Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1911 — What Should Be Done With Parents. [ARTICLE]

What Should Be Done With Parents.

It seems remarkable that with aboift sixteen thousand new criminal statutes recorded each year nothing has yet been done for the regulation of parents. Children are daily, nay, hourly, subjected to mortification because their parents commit some breach of modern etiquette or betray hopeless ignorance on some vital point, and this goes on day after day and year after year and nothing is done about tt Too much, of course, should not be expected of our modern parents; that they know nothing of geography is, for example, not necessarily to be laid to their discredit But that they are hopelessly ignorant of slang, that they sniff at cigarettes and. rouge and that they like to see plays where the villain meets his just due and virtue its reward, and that they wear shockingly old-fashioned clothes, are all 'matters for public as well as private concern. What are we to do with parents who never drink anything stronger than lemonade, leave their spoons in their coffee cups, refuse to sit in roof gardens until midnight and dislike to ride in a motor going more than thirty miled an hour? —Life.