Show SNARES AND DANGERS one of the most striking character of adolescence is the stirrings of ambition it is the most healthful and invigorating of all the mighty movement of the period it acts like a tonic and braces both the body and mind for the conflict of life youth is the period of sanguine enterprise ter prise of reform no matter how impossible they may seem to minds find eager converts among the young literature is full of the noble aspirations to be something do something and get something which moves the world excelsior melsior cel by longfellow embodies this spirit the biographies of shelley keats and byron portray it the confessions fes of marie betray the impulses of ambition to an almost abnormal degree next to love it is the predominating motive of the best firtion sartor Res ortos withelm Mei str r waldo in the african 1 farm and a thousand other characters in fiction might be mentioned a as s more or less finished studies of thi this 8 passion analyze the following passage from a favorite diary it is the voice of ambition with mangled notes of fear and apprehension life 0 life yet death is sweet love 0 love I 1 would love as no one ever loed lo 1 aed ed before but then love seems so fleeting in all the eternities fame is better yes I 1 would be great rich and beautiful be a singer an actor learned powerful as no one ever was before alas ala vanity of vanities why was I 1 born do I 1 really live or is it al a dream or mirage am I 1 in the eternal now hum drum Inde edwill be the life of him or her that does not in the spring time of youth have a flood tide of ambition it is by no means confined to any single direction of achievement A comparative study recently made by one of the students 0 of f dark clark university of biographies of eminent men invariably show strong currents of ambition during youth but in very few instances only did the first or even the second lead in the direction in which they won renown the gratification of these early ambitions led to higher or different ideals which were found better suited to their natural powers parents and teachers cannot be too strongly urged to foster and develop these aspirations of the soul too often however they laugh them to scorn and seek to cast the blight of their own ambitions over the glorious hopes of the young at puberty the sex idea the sex function attains to activity it is the crowning power of man or woman yet with its maturing power comes the greatest dangers to which the human race Is exposed all the sins incident to childhood combined are but a bagatelle compared with the soul destroy ing possibilities that may grow out of abuse of the sex functions every means therefore that god and nature places at the disposal of man should be utilized to safeguard the young against the pitfalls of sexual indiscretion religion cannot put sexual sins so strongly that biology will not second the verdict the one time popular french doctrine that what is physically right is morally right has now been proven by science to be as fully rotten as religion could possibly desire A sexual act may be natural and yet be only a beasts natural not a mans natural from recent exposures of concerns that advertise through the daily press to restore lost manhood etc two important facts connected with the sexual i life of the young are brought into startling prominence the first is tte widespread wide spread effects of abuse or of the abe procreative functions the second the tee shameless robbery of the victims fey by quacks that advertise cures this is the modus operandi operand A concern advertises the wonderful effects of some great indian tonic which proves an invariable cure for alu all sexual ills and persons afflicted are requested to write for a symptom list lint this list enumerates peculiar normal symptoms as among aggravated indications of disease and paints in lurid colors the consequences of neglecting ja them the result is a harvest barkeit of letters from two classes from young men actually steeped in vice and young men only enthralled by agnor ance letters which are received under strictest promise of absolute confidence fi courses of treatment the cost of which is by no other consideration than how much the vie vic s tim can be bled are begun and after a year or two discontinued in disgust the letters having served the pur par pose of one quack are sold to another who by this means made familiar with I 1 the conditions of young men are ables I 1 to bleed them once more by a F 1 ly different course of treatment disgust once more overtakes dupes and all nonpaying non paying comma eions are sold once more thus ts bleeding goes on for years an anaw course develops in time a ce certain n w of chronic fools whose batnia age can be hawked and re hawked TO definitely the first sale of such letters bri 25 per thousand the second 16 third 5 wishing to study the f eral symptoms of these sexual croul brou our committee of investigation 1 chased a thousand confidential 1 let at the last named figure what my surprise to find among them letter of a prominent student waft 0 intelligence I 1 had placed too hi aw til T believe he could ever be caught aler n such transparent frauds y our investigations of different 1 14 concerns proved to us the existence et three and a half millions of such s thus subject to barter and these figures are a deplorable on the sexual morality