The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
Dothan Suffers From An
 T OUerdose of "7he Late Habit

death in the house. back there. where such a crowd is sitting up.
 Late hours are getting later. here in Dothan.
 Have a restaurant or two, that are now called cafes, but 1t don't spell 1t any more than 1t does goat Some of them stay open all night, be- cause there's a demand for it. At twelve o'clock. one may pass by and see young ladies and young men, taking a few bits of something. just to make their brealkfast taste good the next morning at eight or inie o. clock.
 Whenever people use up a good deal of the night down town there are shop people who win keep open house for their benefit. just the same as ali-night banks are kept in New York. to accommodate the ali- nighters. agony. You wouldn't think 1t impossi- ble for any one to get up and get breakfast in time to have their child rem in school at eight. or .eight-fifteen. but the teachers of the various grades will tell you that there are some scholars who cannot get in by that hour. Don't get breakfast In time.
 To back of and take serious look at such a proposition, one feeiss that a barrel stave ought to be straightenr ed out over the main reason. Child ren, by instinct. want to go to sleep early. They ought to. and but few. of them require oven ten or leven hours of sleep. Some don't need that much, but all of them will be up and doing before seven o'clock. If their parents have any management about the house, and any control over a cook. breakfast can be had within the hour and the kids ought to be In school by the time the teachers re- quire them. If these hours are too long, we advise the parents to move to some city. if they can find. one. whose school system will admit fash ionable children at nine to ten o. clock, and then let them come back in tine afternoon for few minutes.
 The School Children
 Then another thing. Parents of there late children at school and late everywhere else, got their educa- ton. in most part. from schools that didn't talk in at eight o'clock. The schools they went to toook up as soon dS tiiG CnilufGti dEElNCus aH0 tAAO children arrived early, like they were going to, work; and they were let out, just in time to get home by night. Those living at some distance might be let out little earlier. This was not method to be commended, all the way through, but the school house at that time was a place where children studied their lessons and recited them. Now the school hours are just about the right number, taken all together, and the chap that arrives late needs sympathy The right kind of influences are not being brought to bears There Is certain amount of agony that is eating out his constitution. and he is not respon- sible. not being big enough, not hav- ing experience embIgh, to take his parents by the hand and lead them back into the way.
 Some man said there were but three 1 generations from shirt-sleeves to We all know what he meant. but he has overshot it., Two | of, the present date, will | meet in shirt-sleeves. almost. This is shirt-sleeye town, and the great majority of the population are not trying to get away from this fact But we have quite a number, and the number Is fast increasing. who have fired on shirt.sleeves. and bad blood exists.
 You can see signs of late hours late hours to school. late hours to bed, late hoursft6 work, in every calling of life. When you hire the bright young man, wanting a job bad enough to be- gin at once and stick to it to the end, you will see signs of it. Nine to one, he will be talking of his long hours, taking. of the early hours he Is required to get on the job. This is all trained In him by watching his parents close. as most boys have way of doing.
 You see one of these 'steen-year- old bullies came down evey morning "beastly hour he has to get up to hold his job. You keep an eye on him and 1t will not always be thus. He will find the job going right along without him some bright morning, with a husky youngster there with no better sense than to rise with the sun, and get So bed by ten o'clock; or. he will find his health in such wretched shape that his mother, or his father will advise him to quit work or quit school, and lay off for a rest or perchance, they will send him to the springs or to the country to stay with his uncle
 Out there in the country is where he belongs for awhile. He will get a tonic that is good for his soul; a tonic that will give him an appetite for a four o'clock breakfast and a twelve o'clock dinner. and a supper any old time they are mind to fix He won't need a bottle of pop to get the cracklings out of his eyes every morning before he can pick up the toilsome job at the but end.
 We can't get all the squirrels up one tree, neither can we stack all the hay or all the fodder, around the same pole nor can we feed the boy on the same broken doses of experience that