The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-20
FATHER COYLE
 WARNS PARENTS
BLAMES THEM FOR IMMORAL ALTERATIONS ON STREETS IN AFTER GOOD CATCHES" RE- HERRING TO CERTAIN SET OF
 YALE STUDENTS, ENCOURAGED
BY MOTHERS.

I 1 YALE STUDENTS, ENCOURAGED
 BY MOTHERS.
 New Haven, Jan. 20.-Attributing the ever increasing evil of girls and boys
 at the age of adolescence, lettering in
 the streets at night, in promiscuous company and agitated irritation and
 immoral talk to the laxity of parents 1 in watching over their upgrowing l children, Father Coyle of St. Johns
 church, recently in a pastoral talk, l took occasion to admonish the par
 ents in his parish, to be most dili-
 gent in the performance of their par
 ental duties. The matter has since been widely discussed among the pub 1 lie of New Haven.
 Father Coyle in discussing the sub- ! Ject laid stress upon the fact that it l is a matter which only the parents themselves could deal with success
 fully. Tt is appalling" he said, ''to l see girls and boys at an age in which they should be under the purest Sand
 most moral influences, being around i the streets, passing the time in
 shameless filtration, accompanied by l frivolous, and too often double mean l ing if not outright obscene joking, and
 
 1 herent inclination tend to the evil
 rather than to the good, and young
 men and womensat the age of adoles-
 cence need the best and morally most
 strengthening and reassuring sur
 roundings in order to grow into good
 and upright manhood and womanhood.
 They should at that age, be kept at
 home evenings, and allowed to be in
 company only which the parents know we'll enough to be able to approve of.
 To do this successfully, the home
 must be made attractive, and there
 must be company-youth will not be
 solitary-but it must be the right kind of company. And it is the distinct duty of the parents to see to this.
 The police cannot keep the young men | and women off the streets and 1t is l hardly their business unless there is oct asion for an arrest.
 "The parents first of all are respon- | sible in letting their children drift out | into the street. Their duty towards 1 their children does not cease or be- come less at the time that their girls and boys grow into women and into men, but rather increases, because of | the increased temptations and dang 1 CTS lying in their paths.
 'But it is not only that, the girl l that starts to spend her time in the l streets and drifts ino the cafe, adopts | incorporate habits and almost inyarl- ably falls into immortality. The life of l the city, by the custom of yuong men and girls hanging and flirting around
 the streets not only is a danger to 1 themselves and their own families, but there are other immediate conse- uuences The moral tone of our
 streets at night time is affected and
 is becoming more so every day, to
 an extent that lowers the general moral appearance and tenor of city l drawn into immortality, by the badness 1 to which they are thus exposed. Be- sides, the streets are becoming so l that no lady, walking along the street no matter who she is, can pass cer- | tain parts of our business sections in l the heart of the town in the evening without being insulted."
 | This latter remark Father Coyle re- l ferred to incidents, which any one may frequently witness himself, where ob scene and insulting remarks are ad- dressed Io women by young men. l "scalawags,' as Father Coyle calls them. These can be noticed lined up frequently, especially Saturday and Sunday evenings, at various down. town sections, especially of late on l Cha pei street, between Church and State.
 among college students is not passed | ever by Father Coyle.
 "As in all college towns" he re- marked "a certain set among the stu dents will pick up girls on the streets, | and young girls of more humble class | es, flattered by the attentions thus re- | ceived, and not aware of how dearly | they pay for them, are most eager to | become acquainted with students, los- 1 ing all their sense of virginal shame
 and propriety. Here again the laxity, | and in many respects the apparent l ly lack of foresight and moral insight
 of parents is to blame. Many are pleased if their girls are taking up
 with students, and the latter admit | ted and welcomed into the homes, and
 what is more dangerous, the girls are 1 encouraged to accept invita- tlonS to go out with them, because what is called l a good catch might be the result. But that usually, the downfall of the l girl is the real result is never real 1 ized It is the folly of the mothers | that think that these young men, of would pay attention to their girls
 with honest motives Even when one
 or another is infatuated enough to marry a girl he meets in this way, or perhaps conscientious enough, he most always will later resent it or be fore | ed by his family to dissolve the mar riage thus contracted.
 "The problem is most serious one and it's remedy rests entirely with the | parents To attend to this is one of
 their most sacred duties, toward their l children
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