The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-24
Advice TO Cid hEoa by G Boz.

can not pick up a newspaper with
out Advice 20 Boys" stares me In the
face. Old men write it, s'pose. No
body else is capable of giving any ad-
vice to boys; of course not They know
all about us, they do, cause they've been
there. Advice is good thing 10 have.
no doubt, and no family should be with.
out it, but a Teller don't want to he
crammed with it all the time to the ex.
clusion of all other diet.
Now old men need advice occasional
ly, but in looking through the newspa-
pers don't see as they get it. So I
thought / would just write little Advice
to Old Men myself, if am not presum-
ing too much, las Aunt Chloe says.l and
presume am.
In the first place you chaps ought to
get over telling how much smarter boys
were "hen you were young, than bows
are now. You believe.it yourselves. of
course. cause you've told it 80 p1any
times, but we boys are boys pretty much
lexcept some that are girls) the world
over; md one generation of them don's
lay over another generation to anv
alarming extent.
o ly let you tell it and you could out
jump, out-run, out-wrestle, and out any,
thing else the rising generation of to. day
when you "was n boy" Grandfather.
who has got the gout, and half dozen
different kinds of rheumatism, is ALWAYS
saying that. 1 heard him singing
the other day, II would l were q boy
again." would he were. i'll couldn't
beat him running, and flop him on his
back, sldeholt, l don't want cent.
wouldn't go 80 far as to say, parents
obey your children" but I would suggest
TO fathers that they give us boys hear
ing occasionally, OH matters in which we
are the ones most interested. Don't
make us go and slide down hill when we
want to skate, and don't try to make
preachers of us when we much prefer to
run saw mill. This is figurative, butt 1
guess you know what mean.
After giving us boys sage advice about
cur conduct, and how to behave, you old
men ought to be careful how you get to
relating your boyish scrapes to each
other and laughing over hem befare wear
ont of earshot. The other dsy grandfa.
ther read me long lecture about the
rights of property, temperance, and Sab.
bath breaking.
That night an old crony of hisn came
to visit him, and they had glass of
punch together. They thought / was
asleep on the sofa, and the way thew
run on about the fun thew had
when they were boys together They
told oil about robbing Captain Lymanis
melon patch, aud ii turned out il was
on Sunday night tool When I went
to bed they were taking their third glass
of punch, and don't know how MANY
they had after that. 1 know GRANDPA
theirs rheumatism was great deal worse
the next dey, and he complained about
his liver. Old men ought to be careful
about taking too much punch.
have noticed old men hate to give I'D
that they can't stand as much as they
used to, or as younger men can. They
get mad if feller like me hints chat
they can't But what's the uca of fool
ing yourselves We've all got to play
out some day, and when n man feels he
is losing his grip, why not come down
gracefully and acknowledge the cornf
Now, in the above remarks, don't
mean any disrespcct. like old men in
their place, but don't want so much of
their advice: Give the boys chance
Cincinnati Times.