AN APPALLING INDICTMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 270, 7 November 1908, Page 4

AN APPALLING INDICTMENT

This is from llit- Lubes' Uoiiic -lourHill. on,, of the most reputable, li-tisl-worthv. mid most fearless publicationto be'found throughout til.' length ami breadth of the tnilcd Jlccausc. it says, of the .secrecy with which the whole question, is enshrouded it is nracticnllv impossible In obtain absolute ligures. But so far as the lughest, uutkoritics have been able, through the most careful inquiries. l<> secure accurate ligu.es. it is a conservative state mem In make that at least sixty out of even hundred vi.un men arc to-day •■sowing tbeiv wild oats.-' Of tl.es". sixt\ voting nieii. a startling number •ire Villier ali'eailv making or will make a tragedy of marriage. These statcments are made nut upon theory, but facts Hint are proved and demonstrated at thousands of domestie bedsides and in the aiilo|>sV rooms of hundreds of hospitals. They are facts that ale known to every physician. This frightful eiiudiUou has 'been brought alum! largriv by hvi> contributing faclorslirst,'the parental policy of uiockinodcstv and silence with their sons and daughters about their physical selves, mid second, the condoning in men what is eniiileiuned in women. Fathers and mothers, anil, in consequence, girls have ciindoncil in a voting man this sowing of his -wilil oats" because it was considered a phvsical ueeessilv: thai " M-: would do him good": thai "it would make a man of him": thai "it would show him (he world" all al giiinolil s absolutely baseless. Willi" ll 11 HI I roils of girls the'wiling man who has most pro-iiii-.t-iioii-.lv and profii-elv scalier.-.1 his •'wil.l oats" has been looked upon as the most favoured mic among possible ",iii-l,i!iids. To in.inv ;, "irl there I. al- I [i.avs something alluring to ni.iriv a liuaii with a past, beeaii-e it appealeil ' t.i> her vanity I" " remake" or " reform" ' him. The peril lo herself she has never' known, for silence has been (he portion ' uicled out to liej- by lier parents.