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Show Appeal to Teachers and School Officers Many parents and teachers who see the need of instruction in personal purity are not prepared to teach the boys and gins the vital principle ot posithe education educa-tion that Wi.i protect them fnnil vice ana will develop in (hem tuiu manhood and true womaiihoou. 'the information that every bjy in the world should receive is embodied em-bodied in a little book entitled "A Plain Talk to Boys on Things Boy Should Know," by Dr. a. X. Hiddell. An edition of 10,0(10 copies of this book has be.en .pub-lished .pub-lished by the Human Culture Co., of. Salt Lake City. The price of this valuable treatise is only ten cents. Several thousand copies have already ibeen sold in the in-termouutiiiu in-termouutiiiu region, and a copy snoltld be secured by every person per-son who has the lesponsibility of training boys. When "A. Plain Talk" was first published a copy of it was sent, with a copy of Child Culture to Win. A. Morton, editor of loii's Young People; after reading read-ing these books he made the following fol-lowing editorial comments in his magazine: ' "A few days ago we received two books .which we have read with much interest. One of these volumes is "A Plain Talk to Boys on Tilings a Boy Should Know" by N. N. Riddle, Ph, D.; the other is "Child Culture,' by ithe Mine author, with a supplement on "Educational Problems," by Prof. Miller. These books are pearls of great price,and it would pay parents to get them, even df they had to sell some of their necessaries in order to do so. They contain 'the gospel of moral purity and are sure to do much in saving our young people from becoming be-coming addicted to practice's which 'have sapped the life blood of nations. Thousands of precious lives have 'been sacrificed on the alter of self-'polution that might have been saved had parents taught their' children to know theinslves, or put into their hands some such books as these. "Many persons consider these subjects too delicate for the ears of their children, and so they refrain re-frain from speaking about them while at 'the sume time their sons are listening to low, vile, filthy, degrading ynms in secret places. If we do not teach our, children lhw of purity, ether people will teach them laws df impurity. "We ' know one boy who I'bmtptcd the boys of a whole .community. He grew from bad t" worse, and is n't present in the penitentiary serving a term of fifteen years for an unmimtionnble crime. Temptations Tem-ptations innumerable lie in the path of our young people. Shall we as parents nnd teachers sit idly by and watch them fall over the precipice into the depths of immorality? Parents, look to your boys I Tench them the laws of purity; place into their hands books which will tell them how to build and preserve their manhood." man-hood." Dr. Karl Q. Maeser made a similar plea for the youth, and reminded parents and teachers of their -duty to the boys and girls. He said in his public addresses, that in fifty years' experience ns a teacher he had not been in a school where he could not see the stain of vice on the countenances bi some of the pupils; and in his book. "School nnd Fireside," page 41, he says: "There is not an experienced teacher in the land that has not noticed with aching heart the slimy trial of the serpent, the sym ptoms of secret vices,on the coun-tenaces coun-tenaces of some of his pupils.- Attempts At-tempts Ho confer with the parents in such cases, for the purpose of securing their co-operation in the rescue of their child froirt the inevitable in-evitable consequences of such habits, are too often met by a stolid indifference, an offended incredulity, in-credulity, or even by personal insults. in-sults. Let the teacher in private interview' approach the nfllicted one, of his or her own sex,' in grent kindness, patience nnd purity. pur-ity. Thus many a young life is rescued from destruction, and started anew on a pa'th that leads to health., prosperity and usefulness." useful-ness." , dn page G8, Dr. Maeser says: "In this connection it'is my duty to ngain call the attention of parents par-ents 'to the principle or chastity. This virtue is violated to a far grea'ter extent than most parents, are nware of, and needs the watchfulness nnd nnJcious care of every educator. Especially arc the secret vices fastening their fangs, to an alarming extent, upon up-on the bodies and souls of our children. When once bitten by 'the serpent in this way, the rescue res-cue from the inevitable calamities to follow will become more dim: cult in proportion to the delay." As a remedy for this evil, Dr. JHaeser suggests instructing lg personal purity. ,Ort pnge 331 of School and Fireside, he sayst "There should be a matron connected con-nected with every school to instruct in-struct the girls in such hygenic nnd moral questions as pertain particularly to 'the mission, welfare wel-fare and responsibilities of 'their sex. A male teacher should pert form corresponding duties, and similarly instruct the boys and young men." This is the mot delicate subject sub-ject in the realm of education and for that reason the one mos't neglected by parents and tench-ers, tench-ers, In every city, town, and village vil-lage of the land the youth are permitted to go on in the destructive destruc-tive practice of secret vice until their usefulness in life is greatly impaired and rimy become tho victims of medical quacks and charletnns or end in insanity. The cigarette, bad enough in itself, it-self, is made a scapegoat for tho evils resulting from mnsturba-tion, mnsturba-tion, or secret vice. Foul-mouthed persons in pvory community poison the minds of the youth with their obscenity. Tho obsccno pictures nnd obsccno writing found in tho outbuildings of nearly near-ly every school house and church in the land, nre evidence of the mental unehnstity thnt prevails. These evils are permitted to go on year after yoar, carrying the youth to destruction, and very little effort is being mndo to overcome over-come tliem.T E. , |