Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-20
TO WOULD-BE RUNAWAYS.
sage Advice TO Youthful Aspirsnts for
Greater Glories.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
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. Whep 4
boy has made up his mind to thing of
this sort he ought to carry it out by all
means. The first stepin the programme
is to begin saving up bread and meat.
When you have bushel or so Of provi-
sions hidden in the barn, or under the
woodshed, you are ready for the battle
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
tramp or two.
Some boys leave a note pinned to the
pillow of their bed. This note goes on to
say that the boy has been jawed, bull
dozed, starved, pounded, and knocked
down and dragged out, until he has
made up his mind to sever the connec-
ton. He will never be heard of more.
1t is probably the best way to leave a
note of this kind, as the family are then
made to fully realize their cruelty in
driving the poor boy out among strang-
err.
When you have packed up your little
bundle and are off, it will be well to set
tie upon some plan for the future. Per
Thaps YOU want to DE 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 ii about a week,
tar buckets, seasickness, poor provisions
and a ropes end will be called upon to
assist him.
Perhaps you want to become mighty
hunter? Mighty hunters are not made
in a few weeks. You want to begin BY
letting your hair and finger nails grow
sleeping in a swamp, and wasting S2t
worth of ammunition to kill a ten-cen
chipmunk. 80
, III YOU have decided to become banl
| clerk, well and good. Make tracks TO
, the nearest city, and the first bank yo,
enter will Jump at the chance of employ
? ing YOU at salary of $500 per month
: If II should so so happen that the banl
| didn't do any jumping as you made you
application, you can console yoursel
, | with the reflection that it is about &
!. bust.
But, speaking in all seriousness, m,
boy, if had a dozen sons | should b
!. glad to have each and every one oftheI
|. take his turn at running away from home
: 1t is the best cure in the world for tn
Il disease called ''swell-head.' There's
e heap of romance in the idea of runniD
Iaway. You think of the sparkling SCI
n the green prairies, coral strands, robber
Y caves and pirates treasures. You fe'
that you know so much more than you
father that it is waste of brains for bot
of you to remain in the same hous
You have been forced to 60 to schoO
, and have been ordered to split woO'
E. and 90 to the grocery alter butter like
,r common slave. Don't stand it any lon
= er! Pick up your duds and leave Ii
" holse, and go forth into the world.
r What. Come to a full stop in ii
of road before you are mile away! YOu''
got a peck or more of meat and mould
bread in pillow case, seventeen cen
in your pocket, and just think how yo'
q. father and mother have misused you
d, homel The romance begins to wear o
of eh? You don't care half as much abo
mermaids and palm groves and pira
IN ships as you did an hour ago. You ha
It. to leave mother alter all, and perha
father isn't so much to blame for DOssiI
ne you around. Come to think it all ov'
re perhaps you'd better return home al
slt try and stand il for a few more weeks.
ny Ahl my son, but we've all been thel
All these wrinkled and digniied al
ID, bald headed old men you meet in {
ce streets have had the same experien'
I'm We've had at the same period OF "swe
head" and eight out of ten of us ha
packed our bundles and slid out TO esca
parental ty-anny. Eight out Of ten OF
have slipped back again, too, and
experience was the night sort Of me
cine tor the disease. Amy time you col
NY TO feel that you are poor, over-work
od. and down-trodden boy, and that If
II. only had a fair show you'd know M
in a minute than your father does In
vet, hour, just skip. There's nothing like
of