The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-11
problem. but barbarian problem
How shall We treat It?

problem, but barbarian problem.
How shall, we treat 1t?
Success by many teachers has besn
gained through athletic leagues. The
boys vulgarity at this period usually
take the form OF marking the toilets
with different epigrams, etc. Form IN
athletic league and work in the by
laws such ideals as clean sports, clean
talk, clean habits. Let the boy train
he will respond and you will get re
suits.
The sex problem In grammar schoo,
is the girl. Here perhaps We will
find fifty beautiful girls; forty-eight
out OF that number are clean, obedi-
emit and sweet, while there are two
who show signs OF waywardness. Who
shall handle these hayward girls?
The woman teacher, to be sure; not
the man. The teacher is absolutely
responsible for those girls. She can
reach them by inspiring their conf
dence, but how you ask? When the
autumn leaves are colored why invite
that hayward girl for stroll, take
her out along the roads, and some
day the mention of womanhood will
occur, then Is your chance. A half
day spent and soul saved. She will
hold to the ideals you instill In her
heart because she loves you and then
after couple OF years she will hold
to them for the sake of the purity OF
the thing itself.
The Age Of chIvaIry.
Following the age OF barbarism
comes the age OF chivalry. the high
school age. Here We have the Adde'S
cent boy Instead OF teasing Jennie
4 he honors her. He sees that she Is
beautiful, and inntincS pushes him on
to admire her. Here 1t Is that we
must teach the young man to hold
on to purity and high ideals The.
high school boy simply repeats the
old golden age of chivalry.
Talk to the Boys.
DR.. Halls talk to boys last evening
was of great interest and there were
about one hundred present who list
ened intently to his earnest, plain.
i spoken and striking words. He open
4 ed by telling how the boys could keep
their fathers young.
i He declared that he was younger
man now than he was ten years ago.
i According to this theory he would be
4 a younger man ten years from now
1 than he is today Who would take
me to be sixty years Of age? asked
I the speaker. He kept up his energy
and physical life by activity, not al
I lowing himself to grow old, and by
4 practicing healthful, vigorous ath-
y letics. When boy he had the am
4 bition to beat the boys OF his age and
older, and he did win over all OF them.
They looked up to him as hero.
Everybody Is a hero worshiper.
I When boy arrives at the age OF six
: teen he will always go to his hero
) for information as to his growth and
development into manhood.
> !. Physicians have discovered In the
past few years that there Is a fluid
l in the sex organs which enters into
3 the blood and muscle and backbone
: OF every boy merging into manhood
r 1T is for every boy to understand him
self in such a way that he will mol
: abuse himself by practicin- any o.
I the pernicious habits which often
times come, innocently or through
!. the influence OF older boys, into the
r life of thoughtless boys and which
}. undermines their health, makes then
! morally, physically and mentally
weak.
: A boy who is fond OF athletics, hal
: a keen eye, holds his head erect ant
lis not afraid to meet competition i
the football or baseball field. is the
fellow who has virile manhood in nj:
. veins. The boy who holds his heat
: UP and looks you suuarely in the eye
y has not acquired vicious habit whlcf
: weakens his entire system and his
growth physically and mentally INT
: best illustration | can give you boys
: said the speaker, concerning this
Z yirile strength of which l have beer
talking. is to tell you OF two horses
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