American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
The Manly Boy.

WHAT is it makes manly boy? 1t is
not size or weight, for there are some
large, heavy boys that are anything but
manly. We saw one once, a big, burly
fellow, about fourteen years old, with a
fist like a small sledge-hammer, and a
voice as loud, almost, as that of mule;
but we did not think he was very manly
when we saw him pick up small boy,
who was quietly playing with little
wooden wagon, and lift him above his
head, while he screamed in his ear as
loud as he could, and then set him down.
The little fellow was pale with fright
and cried; the big fellow laughed aloud,
and went his way, ha-haing as he went,
and no doubt thinking he had done
very fine thing. But he was not manly.
Nor does the power TO smoke cigars
without getting sick make a manly boy.
Some boys think so, we know. We have
even seen small boys, nine or ten years
old, pick up stumps of cigars which men
have thrown into the gutter, and puff
and stalking along, as if to say: Ladies
and gentlemen. look at US. We are men,
we are We smoke, and we don't get
sick" But they are not men.
A manly boy is one who shows some
good, manly qualities. We do not ex-
pect him to be so large as a man, strong
as a man, or as wise as man. But he
will be truthful, honest and well-behaved.
He will never speak of his father as
the Governor" or the "old man" nor
will he speak of his mother as the "old
woman" He will not be ashamed to
have it known that he loves both his
father and his mother; nor will he be
afraid of all the ridicule which silly boys
NAV heap upon him because of this love.
They may call him a baby" and say
what they please about beng lied by
his mothers apron-strings;" he does not
mind that, for he knows he is right.
He will never engage in low, mean
sports; he loves real sport, but will do
nothing for fun that he would be afraid
to talk about at the dinner-table. He
does not torment small boys, but is ready
to help them when he can His sisters
are not careful to hide their work, their
books, or their toys from him, lest he
should disturb or destroy them; he
would never think of that. He is care
full not to be greedy at the table, or rude
in company, but remembers that others
have rights as well as himself.
Does anybody say this is all very well
to talk about, but that no one ever yet
saw such bows as are here describedy
We answer "There are such boys, plen-
ty of them, and we have seen them
They are rs full of tun as other boys;
they equal anybody. at the different
sports in which boys delight; they swim
and skate, and play ball and roll hoop,
and run just like other boys; but their
behavior is gentle and kind.
These manly boys, when they grow up,
will make real men; they will be, in the
best sense of the word, gentlemen
C0ngreqdtionalist.
The other evening when Sixth
street father boxed his sons ears as
punishment for impudence the lad stood
before him and remarked: "See here,
father, l was reading this morning that
the drum of the ear is one of the most
sensitive things in the human system. n
sudden blow upon the ear is liable to
produce deafness, and the practice of
cutting children cannot be too severely
censured. 1t is but a relic of that dark
period when man with wart ON his
nose was pn. 10 death as a s0rcerer.-
Dan5ury Ne'cs.
Patient to doctors after consuiaa-
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