The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-11-11
wHAr ARE BoYs COOP roR,

The urchin who answers: They are
good 10 make men Of made an admir-
able reply. But the sort ofmon We are
to have in few years, dependent upon
the sort of boys we have now. A man
is but a grown-up boy. The present crop
Of boys contain some hopeful specimens,
who give promise of noble and useful
manhood. But it also shows a large
percentage of boys who must be recon-
structcd, before they can possibly de-
velop into manhood that can fiji any
honorable or useful position in society
Boys who shun or shirk useful work or
improving study, and spend their time
in idle dissipation or vicious activities,
can never become useful men. Boys
who, being obliged 10 do something for
their support, assiduously seek easy
work, are not hopeful prophesies Of
manhood. They will never amount to
much. When we see the tendency ofcity
boys, to be industrious only in playing
billiards. or baseball, or in some useless
and demoralizing pursuit; and the dis
position of country boys, to seek in the
city for easier or more respectable (?)
employment than the country offers, we
feel unhopeful of the future. 1t is from
these two classes that the constantly in
crcasing armios of sliyster lawyers,
quack doctors, poor preachers, hummer
politicians, drunken loafers, petty THEW
es, tramps, dead-bcats, ct id omni genus
are chiefly recruited.
Boys ifyOu want to be men of worth,
don't be afraid of hard work or hard
study.
''Liyes Of great men all remind you,
You can make your lives sublime"
Read the lives of the great men Of the
past and present, and emulate The Writ
ues and initiate the example of their
boyhood. DIR. Benjamine Franklin
went from a sOap-boiler's shop through
a printing-Ofiice, to fame world. vi de
and Immortal, by dint of industry and
study. What boys have done, boys
can do.
Having disposed of the boy question,
another of equal not to say superior
importance confronts us. "What arc
girls good for?" They are good to
make swee,hearts and wives of. Girls
were invenled expressly for those pur-
poses They have no other mission or
use in this world but to anuse the
Young men and comfort the old. Beg
pardon; they have minor, yet inde-
spcnsiblc duty connected with the pro-
duction Of the future crops Of boys. We
came forgetting this. Let us see, have
we forgotten anything else which might
be proiitably said on this subject? All!
Now we are reminded that girls are
good TO make women of; and, although
swecthcar!s and wives should be wOm-
en-, yet necd. not necessarily be limited
in their functions or ambitious to so
narrow a circle of duries. Women
some women-make excellent school
teachers, preachers, lawyers, physicians
etc. Some write books that are worth
reading, some edit news papers, some a
good many fill clcarkships in Govern
ment offices. Why come TO think, there
almost(wc arc not sure, but quite) as
many uses for women as men. This
being true, the girls are as important
factors in society as boys. Finally what
the women are to be, depends on what
the girls are. confess, with sorrow,
that the outlook for large crop Of no.
bic women, is not a whit better than it
is for a crop Of men worthy to be the
companions of noble men.