| Show unemployment AND JUVENILE ADULT GRIME CRIME the official report on the prison population in england contains an interesting te reflection on the relation bo be tween the lack of employment immediately after leaving school and the i delinquency of juvenile adults satisfaction is expressed at the diminution of juvenile crime since 1897 the he number of prisoners between twelve and sixteen has fallen from 1630 to or nearly two thirds mention Is made of the tact fact that not only were many lads unemployed at the time of 0 their conviction but they had been unemployed except at rare intervals since leaving school much good material it is remarked Is being wasted and allowed to drift until it lapses into crime or the beginnings of crime although per cent fewer prisoners were unable to read and write in 1907 than in 1870 yet the fact remains that that ot of the total number committed to prison on conviction viz only 5 per cent could read and write well while per cent are returned as reading and writing imperfectly in one of the london prisons many lads ads of from sixteen to twenty one are still received who can neither read nor write they explain their illiteracy by saying that they come from a neighborhood where attendance officers can be persistently evaded and defied from charities charlotle and the commons CONFIDE IN YOUR BOYS A boy Is entitled to his fathers confidence fi dence it is his right to know his fathers nature and experience only thus can lie he bo be fully heir to all that parenthood can and should bestow it is for the childs good that we be a parent to him first and last not a i master nor yet a hero As to reverence ense I 1 doubt whether a child rever ances his parent fc after lie he is ten years yeara old he sees their faults and secret 1 li judges them often unjustly our neighbor grayson has always exacted a sort of homage from his family I 1 ho he Is our for reelection election re and yesterday he made a speech before the sunday school which somebody was eato extolling when ili his sor son harr y said with a sneering laugh oh the old man knows how to pull tho the wool over their eyes id rather have my chil children arett know me as I 1 am than think of me as a children know you too I 1 pro pretty tty well they have keen insight the those days they arc far quicker at mind reading than the children were generations back the they know more about you than you dream they know but not boing being wise enough to give the proper weight to causes and motives they are apt to misjudge you so go it is best to be open with them frankness on oil your part will lead to confidence on theirs mary E bryan in uncle tho the home magazine for november |
