Popular AmusementsAssociation Press, 1915 - 239 páginas |
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Página 165 - And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; at home the style of our life is refined; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy.
Página 157 - Any violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than five years nor less than one year or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars nor less than two hundred dollars.
Página 23 - It is as if we ignored a wistful, over-confident creature who walked through our city streets calling out, "I am the spirit of Youth! With me, all things are possible!" We fail to understand what he wants or even to see his doings, although his acts are pregnant with meaning, and we may either translate them into a sordid chronicle of petty vice or turn them into a solemn school for civic righteousness.
Página 157 - Any person who violates any provision of subsection (1) of section 94.12 shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than three years nor less than one year or in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Página 18 - Since the soldiers of Cromwell shut up the people's playhouses and destroyed their pleasure fields, the Anglo-Saxon city has turned over the provision for public recreation to the most evil-minded and the most unscrupulous members of the community.
Página 41 - I don't know where I am going, follow me"; nevertheless, the stage is dealing with the moral themes in which the public is most interested. And while many young people go to the theater if only to see represented, and to hear discussed, the themes which seem to them so tragically important, there is no doubt that what they hear there, flimsy and poor as it often is, easily becomes their actual moral guide. In moments of moral crisis they turn to the sayings of the hero who found himself in a similar...
Página 23 - ... never so irresistible as when the heart is young. We may cultivate this most precious possession, or we may disregard it. We may listen to the young voices rising clear above the roar of industrialism and the prudent councils of commerce, or we may become hypnotized by the sudden new emphasis placed upon wealth and power, and forget the supremacy of spiritual forces hi men's affairs.
Página 186 - To fail to provide for the recreation of youth, is not only to deprive all of them of their natural form of expression, but is certain to subject some of them to the overwhelming temptation of illicit and soul-destroying pleasures. To insist that young people shall forecast their rose-colored future only in a house of dreams, is to deprive the real world of that warmth and reassurance which it so sorely needs and to which it is justly entitled...
Página 41 - There is no doubt that we are at the beginning of a period when the stage is becoming the most successful popular teacher in public morals. Many times the perplexed hero reminds one of Emerson's description of Margaret Fuller, "I don't know where I am going, follow me," but nevertheless the stage is dealing with these moral themes in which the public is most interested.
Página 80 - Of all recreations, public dance halls bear the most direct and immediate relation to the morals of their patrons, and it is very much to be regretted that this influence, as at present exerted, is extremely destructive. This may be directly traced to three primary causes. First, the forming of promiscuous 1 FH Streightoff, in "The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America,