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Show Huw to Bare the B078. Women who hare sons to rear, and there are a good many in Brigham City, dread the demoralizing demoraliz-ing influences of bad associates, ought to understand the naturo of young manhood. It is excessively restless. It is disturbed by vain ambition, by thirst for action, by longings for excitements, by irrepressible irre-pressible desires to taste life in manifold ways. If you mothers rear your sons so that your homes are associated with the impressions of natural instincts, you will be sure to throw them in society that in some measure can supply the end of their hearts. They go to the public house at first for the animated and hilarious companionship companion-ship they meet there, which they find does so much to repress the disturbing restlessness in their breasts. See to it then, that your homes compete with public places in attractiveness. Open your blinds by day and light bright fires by night. Illumine your rooms. Hang pictures on tho walls. Put books and newspapers upon your tables. Have music and entertaining entertain-ing games. Banish demons of dullness and apathy that havo so long ruled in your household, and bring in mirth and cheer. Invent occupations for your sons. Stimulate Stimu-late their ambitions in worthy directions. di-rections. While you mate home their delight, fill them with higher purposes than mere pleasure. Whether they shall pass happy boyhood and enter upon manhood with refined tustes and noble ambitions am-bitions depend, upon you. |