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Society, delivered a most entertaining lecture on "Our Boys.

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l, fails to avail himself of his opportunities and grows up careless in dress and language, and, while not

nt than companionship with dirty, idle or immoral boys. Many a lad spends hours with comrades w

eir own age. What we most desire is that they themselves should choose their comrades among honest, studious, manly boys, and avoid the

t of humanity our boys regard their favorites with eyes that see only their good qualities, forgetting the coarse l

with "such a good fellow always ready for fun." But if we occasionally saw this "good fellow" then indeed the cause would not be far to seek. Our boy himself would feel ashamed of

us about "mother," and then they learn not to

wonder at you to be seen on the street with th

were old, they were whole and clean too, and I knew him to be an upright ma

s that man who esteems his friends according to the length of their purses. There is only one way of judging our boy's companions, and that is by knowing them ourselves. This we can do by encouraging him to invite his friends t

kitchen, to which it should be limited. Some time when it is convenient, let us tell our boy to invite som

is guests are well treated, and he will be the more anxi

nly-a-boy treatment they experience; feeling slighted they i

ite a friend, or, if he knows that his friends are coming; not as a rigid rule, but as a courtesy due a lady in her own house; no matter whether the home consists

other. There is another, and to me the most important point in the education of our boys, I refer to their religious training. Merely sending them to a short service on Sunday, will never impress boys with

ersations with your children. As I speak, one little mother comes to my mind, she always made it a duty to sit with her boys and talk over the incidents of the day, she inquired what new

ill keep boys from sins, the memory of which e

ed Mrs. Blondell, who gave her thoughts on

No doubt much of this criticism is warranted. The great mass of young people of today are lacking in deference, courtesy and respect. But the fathers

heir children freely criticise or comment on the conduct of their neighbors or friend

of gossiping and commenting just as freely on themselves. Now there is no one t

ome there would not be so much to learn, and especially to

ould be less self-consciousness and less affectation, for these arise from trying to do

idea of truth, then it must be developed, and great e

ix or several. Go to extremes in accuracy of detail, for the sa

child there is more than ordinary n

y disappointed. "Papa you promised I should see it." "So I did my child." And the father ordered the wall to be torn down and rebuilt. Being expostulated with regarding the expense and time whic

ll remained, because all accidents of life are not under our co

ys: "That is very interesting; now, how much did you see and hear, and how much do you think you saw and heard." They stop, think, and sift out the actual f

thus unconsciously gains a light conception of the value of truth, or they think th

o one of this lady's "good stories" when her eldest little girl, a child of seven, came towards us, leading her small sister of four. Going up to her mother the child sai

r, who seemed quite unconscious of the reproof con

ault in one child, which you would pass over in a favorite. Children feel this keenly while childhood last

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to give good example to your children. Remember you are teaching them spiritual truths or errors from the day of their

believe in the Christ whose example you follow. If you are not practicing what y

as far as possible the disagreeables of life; they will come, but they will only grow larger when we remember them, and constant thought of acts of meanness ma