The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-08
Advice to Old Men.
BY A BOY.

cannot pick up newspaper without cad
vice to SBoys' STAKES me in the face. Old men
write it, I s'pose Nobody else is capable, OF
giving advice to; boys; of course not They
know all about u.s. they do, cause they've been
there. Advice is good thing to have, no
doubt, and no one should be without it; but
feller don't want to eicranlmedl with it all the
time, to the exclusion of all other diet.
Now, old men need advice occasionally; but
in looking through the papers / don't see as
they get It. So T thought that would just
write little advice to old men, myself, if am
not presuming too much, las Aunt Chloe says)
and 1 presume that 1 am. ~.
In the first place, you old chaps ought to get
over telling how much smarter boys were when
you were young than they now are: You be-
lieve it yourself, of course, because you've told
it so often, but we boys can't see1t.h We have
a notion that boys are boys pretty much the
world over, Except some that are girls and
one generation of them dom t.lay. oyer, another
generation to an alarming extent.
Only let you tell it, and you could ont run,
out jump, out Wrestle and out anything else the
rising generation of TO- day when you was boy.
Grandfather, who has the .gout, apdI half "a
dozen kinds Of rheumatism, is always saying
that. I heard him singing 81 would I'were
boy again." i would he were, too; If could mt
beat him running, and flop him on his back,
side hold, I don't want cent. -.
I would not go so far as to say parents obey
your children, but would suggest to fathers
that they, give us hearing occasionally on
matters in which we are the ones most inter.
ested. Don't make us 60 and slide down hill
when we want to skate, and try to make US
preachers when we would prefer to run saw
mill. This is ,fguratiye, but guess you know
what I mean by it.. S,a On go ~
After giving us boys sage advice about our
conduct, and how to behave, you old codgers
ought to be careful how you get to relating
your boyish scrapes to each other and Laughing
over them before we are out of ear-shot. The
other day grandfather read me along lecture
about the right of property, temperance and
Sabbath breaking.
That very nighEta cronE Eof his came to visit
hin, and they had a. glass of punch together:
They thought I was asleep on the sofa, and
the way they run on about the fun they had
when they were boys together! They told all
about ,robbing Lyons melon patch; and II
turned out il was on Sunday nightl. When
went to bed they were taking their third glass
of punch. and I don't know how many they
had after that. know grandfather's rheuma:
sism WIS asgreat deal-worse the next day, and
| he complained great deal about his liver
Old men ought to be careful about taking toe
much punch.
I have noticed old men hate to give up thai
they. can t stand soEmuch as they used to, or a:
young men can They get mad if feller like
me hints that they can't. We've all got to play
out some day, and when man feels he's losing
his grip, why, not come down graciously anc
acknowledge the coin? =
Now, in the above remarks, I don't mean any
disrespect. like old men in their place, bu
1 don't want so much Of their advice Give thu
boys chance. i.,..