The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
For the Bulletin.
" OUR BOYS"

While car loads of trunks with their costly
contents are being whirled OYER the railroads
leading to the Meccas Of fashion; while market
able daughters depicting the purses of fathers
who ought to be wiser, and of mothers whose ex-
perience of life should teach them their own
grave responsibility in the training OF future
| wives and mothers; while butterfly girls are
being "pinned back" and taught that the chief
end of woman Is q rich marriage, and in the
meantime are getting all the CAKE while " our
boys are OBJ ICED to take their bread often with
out butter, we will ask why, in the one case, pa
| rental indulgence Is taxed to its utmost limit,
while in the other certain species OF neglect Is
practiced without any apparent consciousness on
| the part of those most concerned that they are
perpetrating an actual injustice.
s'Our boys OF the present generation form a
strong and important element in the social and
political future OF our country. They who are
now working in store and counting house-these
Young boys torn by stern necessity from The breast
of their alma mater, before their minds have been
| nourished by that generous fountain, of which
she is never niggard-before they have been
| streng hened by the strictness of scholastic
reasoning, and rlpened by intercourse with the
world, are many OF them destined to fill the
grander positions and occupant )ns OF mature
Iife and to weld influence, great in proper ton
to their own deve opement and progress-their
own self-sustained independence, which once at
tanned, and only then, permits them to change
themselve.. Only whatever they do, let them
consider their calling the first in the world, and
bend the best energies of their minds to raising
themselves to the dignity OF success.
cheerfully and bravely, taking hold of their daily
| tasks with strong energy, lightened by the
hope of promotion and made easier by the ex-
pectation of their monthly reward, which comes
to them in the shape of a modest salary, which,
in many cases, to certain knowledge, is taken
| home and shared with their mothers.
The dear boy looks little shy as he presses
! his precious gift into his mothers hand and
| whispers Buy something for yourself lam
ma" Oh! farer than the wonderful Aripo pearl
in the action of her boy the beauty OF devotion to
herself-the combined motive of love and duty.
She knows the selfsacrifce it has cost she
| knows that this Is but the promise OF better
things, and she is proud-who can blame P
of this love which is so beautifully chivalrous.
In ante-bellum days young men were brought
| up with an undue reverence for tradition, which
| taught them that gentlemen's sons must neces-
| sarily pursue one of the learned professions.
| To- day the word gentleman means any body.
The word has lost its arbitrary sense, and is ap-
piled indlfferenty to the scion OF the broken aris
| tocracy of the South-Mr. Disraeh has thus dig
nified the former lords of the broad lands OF our
| now desolated country-and to the sable legisla-
| tor who carries state papers conspicuously peep
| ing out of his pocket, which he can not read. 1t
will be well for the young generation to preserve
a eacred reverence for those from whom they
Justly inherit traditions of honor of noble recti-
tude, of unblemished truth, and of a refinement
| and culture of which their wealth was but an
adjunct; it will be we'll for them to bear in mind
that neither poverty, nor he necessity OF actual
labor can take away their right of gentle birth,
and that honest labor digni6es man. whether he
be prince or peasant; that they can not battle
with the inexorable law Of necessity which COM
pels them to work; that they must turn to, with
| brave, untirlng energy, and set out with hearty
| Willingness to climb the slow and arduous road
that leads to honest fortune. They can afford to
| work wbeI the sons and daughters Of the n0u-
| redur RICHES de by them ON horseback and in
carriages, they can smile at the snubbing which
| they sometimes get from these would be aristo-
| Gratis, whose innate vulgarity blinds them to
| their own shortcomings, AID creates for them
tinseed, fictitious position in so-called society
| (?); position so mainly dependent on their money
| that at best it must be one of uneasy tenure
Ii there be powerful radiation OF influence
| from this pd,renu element, there is, on the
other hand very potent series OF causes grow
| ing out of the downfall Of our best families
| Energe and industry, the creative and inventive
faculties which lay dormant in ante. bellum lux
ury and Incidence, are now brought forth by an
inexorable necessity which cries loudly for bread
and butter. We see artists, writer's, priests and
actors springing up in our home circles, while
the store and counting rooms are forming future
business men who will WELD potent an in
fiuence in the community. Have our older
merchants and business men ever given q
thought to their own responsibility towards the
youths in their employ? Will they extend to
them that sympathetic AID WHICH reaches tneIn
in the most effective FORM through word of
kind rcouragement or instruction which puts
new life into the young hearts and stimulates
them to renewed endeavors to render their best
services to their employers?
"Our boys" do not necessarily belong to one
class they may be found in humble spheres,
doing their duty IS bravely and honorablv, and
little Peter, who cries out Picayune, Times!
BULLETIN! has perhaps as fair chance as the
others to reach the topmost spoke of fortunes
lrut al Enrtu nat trio
nothing in our great Republic. Tanners and
tailors have won TIE golden apple. The tailor,
great and honest man, has laid him down to rest
in hallowed grsve-the tanner has not yet put
enough golden apples into bis pockets. $50 runs
the world away"
Roll SULPHUR, LARD On, ETc.-James 6.
Clark, 62 Magazine street. has now on hand and
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