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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1916)
_______I -—--- I Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. --- THE RESULT OF LATE HOURS Among the many valuable articles written by Prof. M. V. O’Shea of the University of Wisconsin in Mothers’ Magazine, the following on the “Re sult of Late Hours,” should be read by every mother. “All normal young people crave ex citement. They cannot endure same ness or dullness. They dread inactiv ity. A certain amount of excitement is necessary for most children. It is suggestive to note how, whenever any thing is “going on” in the neighbor hood, the children will all be there. They have a special sense for excite ment, and can locate it whenever in the vicinity. Unfortunatly they are likely to go to extremes in indulgence in excite ment unless kept in check by their elders. Nature did not equip the or dinary child with good judgment and self-control. If left to themselves the young will go so far in exciting ac tivities that they become seriously fatigued. They seem often to be hyp notizd by stimulating experiences, and cannot withdraw until they are ex hausted. Young children are attracted by the circus, the band, the street parade, the dog fight, and so on. But those in the teens prefer the allurements of the ballroom to everything else. It seems to attract young people more and more strongly every year. Once under the influence of the dance, they never know when to stop. In many places teachers and parents are in constant conflict with boys and girls in regard to dancing. There is the same struggle between faculty and students in college and universitiy. Young people lose all sense of propor tion under the seductive influence of the ballroom. There is a facination, too, for both sexes, in promenading the streets at night. Usually there is color and stir and novelty on the street. There is also adventure. The me of the street at night is adapted to excite the young, and is often so planned, be cause when they are excited they will indulge their impulses, and those who provide the means of indulgence will be enriched thereby. The boy es pecially is constantly stimulated by what he sees and hears on the street at night, which arouses his elemental passions, which overcomes his judg ment and good sense. Most evil hab its are formed in connection with street experiences at night. When young people are excited by this kind of life, they crave further excitement, and will indulge in anything that will keep them up to a high pitch of feel ing. It is unwholesome for youth to b come unduly excited, especially under conditions found on the typical street, and in many ballrooms. A person in a highly stimulated condition is not likely to let down easily, and will seek artificial stimulations to keep up his nervous tension. This law of hu man nature is seen in adult life as well as in youth. People who go the pace are likely to use strong stimu lants. The chief problem of parents and teachers in having youth keep reason able hours arises in relation to the dance. Young people get into the habit of going late and staying until early morning hours. This practice, if persisted in, will undermine body and mind. No boy or girl in the teens should be up later than ten o’clock, except on rare occasions. If young people dance later than this, they are likely to become overstimulated, and lose their self-restraint. Excesses flourish after ten o’clock rather than before. The later the hour, the great- “ er the danger. The youth who is habitually up later than ten o’clock stands a good chance of going as tiay, because he will be tempted con stantly to indulge primitive passions. But he who is usually at home and in bed by ten o’clock stands a good chance of holding his impulses in check. The habit of keeping early hours is the best safeguard against temptation. College boys who are dis sipated get started in the late night hours. Dissipation rarely begins in early evening. In every community parents should get together and agree that all par ties for young people stop at ten o’clock, and the boys and girls go dir ectly home.” EVENTS ANI) PERSONS Dr. L. E. Britt has purchased a five-passenger Maxwell. Mr. George Davis, a wealthy oilman of Muskogee, with his wife, two chil dren and sister, Mrs. D. Olston, ar rived in the city Tuesday from St. Paul. While in the city Mr. Davis was the guest of his brother, Mr Chas. Davis. He left Wednesday eve ning for Kansas City, Mo., where he will attend the Business League. Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt and Mrs James C. Donley left Thursday on short visit to Excelsior Springs and Kansas City. — Will N. Johnson returned Mond i from Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. W. N. Moore of 2120 No. ■ !0t street left last Thursday evening fo* Kansas City to visit friends and rela tives. Mr. Clifford Green, who is now fountain manager at the Owl drug store since the resignation of Mr. Davenport, is filling the position sat isfactorily. Fifteen Colored men are now cm* ployed in the Northwestern freight house. Mrs. Volney Carter is slowly im proving. Mr. and Mrs. C. B Kitchen wish to thank the sisters of Ivy Leaf Couit through the columns of your paper (The Monitor) for their many kind nesses during the illness of little Miss Marion Wright. The remains of Mrs. Flora Todd of 3230 Emmet street, were shipped from Norfolk, Neb., August 10th, for in terment in Forest Lawn cemetery August 11th. The Rev. W. T. Osborre officiated, and Banks and Wilks had charge of the funeral. Dr. L. E. Britt. Dr. August Ed wards, Dr. J. H. Hutton, Dr. Single ton and Dr. W. N. Peebles will motor to Kansas City to attend the National Association of Colored Physicians, Dentists and Surgeons. To Rent, Sell, Ruy or Exchange? 4 Real Estate f Call or See ! 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