his feminine con.
quests that he has made, to have
every slang term at his tongues
end, TO gossip with his chnms
about his lady acquaintance, to
attract all of the attention to
himself that he possibly can, to
talk like a lOafer and fop in
stead of a quiet sensible man, to
call his father ''the old man.
and his mother "the old woman,n
to think lily of every woman that
he sees. and 10 speak i'll of her
every chance that he gets, to turn
up his nose at those quiet, sober,
industrious young men, who do
not train in his crowd, to treat
his sister wi hout any sort of
regard, and to treat her like an
i'll bred loafer instead of gen
tleman.
Here is your picture, fast young
man, true to life! Look at it.
How do you like it9 What have
these characteristics made of you?
What will they do for youg What
has the future in store for you9
Unless you change your course
most radically-ruin.
Tiers is many a young man
proud of his mother, who would
strike into the dust any man who
would Insult her, yet who, by his
own evil doings and bad habits,
is sharpening dagger to plunge
through that mothers heart.
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THE TEACHING OF CHILDREN.
What should children be taught
to believe in order that, when
they may grow up they may find
that later experience does not
alter what they learned when
they were younger7 We must
teach them that, beyond what
they feel and see aud touch.
there is something greater and
better, which they can never feel.
nor see, nor touch, selfishness,
giving up their inclinations-
these are the best things in the
world. 1t is true that goodness
and kindness have no faces that
we can kiss; no hands that we
can clasp; but these are certainly
there, in the midst of our work
and our play. And this goodness.
and kindness, which, except in
outward acts, we cannot see, is
something that existed before we
were born. 1t is from this that
we have all of the pleasant things
ofthis world; the flowers, the sun
shine, the mooulight-all these
were given to us by some great
kindness and goodness that we
have never seen at all. Aud this
goodness and love are that great
Power from whom all things
come.
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Well assorted marriages are
essential to good homes. This is
natures law in the case. To vi
olate it is to bring swift punish
ment on the heads of the vic
laters, as well as a curse upon
posterity. The husband and wife
who are not suited to each other
lead cat and dog lives. Their
children are unwelcome and grow
up without care. The home at.
mosphere is not suited to the
healthy growth of virtue and re-
finement. What is the RESULT
A family of ill-natursd, quarrel
some, unrefined children. They
marry and carry to their homes
the same atmosphere and rear
other families like unto the ones
in which they were raised. The
wonder is that there are as many
agreeable and cultured people in
the world as they are.
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