Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-29
The utter disgust with Which the last

The utter disgust with which the last
word was uttered fully expressed the
feeling with which the average boy at
that age regards the opposite sex.
''What is the use OF dancing, any
way? Only girls want to dance, and
BOYS that don't know how to play base
ball. and who bring flowers to the
teacher. When | grow up you bet ]
| will be the captain of a baseball nine.
and then what difference will it make
about dancingp Mother says she wants
me to have good manners. suppose
shat means to always have Jour hands
clean and not to tear your clothes. That
kind OF a boy don't have any fun, and
besides they are only fit TO play with
girls. They always get licked in fight,
and then they tell the teacher things
about the other boys.
Yes, ma am; I'm coming he call
cd out in response to summons from
the house. A deeper gloom seemed to
settle upon him as his unhappy fate APP
preached, and he dug his toe yiciously
INTO the bricks.
Il should think you could have nice
time at the dancing school" suggested
the listener in as sympathetic a tone as
possible.
"Well. don't" was the UNFOLDING
reply. i can { feel natural, somehow.
Ny feet won't 90 in the right direction,
and then they put me with the little
bows and Il it the awkward squad. /
could beat EN- ali playing baseball,
and | can throw farther and straighter
than any boy there, but when it comes
to dancing ! can't do it. / wouldn't
care 50 much but you have to dance
with the girls, and they made me dance
last time with girl with red hair and
freckles. and one OF the boys said that
girl bit boy once because he stepped
on her toes
"Why don't you engnge some nice
girl to dance with you?' asked the lis
tener, beginning now to have real sym
pathy for the boy.
well, y said the boy, squrming I'M
easily about as if he was in great pain.
"all the nice girls that don't bite are
gobbled up before | get chance, or
leastWise before / remember what to
say. Some boys talk with girls an
seem to like it, | don't see how tn,
can do it. What is there to say to n
grip They don't know anything
that is, anything that is worth know
ing | talked with Girl onct and she
said She liked baseball cause the men
wore such pretty suits, but she didn't
know a curved ball from home run.
Robert, are you coming?n again
sounded the warning voice from the
house
Eyes, ma'am, directly" responded
the boy, with evident regret. Mother
has go5 all Of my good clothes out, and
I've got to be scrubbed and my ears
poked into, and then there the
gloves, and the boy fairly groaned as
he thought Of the prospect.
"When a boy has 'gagements with
other boys he went on, land has
things to attend to- he has no time to
so to dancing lessons in the afternoon
when school is out. Last week missed
a bully trade W tn n boy upstrcet cause
| had to go to dancing school, and the
boys say if | can't come and practice
they will get someone else to pitch in
our nine.
The further narrative Of his griefs
was interrupted bv the nurse-girl, who
made Robert an unwilling captive and
escorted him into the house, IN the
course OF a half hour the neighbors be-
held an elegantly attired and sturdy
little gentleman emerge briskly from |
the house, his chubby round face glis-
teniRg above the broad white collar, |
and his gloyed hands conveying 20 pie
heian suggestions of either baseball or |
dead eats. Washington Siar.