Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-03-11
Oh Z a8 dallDR3M,
True Manliness,

QhilI lren are yel " apt to suppose,
/ ~; vi bat is manly Or womaniy can
ut Of cloth, on leather; in other
words, that clothes made in the fash
ION OF those worm by men and wo-l
men, will give SOM e additional con-
.sequ& ee to the young who wear
them. [ know a yery little boy, who
took great satisfl ction in having
loops sewed to his socks, SO that he
might draw them on as boots are
drawn; and the e4 gerness SO COM
monty displayed by children still
young ito assume t ecoat, the claVat,
boots, &c, is hardly less childish
Thus they show Il eir cllildishness III
their a ttempts to L manly.
This, however, you'd be a matter
of very little con4 sequence, if they
were IL BIT apt to lose sight, in this way,
of the essential attributesTof manli-
ness. To be manly, is to dare to
do" not to roar F'all that may be-
come d man" i kll give you my
idea Of what it is for a boy to be
manly, by two or three Illustrations.
A boy of six ears old was re-
quired by his father to bring home
the COWS every night. One dark,
rainy evening in t he summer, just as
the family had settled themselves to
their accustomed occupations, about
a bright, cheerful fire, the father
asked, sDid you bring the COWS home,
my son?" Yes, father he replied;
adding, after a mdnlent's hesitation,
"but l did not put up the bars 1t
was manly in this boy to confess his
omission, at the Expense which he
feresaw, of a dismal trudge through
the rain and dark hess to repair it.
I knew another bpy, of nine years
old, who. mounted one day, in his
fathers yard, Y Fry spirited horse,
and was thrown almost Immediately.
His father stood Hy, looking through
window, but did not interfere, when
he saw his son Preparing to noun a
second time. I'D was thrown a sec
ond time. NThro wn again, my boy"
he exclaimed Eyes, sir; but III CON
quer him yet A third time the
boy mounted, ami then made good
his word, the hof se yielding to him
completely. TIL S was manly boy.
( OF another, Twelve years old,iit
was tdld me, til lit being at a large
school in one of OUT cities, he was
visited in his 70 bm by two young
men half doze h years older than
himself. who useF very profane Ian
guage, After BID aring for some time
what was highly offensive to him, fe
said, eGentlcme4, you must be 50
good as to abst hin from this lar
guage. or leave my room They
submitted to Il be rebulle, and re-
mained- This WIS still higher kind
/ Of 1nanliness.
| It was true Of another boy, no so
old asthis, who had long been afflict-.
4 ed with diseased and helpless leg,
that being told, one Sunday morn
ing, of the surge Ions decision to am
putate it, he said, "Then | viii have
it done immediat ely, before mother
comes home from church, that she
need not know my thing about it; 7
( and it Vas done j Immediately.
YouIwill admit that The llanGnefs
exhibited by the se boy co lld in no
case hbyc been en- hancdd by the fash
ion of garments.
l beg you ID observe, that the
terms man and woman, manly and
womahly, in them proper and full I'M
port. convey far more than those of
gentleman and lady, gentlenaaly
and lady-liIte, and a great deal more
besides. There lre men, AID there
are s. -called gentlemen, who have
little Or nothing that is IL.anly about
them. l am SO Try that the terms
gentlemen and ladies, should be
adopted in preference to the more
Christian, the no$ler epithets of men