Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-16
CORRY O'LANUS'S BOY.

care OF Them nut they are always IN |
want of something.
One Of them wants an Astrakan cloak. !
Another wants a silk dress.
4 small party by the name of The
wants an over coat, a pair of
boots, a velocipede, humming top, a |
steamboat that winds up and will go
itself, a black and tan dog, drum,
several picture books, o pair of skates,
a big wagon, box Of doininoes, n
three bladed knife, ball of cord, a
iewsharpy and several other articles
which [ have forgotten, but which he
promises to remember for me when I
have got the rest
They have all promised to wait till the
holidays.
Which will he here in three weeks.
No postponement on account of the
weather.
The holidays recall pleasant reminis-
cences of your youth when candy was
a joy and the theatre paradise.
When you believed in Santa Klaus
and found the height of happiness in
the possession of top boots and a new
sled.
Don't you wish you were boy again
/ don't.
Boys, the present style of boys, are
aft lotion.
They make the street hideous, knock
cats in your eye, keep you lodging
balls, and flying rocks which the play
fully cast at each other build bonfres
in the streets, yell like young Indians,
and are perpetually on the point of
being run over.
There weren't such boys in our day,
were there
I haveb been assured by.several middle
sged and elderly gentlemen that boys
are not what they used to be.
Which leads me to the reflection
have we worse boys or more neglectful
parents ?
L sometimes tell Themistocles when
he has done something wrong, which
happens about twice a day, that shall
either buy rattan or send him to the
Truant Home.
These threats do not make any last
ing impression uron him. Still he evil
IDENTIFY reflected on them, because he
asked me one day, when he was in a
thinking mood, if the boys in the
Truant Home had rice pudding for din
ner.
He don't like rice pudding, so I told
him that they had itevery day and twice
on Sunday.
This kept him good for as much as
half an hour.
You have to be strict with children.
1t is parental duty.
With boys particularly.
I have come near thrashing that boy
of mine several times, and I have told
him if he did it again [ would.
Mrs. O'Lanus has observed that if I
did my duty by Themistocles I would
whip him oftener.
[ think I should if I didn't feel that
it would hurt me worse than it did him.
That is just how selfish parents are.
They don't consider their neighbors.
Every other man thinks his neigh
boris boy is the worst boy that ever
was, and ought to be thrashed, sir,
every day of his life, and if he was his
boy he would do it, sir.
But somehow, when he has boy of
his own, he don't do it.
Perhaps if they were to change off
boys to be thrashed justice might be
done the subject.
Then the next thing would be the
pas would be thrashing each other.
If you don't understand how it is,
get boy of your own and try it.
Girls are not so much trouble, till
they grow up, and then you can put
them off on some other man, who will
think you are bestowing happiness on
him, and won't find out his mistake
until Il is too late.
Having been taken in that way your
self, youhave no conscientious compunc-
tons in retailating on some unsophisti-
Gated youth, as you were yourself at
the time.
BRIDGE OR Tunnel. The Philadel-