Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-07-03
GENERAL.
Talk 40 the LiuIe shavers.
FEW WORDS WITH THEM, CONCERNING THE
FouaTH OF JULY AND ITS CELEBRATION.

FEW WORDS WITH THEM, CONCERNING THE
FouHTH OF JULY AND ITS CELEBRATION.
The New York World has a serions talk with
the little shavers," about the Fourth of July
and its observance. It says
Now look here boys-meaning you ''large
boys" who are in the Bible class at Sunday
school, aud sometimes use the money your IA
theirs give you to put in the contribution box in
buying cigars which make You i'll and lager beer
that makes you unfit for work-eyerybody knows
that some Of you have been saving up'-thats
the wayyou put it-for some time in order to buy
pistols and powder with which you intend to
raise Cain at four O'Clock in the morning Of the
glorious Fourth, and it is very we'll known that
about three hundred Of you have cannons and
intend to trot them out at the same time
Remember that when men go to bed they
commonly take OF their boots, and some of
them have bootjacks and big blocks Of wood in
their rooms Ii such men happen to be irritable
If it III touch and 80" with them AZ it il with
your cannOns-BOme Of you may never live to
see the procession next Thursday, for from
boot jacks to death there il but the distance OF
a secOnd-story window Can't you wait till a
fellow has had his breakfast, or at least, till he
comes down stairs to get it, before you make
the windows jingle with your pistols, guns, and
cannOnsl Perhaps You can't, but il you come
bowling and yowling about certain house
where a certain bald-headed old gentleman lives
you had better bring surgeon and coroner
with you; that's all.
Don't buy big crackers that make noise
like a pistol, for they are very dangerous, as
also are Union tOrpedOes," some Of which ex-
ploded down Nassau street last summer shat
tered house and killed several men. Speaking
of torpedoes reminds one of an evil habit which
some Of you as well as your sisters have ,contrac-
ted. On the Fourth great many large and
bald-headed men walk in the streets, and often
take OF their hats to wipe perspiraation from
their shiny pates, and then some Of you shy tor
pedoes from second-story windows 80 az to hit
the poor men plump on their bald spots. You
ought to be ashamed Of yourselves, but you are
not but you have fair warning that II you try
that experiment on a certain bald-headed old
gentleman he will march right into your house
and after that will not answer for the conse-
quences.
There are vicious boys who sometimes get you
little shavers to hold powder crackers in your
teeth, promising that if you do 80 they will give
you a whole pack they say they "know another
fellow who held one in his ear and it didn't hurt
him." Don't believe a word they say for if you
hold cracker of that sort-it isn't soda crack
er, mind you in your teeth, your eyes may be
put out, and certainly your shirt-bosoms will be
dir tied and your tace covered withburnt powder.
Don't forget and put lighted punk" in your
pockets, and never attempt blow on "sisser,"
which you know, is a fire cracker broken in two.
Do ut run away to see the fire works at night
for you are little and will have no show. You'll
get wadded in between two big men and two
ent tlrmous women in such away that you can nei-
Their see nor escape.