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Where Are The Children?

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1884
Copyright
Public Domain
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The saddest i tem which our dally papera brhig us is that whlcfi tells of a myêterions dtaippearanee of h young girl. Sometimes we read of her recovery, or the recovery of all tliat is mortal of her. Soinethnea tiio veil is liever lifted, and neitlier tïiends nor pympathizing strangers ever know the end. Jieliind these simple items Mea a world of temptation, of sin, of shaine, of sorrow. No one can know wliat has been her home - what agony ot soul and spirit has been endured in silence before the step has been taken which forever euts the cord binding to home, to motlier and to friemls. W hater the fonn the la.st Cbspter in these tragedies takes, the tiist rarely iias but one fonn. It is the negteot by motheis and daughters of the establislied aanons which in good society regúlate the conduct Of younjt girls. One SUCh canon is, that girls shonld nut be upon the street in the eveniug without an escort. It is surprlitng as it is p-iinful, to sec the number of girls f rom 12 to 15 run of age, who walk tlie streets of our cities at late hours of the erenlng. Where are the mothers of tliuse girls? Through what blind Iblly and Ignoran ce are they allovving their tkughters to run tlms wild in the neart of the great and wicked city ! No potsible good can be gained and the posslbie liann is incalculable. Another rule which is habitually neglccted by thoughtless parents ia that which requires a young girl to receive calis from young men only in her father's house. Meetings in places of public resort, meetings in parks, meetings in stores, are thlngs which a wiso mother and a self-respecting daughter would never permit. There is a certain thoughtlessness in youth, bom alike of the iguorance of the ways of the world and the wickedness of the world, and of the eagerness of pleasure which all young peo[ile know, which may excusa many departures trom the strict letter of social lavv in the young. A mother has no such excuse. The blindness and folly which will sanction a danger in fortui 02 acquaint mees audintiiuacies with young men of whom she knows nothiiiir. whicli will permit lier to attend places of public amusement uuaccompaiiied, and return home alone, is hardly less than criininally careless. If her daughterthus conducís herself without her knowledge, she is criminally ignorant. Nor do girls alone need care. To know where her boys are both during the day and evening; to know what companiouships they are forminjr, what pleasures they are secMng, what liabits they are indulgiug, is a sacred duty. It is well to have oonttdvnce in children, to repose trust in their judgment and In their honor, but the judxment of young people isofteu istiay, and their idea ot honor founded on a false code. All life ie a warfare, and in no deparlment of life is the muxim of war, that "eternal vigilancc is the pi iie of salcty." more necessary to success tliun in the training of children. Whcie the children y What are they dolng? What are they readingf Whom are they wiiii 'f Let every rmrent know.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News