Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — "Where is my Daughter To-Night?" [ARTICLE]

"Where is my Daughter To-Night?"

An exchange suggests that while many fond parents are daily sending up petitions that intemperance may not lay its heavy arm noon their sons, that they may ever be found free from the vice of this wicked world, would it not be well for them to ask toe question: “Where is my daughter to-nignt?” Too many girls find some excuse to leave their homes pleasant evenings. No sooner oat of right of the domicile than they hnnt up a girl companion and make a bee-line for places where young men congregate, in the expectation of “catching a beau,” or getting up a flirtation, rarely disappointed in accomplishing one or the other. That the girls are unacquainted with me character of the men so frequently met, there is but little doubt, otherwise they would avoid their society, except they were Intent on going to the devil, headlong. The fault of t{)ia street running after dark lies to a great extent witbtlie parents. | , TS No matter how humble the home, if the parents, especially the mother, will only take more interest in their daughters, and try to entertain them ere mugs with reputable young men, good books and kind motherly talk, instead of letting them ran here and there Without pSy tSjr oi this street running, and many a good girl would be saved to society and tierself; where now sheas going to ruin. Let every mother who reads thie ask lie* Self theqnewtion: 44 Whe^jis my dangh- — i Nothing bespeaks -a time lady and Sntleman or well-bred child more than e use of correct language: pure, clean speech. Cultivate good Engli ß h;in everyday conversation. Unclean speech is in keeping with a smutty face, begrimed hands and soiled doilies. Strange how easily and »lnmt unconsciously ona fUdSr Into a careless, slipshod way Of talking, even when «the ru lee of grammar S«SSf IEJd unSteEK? *ynte* who apply them to the art of writing, yet hsbitnaMy talk incorrectly JWVleetriauhnitWßt