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The Good, the Bad, the Otherwise
and a Few Laconics
“CHILDREN’S COURTS AND SO-
CIETIES.”
NUMBER of municipalities
have established colonies un
der various titles, to care for
and instruct the wayward
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youth of both sexes, with which every
city is becoming burdened. A re
port published by one of these clubs,
as they are sometimes called, would
make “Vox Populi,” “E Pluribus
Unum,” “Anxious Parent” and “Sub
scriber” sit up rigidly and take note,
if, collectively and individually, he
would read it.
One of the reports filed showed
that the Society had looked into and
attended to the following cases: Neg
lected, 179; destitute, 78; cruelly
treated, 14; left orphans, 17; beyond
control of parents, 61; in immoral
places, 49; truants, 14. There were
other classifications for cases which
the Society or Club had had under
its notice, but those cited are suffi
cient.
Will you note two classes speci
fically? “Neglected, 179; beyond con
trol of parents, 61” —and there you
have the question and the answer to
all you may ask of the need for the
establishing of homes, colonies,
courts and societies for the care or
the cure of wayward children.
To the normal father and mother
it is appalling to read of parents who
wilfully neglect their children, and
almost impossible to believe that
there are really children “beyond
the control of parents.”
There are, unfortunately, in every
city and town, parents whose ideas
of duty toward their children take in
only the physical wants of the off
spring. When food, shelter and
clothes have been provided, with
compulsory attendance at school, this
class of parent considers duty accom
plished to the last exaction, and the
child grows as weeds do. By the
natural process of evolution children
are reaching out for new sensations,
new experiences and new associations
almost before the parents have recog
nized the child's power to think in
dependently.
At this stage, say the age of ten
years, how many parents look to
the literature in their homes? How
many have thought it wise to ex
ercise a kindly censorship over the
newspapers of which every home has
at least one? How many so-called
“Sunday” papers are fit, in their en
tirety, of being read by a child, or
their pictures viewed? This does not
refer to the “comic” or colored sup
plement, but to the “news” parts.
Normal women, safe in their do
mestic life, read with more or Less
interest the descriptions of a demi
monde’s wardrobe, jewels, escapeds.
The accounts are fully illustrated
with photographs showing the be
jewelled hussy in more or less sug
gestive pose—and these pictures,
with the descriptive and alluringly
worded text, are within easy reach
of eyes and brains growing more
eager and receptive.
Day after day, week after week,
these stories with their profuse illus
trations are within easy reach.
A kingdom is overthrown by the
toe-kick of a dancer. The news
papers eagerly seize every detail of
the-dancer’s life, her personality, the
date at which a king’s infatuation be
came reckless extravagance, and the
end; these are not given in a man
ner to teach anything but the joy to
be had when a dancer happens on
such fortuitous circumstances where
by she not only adds to her jewel box,
but to her value as a theatrical as
set.
Can a child's mind grasp any of
the horror back of this?
Many of us will recall the news
paper stories of the lat King Leo-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
By L. A. L.
pold and his numerous affairs. How
many little girls wanted their hair
dressed a la Merode, when the photo
graphs of that favorite were broad
cast? And how far hal this influ
ence gone? Further than any parent
dreamed or noticed.
It is easy to realize how, in crowd
ed cities of the North and West,
where many of the children of today
were the steerage passengers of last
year—the neglect of home life is
filling the children’s—societies and
courts with the wayward young, but
the pity of it is—it does not stop
there. Many a home which boasts
of its clean, clear American blood, is
giving case after case to swell the
data of these reports.
Telling parents their duty is a
thankless task and one which only
the fool-hardy would attempt; but if
one only had the power to show and
prove that the fault lies directly at
the door of the fathers and mothers,
how many tragedies would be
averted?
Scarcely a day passes that one does
not read of girls and boys from “emi
nently respectable” and often, influ
ential families, being in the grasp of
the Law, for crimes more or less
serious. Not many weeks ago a
“gentleman burglar” was arrested,
with a young woman companion, and
each had come from families of im
portance and worth in their com
munities. The girl said her home
life had become monotonous, and she
was permitted no pleasure—and the
pity of it was, she told the truth, as
investigation showed.
Is it because we are all so intent
on getting and keeping dollars that
we have permitted our children to
become second in importance? Or
are we, by endeavoring to live up to
a false standard, blind and deaf to
all that affects the welfare of our
children?
There must be a reason—and we
had best speedily find it.
The farmer is beginning to realize
that it takes brain as well as brawn
to manage a farm and make a living
out of it.
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Soon as they’re over with the
Christmas rush the big stores try to
get the rest of Poor Father’s money
by “white goods sales.”
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See here —didn’t Andy Carnegie
just give a awful lot of money to
make peace possible? And here’s
Honduras making a noise like war!
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Hard times must have affected the
followers of Judge Lynch also; news
item states there were fewer lynch
ings in 1910 than there have been in
the past sixteen years.
Look a’here! A baseball star has
been so bitten with the high-salary
bug he’s going to have his voice cul
tivated and sing in Grand Opery.
Something in a name sometimes:
man named Brewer had the sand and
the coin to pay $5,000 for a “near”
beer license in a prohibition (?)
state.
It has happened at last: A woman
appeared in a city in Germany re
cently, wearing a hat “which was
the exact copy of a bird’s nest, with
a large hen on it.”
Awfully careless people—those
New Yorkers: according to ads. in
the papers, they lose everything from
children and horses to muffs and
false teeth.
Two more famous aviators went
up once too often: Moisant and
Hoxey are both dead, but the flock
of air ships will not diminish as
long as the lure of the dollar is held
out.
The gift-giving Christmas wasn’t
the only one busy lately; an Ameri
can named Lee Christmas is running
the latest revolution in Honduras.
As the big express companies of
the United States have not yet se
cured a strangle-hold on the Philip
pine Islands, the nifty little country
has established a parcels post.
It’s a source of wonder to many,
why millionaires are taking such in
terest in politics, but as horse-race
ing isn’t permitted so freely now,
political office seeking gives nearly
as good a run for the money.
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