TEACH YOUR BOYS






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Brooklyn Union Argus
Thursday, 2 January 1879 
 
TEACH YOUR BOYS
 
Teach them that a true lady may be found in calico quite as frequently
as in velvet or white silk.
 
Teach them that a common school education with commonsense is better
than a college education without it.
 
Teach them that one good, honest trade well mastered is worth a dozen
beggarly "professions."
 
Teach them that "honesty is the best policy," that 'tis better to be
poor than to be rich on the profits of "crooked whiskey," etc., and
point your precepts by examples of those who are now suffering the
torments of the doomed.  
 
Teach them to respect their elders and themselves. Teach them that, as
they expect to be a man someday, they cannot too soon learn to respect
the weak and helpless.
 
Teach them that smoking in moderation, though the least of vices to
which men are heirs, is the most disgusting to others and hateful to
themselves.
 
Teach them that to wear patched clothes is no disgrace, but to wear a
"black eye" is.
 
Teach them that God is no respecter of sex, and that when He gave the
Seventh Commandment He meant it for them as well as for their sisters.
 
Teach them that by indulging their depraved appetites in the worst forms
of dissipation they are not fitting themselves to become husbands of
pure girls.
 
Teach them that it is better to be an honest man seven days in the week
than to be a Christian (?) one day and a villain six days.
 
Teach them that "God helps those who help themselves."
 
Do all this, and you will have brought them up "in a way they should go."
 
Transcribed by:
Marilyn Wright
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