Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-30
Brothers Will Disa rree.

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worst thing to have around the house is
reckless harum-scarum bov, who
| seems to care but little for how he acts
| and who he tOrmentS and makes trouble
| fer. This is Il mistake. popular error.
There is something infinitely worse,
and that is two boys. particularly if they
are brothers. Your boy, and the boy
| belonging to the next neighbor can
play along day after day, and have roy
al times, and they will not bother OF
modest You with their boyish troubles,
| but to the family with two boys of its
| own there is music from morning until
| night, and, for that matter. generally
half the night, throughout the year
| Brothers do not seem to ''hitch' we'll
They are in constant trouble, and the
way they wake things up for the balance
| of the household is caution. In all
their play or work there is generally
, turmoil and disturbances. which must
be settled by an application of bed-Slat
| to both, or it never will be settled. No
| one can explain why it is that two
| brothers OF the ages ranging from nine
| to sixteen, sometimes older or Younger
| seldom If ever agree in their play or
work around home, but it is true. and
| anyone who has ever watched two
| brothers have seen sample of pure.
| unadulterated cusSedness that is rarely
| equalled. In all their play they never
| agree, and in their work around the
house they engage in disputes and dis
| SenSiOnS, that to see them in the hottest
| part OF the debate, one would swear the
widening chaSm between them would
never be bridged. But in this YOU are
mistaken, as probably in fifteen min
utes they will be busily engaged in
plundering the nest of 4 swarm of bum
blebees, and in the excitement of the
occasion they forget their differences,
and they become solid pards once more
But why is itthat brothers do not agree.
rs do either of them agree with the other
boys of the neighborhood? Why is it
that they stand for half an hour and
wrangle rs to which shall saw and which
split the wood, when probably in fifteen
minutes time both of them will be over
IN neighbor' yard, helping another
boy saw and split his wood, so he can
go fishing and they will work like beav-
crs, and never stop a minute for words,
and you would think to see them there
that they were two Of the lovingest lit
tie brothers that ever was. Whv is it
that when they buy 4 dog or n toy pis-
tot, in ''Snucks" rs it were, that over
that particular article, whatever it may
be, there is bound to rise clouds of war
and dissensiOn. As general thing,
unless there is a very wide difference
between the ages of two brothers, their
actions toward each other are a study.
n nd 81,
engaged in a sport that brings to each
an equal amount of pleasure, they will,
in nine cases out of ten soon be engaged
in rending each others locks, or knock
ing the second crop of teeth down their
boyish necks, and in the next minute
they are loving little brothers, to all APP
pearances, who never had word or a
blow between them. Their work in the
garden, ut the wood-pile, or running err
rands, is filled with nameless woes, I'M
less the scales are evenly balanced and
one has exactly the same amount of
work to perform as the other, and who
ever saw the work laid out before
boys to the supreme satisfaction of
both. But they will 90 away and help
II neighbor's boy work, and both near
ly kill themselves working, and not
4 word of complaint will come from
them
1t has often been asserted that broth
ers never agree in business, and it is a
good deal true, though of course, there
are cases wherein they do. But itseems
that the natures of boys, the differences
they had when boys together, when they
owned ION shares" pet dog or any
n bpr artiolp CrT.Oyy-- with +bo,, +O'
hood. One never fOrgetS how the other
made Il sneak on him one day and coax
ed the dog away with him, while the
other wanted the dog at home, and if
the dog shows the least feeling of affec-
ton towards one that he does not to-
wards the other, the life of that doc
from that out is one unceasing round CT
woe, as the brother he did not take to
will make it warm for him and tie cans
to the poor dogs tail and make his life
one of sorrow and misery. And the
brother who could not get solid with
the partnership dog, cherishes feeling
of resentment against his brother in the
scheme, and that feeling grows, and is
famed by thousands of other little diff
ferences, and by the time they reach
manhood, there is feeling between
them regarding brotherly business part
nerships that disbars all such arrange
ments.
Brothers are all right enough togeth-
er-if they are separated by about nine
hundred miles distance, and can play
through the long summer hours, or 90
fishing. and in the winter live on taffy
and mince pie, but when they are to-
gether they make it warm for the re-
mainder Of the household. = Pecb's
Sun.