New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-23
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One OF the most agreeable articles in this
number is entitled satyrs and Sylvan Boys piece oi
bucoc Dutch painting in which the interior OF the farm
house is denoatcd IN natural oolos. Thcrc something
in farm life, according to the write, that fosters the
neroc that turns the whole viii towards effort, and the
whole soul towards endurance. The tough fellows who
were boys the farm are the men who now run the
world Their strong hands beat open every door Dis
iIic schools give boys the Kind of education that
makes ready FOR any ching The books in the cherry
bookcases the old arhouses of kind to develop
the best Of talents talent for using ones talents Here il
a portrait of the sylvan boy" as you sometimes
see Inn in actual life, but the genuine
specimen, we fancy, is not to be found every day.
l1n-5oys future fortune is secure, since he is per-
fecty acquainted with selfdenia and the art OF getting
along without THINGS. lie is used TO carrying the old
bu,hebaslet bottomed with and having slintcI*
that hurt his shoulders the hired man generally wants
the new one lie takes up with the old hoe and the
and most yilely-mg scythe. He is content 10 be the
raggcdest person aliyeIaggedcr than newsboys, beg
CARS or booblacs The coat he wears on rainy days is
a wonder, being mostly composed OF patches. Rain,
snow sec hail. rusty latches, spinters on gate-posts
and bars screy hooks iron rakctceth, and other coat
DESTROYING clements faImfe have each and al left
their marks upon If. When Eabexis says ragged as an
apple-tthcrer he employs true as well as picturesque
expression, for in applelicking the boys coat and
red flannel shirt leave tattels waving like ban
nerols from the tops of half the trees in the
your rags would whip You 10 DEATH is the com
mcnt OF that satyr the hired man. who works in
good clothes himself The boy OF the farm is so in
pressed with the necessity for carcfuncss and irugay
that be loses the bclwedse of the scythc Che Is sup
posed TO have lost il whcncvcrt Is gOne) he thinks he
has article of ineaGabe value and spends hours
in looking for AMI break plowpoint is in his
card heart SCATTERING event. When hc wants nails nc
searches for them in refuse boards, and il satisfied with
such ancient wIOu ghtTon ones rs are 10 ne gathered
from t walls of sheds and even those he fears ought
be- put the nahox, where they viii be Of USE and
not wasted nonsensically for 80 The farmer thinks II
this boy don't economy somehow, he will never he
able 20 earn living says the farmer. hald-hstcd
farmer is safe man TO initiate He il eacAponny wise,
without being b} any means pound foolish lie knows
how to accumulate stocks and bonds IA wei as cOcc-
tons Of wonout harnesses and wagon wheels. He IN
darstands the founding Of tie fortunes of large family
his sons will be judges, railway directors, bankers;
their sons, after Yale and Harvard, Will be
tourists in Europe and oungers at Saratoga and
their soms-lor so We Co-Wi4l be boys Of
the fam and children OF the district school
The influence OF driving oxtcam a means of grace
is often doscancd On in verse or prose, but no one
can deny that the writer has touched the matter with
needle in this racy paragraph:
The farmer prodctnod TO success in the world
for he il able - DO two day WORK IN one on occasion,
his vigorous carly efforts having given un an elasticity
OF constitution that enables MN 70 revive ihhe'L
alter exhaustion OScrN0rk and he has te power Of
continuous, logged application No one VIII linen irOiu
business who knows what II Is to pick stones
a tWclVc-dcrc bot "Wlcn WiiitcOak woods are eosing
gray robust east winds blowing. Patient aud
stt"n- rs u infused WIN o-ehs sirten j. me !ouih
WAC has learned TO drive oxen: j., X Ike wellIown
matchmaking wilt him. Driving ken viii make
stole phOs0l Of boy. they are uspthauiy dl-
cult manage; IL is impossible 10 back thc insanity 10
turn them, utter evaporation 10 hasten them; Inc oiy
thing they do with any facility Is 10 Stop yt they must
De- swaycd by tOuch iwKt The fiun long slender
bluc-birc CAD with leather lash. To ada - Their value
OF discipline, they have species OF ONNli-
cric about Them They like breaking ncap; and those
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following the boy about the Held Wiilc dragging viii
insist on following him around behind the drag when he
goes there 10 adjust anything which causes general
upsettlng. Furthermore, lie marches before them,
thinking Of other topics or perhaps following win
his eyes some neighbours carnage bowling down
the road, lac frequently discovers that the oxen
axe let far behind Lin ia tic field, where