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culiarities. The boy that is unhappy, unless enter- 

 tained, can be made contented at home at a cheaper 

 rate than in a neighboring saloon. Evening gossip at 

 a corner grocery may be quite engaging to a lad who 

 hears nothing but snaps and snarls at home ; but home 

 should be made more attractive to the young than a 

 tavern or a news-room. Story books, pictures, and 

 games are needed to entertain and instruct a child. 

 It is less costly to have a billiard table at home than 

 to pay the contingencies of a boy's sports at a billiard 

 saloon. A wise father should take his sons to repu- 

 table places of amusement, and endeavor to hold com- 

 panionship with them. A mother should hold con- 

 versations with her half-grown boy, and impart sim- 

 ple lessons that impress indelibly the youthful brain. 

 A young man discreetly handled will not marry be- 

 neath his rank he will aim to win the daughter of a 

 good mother. A daughter properly trained will not 

 run away with her father's coachman. Young people 

 must have access to the world in order to see its 

 various sides, and thus become enabled to discriminate 

 between its good and its evil. 



As appetites develop in the sexes, the virtue of 

 chastity has to be cultivated. Says Eobert Collyer : 

 " In the far-reaching influences that go to every life, 

 and away backward as well as forward, children are 

 borii w r ith appetites fatally strong in their nature. As 

 they grow up the appetite grows with them, and 

 speedily becomes a master, the master a tyrant, and 

 by the time he arrives at manhood the man is a slave. 

 I heard a man say that for twenty-eight years the soul 

 within him had had to stand like an unsleeping se'nti- 

 nel, guarding his appetite for strong drink. To be a 

 man, under such a disadvantage, not to mention a 

 saint, is as fine a piece of grace as can well be seen. 



