Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-05-09

political economists and free-traders, but
not exactly as is measured in the Bible,
which teaches US to do unto others as
we would that they should do unto us
not grow rich and respectable BY cheat
ing or exploiting them.
Boys delight in worrying cats, hogs
and cattle with dogs, in setting dogs to
fighting in stoning and killing poultry,
in playing. cruel, practical jokes on all
men, but especially on drunken men, on
negroes, and on their teachers. Even at
college this juvenile propensity is fire.
quently INDUCED in at the expense of the
professors. Robbing gardens and orchards
is another universal amusement with
them They are the terror of the farmers
in the neighbOrhood of boarding schools,
and carry on open war, by night and day,
with the denizens of the nearest village. |
They are as quarrelsome and pugnacious
as dogs and strange boys coming to-
gether, instead of extending politeness
and courtesy TO each other, usually yinitiate
a quarrel, which is apt to wind up with a
fight. Bic boys delight in prosecuting
and torturing little boys, and setting
them to fighting To sympathize with,
TO help and assist the weak and suffering, /
whether human beings or brute animals,
is natural to men but human nature is
but half developed in boys, and they
often delight in playing cruel, practical
jokes upon the weak aud helpless. They
tryannize over their sisters, destroying !
their playthings, and teasing them in
every possible way, when they are quite
young, and watching their department in
society, as they grow older, in the most
suspicious wav; trying to require of
them, at all times, a staid and prudish .
demeanor, whilst their own favorites
among the ladies are usually very free in
their manners; for boys are shy and
sheepish in female society, and admire
those girls who are mosteasy ofapproach,
familiar. and meet them. in forming nc
quaintance, more than half wav. Their
first loves are often cunning old maids.
When a new scholar enters a boarding.
school, insteqd of welcoming him and
irving to make his time agreeable, the
other scholars devise al sorts Of tricks
TO persocute him and make his situation
as painful as possible
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Boys. in ! controversy, always get
the better Of men; they unite togothar
douhle-teams on them, fght unfairly.
and fight most effectively by playing
cruel tricks On our property or person in
the dark Besides, it IS bad enough TO
he overreacheI and ma,trcated by them
but still worse, TO he laughed at for ones
hy adult friends Nomatter
how bad, how mischievous, or how cruel
the urchius are, the world laughs at and ,,
admires their feats, provided they be
done in way Of fun and frolc. +
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ain early infancy girls and boys de- r
velop opposite traits of character. The b
girl is kind. merciful. gentleand humane.
whilst her brother Of the same blood and =
with the same training, begins to betray :,
opposite moral qualities. even from the r
cradle. Woman was sent into the world 7
on a mission Of mercy-to help and to b
comfort man and nobly and devotedly Ia
loes she perform her allotted task e
Nay, she does more FOR, by her associa- +
lion, her example and her precep.s, she $,
gradually moIlifes his hard, harsh nature, L
md makes him better being. Tt would !,
be well that boys were never separated h
rom their mothers and sisters. We "
hink day schools, where boys and girls
ire taught together, are much the best ST
schools. Refinement Of manners and of W
morals, delicacy, politeness, a general G.
oropriety of behavior, usually character :. cs
ze such schools. To refine either sex, ~
continual association with the opposite 81
ex is necessary. We do not like public b
schools for boys but We have "a
perfect horror of girls boarding oI
chools. The bread-and- butter misses
Usually return home conceited, awkward, u, n.
coarse, masculine and hoydenish, all Tor -,
he want of that delicate reserve which T.
S begotten by association with males m
t takes two years at the mothers apron sh
tring to wear off the i'll effects of the ht
and restore the natural,
oft and gentle manners Of the girls. W
But it is not only the manners and h,
morals of boys and Of men that are i'm p,
roved BY intercourse with women. In TO
most practical matters of life, man needs
.er counsel, for she has more of prudence an
nd caution, nicer instincts, more intuitjve Su
agaeity, better Judgment, and more wis m n
ON than he. She exercises great in VI VI
uence in all human affairs, as we'll public On On
s private and were she not thus gifted ia
instead of being a helpmate, she wODld tn
e curse to man. We doubt not that re-
be highest practical wisdom in the con- in
net of human affairs can only result tn
rom the union and interfnsion of the sh
lale and female mind Man and wife to, ~,
honld be, and we really believe usually PJ
re, one intellectual being.
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"The abolitionists of the North having
sctifed human relations at the South, so
II as race and color are concerned, may cia
nd time to look into the situation of
ommon laborers in free and competitive
,ciety. IF they viii do so, we promise an
lem a hearty and Jealous cooperation. Th
Negro bows differ very widely from m;
hite boys. They are much addicted ers
solitary stealing, but Etnever rob or steal Lii
IT mere sport, without hope or expecta- to,
on of gain, unless led and commanded py
the miscbievous enterprise by some en- en-
hite boys. From mere inerts, from love Wis
basking in the sun and doing nothing, no
egro boys, so far as mischief aud cruelty na