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Editorial
August 20, 1857
White Cloud Kansas Chief
White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas
What is this article about?
Moralistic editorial warning against blindly following others' immoral examples, using vignettes of a young man's ruin through vice, a father's indulgence leading to idle sons, and a mother's genteel upbringing resulting in daughters' poverty.
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"I DID AS THE REST DID."
—This tame yielding spirit, this doing "as the rest did," has ruined thousands.
A young man is invited by vicious companions to visit the tavern or gambling room, or other haunts of licentiousness. He dissipates, spends his time, loses his credit, squanders his property, and at last sinks into an untimely grave.— What ruined him? Simply "doing as the rest did."
A father has a family of sons. He is wealthy. Other children in the same situation of life, do so and so, are indulged in this and that. He indulges his own in the same way. They grow up idlers and fops. The father wonders why his children do not succeed better.— He has spent so much money on their education, has given them great advantages; but alas! they are only a source of vexation and trouble.
Poor man, he is just paying the penalty of "doing as the rest did."
The poor mother strives hard to bring up her daughters genteelly. They learn what others do, to paint, to sing, to play and dance, and several other useful matters. In time they marry; their husbands, unable to support their extravagance, and they are soon reduced to poverty and wretchedness.
The good woman is astonished.
"Truly," says she, "I did as the rest did."
—This tame yielding spirit, this doing "as the rest did," has ruined thousands.
A young man is invited by vicious companions to visit the tavern or gambling room, or other haunts of licentiousness. He dissipates, spends his time, loses his credit, squanders his property, and at last sinks into an untimely grave.— What ruined him? Simply "doing as the rest did."
A father has a family of sons. He is wealthy. Other children in the same situation of life, do so and so, are indulged in this and that. He indulges his own in the same way. They grow up idlers and fops. The father wonders why his children do not succeed better.— He has spent so much money on their education, has given them great advantages; but alas! they are only a source of vexation and trouble.
Poor man, he is just paying the penalty of "doing as the rest did."
The poor mother strives hard to bring up her daughters genteelly. They learn what others do, to paint, to sing, to play and dance, and several other useful matters. In time they marry; their husbands, unable to support their extravagance, and they are soon reduced to poverty and wretchedness.
The good woman is astonished.
"Truly," says she, "I did as the rest did."
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Conformity
Moral Ruin
Parenting
Societal Pressure
Vice
Extravagance
What entities or persons were involved?
Vicious Companions
Wealthy Father
Poor Mother
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Dangers Of Blind Conformity To Immoral Societal Norms
Stance / Tone
Moral Warning Against Following Others' Vices
Key Figures
Vicious Companions
Wealthy Father
Poor Mother
Key Arguments
Blindly Following Peers Leads To Dissipation, Loss Of Property, And Early Death.
Indulging Children Like Others Results In Idleness And Failure Despite Education.
Teaching Daughters Frivolous Arts Leads To Extravagant Marriages And Poverty.