The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-02-06


There are boys and boys. Some like
and some don't. l don't like BOYS who
call their sisters "old-frowS heads.r any
more than 1 like girls who call their broth
ers - little mummy chogs." don't like
boys who snarl and tease over every thing,
be IL OF small or great importance. that
their sisters may have. Another kind OF
boys don't like are the whistlers who try
TO scare grown people by putting their
fingers In their mouths aud making hor-
rid mot :. havid." II you pleased shrek
of a whistle verify believe there are
boys who. so grea. is their penchant for
this peculiar way OF letting people know
that they are around" would whistle
with their fins gers to catch the undertaker's
attention, If, at the funeral OF some near
friend even, they should for some reason
desire the neutrality-suspicious. OF that wor-
thy. had been totally Ignorant of the
fact that each whistler has bis own ind-
vidual whistle by which he Is known 10
his associate. till SAINT told me of ii the
other day, and-horrors, what n shrek
he made showing me show his whistle
VENT" IL was the first time | knew he
had one. He said IL was very useful III he
wanted any thing important las If every
thing wasn't important that boys have to
do with y and any boy Of his acquaintance
happened to be within hearing. But
when SAINT told me about johnny Barton's
getting uicked so neatly the other night,
snckered right out-couldn't help it.
Johnny. You know, was sailing down
Thaxter Street, one evening about nine
o'clock, and all Of sudden he heard a
whistle precisely like Dakie Dunn's.
Now he wanted to see Dakie about going
10 Moss Brook a-fishing next day, so he
up and fingered back hi whistle. The
other boy sent back an answer, Just such
as was expected, and stopped Oh the side
walk for Johnny TO come where he was.
Ii was as much as q quarter of mile from
one TO the other, but the prospect of a
fishing excursion led Johnny on. and in
three or four minutes he got where Dakie
was. only il WASH Dakie but another
youngster that had picked up Dakie's whis-
Tie TO play II on the fellers WITH" he
said. oh, but wasn't Johnny Barton mad,
though, Ought to have seen him color
up when that hectoring Rad Thorndike
put IL TO him next morning. But SAINT
says they cant come that trick on him
Without getting red pepper in their eyes,
told him 'twould be too bad 10 put IL I'm
Dakie Dunn's eyes. If he should do IT. they
were so red already. SAINT has great dis
like for that Dunn boy: wonder why il
isy To be sure. that Katie Dunn (by the
way, wonder if she's the same person as
haty-did, she-did-I've heard some folks
say Katie Dunn, she DONE to be sure,
say, that Dunn girl has some attractions
for SAINT, and although she's Dakie's own
cousin, I've heard there's been some hard
scHDfing over her between the two BOYS.
May not be so. though; l nev~ heard
SAINT speak about IL; yet 1 know he has
some thing laid up agin" Dakie, as Aunt
Sairey Ann would say. or he wouldn't
talk as he does about him.
After this inexcusable depression let me
say some thing more about BOYS in gene /
raj. Truly, don't like the majority of
boys. and IL is as well confessed as con-
cealed. 'Tisn't strange at all that there |
are so many coarse, unmanly men. To |
my thinking. the boys need woman's !
influence more than any thing else. They |
are out in the streets and at places of OBJ |
lectonable amusement, when they should !
be where the unsafe allurements of such |
places are not | mean in homes that are
homes. where the influence for good Is so I
magnetic that the boys cannot go else /.
where. There are places called homes l
where nothing Is pleasant, and I don't |
blame the young creatures for longing TO \
escape Them ~ j. because there are so l
many OF this ss'ii OF homes that the streets l
and the low useaters and gaming houses /
have such a large juvenile patronage. So \
ysu see that il l. the parents who are most |
censurable. Let there be a perpetual sum-
mer home, and defy the whole outer world |
to take your boy Tor girl) from it \; but let |
there be an ice-chest all over the house. /
and defy you to draw your boy from the |
outside world back into il.
This last IL oneof my sober periods but |
1 feel that, laugh and Joke as may. there 1
are some serious things that ought to /
say, and so l say them.-Proridence Sun
day Dispatch.