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The Boys' Room

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
October
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ia Scribner for November, in the "Home and Society" department, we flnd the following: "We wish especially to urge upon mothers the propriety of giv.ng up to the boys, as soon as taey reach the age of 12 or 14, one room (not a bedchamber), for whose (reasonably) good order they shall be responsible, and which they shall consider wholly their own. The floor shonld be nncarpeted, of oiled wood; the furniture of the same material. Let it be papered, curtained, decorated according to the boys' own fancy; if the taste is bad, they mil be interested af ter a while in correcting it. There should be plain book-cases, a big solid table in the center, by all means an open lire, and room after that for Joe's printing presa, or Charley's box of tooL, or Sam's cabinet of minerals; for chess and checker-boards, or any other game which is deemed proper. To this room the boys should be allowed to invite their friends, and learn how to be hospitable hoste even to the extent of an innocent little feast now and then. Father, mother and sisters should rofrain from entering it except af; guests; and our word for it, they will be doubly honored and welcomed when they do come." Mr. Andrew Miller revives the old theory of Mr. Adhemar that the earth will topple over one of these days and send the oceans sweeping over the continents. The theory is that owing to the greater preponderance of water in the Southern Hemispheue the greatest accumulation of water is round the South Pole; when theoccumulation bas reached a certain point, the balance of the earth must be snddenly destroyed - the center of sphericity abruptly change far from tlie center of gravity, and the whole earth almogfc instan tan eously must turn transversely on its axis, move the great oceans, and so produce one of those grand cataclysms which have before now altered the wholo face of the globe.

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Old News
Michigan Argus