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Show "Our Boys." It is not our intention, exactly, to read a leoture this Sunday morning, to either boys or parents, but it is a somewhat painful duty to record the degeneration aud wild tendencies of a groat number of the young men of Salt Lake city, more particularly of many who have newly entered their teens. It is an old and true Baying that bad habits grow on individuals, rind with regard to the contraction of them by "our boys," the sooner they are nipped in the bud, the bolter it will be for them aud their parents or ijiiirdians. The evils of which the growing youth of this city are guilty are not frightful to contemplate, by any means, but they will increase in-crease with. - nursing and time. In our movements around town, we hive notioed, and it is uot an uncommon sicht to Bee. ground ol boys itnall boys rolling up ttn-ir cigarettes, striking lucifersaud puffing .tW'iy. This, of itself, is uot alarm iug, but leads to cigars, from cigars to pipes, aud from pipes to the flatting oowl aud associations they had better live with.ut. Congregations ol youngsters can olteu be met with who bear the appearance of having formed themselves into smoking club?, blowiujr out clouds of smoke, gpitling with the aire of full-grown people, using language that would be considered con-sidered choico only in Billingdgatu, swaggering ua they have observed older ones do, aud dupoi tine themselves ia hoodlums generally. Why is this? they are given too much fieedom. They are allowed to ioam the tree La and pick from auy aud all kinds asociates and chum?; they are not guarded by ibotse who should have their weliareut heart; temptations are uumeious aLd day are too young to rhun llit-tfl. It i a well-proven proverb prov-erb hut "Ynu can't put old heads on young shcuiders." "It won't hurt you" is answered by "I don't care il it does." They are out, many of them, at all hours of the day and evening, neglected and loose, and vulgarity, from bearing from others, is soon acquired. Slang and obscene sayings become common to them and cursing and b wearing follow. The mime of the Deity is thoughtlessly spoken and erinds upon sensitive ears, wounds moral people's feelings. All will admit that this is a growing evil and none will deny that it should be corrected. Where is the remedy? We believe that in the majority ot cases the fault is with parents. We state the facta as they exist and leave the remedy question with them. Let more watchfulness be exercised by parents with regard to their offspring and the result will be beneficial to both. Keep them more where you can see and correct them. Stop them from wandering about the streets after ; dark. Send them to school in the day time. Look after their comforts at home; make home agreeable, inviting in-viting and cheerful and they will not desert it. Try these things and the good that will result from doing so will recompense you richly in the end; neglect them and the time will come when you will rue it and your children will curse instead of blest you. . |