The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-05-21
A Few Words 10 the Boys.

A Few Words TO the Boys.
Come, now, my lad, but you want to
run away. No boy ever yet reached
the age Of fifteen without having several
times firmly resolved TO leave home.
When boy has made up his mind to
o thing Of this sort he ought TO carry it
out by all means, Tho first step in the
programme Is to begin saving up bread
and meat. When you have u bushel or
SO OF provisions hidden in the barn or
under the wood-shod you are ready for
the battle with the cold world. Make
your start al night. This will prevent
the sun from tanning your complexion,
and you will be quito certain Of the
company Of tramp or two.
Some boys leaYe q 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 aud dragged out, until
he has made up his mind to soyer the
connection. lie 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 iully realize their
cruelty in driving the poor boy out
among strangers.
When you have packed up your little
bundle and are Off it will be well to set
tie upon some plan for the future.
Perhaps you want TO be q sailorp Moth
ing is easier. Make your way to some
lake or seaport, and most any Captain
win take you. If he can't disgust YOU
with the sailoring bus'n ness in about q
week, tar-buckets, sea-sickness, poor
provisions and o ropes end viii bo
called upon to assist him.
Perhaps you want TO become mighty
hunterP Mighty hunters are not mad
in few days or weeks. You want :,
begin by letting yorT hair and finger
nails grow, sleeping In swamp, AM
wasting two dollars worth OF ammunl
ton TO kill a ten-cent chipmunk.
If you have decided to become bank
clork, well and good. Make tracks 70,
the nearest city, and the first bank you
enter will jump at the chance of en-.
ploying you at a salary OF 500 per
month. II it should so happen that the
bank d dn't do any Jumping as you
made application, you can console your
self with the reflection that it is about
to bust. ..r a.
But. speaking in all seriousness, my
boysif I-had a dozen sons l should DO
glad 20 have each and every one OF them
take histurn atrunning away from home.
1t is the best cure in the world for that
disease called "swell-head. There's
a heap Of romance in the idea OF rum
ming away. You think Of the sparkling
sea, the green prairies, coral strands,
robbers caves and pirates treasures.
You feel that you know so much more
than your father that 1t is q waste Of
brains for both Of you TO remain in the
same house. You have been forced to
90 to school, and have been ordered to
90 to the grocery after butter like q
common slave Don't stand, ii any
longer! Pick up yorr duds and leave
the house and go forth into the world.
What Come to full stop in the road
before you are mile away. You've got
a peck or more OF sour meat and moldy
bread in pillow-case, seventeen cents
in your pocket. and just think how your
father and mother have missed you at
home! The romance begins TO wear OFF,
eh? You don't care half as much about
mermaids and palm-grovcs and pirate
ships as you did an hour ago. You
hate TO leave mother after all, and per-
haps father isn't so much to blame for
bossing you around. Come 10 think 1t
all over, perhaps you'd better return
home and try and stand Il for few
more weeks.
All my son, but we've all been there.
All these wrinkled and dignilied and
bala headed old men yon meet on the
streets have had about the same expert
encc, We've had that same period Of
'swcll-hcad," and eight out of ten OF
us have packed our bundles and slid out
to escape parental tyranny. III yht out
of ten OF us have slipped back again,
too and the experience was the right
sort OF medicine FOR the disease. Any
time you come to feel that you are q
poor. over worked and down-trodden
boy, and that II you only had air
show you'd know more in q minute than
your father does in an hour, just skip.
There's nothing like it--"M Qpa.r ii
Detroit Free Press.