Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — A Hint to Boys. [ARTICLE]

A Hint to Boys.

A philosopher has said that the true education for boys is to teach them what they ought to know when they become men. What is it they ought to know T 1. To be true; to tra genuine. No education will be worth anything that does not include this; A man had Detter not know how to read—he had better nerer learn a letter in the alphabet, and be true and genuine in intention and action, rather, than, being learned in all sciences and in all languages, be at the same timo false at heart and also counterfeit in life. Above all things, teach the boys that truth is more than riches, more than culture, more than earthly power or position. 2. To be true in thought, language and life—pure in mind ana body. An impuie man, young or old, poisoning society where he moves with his smutty stories and impure example, is a moral ulcer, a plague spot, a leper, who ought to be treated as were the lepers of old, who were banished from society ana compelled to cry "Unclean,” as a warning to save others from the pestilence. 5. To be unselfish. To ST for the

feelings and comforts of others. To be polite. To be just in all dealings with others. To be generous, noble anamanly. This will include a genuine reverence for the aged and things sacred. 4. To be self-reliant and self-helpfol even from early childhood. To be industrious always, and self-supporting at the earliest age. Teach them that all honest work Is honorable, and that an idle, useless life of dependence on others When a boy has learned these things, when he has made these ideas a part of his being, however young he may be. however poor or however rich, he has learned some of the important things he ought to know when he becomes a man. sir.sr" 4 ’" Keep aloof from sadoses, firsartnsssa the siskmsss of the seal. -

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