| Show Our Morals Often the question is we improving or getting It would reveal a terrible condition to admit that the latter is the and we sincerely hope it is but at the same time one does not need to look very far away from home to see the need of a reformation in this Many young people now-a-days seem to think it is necessary to a proper standing in the community to be indifferent to the good and treating lightly those sacred things and ridiculing those who defend the Boys think it more becoming to wear wide generously turned up at the velvet top the latest cut in a coat with a flashy bright high collar and a hat of the latest Thus rigged their make-up is not yet for they must either have a cigar or pipe in their and with hands thrust deep into spacious trouser or coat they do a stunt that is a cross between a darkey and the swagger of the professional as they pass up and down the Not to be outdone by their masculine the girls invest in shoes with the highest heels possible to a hat that is a mixture between a hood for the blind and a waste paper a dress that is plenty skimp around the bottom of the although the real article has not yet arrived in and other fixtures in harmony with the not forgetting a generous coating of rouge and cosmetic on the and with colors and nose elevated about forty-five they sweep majestically up and down the The spirit of vanity seems to have its hold on the young people to an alarming in fact to such an extent that they make themselves appear ridiculous many getting completely away from that v modesty so becoming in both sexes and which shows the rr very best But this is not the worst of Young people with such ideas of are not the kind that are will- ing to take the advice of their and consequently the counsel of father and mother is disregarded when it conflicts with their notions of how they should conduct and the result can be but one thing In conversation with one of our physicians the other day he stated that those who do not know would hardly believe the condition existing among some of the young people of this city He stated that things were becoming and unless something was done and done there will be many aching hearts and checkered lives in this And condition does not apply altogether to the young according to the medical but it has made inroads in families where husbands are fathers of children and wives are mothers of innocent It is an awful thing to but who can deny the V and parents can well be alarmed over these con- Let each one look to his own household and r i not see the beam in the other fellow's In holy writ we are that as the twig is bent the tree will The word of God in another instance is the effect that if children are not taught principles of truth and right- in their the sin will be upon the heads the This being the and the facts evi- i an alarming laxness in the morals of the young i people now growing the question might very properly be fault is We are cognizant of the holes of in our midst and the influences abroad seeking to destroy the young and but do all parents give their children the attention and solicitude they are entitled to during their tender Isn't that labor left too much with the day school teachers and the various religious organ- while the busy parents work and slave to sur- round themselves with enough of this world's goods to enable them to dress their children up to the fashion and live like other folks now-a-days Box Elder |
