When you go to dances see that the hall you go to is well ventilated, that no smoking or drinking is allowed and that those you dance with are girls you can introduce to your mother and sisters. For dances and fun you should have, but see that they are of the sort that the next morning when you take up your work nothing evil enters your mind, that remorse and shame do not crowd out the teaching of yesterday and that you feel more ambitious to work to-day than the day before. If this state of mind is held day by day, you are certain to achieve success. If the contrary state of mind takes hold of you there is a going backwards, and kept up, this state means FAILURE. Then there are those nasty holes, the public “poolrooms.” There is no objection to playing pool, billiards or any games, but there is objection to hanging around in the foul air――you see I am at your health again――the dead cigarette smoke, and listening to the animal language and ideas of the useless youths who make these places their “hang-outs.” Don’t hang around with “the gang” unless you want later to hang with the gang. The country boy needs this advice as much, if not more, than the city boy. He more frequently becomes fascinated by the evil attractions which reach him than the boy who is surrounded by good gymnasiums, teachers of manual labor and open-air playgrounds. But at heart he is a good boy. There was a time when the boy who lived on a farm was free from evil suggestions, associations and shows. It is not so now. In fact I believe the country boy has more temptations thrust in his way than the city boy. He has not been brought up to see the outside world as has the city boy; hence, when these evils reach his neighborhood, all is new and fascinating to him. The trolley has penetrated his district and established “White Cities,” dance halls have been erected, moving picture shows and other dubious attractions follow the trolleys and are not always under the control of these railways. I have seen picture shows at these places which would not be allowed in the cities. The country fairs have many side shows that cannot but injure every youth who witnesses them, but to explain where the injury comes in is never the duty of school-teachers or parents――at least they will tell you so. But we must not blame the country boys for flocking to these shows. It is very tempting bait held out for their dimes and nickels. The boy’s life on the farm is devoid of many of the harmless pleasures given to the city boy. There are no places where he and his companions may gather――no boys’ clubs, no gymnasiums. But worse than all his parents seem to lack knowledge of what such a lad needs in the way of real instruction concerning life, of the dangers of associating with the girls brought from the cities to fleece and disease them, and to the dangers around the “White Cities” and other public places, which the most innocent lad is liable to fall into.