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Show The Problem of Youth From the earliest times it appears that the problem of directing young folks in the proper way has engaged the serious attention of reformers and uplifters and busybodies. A book on etiquette published in 1850 gravely warns young women of the perils of the waltz and declares that "unmarried ladies should refrain from the waltz altogether, in public and in private." It is assumed that married ladies were supposed to be immune to its demoralizing effects. Every once in a while someone dig!, up an old newspaper or magazint containing an article which throws light on this tendency to worry about the young people of the past. The boys and girls of the present generation genera-tion are likewise causing consternation consterna-tion among the self-appointed guardians guard-ians of morality. But, the youngsters of today, in spite of their seeming frivolity, are the sanest, cleanest and most promising prom-ising crop of future citizens the world has ever seen. Whatever their failings, they arc not hypocrites and that can not be said of most of their critics. |