Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-22
Advice TO Old Men.
BY A BOY.

out AQVlce 10 boys SlaTeS me III
the lace. Old men write it, I s'pose.
Nobody else is capable of~giving ad-
vice to boys; Of course not They
know all about us, they do, cause
they've been there. Advice is good
thing to have, no doubt, and no one
should be without it; but a feller
don't want to be crammed with it all
the time, to the exclusion of all other
diet.
Now, old men need advice occa-
sionallv: but in looking through the
papers 1 don't see as they get it. 60
/ thought that would just write &
little advice to old men, myself, if
1 am not presuming too much (as
Aunt Chloe says), aud Ipresume thai
I am.
In the first place, you o1@ chaps
ought to get over telling how much
smarter boys were when YOU We're
young than they are now. You be-
lieve it yourselves, of course, cause
YOU We told it so often, but we boys
cant see it. We have notion that
boys are pretty much the world over.
Except some that are girls,y anc
one generation of them dent Icy over
another generation to an alarming
extent.
Only let you tell it, and yop could
out-run, out.juph out wtestle 'aSE
out-anything-else the rising genera=7
ton of to-day when you was a boy.
Grandfather, wEo has the gout and
half a dozen different kinds of rheu-
matism, is always saying that. I
heard him singing would were
a boy again. would he we're too ).
if / couldn't beat him running, and
flop him Oh bis back, side hold, l don't
want cent.
parents obey your children, but I
would suggest to fathers that they
give us e hearing occaslonallyA,on
matters in which we are the Snes
most interested. Don't make us go
and slide down hill when we want to
skate, and try to make preachers Of
us when we would much prefer to
run saw mill. This is fgurative
but guess you know what I mean
by it.
After giving us boys sage advice
about our conduct and how to be-
have, you old codgers ought to be
careful now you get to relating your
boyish scrapes to each other and
laughing over them before We are out
of ear shot. The other day grand
father read me a long lecture about
the right Of property, temperance
and Sabbath breaking.
That Eery night, an old crony Of
his came to visit him, and they had
a glass of punch together. They
thought / was asleep on the sofa, and
the way they run on about the fun
they had when they were boys togeth-
er. They told, all about robbing
Lyons melon patch; and it turned
out it was on Sunday night, too.
When I went to oed they were TAX.
ing their third glass Of punch, and l
don't know how many they had after
that. I know grandfather's rheuma-
tism was great deal worse the next
day, and he complained great deal
about his liver. Old men ought to
be very careful about taking too much
pinch.
have noticed old men hate to
give up that they cant stand so much
as they used to, or as younger men
can. They get mad if a feller like
me hints that they can't. We've all
got 70 play out some day, anl when
he feels he's losing his grip, why not
come down gracefully and aeknoNI-
edge the corn?
Nov. in the above remarks, don (,
mean any disrespect. like old men
in their pace, butt don't want 50
much Of their advice. Give the boys
acAance.