COLONIAL MORALITY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3532, 21 April 1880, Page 2

COLONIAL MORALITY.

(To the Editor of the Bvbnino Stab.)

Sir,—The case which was yesterday beard in camera serres to show the inefficacy of the meaner in which children are reared in the colonies. Indeed it may be safely asserted that the present sytsem cqnduces to immorality. Young lads and girls scarce in their teens are allowed to walk together, or as the cant phrase goes, to "keep company." This is allowed to be continued without even the slightest check being put. upon the youthful aspirants to jSymen, and in many cases an improper intimacy springs up between the parties, and they become like Gods, before the scholastic dust" has divested itself from their garments. Girls and boys would be very much better off, were they brought up in the old fashioned style, when boys were obliged to be in I

bed at 9 o'clock, or they new the reason why, and when "girls were not allowed to walk with young men without a M playpropriety " aister, or small brother. iiven now at this advanced and immoral age, many young people are held in lead* ing strings until theylare married. They are held in hand by careful and watchful •parents, dreading the effects of unlimited intimacy, and so ia innocence found in them. Here, on Jthe contrary, the girls and boys are allowed to meet at Wesleyan j School picnics and similar gatherings, ; mix together, indulge in airy nothings, I and talk of lore, when they hare only just i learnt it out of the spelling-book. Young } people now-a-days embrace Cupid long : before they have any fixed ideas, as to ; life or the occupation they intend to follow. Children of sixteen or seventeen go billing and cooing about as if they were quite in earnest, when they know as much about what they are saying as a porker might be expected to know ' about a pinna. Children brought up with a strict yet kind-hand will ne?er have cause to regret the mode in which they have been brought up, and will be placed at a great advantage over the fast young ladies who by appearing to be acquainted with the ways or the world, really show their idiocy, and ignorance. They will also have better chances , of matrimony, as sound thinking men would much prefer a sensible'■girl to one _- whose mind, already giddy, has been made giddier by the smooth utterances of unmeaning and idiotic platitudes.—l am, ' '&c., Mobamtt. i -