The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-04-29
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"S Woie btoNo ~ u pVy 90 tOuk 10 ho
lives. He mst grow grey in the service Of
his master, and when his ttiastef's children
get old enough to exercise the prerogative
Of mastery, Tho white ten yett DID addresses
the veteran Uncle Tom of three Score and
ten as his boy. The title is not as inappro-
pirate as il at firsts strikes US. Slaves be-.
come men and women only in body. Slav.
cry fixes them mentally in a condition OF
perpetual childhood. There ore exception.
al cases, In which BY an unusual native
force some of the negroes siddicate thell
humanity, and achieve considerable manly
growth Of mind and character under all the
obstacles Of their condition. But the gen
efal fact ID that slavery accomplishes ito OBJ
ject, and the slaves at whatever age are only
children Of larger growth.
We have c!ass of free white boys In
mind. who ufs also boys for life, and we use
Sambo by way Of illustration of their con.
di,ion. In some respects these Old white
boys are inferior to the negroes, for the lat.
ter get capital development of muscle, but
the old white boys are children both III mus.
Gle and mind. These old boys generally
stop growing at the age Of sixteen or eight.
cen, and however long they may live are
heser perceptibIy wiser or more manly than
then. They are old boys and nothing else,
and if they live to be three score and teii--
as they are not apt to-they never approdch
the second childhood, for they never leave
the first. We should say that about one in
twenty Of oil the young boys become old
boys. Perhaps the proportion in cities ant
crowded towns is larger, for there the facii.
ties for dwarting the human growth are easy
of acc SIS and are freely used. Let Us trace
the process by which old boys are made.
When the lad begins to approach the nge
Of pubcscence, and looks anxiously in the
glass for the first down which betokeDs the
growth Of manly visor, he feels new am.
bilion; he wants to be man at oncs. Tn.
fortunately too many of the examples OF
manlness about him ere not good models,
and the means he uses TO stimulate tie
growth Of manhood only stint aha circum-
scribe it. His first aspiration is the cigar and
the quid. Nobody that cdnnot smoke and
spit dirty comes up t. his 6tahdard OF maili.
ness. Little tippIing fellows naturally from
the associations Ne falls Into, and If he has
no parents to look after him-as few boys
have now days., POOR fellows!-he spends
His evenings In the saloons and streets, and
goes late to his Bed. 1t needs only one
bthef vlct; the premature exercise and terri
BILE pereersiGn Bf 4 natural instinct, to make
the dwarfng process sure thing. Let the
lad Just approaching his first manhood fall
into this easy succession of small vices. and
his body, mind and soul will certainly stop
growing, and he, will be bit stunted, half.
developed specimen Of humanity all his
days. There is no tiore melancholy spec
tacie than the young man who Is thus check
ing his own development and booming him
self to eternal botho6d. This perverse
habit of life once fixed, is seldom broken
up, aud If it is there is no complete recove.
ry from its blighting influence. 1t makes
its mark indelibly. These fast boys, who
think that manlness lies in the imitation OF
the beastly vices Of tneh, will never know
much more than they do now. The frs. eff.
feet of their folly is to give them distaste
for eletutibg Pursuits and to tttake mehtal
e3etcise Wsatisome. The muscles of THEFT
minds become as h.bby and poweriess as
those Of their abused bodies. They aBan.
don every noble ambition; they are the mere
slaves of habit and passion; they lose all
self.control, and become the victims OF their
own passions dnd The passions Of their weak
associates.
Boys, it is yotr present mission to grow
to grow Bodily, in we'll developed and hardy
muscle, by free exercise in feats Of strength
agility and endurance-@to grow in mind, by
training yodfselSes Id aceurste knowledge
in I'LL the Brahches Of study which will de
velope utd discipline your faculties for the
work Of life. Don't try TO be men in any
respect before your time; il you do you will
certainly make yourselves b5f5 forbver.-
And above all, don't make the sad mistake
OF supposing that the vi % Of taen viii
make you rianly. Wait yUtr time, ind pro
pare for it, like sensible boys. You know
what we niean,. aid if you want to be rea
live meh, growing more manly the Longer
yoh live, you will take our advice. If 20,
don't, you will stop short half way betwee
,boyhood and manhood, ,,and,b he nothing bette
than stupid oil boys, all your aays--if 70.
don't kill yourselves outright in the process
Springfield (Mass.3 Republican. II :.
ORA farmer who had employed q greer
Emeralder, ordered him to give the mul
some corn in the ear. On his coming III
the farmer. asked: ' @'@s-'a+ 23' 3.
p "Well, Pat, did you give the corn!"
}, i"To be sure did" "sfais4 elf .,eaa
VI Show did you give it!"' ~ .tsRa
n"An sure as yez told me. nths eur. -.
| "But how much did you giver' o''