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Young America

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
April
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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The social philosbpher of the Jionton Advertiser otters ;i protest agafnst tlie exaggerated and lmproper part played bj vcry yoimg people in modern American society. It is unfortunate, he thinks, that, as a rule, married people in America withdraw themselves so much from society. There are exceptfons to the rule, l)ut they are rare enough to make it. Cares and econouiy of the household weigh rather heavily en the American wife, and it is easy, unless slie is very gay, to say that slie feels the time has come to give up partiea. This absurd ]lan has taken out of society its best members, just at tiie age when they are developing, receptive, and becoming of real valué among its ranks. Fathers and mothers, also, are considered quite in the way by many young people, at home and in company, and we shall never strike the right note for social liarmony till this feeling is entirely adandoned. There sliould be no hnes drawnin enjoyment, and no entertainment is rightly planned which excludes either youth or age. The time must come when there will be a change in our manner of social enjoyment, and it is to be hoped that soon the spirit of the text of this sketch will prevail. The long reign of the American child and youth must come to an end, for like all arbitrary, tyrannieal rules, they have brought their own defeat by aggressive measuies, and what was once cheerfully accorded them, for we are an easygoing people, must now be withdrawn. Tliis view of the proper relations between young people and their elders is unquestionably correct, and it may be said that the "reign of the American child" is very perceptibly "coming to an end." There has been a decided change in this direction during the last twenty years, in all the older American cities, and as ourcivilization grows older and society becornes settled on more permanent bases, boys and girls will gradually find the position which nature and reason assign them, while men and women will find the leisure and inclination to perform the social duties which they have too often neglected, or have weakly allo wed their children to take upon themselves. - Boston Transcript. Damascus-iron for gun-barrels is made of several bars of steel and iron laid parallel in a fagot and drawn out into a bar. A ;iece of the bar is heated to redness, one end placed in a vise and the oth#r end grasped by tongs, by whieh the bar is twisted till itassumes a eylindiical shape, and is shortened to, say three feet. Several sucli Lars, twisted in diverse directions, are laid together, welded, and drawn into ribbons, which are severally wound on mandrels as before. Buzz-saw item- Henry Stacy, PalesLine, Texas. In life he was lovely, in death he is divided.

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Old News
Michigan Argus