Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-05
The First Pair Of Pants.

Have you seen the boy with his first
pair of pants9
Then you have seen a King an En-
peror! g Royal autocrat, who has reached
|. the pinnacle Of earthly felicity and beati-
tude, and who has, it would seem, moth
ing more to ask for.
era in his existence for long time
Mamma has promised him, if he will
only be g good boy, and not stick pms in
the sofas, and twist the cats tail, he shall
be put in long pants, just like papa's, in
the spring.
How much anxious thought the little
fellow has had upon the subject! Hew
he has Wakcned an hour caller mornings,
and figured upon the number of pockets
the wonderful garment would contain,
and arranged in his mind. how he would
make Ton my Jones stand round, for
Tommy's ma will not put him in pants
for whole year!
When the eventful time arrives i
which the pants are finished, the earth
| hardly large enough to contain our en-
| bryo young man.
How his eyes shine, and how his
cheeks glow! and he struts like pea
cock with all sails set, and thrusts his
arms to the elbows into the capacious
pockets, which will, in a short time, be
filled with a miscellaneous collection OF
Irvine, fsh-hooks, old but ls, nails, jack.
knives, whistles angle worms, spruce.
gum, bullets, hard shelled bugs, fragments
stolen cookies, and other articles usu
ally found in boys pockets.
| Ali the aunts in the house must ad-
mire him in his new toggery All of
them must kiss him, and shake him and
tell him he looks like man.
He will tuck the legs of the rev pants
into his stockings by the time he has had
them on an hour, to make believe the
stockings arc boots, and the streets are
muddy. He will sit cross legged, like
papa, and tip over backward in the vain
attemp. to put his heels on the table, like
| Uncle Jack does when heis reading and
smoking.
If you want to make him your mortal
enemy for life, insinuate that he is toe
small for pants, and call him the oaby
How his blood will boil! and how all
the revengeful element in his boyish
heart will come to the front, and he will
tell Tommy Jones that you are nasty
old thing! and he wishes you'd fall in the
| we'll, as Tower did.
| Among his young companions, the boy
with his first pair of pants is a general-in-
chief. He issues orders, which are
obeycd. The mud pie.making business
goes agreeably to his commands He
bosses the playing horse and "tag" pro
ceedings, and puts down the other boys
numerically, with the cry:
Don't mind them! They're only girls
in petticoats and gowns!''
To all the callers at his house, he saws
at once:
"See my new pants!'' and then he shows
the pockets, and stretches out his dumpy
little legs. and feels proud and happy in
a manner which will never come 10 him
again.
He wants to climbtrees, and ride horses
and stand on his head, like the big
boys, and if the knew pants continue in
tact for week, under the strain inflicted
upon them, then the cloth was genuine,
and the tailor was loyal to his prefes-
sion.
Never laugh at or ridicule the boy
with his first pair Of pants
If there is any such thing in this world
as unalloyed enjoyment, do not meddlc
with it. Let no scornful. smile come
over your face when you see the exulta-
ton OF the boy in his first pair OF pants
! The man who would willingly mar such
state of felicity, would steal the cents
off the eyes of his dead mother in-law.-
Kate Thorn, IN Ne,o York Weelczv.