Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-04
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id you ever see a boy?

] Did you ever see a boy?
1t is a foolish question to ask, but there
| are people who never did see a boV,
though they are mostly blind. A boy is
an interesting study. When bov is lust
beginning to bud into goslinehood. and
| there is a fuzzy substance beginning to
make its appearance on the top kiver of
| his mouth, that looks some like mold on
a 81 lass Ofielly, and he has got sick of go
| ing to school, because his girl has moved
out of the ward, and he don't want to
form a new attachment, then he begins
| toput up a job to clerk in a store, or be
teller of Il bank-that is, to tell whether
man he is sent to with draft paws it-or
get some situation where he can be down
l-town. Through heinfluenee of his faith
er he secures a situation, and then he is
/ the happlest thing that ever wore pants.
He has sixteen dollars and seventy-five.
cents saved up, when he takes his situa-
ton, and he proceeds, in the most meth
OdlcIal manner, to spend it. In two
weeks it is gone, for lunches and neckties
and billiards, and then he borrows four
dollars of his mother, to be paid out of his
first months salary. When he takes his
situation he imagines that it is a moral
| impOssibility to spend his salary, though
he thinks he will give it as close call as
any young man ever did. He looks with
scorn upon the boys who carry lunch
to the store, and he goes out at noon to a
restaurant, orders frogs hind legs, and
fried oysters, and chews toothpicks all
the afternoon. He will look out of the
door of restaurant for ten minutes be-
fore he goes out, waiting for some girl to
come along that he knows, so she can see
him, and notice with what an air of over
feeding he walks, and he will lift his hat
to her as though it panied him. And then
he will take fresh toothpick out of his
pocket.
The thing goes on for a month, and he
is a bigger man than the President
Then there is a tide in the affairs of the
young man. He draws his seven dollars,
his months salary, and begins to figure.
He tries to make that seven dollars ill the
vacancy caused by departure to better
land of his sixteen dollars and seventy
five cents, and the four dollars he owes
, his mother, and sees, after much careful
tinanciering that the remaining three
dollars has got to last him for the coming
month. This is the turning point in his
business career. If he makes up his mind
to brass it out, and borrow money to put
on style, and buy frogs legs, then he is
gone. But, if he says to himself, f'LOok-
| a-here, John, you have got to come down
to paving basis, and lay up some of
the three dollars, - then he is as good as
made. They don't all do it, and that is
the reason we have so many defaulters
and things. These -defaulters and en-
, bezzlers were all boys once, that used to
eat frogs hind legs and chew restaurant
keeps working on them till there is moth
, ing too good for them.
But after boy has made up his mind
! to economic, and take a lunch to the
! store from home, his trouble is not all
over. 1t takes him long time to get so
Z he is not ashamed of his little lunch. He
! will sit up nights to think of some method
= of Disgusting, so it will look like something
' else. He will have a tin thing made thar
!. | looks like an album or prayer-book, that is
! in that until somebody asks whyhe don't
carry his dinner in basket. That breaks
his back. If he is in a store, he will
> take sheet of wrapping paper home ,and
will work an hour to do his lunch up in
!, | it, so it will look like a packa ge of lace, or
L dry goods, of some kind. He succeeds,
. in measure, but occasionally a tell-tale
I dOughnut will send grease through the
, paper, and a dog will smell the sand
i wich inside, and follow him block with
; his nose on point. Then the boy will
: DISCARD the package business, and swear
. eternal vengeance on all dogs. Then he
Il will have an inside pocket made in the
tail of his coat, and he will carry his
! lunch there. secure from the gaze of the
ID multitude, until some day, when he is
walking down street with his good girl,
, who has met him purely by accident, he
e will slip down on the ice, and set on s
nice piece of mince pie that his mother
: has put in the lunch. He walks, aftel
n that, as Though he felt that the pie was
A. dripping down his trousers, and excuses
himself from his girl, saying he has gOi
ID to go around block to keep an appoint
1, ment, and when he gets out of sight N
r. will look himself over to see if his lunch
it has got out of his pocket, and probably
lie he will swear a little. Then he thinks.
l. Here is another turning point in his
7e career. If he makes up his mind tha
m from that time forward he will carry hi;
" lunch openly, so that anybody can SCI
that it is a lunch, then his character Is
Id fixed, and he at once becomes boy tina
e. it will do to tie to, and his salary will b.
raised right off. When the boy gets s.
n that he is not ashamed of lunch, he ha
ut | achieved a victory. They do not all ar
ic rive at the point, but some do. There ar
ds boys to-day in Milwaukee who have beer
m harassed by that poor little house-mad
lis lunch, for years, and they are as sensitiv
IT | over it to-day as they ever were, and pro
tie bablv they always will be, and they vii
never amount to enough to put in tea.
Bows, if you are ashamed of your littl
nd lunch, swear off now. 1t is a badge o
honor. Any business man would glV
H. more for a boy that would have sign o.
p, his lunch basket, "This is cheap" thai
no for one who would hide his midday mes
1t- in his vest pocket, or stand off restaul
1T ant for the price of a meal, or who woul
", 90 to a beer saloon, and buy nickle'
ite worth of beer, and breed a famine at
he free-lunch counter. Business men al
Sc not blind. They can see when a boy
to true and square and honest, and none al
i'd, more so than those who take their lit
IL. lunch in their hand and bear it proudly
le- and those are the ones who are not a
ey ways running i'm debt for everything
from billiards to neckties. Be econom
I'd. cal, pay for what You get, and if yO
ill can't pay for what you want, don't loo
m. at it; don't be ashamed of anything TIL
he is honorable, aud when some of these o
Iat fellows who are doing business to=da
.is- pass in their chips, and are laid beneat
the lilies of the valley, you young rooster
,tis will be mighty apt TO be up on dec
where vou can take command of the bus
,ed ness ship, and steer into port.
You hear the old man !-Peck'S Sun.
or DO Indians swear!
This is Il curious question, and the Al
av syver nv Mr.. Schoolcraft should put Il