The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-17
Two of the finest young men

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ever met Were SO educated by theiI
: mothers at the age of ten; they were
Old the essential facts of life. About
using the seed, and the plant and the
earth as SMILES, and were given
nigh and holy ideals of motherhood
which prevented them from ever
'alllng into vulgar habits of thought
or action. Little girls of seven
should be made to realize the sacred.
ness Of their person and taught tC
! refuse their lips or cheeks for the
caresses of men save their own kin
continual reference should be made
to young girls of the danger which
u lies in accepting any offerings OF
candies or amusements from stran.
gers, and they should be taught to
fly Immediately from the presence OF
any boy, man or woman who makes
such offers to them when they are
not with their parents.
A small child can be made to I'M
derstand that such people are bad
hammered, and that it is not good
form to accept advances from stran-
gers. 1t is an instinct in all women
| to want to do the fashionable thing.
Impress the four year old girl then
that it is questionable for really
! nice girls to allow strangers to be-
stow favors upon them or be famil-
lar in any way.
The moment a girl is old enough
to go to public school, she is old
enough to be harmed by ignorance.
She will be certain to hear and see
things which will arouse curiosity;
and her only safeguard from having
false and soiling impressions made
upon her mind and from falling in
to danger thereby, lies in the wise
counsel and full confidence of her
mother. But how can l destroy
her innocence" asks the blind moth
er, still believing that the child will
so on to young womanhood ignor-
ant of life's great principles Of be-
ing.
Dear madam, il your child is not an
idiot she will learn the facts of life,
whether you tell her or not.
If she is not deaf, blind or mute,
she will hear and see things which
will destroy that ignorance which
you call innocence.
1t lies in your power to retain her
innocence of thought; by replacing
ignorance with wise knowledge, be-
slowed delicately and with reverence
One woman boosted to q friend of
the extreme innocence of her beau
tiful, voluptuous daughter of 13.
Yet the friend knew that the child
had been lured into a park by de-
based man, old enough to be her
father, only q few weeks previous,
and her innocence of mind was de-
stroyed by his conduct and CONVEX
sation. Not only her own innocence
but that of another young girl to
whom she confided the experience.
Such happenings are taking place
everywhere every day.
Another innocen child whose
mother hoped to guard in innocence
to the very altar, was induced TO en-
ter an artists studio on her way to
chool, and left the studio with a
mind furnished for life.
Young boys, as soon as they are
old enough to understand anything
about sex should be told of the aw-
full dangers which lie in wait for
strong young manhood in tampering
with vice.
The frightful lifelong maladies
which affect the third and fourth
generations of those who have not
been wisely instructed ought to be
a lessen to parents.
1t is criminal to be silent on these
subjects.
Could an organization of parents
be formed, where every parent takes
the obligation to instruct the young
on these subjects, it would do more
to moralize the world and to cleanse
it of disease and crime. than all the
sermons ever preached on the ira
ditions of all of the churches. After
the bishop of London made his as
sertion quoted above, more than one
hundred meetings in London alone
were arranged for, in addition to
several hundred meetings in every
town and village in the kingdom;
pamphlets are being prepared and
will be distributed by the million
the head master Of every great col
lege and school will have person
al part; special periodical called
Prevention" will be issued and dis
tributed to every parent in England.
And at the head and in the midst
of this wonderfully well conceived
and far-reaching movement stands
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