Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-18
TALKING TO THE BOYS.
To the Lad Who Has Made Up His
Mind to Run Away.
what 10 Do a1d How to DO It-VOca.
lions from which TO Take
Your ChOice-Somc
Serious Words.
taM. Quad in Detroit Free Psuu.

t"M. Quad" in Detroit Free PNA1
Come, now, my lad, but you want to run
away No boy ever yet reached the age Of
Is without having several times firmly re-
solved to leave home When q boy has made
up Lis mind to q thing of this sort he ought
to carry it out by all means. The first step
in the programme is to begin saving up bread
and meat. When you have bushel or SO of
provisions hidden in the barn, or under the
wood-shed. you are ready for the battle with
the cold world. Make your start at night.
This viii 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, bulldozed, starved,
pounded and knocked down and dragged
out, until he has made up his mind to sever
the connection. He will never be heard of
more. 1t is probably the best way to leave
note of this kind. as the family are then
made TO fully realize their cruelty in driving
the poor boy out among strangers.
When you have packed up your little bun
die and are off, il wi II be well to settle upon
plan for the future, Perhaps you want
TO be a sailor? Nothing is easier Make
your way to some lake or seaport. and most
any captain viii take you. If he can't dis
gust you with the sailoring business in about
week, tar buckets, sea-sickness, poor pro-
visions and a ropes end will be called
upon to assist him.
Perhaps you want to become a mighty
hunteri Mighty hunters are not made in q
few days or weeks. You want TO begin by
letting your hair and finger nails grow,
sleeping in a swamp, and wasting SO worth
Of ammunition TO kill l0-cent chipmunk
II you have decided to become a bank
clerk. well and good. Make tracks for the
nearest city, and the first bank you enter
VIII jump at the chance Of employing you at
4 salary of $500 per month If it should 50
happen that the hank didn't do any jumping
us you made application, you can console
yourself with the reflection that it is about
- bust
But speaking in all seriousness, my boy if
/ Lad a dozen sons should be glad TO have
each and every one Of them take his turn al
running away from home. 1t is the Lest
cure in the world for that disease called
"swell-head." There's heap of romance il
the idea of running away. You think of the
sparkling sea, the green prairies, coral strands,
rotbers' caves AID pirates treasures, YOU
fed TINT you know SO much more than yo,u
father that il is waste OF brains for both OF
you to remain in the same house You have
been forced TO go to school, and have been
ordered to split wood and go to the grocery
after butter like common slave Don't
stand it any longer! Pick up your duds and
leave the honse and go forth into the world
What. Come TO full stop in the road be-
fore you are Il mile away. You've got a
peck or more of sour meat and moldy bread
il a pillow-case, II cents in your pocket, and
just think how your father and mother have
miSused you Mt home. The romance begins
20 wear Off, eh! You don't care half as much
about inermaids and palm-groves and pirate
ships as you did an hour ago. You hate tc
leave mother after all, and perhaps father
isn't 50 much to blame for bossing you
around. Come to think it all over, perhaps
you'd better return home and try and stand
it for few more weeks
All. my son, but we've all been therel All
these wrinkled and dignified, and bald-headed
old men you meet on the streets have had
about the same experience. We've had that
same period of "swell-head, and eight out of
ten of us have packed our bundles and slid
out to escape parental tyranny. Eight out
OF ten of us have slipped back again, too,
and the experience was the right sort Of med
icine for the disease. Any time you come &c
feel that you are Il poor, overworked and
downuodden boy, and that if you only had
fair show you'd know more I'm minute
than your father does in an hour, Just skip
There's nothing like it