The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-08
THEWRONG KIND OFBOY.

ever notice how some boys make an |
effort to get along in the world?
When a young man starts out IN |
life he commences by looking for a
position in which lie may earn his
daily bread and find clothes to cover
his nakedness. If he Is one of those
reckless, vagabond sort of boys
whose thoughts don't run a ROD
into the future, or hardly keep pace
with the things going on around
him, or has grown up about as
does lonely and isolated weed IN
the garden that obtains its strength
from a rich spot IN the ground and
draws nourishment from the better
fed plants and vegetables that from
their value receive care and atten-
ton, it is safe to say that he is one
who never thinks of what the next
day, month or year may bring forth,
and though nearing the age of man
hood, be is about as capable of ill
ling the position of man as a
mnley calf. Still, he makes a pre-
tense of caring for himself and
claims to be doing ali in his power
to get along in the world. Such a
boy starts out TO obtain situation.
He is reckless about his personal APP
pearance. His harris uncombed, face
and hands unwashed, and the gene
raj appearance of a tramp is his eX-
terror recommendation. If he ap-
plies for position, the man who
happens to need young man selZeS
I-;T, -, o-5 mn nlu6oc fbof bn bo1
rather employ digger Indian, it he
has got to reform and make clean
the person whom he hires. And
again, he will wander around for
days and weeks, hanging around
places where they have no more use
for a boy than a dog has for two
tails. He spends one day l0afing
about the depot, expecting some one
Will come around and offer him a
fine situation at 81 per day and
board. He will stand around and
talk with the baggage man at the
depot, or help the lunch counter
clerk carry in coal for his dinner,
and in the afternoon he loafs around
some more and scrapes the acquaint-
ance OF the brakeman in the yard,
and helps him to couple cars
and unload freight, while the
brakeman fills him full Of taffy
about how easy it is to get soft
thing working for a railroad COM
pany. The next day he spends at
the police court listening to the
cases tried, loafs an hour or two at
the post-office, awhile in billiard
hall and winds up with a visit to a
saloon. All the time he is fairly
aching to have some one give him
position and he curses the country
where young men can find nothing
to do. When you see that kind of
a young man you set it right down
that he don't amount to a row of
pins. Men don't hire boys from un-
der the caves Of a saloon, and when
they are looking for a young man to
do a job of work they do not go
through the crowd loafng around
the depot with search warrant,
and pick out The dirtiest young
tramp among the number. No
one ever heard of a man who wanted
to hire young, bright, active, STIR
ring boy, with fire in his eye, energy
and vinegar in his constitution,
looking over the Ioafers at the
police station for such boy. At
such places all the boys you would
find would only have energy enough
to masticate a chew of tobacco, or
hold down a dry goods box on a
street corner all day, and swear
through the evening about the
cursed country where there was
nothing for boy to do. When a
farmer comes into town looking for
a boy to help at the spring work, at
SIS per menth and board, he does not
look through the corridors of the
postoffice and pick out the slouchiest
looking loafer in the crowd. or hunt
up a billiard hall, and hire the boy
who can "pocket" the most balls at
pool, or drink the most beer.
Though a boy may wear ragged
coat, or his pants may be out at the
elbows because he has no one to
mend them, it is no reason why he
should not be trump, and take the
highest trick. Many a boy with
holes in his boots and his coat torn,
but whose face and hands were
clean, his eye bright, and his system
full of energy, has carried off the
persimmOns when other and better
dressed boys have stood around with
their hands in their pockets, ours
ing their luck. But the boys car
make I'D their minds that while {
business man sees them lOa1ns
around depots, police courts, tht
postoffice or street corner, he woult
not hire any one Of their number t.
carry swill to his pigs. That's tn
way business men feel about it, ant
it is time the boys knew it. Tn
cleanest, brightest boy is the on
who catches on every time Peck
San.