The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-17

years, and when he finally sheds them,
 and his good wife overhauls them and
 makes them over tor their boy, there Is
 no way of disguising the fact that they
 are the same old clothes. Everybody knows il, and the boy who wears them knows t better than anybody else The other boys laugh al him. the big girls
 xiggle al him. and he feels as though II
 was great mistake thar he was ever born
 al all. and he wishes he could gel out of the world somewhere, and hunt rabbits,
 and never go to school again There Is
 no way to disguise an old suit of clothes
 that has been made over. The good
 mother may color them with blue dye,
 and think she has done her boy proud
 but the odor sf the blue dye. and the fact
 tha, |; will run when |, gets wes-and
 all boys clothes get we,-gives the boy
 away, and just as he thinks everybody Is
 deceived. and thinks he has got new
 suit. nght from taller, some big boy
 will ask him If his father has gone 10 bed,
 while he wears his fathers clothes. and
 then all the crowd laughs, and the
 crushed boy makes solemn VOW that he
 will murder that big boy, when gets able.
 The worst thing about the made over
 clothes. is having your girl stick up her
 nose at them. Every school boy has
 some girl he thinks of marrying. That
 IS, they do up 10 about fifteen years of age. There Is one girl iR the school who
 looks better to him than all the others.
 and he will carry her over mud holes, draw her sled up hill, and follow hea
 down to see that she does not tip over. O. to pick her up If she does. She may be
 homely as stone fence. and wipe her nose on her apron, and go barefooted in summer. and stub her toe nails of. and she may interfere. and have warts on het hands, and sore eyes. and she may ca, . onions. but she Is all the world to him The day that she lets another boy haul her sled to the top of the hill is dark day to him. and he wonders tha, light ming does not strike his Tixai. The de mon of jealousy enters his soul and he compels her to give up the brass ring he had gwen her. and which he got of the tail of an old dutch pipe that an emi. grant left al his house. The next day she lets him oary her dinner baske; home, and the sun comes out brighter and he gives her the brass ring again. and all is well. It is trying time when he puts on the new suit of old clothes and he wears them on the back streets until he gets courage to appear in them among his playmates. If his girl sees them, anc admires them, and does not ask any questions about his father clothes beins made over for him. he is happy, and the worst is over. Some of the bitteres, en- mites of the world have been engendered by well dressed boys making fun ot the made over clothes of poor boy. and we sometimes think the poor boy makes greater efforts than he otherwise woiic.. to amount to something. He does no, wish any harm to come to those who have made life burden to him. but when he sees one of his well dressed persecu,ors in after years. discharged from position for dishonesty. or lose the money left him by relatives. and be compelled to come down to patched pants and made over clothes. there is feeling in the heart of the poor boy who has begun to climb the ladder. that he don't care q continental. as he IS not to blame. 4 boy who IS well fixed, and can wear good clothes to school, cannot afford to make fun of poor boy who has to wear out aAtS t1AAt$A NtOhitCS- hiiC- 2ntll IIiakGS all things even, will some day change places with those boys. as sure as eggs are eggs, and the poor fellow that had oolors of patches on his pants. will come out all right, and have all the whole clothes that he wants. while the smart mutton-head who thought the clothes he worr wuuid make q maj, os hum. vii, ssI the day he will wish he had some of those old clothes to make over. The sufIennss of poor boy who has to skin along on revamped clothes of his father. and stand the gibes and jeers of thoughtless boys who are better fixed, are great. but the future always pays him tenfold for hs and this article is to brace up poor boys. who feel as though they never would get to the top, and show them that they are liable to take the cake. and shame well dressed school boys. so they will never again make fun of those who are poor. We presume Eugene Hale. who Is mentioned above, has Ii- tie satisfaction 10 this day. in inquirins around at the old home about what has become of certain boys who made fun ot him, and finding that the better they were fixed in the school days, the less they amount to now. Always have a good word for boy with patch on hts pants