212 Social Training for Farm Boys and Girls 



of aristocracy and snobbishness as to cause not a 

 little ill feeling in the neighborhood. Under present 

 conditions the country dance cannot be so managed 

 as to make it contribute to the social and moral uplift 

 of country young people. There are many better 

 forms of entertainment which may be substituted 

 for it. 



Along with the country dance should be rated the 

 cheap professional entertainments that are so often 

 given in the country school houses. Many of these 

 are not only degrading but are morally evil in their 

 suggestions, while they tend to give the young a 

 depraved taste in respect to public shows and 

 theaters. The school trustees may well exclude all 

 such "shows" from the building. 



ADDITIONAL FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT 



The farm parents most desirous of leading in the 

 young people's entertainments, and best fitted to do 

 so, may find it impracticable to invite the young into 

 their home. In such case, there are several other 

 ways whereby the desired ends may be achieved. 



1. The social hour at the religious services. It 

 is deemed quite advisable that those who plan the 

 religious service in the country have thought of a 

 social hour in connection therewith. The latter 

 may prove fully as helpful in a constructive sense as 

 the former, and it can in no wise detract from the 

 value of the religious meeting. This combination 



