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Day
27
Month
February
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Teach children that a true lady may be found in cauco quite as frequeutly as in velvet. Tcach i Iii'tn that a comniqn school education, with couiuion Ren.se, is better tliun a college education without it. Teach them that one good honest trade well mastered ia worlh a dozen beggarly " profesMons. " Teach them that " honesty is the best policy " - that 'tin better to be poorthan to be richon theprofitsof' 'crooked whiskies,' etc, and point precepts by the exauiple of thoso who are suffering the torment of the doorued. Teach them to respect their elders and themselves. Teaoh them that as as they expect to be men some day, they cao not too scon leam to protect the weak and helpless. Teach them that to wear patched clothes is not a disgrace, but to wear a "black eye ' ' is. Teach them that God is no respector of sex, and that when he gave the seventh comiuandmcnt he iueant it fur their own good as well as f'or their sisters. Teaoh them that by indulging their depraved apprtites in the worst forms of dissipation, they are not fitting themselves to become the husbands of pure girls. Teach thom it is better to be an honest man seven days in the week, than to be a (Jhristian (?) one day, and a villuin six days. Teach them that God helps those who help themselves. Do all tl. is, and you will have brought them up " in the way they should go."

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Ann Arbor Courier