The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-06
The Young America in Various Situations

The Young America in Various Situations
When you see a boy coming down the
street with ball of cord in his hand
and look on his serious face like that
worn by the picture of an early Chris
tian father standing in the arena wait
ing for the new lion to be called to din
ner, it is a sign that if you just cast
your eyes upward you can see that
boys kite dancing nimbly in the air TO
the lascivious pleasing OF whole col
onv of telegraph wires.
When YOU see boy going along in
the merry, merry sunshine with his hat
in his hand, shaking his hair with a
pine stick to get it dry, now and then
leaning his head on one side, pounding
the other side with his hand and practi-
cally kicking his feet in the air, in des-
perate efforts to get the water out OF his
ears; or when you see him holding a
warm stone to his ear for the same pur-
pose, it is true sign that You may
think OF that boy, by and by, standing
speechless when his mother asks him
how his shirt came to be wrong side
out You must not run down the
street in the direction of his home under
the impression that the boy is being
murdered You can't kill boy with
skate strap. And in hoe signoes you
will know that boy has been in swim
ming when he should have been at
school, learning that twenty-six prepo-
sitiops are followed by the accusative,
all the way from al to ultra.
When you see boy about 545 p. IN.
with ink on his nose and the CRIME of
chalk on his hands. his hair disheveled
and the two upper buttons of his jacket
gone, his collar rumpled and his neck
tie twisted awry, and a suspicious look
ing flush on his face, you will know
that he was KEEP in" after school, and
vas tainted for the same by another
boy when he came out; and if you want
to know the rest OF it, it will not be
necessary to 90 into particulars, but
just ask him (which whipped" If a
joyous look of triumph dances in the
exultant eyes you will know that just
around the corneryou can find a boy
with bleeding nose and a generally
demoralized facade. But if the lad you
question looks downcast multis mum
lachrymis begins his Grafton, like Di-
vaticus, by saying; well, he was a
great deal bigger'n me-" you may
know that your boy got licked"
"Whenyou see boy with the pockets
OF his pantaloons bulging out until he
looks like great humble bee laden for
the hive, while he walks along, trying
TO look as thin as split lath and wear
ing profound expression of supernat-
ural innocence, you know without re-
ferring to this code of signals that boy
has been lingering in somebody's or
chard and doesn't care TO have undue
publicity given TO facts that only con-
Germ him personally.
When you see boy on the distant
hillside suddenly leap up into the soft
summer air, holding one bare foot tend
erly but firmly in the welded fingers of
both hands while he hops around in ir-
regular but excited orbits, at the same
time voicing his grief with wailing
shrieks, mellowed blythe sunny distance,
then, without going to the telephone,
you may know that barefooted boy has
trod upon the busy bee that nestled in
the perfumed clover.
And wherever and whenever YOU see
him, In mischief or out Of it-that is
just coming out of it or just ready to
get into some more; awfully bad, or
with many fearful failures and Disgrace
full stumbles trying to be good; forget
ting your commandments whichthunder
upon him by the hundred, well nigh as
readily and repeatedly as you forget the
ten that infinite wisdom has laid upon
you; in all his noise, his poor little
struggles temptations, triumphs and
failures, his piteous little troubles and
his fearful, honest penitence, in all the
lightness Of boys life, your heart must
grow mellow and tender for the little
germ Of manhood, 50 full Of wonderful
possibilities, so rich with seeds Of
strength that VIII ripen bye and bye,
for good or evil, as you walk and
live before the boy; even as you look
at him, remember what you were thirty
or forty years ago, and say, God bless
the boy. BHriagt0n HuWheye.