The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-26
Short Talk With the Boys.
BY NJ. QUAD.

Come, now, my lad, but you want TO
run away. No boy ever yet reached the
age of Is without having several times
firmly resolved to leave home. When a
boy has made up his mind to do q thing
of this sort he ought to carry it out by
all means. The first step in the pro-
gramme is to begin saving up bread and
meat. When you have bushel or 80 of
provisions hidden in the barn or under
the wood shed you are ready for the bat.
tie with the cold world. Make your
start at night. This will prevent the sun
from tanning your complexion, and YOU
will be quite certain of the company of a
tramp or two.
Some boys leave note pinned to the
pillow of their bed. This note goes on
to say that the boy has been iawed, bull.
dozed, starved, pounded and Knocked
down and dragged out. until he has made
up his mind to sever the connection.
He will never bs heard es more.
When you have packed up your little
bundle and are OF it will be we'll to set
tie upon some plan for the future. Fer.
haps you want to be q sailor? Nothing
is easier. Make your way to some lake
or seaport, and most any captain will
take you. If he can't disgust YOU with
the sailoring business in about q week.
tar buckets, sea.sickness, poor provisions
and ropes end will be called upon to
assist him.
Perhaps yon want to become mighty
hunter3 Mighty hunters are not made
in fe" days or weeks. You want to
begin by letting your hair and finger
nails grow, sleeping in q swamp, and
wasting 50 worth of ammunition to kill a
ten.ceDt chipmunk.
If you have decided 10 become q bank
clerk, we'll and good. Make tracks for
the nearest city, and the first bank you
enter will jump at the chance of employ.
ing you ut q salary of 5000 per month.
II it should 30 happen that the bank
didn't do any jumping as you made ap.
piicatiou, yUu eai O0n5oie yourself win
the reflection that it is about to bust.
But, speaking In all seriousness, nv
boy, if | had a dozen sons l should be
glad to have each and every one of them
take bis turn at running away from home.
1t is the best cure in the world for that
disease called "swell-head." There's q
heap of romance in the idea of running
away. You think of the sparkling sea.
the green prairies, coral strands, robbers'
caves and pirates treasures. You feel
that you know 80 much more than your
father that it is waste of brains for
both of you to remain in the same house,
You have been forced to 60 to school, and
have been ordered to split wood and 60
TO the grocery after butter like common
slave. Don't stand it any longer! Pick
up your duds and leave the house and
| 60 forth into the world.
What Come to full stop in the
road before you are mile away You've
| got q peck or more of sour meat and
moldy bread in q pillow.case, seventeen
cents in your pocket, and just think how
your father and mother have missed you
nt homeI The romance begins to wear
OF, eh Z You don't care bslf % mich
about mermaids aud palm groves aud
pirate ships as you did an hour ago
You hate to leave mother after all, and
perhaps father isn't 80 much to blame for
bossing you around. Come to think II
all over perhaps you'd better return
home and try and stand it for few more
weeks.
| Ahl my son, but we've all been there
All these wrinkled aud dignifed and
bsld-headed old men you meet on the
streets have had about the same exper;
ence. We've had the same period o
swell.head," and eight out of ten Of ut
have packed our bundles and slid out te
escape parental tyranny. Eight out o.
ten Of US have clipped back again, too
and the experience was the right sort o
medicine for the disease. Any time you
come TO feel that you are poor, over
worked and downtrodden boy, and tha
if you only Ind O fair show you'd know
more in minute than your father doe
In an honr, just skip. There's nothing