Connecticut western news., 1883-09-05
The Country Boy and Home Enter
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 The Summer season is over vacation in the most part is at an end, and the business world is again feeling the O. pening breezes of another year of hard work, with its accompanying successes and failures. The schools are open, the second class promoted into the first, and the graduates of last June, after enjoy ing the long vacation, are forming into line to pass the initial examination into life's realities. On this important issue; important not for its immediate results, but for the future of the generation which is to take the place of the present ; let us speak.
 The boy, who to-day is applying for position from which to gain bu siness footnO1u, IS Jne embryo Uf t44re-e4ator-- prise, success and failure of the coming centuries. But boy, and only boy, with all the youthfulness, the conceit, the enthusiasm of boy,-a boy as was his father,-a boy who must be ludu w 11dU GO 1O H1UA UuO OOJ1 hOn to educate him into future usefulness, and what means to employ to aid him in his evolu from minimizing child into calculating man ? These questions have puzzled and are likely to puzzle the best thinkers of to-day and of to- morrow.
 The city is the great vortex in the ris- ing whirlpool of boys. City boys will stay in the city, and country boys will come to the city. Into New-York, into Boston, into every commercial centre, pour an annual stream of boys,-boys in search of work. There is reasona- ble reason for the city boy remain ing in the place where his school days were passed, but why should the son of wel-to-do country parents forsake his home and join the immense army of city boys? There are, perhaps, two reasons for this juvenile exodus. First, the country boy, knowing little of city life; and what he does know of it, he sees magnifed desires to enter upon a life, which being different from his past experiences, he imagines to be much more preferable. Second, the country towns are more or less devoid of busi- ness enterprise, and consequently there are ln them comparatively few vacancies. This lack of business push is due almost wholly to the doings of the country buy CT, not generally to the seller. 1.-the coun- try citizen and his family will not SUD- port home enterprise, can they blame business for leaving their town? There was time when the country store held 8 goodly patronage of the village peo- pie, but to-day that trade branches out to the nearer cities. Not only do coun- try people trade in the cities for the larger purchases, but even common ne- cessities are largely bought in other places, at sacrifice of home industries
 Country stores have not variety of goods, "-says the country lady or gen. tleman, who depends upon the city for supplies. To certain extent we grant that you are right, but in more than half the cases the cause of your complaint comes from you rather than from the store-keeper. Country stores as well as city establishments are not run for fun. Can one expect the village merchant to carry an extended stock, with limited demand for the goods? There are some people, perhaps right in Canaan, who really do not know of the value of the goods and the bargains to be had in their own village stores
 There are few towns where the people take pride in home enterprise, whose stores do not contain fairly well selec ted line of goods, and what they do not have in stock the store-keepers vii gladly procure for their customers, and at 8 price as low as one can purchase the same goods in city. By patroniz ing the village stores, or ordering goods through them, one gives his town fi- nancial benefit, which indirectly comes back to his own interest.
 For the sake of the boys, for the sake of the enrichment of ones town, suppor the home industries True the city has more vacancies for boys, but there arc more boys to fill them. There are ma ny boys for few places in the city ant few boys for few places in the country It is possible for boy to rise higher 1T the city possible somewhat in tn, sense that every boy has chance to be come President. As things go now even with the lack of country enter prise, the country town offers the bette opportunity for the boy who is read, for the business treadmill It is har, pull for him, at best. Plenty of room a the top, but every boy has not the abilit to reach the top of business success The ordinary boy, and that class con stitutes great majority, must do tn business of the world. If he is coun try boy, the country has the greates right to his services. If he is a cit boy, the city can claim him first ; if can give him no room, then he mus forsake the brick walls for the opel fields, and perhaps it would be bette to choose the open fields, or countr, store, even If reared under city infiu ences. A boy from the country has very poor chance in the city, particular ly if he must depend upon his own ex ertions for support. The city boy, witt a city home and father to aid him, ca1 work for less than it takes to live; ani