a age 9 e the duty of the teacher and in this connection is plain false i esty must be set aside at a pi age young men should be made quain quainter ted ath the mysteries of being from the point of view of and morality where dl has entered and needs special 1 ment the family physician m not self vaunted specialist should consulted for general treatment M disordered sexuality four things naif be mentioned j 1 plain food ind and hygienic haai as respects bathing and the stimulants 2 exposure to the elements and andee orous physical exercise 3 hard beds 4 intellectual enthusiasm S very law of kinetic equivalents ir mind can be made to absorb the ous energies in the contemplate sweet wholesome subjects thoy they cease to run riot in sexual diet ances Z perhaps the worst mental phase exhibited generally by the youth days is the inability or to get interested in things it Is alt a real condition of mind but 1 put on to manifest a stoic im ability or sort of you cant anything air A way of Speak fig ot world as if it were a sucked as if they had sounded the hel h 31 11 1 depths of it and found all its low and now they give a nt nit aar to those so green as astl still I 1 faith in it they manifest a sort of intellectual dry rot it if they ever eve r had it is g 0 away like the cigarettes we rare puffing in the hazy smoke meef conceit e was wh when freshmen were fresh sas it was so 9 good a thing to see ve bashful awkward unsophisticated curiosity and frent s the ear t exclamation the ill fitting un with the breath of cows and 9 scent of clover in the country toi with a little hayseed in the hair re was material for the making of bitet now even the sub freshmen are th and onto matters that mala make their fathers stare and mothers blush to betray in dykis 19 according to the code to show att you are a bumpkin Is it not de wable le es in his breakfast table talks rations eions a society of young bloods bloode gown as the pooh pooh league code of etiquette was never t W interest prim spruced up pup to they were w with ith glazed coulten bees and lackadaisical eyes there multitude of young of 9 same tribe outside the pooh pooh fety tr I 1 never met one of them with edving abing my boyish longings to beffie an andain surge back upon me this difference I 1 now want to a particular tribe the kickapoo a pooh re e can be no more beneficent than en enthusiasm enthusiasm to ton any duty however hard glory in fhe th difficulties we have t to r want so there can be no purer ore are natural feeling than the spon ms outburst of delight whenever ave v conquered an old difficulty culty or aiato iato the presence of a new truth tendency which seeks to rep repress ress ibelings fellings should be recognized as cation ion of the soul in this respect of the savage is a surer i than the fashions of civilize everywhere in uncultivated awo ahe richness and falness of matting g manhood is recognized by that stir the blood to enthusiast ile WV ement biolo biological gica I 1 study of adolescent ncr nc clearly that the age age begins with about 26 years 0 i s and 24 for females civilize fand d also the mixture of bloods to prolong the time the same operate to cause a progressive aaion on of the adolescence of ferment curious fact to note how im ian t in the educational life the of adolescence has been con by historical nations the chose this period to make p and educated pugnacity results well knew the nature of and the desire to excel when tea chOBe emulation as the motive spirit holds in all our mod A 1 agege athletics the mabom seize upon another active y and make lifelong life long fanatics F young pung the employ the y imaginative magi native faculty and de mystics greece emphasized art and physical culture rome and war old germany poetry imd the springs of these acrivi apen and gushing with energy iu these I 1 stances instances how one sided aint we have yet et to try an ud d cbill cultivation of the powers ich god has endowed us GION AND MORALITY aw fact that should be taken by teachers of religion is ab age of maximum conversions 1 the mind and heart are y influenced at this period y religious convictions fixed for conversely nVer sely a neglect of moral results in lowering the averof criminals it is now actu at 15 years r from unhealthy litera ture needs pointing out here novels are now condemned by the best scientists who have studied their effects not condemned in toto but the excess to which the vice is carried in our day one of the evils is that the real nature of love is being supplanted by a conventional convention aA notion which seeks to escape loves responsibilities education must supply the correction wholesome and natural feelings will come only through the judicious distribution trib ution of mental employment which a good school can give this is likewise an antidote for all sorrows and bereavements that may overtake and becloud the mind especially ally disappointed love to prometheus was committed the sacred fire which stands for the emblem of our maternal civilization to us is given the duty of transmitting a more sacred fire the fire of life itself how are we fitted to fulwil fulfil the promise to abraham that his seed should become as numerous as the stars in heaven of thin thi fact biology becomes more and more convinced every day there can be no lasting morality which is the salt of life without the aid of religion N L N |