The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-08
SHORT TALKS WITH THE BOYS

Come. now, my lad, but you Wanl
20 rnn away. No boy ever yet
cached the age of Is without hav-
80 several times firmly resolved tc
,.aye home. When a boy has made
~ his mind to q thing OF this sort
ba oueht to carry it cut by all
means. The first steP in the pro-
~,am1ne is to begin saving up bread
ond meat. Whenyou have a bushel
0r SO of provisions hidden in the
harm OF under the WOodshed you are
,esdy for the battle with the cold
rorId. Make your start at night.
This will prevent the sun from tan
mig your complexion. and you Will
bea1ite certain of the company OF
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
1sWed. bulIdozsd, starved, pounded
and knosked down and dragged out,
until he has made up his mind to
sever the connection. He will never
he heard IF more. It is probably
the hes way to leave a note of this
KIND. as the family are then made
70 fully 7 al re their cruelty in driv-
ing the poor boy out among stran-
gers.
When you have packed up your
little bundle and are off, it will be
well to settle upon some plan for
the future. Perhaps you want to be
sailor? Nothing is easier. Make
your way to some lake or seaport,
and most any captain will take you.
II he can't disgust you with the
ssiloring business in about a week,
tar buckets, sea sickness, poor pro
visions and ropes end viii be
called upon to assist him.
Perhaps you want 20 become a
mighty hun9er ? Mighty hui ters are
not made in a few days or weeks.
You want to begin by letting your
hair and finger nails grow, sleeping
in q swamp, snd wasting 81 worth
of ammunition to kill ten-cent
+ YOU have decided to become a
bank clerk, well and good. Make
tracks for the nearest city, and the
frst bank you enter will jump at
the chance Of emp Dying you at a
salary Of $500 per month. If IL
should so happen that the bank
didn't do any jumping as you made
application, you can console yourself
with The ref .ction that it Is about
to bust.
But, speaking in all seriousness.
my boy. if [ had a dozen sons [
should be glad to have each and
every one Of them take his turn at
running away from home. 1t is the
best cure III the world for that dis
ease called Fswell-hesd." THERE'S
a heap of romance in the IDEA of
running aWsy. You think Of the
sparkling ssa, the green pra'ries,
coral strands, robbers caves and
pira eS' treasures. You feel that
you know so much more than your
fsther that it is 8 waste of brains
for both of you to remain In the
same house. You have been forced
to- otOschool, and have been ordsred
to split wood and 60 to the grocery
after butter like a common slave.
Don't stand it any lon9erl Pick up
your buds and leave the house and
60 forth into the world,
What! Come TO a full stop in the
road before you are 8 mile away !
You've got peck or more Of sour
meat and molly bread in pillow
case, TIC in your pocket, and just
thlnk how your father and mother
nave misuSed you at homeI The
Romance begins to wear off, eh?
lou don't care half as much about
meIMalos and palm-groveS and
2Iste salps a. you did an hour ago.
1ou nate 10 leave mother after all,
Snu perhaps father isn't so much to
G Clame for bosSing you around
UoMe 70 think it all over, perhaps
!Ogu ostter return home and try |
"ue stand 1t for few more weeks. |
an An! my son, but we've all besn |
n rHSIe All these Wrinkled and dig |
m = aee ana bald>headed old men you
10 , On the streets have had |
S So9u' Inc same experience. We've
b baa, mat tame period of "swell-
NJ mVaq, and eight out of ten of |
10 - rave packed our bundles and |
NJ tut to escape parental tyranny. |
80 80 Out Of ten Of US have slipped |
- a5& asa'n, go7, and the experience |
t TaS ne + ght SOFT of medicine for |
s s.nS ttSeaSe Any time you come to |
en ei 'aaI you are poor, overworked
wv wv uo%htFodden bay, and that If |
i-u only hid a fair show, v0n'd |
low more ia a minute than vonr
i iSt does in an hour, lust skin
1uefe's nothing ike it.