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Night Life Of Young Men

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following article trota the Boston Globe was wrltten tor the latltade of the city, but its !ipplit;ition is ju.-t ,-is tni-ily made in the village or country. It tkyt: OM nijilit often destroysa whole lifp. The leakage of the nlght keept the day empty. Nlght is ln' harvest time. More crlm Mini sin s oooamitted in one night than in all the riays of the werk. This is more emphatieally truc of the city than the country, hut wili hold jraod Inboor The street lamps, like a lile of soldiers with torch in hand, stretch out in long lines on eitber sidcwalk; the guy colored trunsparencies ure ablise with attractiong; the saloon! and hilliardhalls are brilliantly illumlnsted ; muslc wnds fortU its enchautment; the gay company bejíins to gather to the hnnnts and housps of pieasure: the gambUng places are ablaze witli palatlftl ipleudor; the theatres ure wiile open; the milis of destruction ire gririding health, honor, liappiness out of thousands of lives. The city under juslit;)it is not the same under Ood'a aanligkt. The alhi remen te and perils and pitfalls of ntght aro á hnndred fold deepei and darkcr and more destruclivc. Night lift in our oities la a dark problem, vlio6e depths and abysses make us start back with horror. All night te ars are failiiifr, blaod is itremlnr. Young man, teil me where and how you spend yourcvetiings. and 1 will write out the chart of your eharacter aud final destiny, witli blaak to insert your name. It seems to me that an appropriate text would lic, "Watthman, what of the nlfhtf PoUceman, iiaoing your beat, what of the night! What are the young men of the dty doiiig to-nigbtf VVfiere do theyepend their evealDgs ! Who are thelr aisociates? lial aretheir Whcre do they Lr in. and what time do they come out? Po liccinan, would the nlght lile of the young uien oomnicnd thcin to their employers? Woald it l)e to their credit? Make u record of the uight oí one week. Put in the moratng papers the nanics of all the Jtaag men. their habita and haunts, that are oo the. street tor sinful pietuure. Would there not bc Míame and confusión? i would not clare to go to thelr places of bostoeaa, Mime wonkl not return home at nifiht, sume would leave the city, some would oommit wilckJe. Remember, young men. in the retina of the All-seuing eye there la uotuing bid hut thaJ] be revealed

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News