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What is a boy? Why, our future men, who will have the making of our 

 laws, the building up of our country; then how important that they shall 

 have a good home training, being taught the great truths of honesty, 

 morality, truthfulness, and here, I think the mothers part comes in to a 

 very large extent, for after all who can or who should influence her boy 

 like a mother. 



What is a boy? Why, the future husband of our daughters, and here, 

 again the mother's influence can always be used to teach them to always 

 respect their sisters, they are the ones to love and respect their wives, they 

 are the ones to make good husbands, the boys who love and respect their 

 mothers and sisters. Oh, I think when I read the papers sometimes that 

 if our boys were told what they ought to know on the great question of 

 personal purity, we should hear a great deal less about unhappy homes, 

 only too often ending in separation and the divorce court. 



Sometimes we hear parents say, I cannot keep my boy at home of an 

 evening! Now there must be a reason for that, and I think one of the 

 chief reasons is that we do not provide the attractions that they seek else- 

 where. I would suggest that we have in our homes plenty of innocent 

 games, books suitable for our boys, one of the best rooms for them to sit 

 in, and so let them feel and know that we want their company. 



Having touched briefly on some of the phases of our boys, the question 

 might be asked, what occupation should we give them? To that I would 

 suggest that we watch them, and see to what they are naturally inclined. 

 No doubt most of us would like to see our boys take up fruit farming, and 

 if there is the inclination, encourage it. Let them read all your fruit 

 magazines and farm journals, let them go with their father to the Farmer's 

 meetings, especially when the Government lecturers are here, also let them 

 feel that they have an interest in everything pertaining to ranch life; not 

 only the rough hard work of clearing land, but some of the more important 

 work of planting, spraying, etc., and by so doing we shall give them cause 

 to feel that although they are boys and of immature ages, they are not mere 

 nobodies, but someone of importance. 



"There is no child so young and none so old but that the memory of his 

 mother holds when the night is darkest and the day is longest." 



THE CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH. 

 (Paper read before Nelson W. I. by Dr. W. B. Steed.) 



The care of children's teeth is an item that is very often neglected by 

 even the most attentive mothers, and although the percentage of people 

 who are looking more carefully to the welfare of their children's teeth is* 

 fast increasing, there is room for a great revival along these lines yet. 



In some of the eastern cities dental inspection of the school children is- 

 being introduced, and where such an inspection has been carried out, the 

 statistics gathered have opened the eyes of even the dentists who were 

 responsible for the inspection having been made. In two Toronto schools 

 a careful inspection has revealed the startling fact that no less than 95% 

 of the children had decayed teeth, and in a great many cases^ the mouths* 

 of the little ones were in a terrible state.. 



