The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-04-24


every moving instinct of every little
boy and every little girl.
Sex is the greatest and hest of
Geds gifts to men and women The
frution of sex is children.
sex is essentially spirit. At
can not be localized. IT is not an
organism
Sex flashes in the eye yibrates
In the voice-glows in the touch.
Sex does not necessarily cry out
in passion Fashion is sex denuded
of its glcSy'
Lack of sex knowledso is the
greatest factor in life's tragedies
The paramount danger of sex is
the only danger regarding which no
warning is given against which no
safeguard is provided"
"Thc spirit of sex In woman, shows
itself in yearning for love, desire for
protection and effort to please"
e'ln many home sex, which should
light with the glory of Heaven, burns
as a consuming fire
"The sweet and simple facts about
the origin of life, sown in the mind
of the little child, by his own mother
from her lips, through her eyes, and
living with her love-may through las
effect upon his will become the char
acter- forming influence of his life
God sets everything in families.
The active force by which Tie places
things in families is sex
DR.. J. Aspinall McCuaig OF New
York who on Sunday addressed five
meetings in Wichita, commenced his
course of lectures to women on
e,tsenics Monday afternoon in the
high school auditorium. when he
spoke to 3 representative audience on
THE Native Instincts in the Child
Every child born into the world,
the lecturer declared, lis born into q
heritage of forces. Notable among
these are the forces of his own body
The advance from helpless infancy to
strong manhood is a process of de
velopment and control of these forces
The voice was there in the beginning
but by-and by he gets control ana
speaks. Muscular activity was therc
but one day he finds control and
walks. Every lesson is lesson IN
control
among the various possessions oi
the child are certain dynamic ener
gies. 1t is as though a special force
had heen implanted in him to impel
to every necessary thing he mas
hunger He has thirst. so important
are the necessities to which thes.
impcl and so pleasant the saIisfylhe
of these propensities that there il
danger of excess. He must learn
control Among these dynamics ~
sexual instinct, the impelling force 10
,rocreation. That which in the chilu
is a germ. in the man becomes pas
sion There Is danger lie must
learn control.
And with all the strange forces
in this small body there Is ano'her~
greater than all, for it holds the pos
sibiljty of mastery over ALT Is
called viii
mSome day. with purple face ana
clenched fist the will in the chln
NAV burl itself against the Will OF me
narent Someone will say. If must
30 hrokenr But not SO That Is the
ot;,ds host asset That is the most
ne has. That is has hope. ny tha'
ne NAV control all forces By tha'
he NAV take hold of God Herein II
the probIem of parenihood not no"
shall take his hand and LEAD hlm
over the stones but how can tra'u
and develop his will to help nun
nght the beasts and breast the storms
and climb the heights this is the
heart of responsibility
"It is a sad fact that three out oi
eyerv four Of the boys of today taii'
as they go out into the world, at the
very threshold of the home, through
the impelling impulse and lack OF
control OF sexual passion. There Is
Int one explanation Of this sad con
dition: II is that. from the cradle 10
Young manhood, there is no source OF
sane strong. saving information Dear p
ing mpon this matter In this con
Germ our children are al orphans
thev have neither father nor mother
they are all outcasts they have
neither teacher. preacher, nor friend
"And so it happens that the boy Of
five. who asks about the origin OF
life. is sent away unsaiisfied, to hear
the garbled story from the lips OF
boys of eight or nine. and, with first
impression. false and foul, to drift
into abuse and on 10 growing
sexual hunger. to sweep at last INTO