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Show PROFANITY AMONG SCHOOL BOYS. The father of a schoolboy at Richfield heard a crowd of boy pupils, out for the noon recess, talking talk-ing about the various interests that concerned them, and indulging in a most amazing plentitude of profanity. pro-fanity. He talked it over with his son that night, and found that the language heard there by accident was the common speech of the boys when at play. It is difficult to say how general is that practice, prac-tice, but we fancy the boy pupils at Richfield are not much better and not much worse than boy pupils pu-pils anywhere else. And if the surmise is fair, it is worth while to give some adult attention to the matter. There is probably no one thing more harmful to boys than indulgence in profane and obsence language. lan-guage. It leads to acts of depravity with a perfectly per-fectly demoniac certainty. It fixes the grade of the boy in life's levels, and one who gives free rein to his tongue has less respect for himself, and gets less respect from others, because of it. And presently pres-ently he has a fixed habit which he cannot abandon. Words, however, are things ; And the man who gives to his language the license to outrage his soul, Is controlled by the words he disdains to control. Every influence within the Utah schoolroom is moral and educative along the very best lines. It were a pity if just outside the doors waited a custom cus-tom which counteracts all the uplift of the teacher and the community behind her. Herald-Kepublican. |