The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-23

Variety of Meaning Ia a Variety OF
AetIonH

A Variety Of Meaning In Variety Of
Bwdde.
When you see a boy coming down the
street with ball Of cord in his hand and q
look on his serious face like that worn by the
picture Of an early Christian father stand
ing in the arena waiting for the new lion to
be called to dinner, 1t is sign that il you
Just cast your eyes upward, you can see that
boys kite dancing nimbly in the air to the
lascivious pleasing Of whole colony Of
telephone wires.
When you see boy going along in the
merry merry sunshine with bis hat in his
hand, shaking his hair with pine stick to
get it dry, now aud then leaning his head
on one side, pounding the other side " It'll
his hand and practically kicking his feet in
the air, in desperate efforts to get the water
out OF his ears; or when you see him hold.
ing warm stone to bis ear Tor the same
purpose, it is q true sign that you may
think OF that boy, by and by, standing
speechless when his mother asks him how
bis shirt came to be wrong side out. You
must not run down the street in the d.
rection Of his home under the impression
that the boy is being basely murdered.
You can't kill a boy with skate strap.
And in hec .signo you will know that
boy has been in swimming when he should
have been at school, learning that twenty
six propositions are followed by the accuse.
tive" all the way from ad 10 ultra.
When you see boy about $40 =. NJ.
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 aud his necktie
twisted away, aud suspicious looking
flush and two or three scratches adjoining
his face, you will know that he was ''kept
in" alter school, and was tainted for the
same by another boy when lie came out;
and II you want to know the rest OF 1t, II
will not be necessary togo into particulars,
but Just ask him (which whipped" II q
Joyous look OF triumph dances in the ex.
ultant eyes, you will know that around the
corner you will find u boy with bleeding
nose and generally demoralizad facade.
But II the lad you question looks downcast,
multis cum laehrymis begins his Grafton,
like Diuatiacns, by. saying: swell, he was
a great deal bigger'n me-" you know that
your boy got clicked"
When you see boy with the pockets OF
his pantaloons bullying out until he looks
like humble bee, laden for thehive, while
he walks along trying to look as thin as d
split lath, and wearing profound expree-
sion OF supernatural innocence, you know,
without referring to this code OF signals,
that boy has been lingering in somebody's
orchard, and doesn't care to have undue
publicity given TO facts that only concerned
him personally.
When you see a boy on the distant hill
side, suddenly leap up into the soft summer
air, holding one loot teuderly but firmly
in the welded fingers Of both hands, while
he hops around in irregular but excited
orbits at the same time voicing his grief
with wailing shrieks mellowed by the sunny
distance, then, without going TO the tele.
phone, you may know tEat barefoot boy
has trod on the busy bee that nestled in
the perfumed clover.
And wherever and whenever you see him,
in mischief or out ofit-that is, just coming
out Of 1t or just ready to yet into some
more; awiully bad, or with many fearful
failures and disgraceiul stumbles trying to
be good, forgetting your commandments,
which thunder 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 bis noise, his poor little
struggles, temptations, trlumphs and fail.
ures, his piteous little troubles and his
fearful, honest penitence, in all the light.
ness OF boys life, your heart must grow
mellow and tender for the little germ OF
manhood, so full OF wonderful possibilities,
so rich with eeeds OF strength that will
ripen by and by, for good or for evil, rs
you walk and live before the boy; ever as
you look at him, remember what you were
thirty or forty years ago, aud say, GOD
bless the boy"