Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-15

EOf t0o NRtlOn kI0nQ uOrlHUK,
telt from Mexico 10 Name,
Halls a true anu trusted leader
In the stsnJaid-beArsr blaine.
AID tho slogan,
Blaine aud Logan,
Meas no martyrs die In vain.
Tue DiseOOlemted Boy.
1t Is inst possible that some Of you
may have known boys who live In the
city, and yet who were discontinued
with everything about them. There
have been some such, whether you have
met them or not, and it Is . singular
fact that, AZ general rule, they were
always very well contented with them
bel YES, but seemed TO think that they
had good cause to And fault with every
thing around them.
l knew one once-for / have known
lots of boys in my day-and all of US
fellows used to think tnat Fred Small
was situated just about IS comfortably
a. boy ought 10 be. He had a pleasant
home with two sisters in 1t; he could
60 70 school all the time-and there are
: good many boys who can't do that
and his clothes were always neat and
clean.
Now any ono would suppose that
such boy could have regularly jolly
time in this world. You see he had 20
many things that thousands Of boys
can't have, that just the simple thought
of how fortunate he was ought TO have
kept him ~ happy a. lark all day
long.
But with all these advantages Fred
was far from being contented. don't
mean 10 say that he wAs what might be
called thoroughly discontsntsi boy,
for he was not exactly that. II any one
had intimated such thing TO him he
would have denied 1t emphatically, and
thought that he was telling the truth
but yet he was far from being a. happy
as he ought to have been.
At school he had an idea that he was
forced TO study more than Was good for
him that he was obliged to learn many
things that would be OF no use to him
when he was man, and that some of
his fellow students were receiving IA.
vOrs from the teachers that were denied
him.
AT home he thought he was not al
lowed freedom enough !; that his sisters
hat more Of everything than he had,
and that he was, in several particular
cases, actually imposed upon. As, for
instance, when the baby got his box of
pants and destroyed fully one-half of
them, nothing in particular was said
about 1t, which he thought wrong, al
though it would have been hard for
him 70 have decided, If called upon to
do 10, just what punishment ought to
have been inflicted upon the little thing.
Among his playmates he thought he
was not treated exactly rs he ought to
have been. Some were chosen leaders
in the sports, when he WAS positive that
he should have occupied such position.
Some appeared to think that they ex-
celled him In leaping, running or jump
ing. and rs the same tune refused to
give him an opportunity Of testing his
strength with them.
Now of course 1t was foolish for Fred
to have allowed himself TO be vcxed or
Disconnected over what were really
trifes, al compared to the benefits he
enjoyed, Of which SO many other boys
were deprived but yet he did feel
vexed and was discOntented, with never
thought that he was making good
deal more than half of his troubles him
self.
Then, again, Fred though that he was
particularly i'll used because his parents
would not let him 60 cut evenings with
the other boys. Charlie Stetson could
60 out whenever he wanted to, and stay
until midnight. Charlie knew bow to
play billiards aud pool he could smoke
whole bunch of cigarettes In an even
ing, aud had already begun to color o
pipe; ne went to almost every place OF
am usement that he wanted to, and had
more money to spend than dozen OF
the other fellows put together. In short,
Il lii. s.xaN ha tAA tn nd
Fred was discontinued because he could
dot enjoy the same liberty.
Fred's father, however, thought that
| he knew more about such things than
his son did, and 1t was not many
years before he proved that he WAS cor
rect.
| Charlie continued to keep late bours,
to spend his evenings in billiard rooms
where the air was unfit to breathe be-
cause 1t was 81 laden with impurities,
until, when he should have been =
young man, he already looked and felt
old. He had no energy, was sickly,
knew little or nothing of what he
should have known, and when Fred
graduated Charlie was nothing more
nor less than q lUafer, looked down upon
even by those who called themselves
his companions.
Then when Fred went out into the
world, and understood matters, and
particularly himself. he saw the mis-
take he had made.
He realized that he had neither been
Iobligsd to study too much nor too long,
land he only regretted that he had not
been able to lesrn more. He came to
understan dthat at home he had enjoy
ed as many advantages an his sisters
bad, that he had been allowed to have
his own way quite as much as was good
tor him, aud, when 1t was no longer
possible, he wished that no could have
q baby sister again, for he was certain
1t would be pleasure to him even II
Ishe did destroy some of his things.
He realized that II he had been ne
Iglected by his playmates, 1t WAS only
because he had not made himself ri
agreeable as he might have done, and
Imore strongly than anything else, wa'
lin refusing to allow him all the 30
Icalled privileges he thought Charlie
Is tetson had enjoyed. He came t.
know that even sitting up late nj
nights in not good for q boys health
THAT smok ing tobacco is simply inhal
ling o slow poison into ones brain, ant
that there can neither be pleasure MOI
lprotit in a boy in lettering aroun'
places where grown up loafers congre
I gate.
But all these things Fred might hav
. found out for himself long before b.
Ibid. II he had but studied the full
meaning Of the simple word content
ment.
Vi uo,lard takea piotures In cloudy wSatli