Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
GLENDALE GLINTs.
Correspondent Calls Attention
to Timely Essays and
Writes of Needed So
cial Reforms.

Not having mucR news to repor'
from this region, I will say as the
old deacons do when they rise up IL
prayer meeting, L wish to make {
few remarks"
The prize essays in the next mum
Der of the Southern Ruralist soor
to appear, will be devoted entirely
to the subject of amusement and en-.
tertainment for young people. ]
wish that every parent in Edgefeld
county would secure a copy of that
number of this excellent farm paper.
and make a close study of these es'
says and the subject of which they
treat.
Young people must have amuse-
ment of some sort. 1t is, necessary
for their happiness and well being
thatsthe young of both sexes should
meet together frequently in social
intercourse. About the only place
now where they may meet to enjoy
each others company is at public
balls, or the great annual picrics
and at these, the entertainment is
almost exclusively the round dance.
Some people bitterly blame the
young people. l scarcely feel any
blame FOR them at all. The blame
rests on older heads. We should
love our young people, and KEEP
close to them, and show them a bet
ter way.
/ do not like the present fashion
in social affairs in sany way. Wo-
men are gathered in knots to them
selves at their card parties. Men are
to themselves, at their clubs, smok-
lag, drinking and gambling. Since
men and women, husbands and
wives, are thus so carefully dividing
their interests and their influence;
since they are finding more and
more their happiness away from
home and away from each other, is
it surprising that so many homes are
coming to desolation, and the fire.
quency of divorce is threatening the
we'll being of the whole nation?
Like their mothers, u young
girls are meeting together, as if
they were Chinese, at their evening
teas and card parties. Our boys are
following in the footsteps of their
father and will soon be so segregat-
ed that they cannot bear themselves
with ease and grace in any company
where there are ladies.
Such a social order cannot be for
the good of any country. God made
it natural that young people should
love amusements, and love to be to-
gether. But the home should be the
soil from which pleasure, and friend
ship, and affection should spring.
The hearthstone should be the sa-
cred>altar of happiness, and around
it the loving father and mother.
surrounded by their dutiful boys
and girls, in company with the boys
and girls from the neigborhood,
should all join together in some of
the innocent old fashioned games,
which are so conducive to health
and pleasure. Mothers, quit going
to your card Iparties! Fathers, stay
at home from your clubs, and gath
ering the young people around you,
with loving solicitude, help them to
find the innocent amusements which
they so much need. Who will write
articles on this subject TO our coun-
ty papers, and describe and help to
revive all of the most suitable old
fashioned games?
During the past week we have
had the pleasure of entertaining Mr..
w. S. Peterson, president of Or
augsburg college. Mr.. Peterson is q
man of broad sympathies and an
earnest spirit of helpfulness-two
prime requisites i'm the true educa-
tor. He has boundless humor, is a
genius as an impersonator, and
could become famous by the exer-
else of these gifts. Many have paid
a good price for an evenings enter
tainment not half so good as that
which he gave in our home on the
second evening of his visit.
The capable and obliging chair
man of our board of school trus-
tees, Mr.. j. NJ. Mays, was a pleas
ant visitor last week. He shas had a
fierce combat this summer with
Gen. Green, but know that he was
victorious for he is not the man to
be vanquished in such an encounter.
I wish that we, and all other peo-
pie, were surrounded by neighbors
like unto one which we have. An
experience with him this summer
, l. ILL. -1oL