Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-11-27
TNuE nfANL1NEss.

Children are very apt to suppose, that
what is manly or womanly can be cut out
of cloth or leather; in other words, that
clothes, made in the fashion of those worn
by men aud women, will give some addition
al consequence to tho young who wear them.
| know a very little boy who took great sat
i,laciion in having loops sewcd to his socks,
so that he might draw them on like boots
are drawn; and tho eagerncss so common
ly displayed by children still young, to as
sumo the coat the cTavat, boots, etc, is hard
" less childish. Thus they show their child
ishness in their attempts TO be manly.
This however, would be matter of very
little consequence, if they were not apt to
lose sight, in this way, of tho essential at
tributes of maniness. To be manly is to
"dare to d." not to wear "all that may be-
come man" will give you my idea of
what it is for a boy to be manly, by two or
three Illustrations.
A boy of six years old was required by
his father to bring the cows home every
night. One dark, rainy evening, in the au-
tumn, just as the family had seated them
selves to their accustomed occupations, about
bright, cheerful fire, the father asked:
add you bring the cows home, my son "
'Yes, father" he replied; adding after a
moments hesitation, "but | did not put the
bars up
"Thcn go directly back again and put
them up" 1t was manly in this boy to con-
fess his omission, at the expense, which he
foresaw, Of a dismal trudgc through the
rain and darkness to repair it,"
know another boy, of nine years old,
who mounted one day in his fathers yard a
spirited horse, and was thrown almost i'm
lmedately. His father stood by looking
through window, but did not interfere
when he saw his son preparing to mount q
second time, He was thrown second time
"Tbrown again, my boy ?" he exclaimed.
"Yes, sir, but III conquer him yet"
A third time the boy mounted, and ther
made good his word, the horse yielded tc
!, him completely. This was a manly boy
OF another, twelve years old, it was told
me, that being ut large school in one oi
our cities, he was visited in his room by two
young men, half-a-dozcn years older thar
himself, who used very profano language
After bearing for some time what was high
| ly offensive to him, he said, "Gentlemcn
you must be so good as to abstain from thi,
language, or leave tho ROOM" They sub
mitted to the rebuke and remained. Thi.
was still higher kind of maliness.
twas true of another boy not so old a,
this, who had long been afflicted with dis
eased and helpless leg, that being told, ono
Sabbath morning, of the surgeons decision
to amputate it, he said, "Then | will have
it done Immediately, before mother comes
home from church, that she need not know
anything about it" and it was done immedi
ately.
If you consider these as fair illustration
of my subject, you will admit that the man
illness exhibited by these boys could in NJ
case has been enhanced by any fashion O
garments.
| beg you to observed, that the terms
man and woman, manly and womanly, il
theirproper and full import, convey far NOR,
than those of gentleman and lady, gen
tlemanly and ladylike. A true man and
truo woman will be gentlemanly aud lady
like, and great deal more besides. Their
are men and, there are so-called gentlemen
who have little or nothing that is mani.
about them.