The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-05-11
flisfellaaeous.
SWHAT SHALL BE DONE
WITH OUR CHAKLEYf,,

Set him to work. t'Twenty devils en-
ploy the man who does not employ him
SELF says aSpanish proverb; and boys
are no exception. They have supera-
bundance of animal life, which is always
boiling over, and it must run into one of
two b snnels,-the channel of mischief
or the channel of use. And it depends
altogether which channel it takes as to
which one of two types Of character will
be found in manhood that Of shiftless-
ness or that of thrift $780,
4 One hundred miles from Boston, more
or less, is the village in which reside the
families of Doctor ,Pillberry and Farmer
Bloomfield. Doctor Pillberry had seven
boys, who became very decided charac-
tiers, and were very much ssdeveloped"
and progressed" The Doctor was cali
ed early in the moraing to see his patients
and returned late at night and the boys
out of sch ,ol-time had abundant leisure
aud opportunity to seek seven other spir-
its like themselves, and hang about
stores and taverns, lounge in the streets,
learn to fight and swear, and get down
the gun and trample the clover to blow
bluebirds and robbins in peaces. The
bloomfield boys were kept at work ON
the farm when school was not in, except
when holiday came round, such as tae
election and general training days. At
first they thought it rather hard. aud they
quoted to thei, father the case of Tom
P lberry who had good time, and had
sach fl g chanc. to be somebody, willie
they were kept at work. Tom had time
allowed him to hunt and fish, skin live
GELS, stone windows, rob orchards, steal
melons, torment the cat, shoot at marks,
smoke cigar, and all such pleasant pur-
suits and recreation while the Bloomfield
boys had to drv cows, dig over potato
patches, and do the like tedious and vul-
gnr things. 1t was rather hard, and
they wished their father had been doet-
=, minister, or a lawyer. However,
Farmer Bloomfield knew what he was
doing: and the boys finally learned to
love their duties, and took pride in rails
ng the largest potatoes and pumpkins in
the town; though it mortified them when
the Plllberry boys fpurished over them al
election balls and Fourth of Julys, where
the Pillberry always appeared exhaling
essence and strutting in buckram.
Thirty wears make wonderful shift
ing of scenery on the theatre of life, and
presto 1.-The Pillberrys and Bloonfields
are coming up now in the fifth act.
Exeunt ahe Plllberry boys and enter the
Pillberry men. They have exhaled all
their cologne and pomatum, and the
buckram has got all its stiffening taken
out, and they look draggled and forlorn
They have gone into business and failed
married wives and got families they can
not support, have not forgotten the sore
and the tavern-in short, hayed 'pro-
gressed'' into general thriftlessness and
dissipation. They run in debt and never
paw, and never mean to; borrow, and
nc, err return; have added chewing and
drinking to their first narcotic accomplish
ments; are generallr loose in their habits
though sometimes very tight" The
Bloomfield boys haye gone into business
and succeeded; one of them holds high
Office in the State, and locks towards the
highest; and the chief enterprise of the
town depends mainly upon them. Aud
whenever anything is sta. ted requiring
perseverance hardihood energy, pubic
spirit, conscience, generosity, capital, peo-
pie always call first upon the Bloomfield.
This, we pledge our readers j. no fan
cy sketch, but chapter of history.
Now for the Improvement" of our
sermon, or story, rather, showing the
advantage ofgiviDg boys occupation.
First, it is the best physical educa-
ton they can have, giving them good
digestion, hard muscles and robust
frames: and you viii not be obliged to put
them on spare diet for dyspepsia, to send
them abroad to be turn eded blue in
water-cures, or put them on beef-tea and
toast-water at home. Era
Secondly it is best to keep the twenty
devils out. BY first bringing the opposite
virtues in; for then the virtues have the
ground by the ri ,ht of prescription, and
the vices viii be kept out forever by a
moral statute of limitations. So
Thirdly, they very soon learn, and in
the only way they ever viii. that life is a
serious matter, aud is not frivolity and
sad farce,-a thing which great many