MANLY MEN.
ro THE EDITOR. g IRj Why does the doctor and the sanitary reformer include immorality in the list of old shapes of foul disease to be fired out if not rung out? Because morality is not a tiling pertaining to the mind only. Immorality causes physical and mental deterioration of any community. Physical immo-: rality is ill-health, it is to the influence oi self-control among the Teutonic races which has given them the control of the world. The offspring of races practising free love deteriorates. The old Norse people, the true northerners, were “pure and moral in their lives and thoughts, and .ths3“.slightesb
indelicacy was visited with furious indignation.” 1 hope every boy in the city will read the “ Champion of Odin,” by J. F. Hodgetts (Cassell and Co.), and thereby learn to inherit the sterling qualities of their forefathers and the wise self-control inculcated in Proverbs, and sung of by Burns. Old Country boys are brought up under the mistletoe, but they are always reminded ,of Balder, into whose palace no impure person could enter, and every mother teaches her son never to hurt a woman. It requires good education, physical training and self-control to make men manly.—l am, &c., *SELF-CONTROL.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 6
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