Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-07-31
LET THE CHILDREN GO 10 THE
MENAGERIE.
All Work, and no play, Makes Jack q
Dull Boy. y


How many boys are made miserable and unhappy
the refusal Of their parents to allow them to have
holiday occasionally. How many bright, cheerful
dispositions and sempers soured; they see other
little boys and girls Of the neghborhood, their daily
associates and companions accompanied by their
parents on their way to town to witness all the
derfui animals, see the sights and wonders and
they can't co. and their little hearts broken al
though they have worked hard all the summer and
helped around the house or on the farm. We do not
advocate idleness or azess but dc say that both
old and young need an occasional day Of recreation
and pleasure from the and toll of everyday life
How different it is In families some parents viii say
at the breakfast table: s.Children, see there Is
big show coming to town. ard it Is good one, too.
and think i all pitch in we can gain day, and
have been wanting to go to town for some days to
d little tradng, and we kill two birds with
one stone-take in the big show and do our trading
at the time" Notice the result of the fathers
remarks Every person around that table is anrna-
ted, they all excited, the boys remark .sWell,
father, guess you won't have any fault to End.
Well pitch in from the start and roll up the work
and take in that big show, you bet!" On the other
hand family is sitting a. the table, and one of the
boys speak up and says ssPa, can't we go to the
cirsus when it comes to town" No: you can get all
the show you want to stay at home to hoe them po-
tatoes and corn We've svt something else to do
than run to every show that comes along" The ea.
ger and looks which were to be see on the
faces of those children moment before have van
shed; sulen, sulky, disappointed frowns have taken
the place of where smiles should have been gradu.
ally By one, they leave the room the mother Sit
ting quietly at the table, not uttcring word, know
ing it will do good The father tolls his boys to
take their hats and go into the field. They depart
from the house, mutteriag to themselves that when
show day they will run away and go If the old
man takes every inch Of hide of their backs; and
when the show comes ten chances to one they don't
run away to the circus and away with the circus
too: The father meets his neghbor coming home
after having taken his wife and children to the big
show, all happy and read the children to tcllal
the wonders they've that day, while the farmer
who did not take his family, has not done lick OF
work all the day long, his boys bad not been seen,
and he is almost crazy. The old Dutchnan expressed
heap Of sense when he said: 'Bctter you let dot
poy go on dot circus show, off you don't he will lie
and steal and run away, and go anyhow" There is
reason in all things, but when respectable
saris and circus with national reputation for
ductingta irst-class moral entertainment, such as
John Robinson's Ten Big Brand New European Uni
ted Combination Shows bear, take your children,
and all the little children that youcan find who have
no parents to take them and go and have holiday
of and reunion and shake hands with oil dfrends
and word for it your boys won't want to run
away with circus and won't they work when they
get home, to naka up for that day of pleasure and
enjoyment? and it will be sweet music in your ears
when you hear the little prattlers tell their little
playmates: 81 lken,y papa, cause he took me to
see all the funny monkeys the pretty birds and the
great big elephants and the little ponies and the big
circus, of John Robins on
Ar RosEBuRa AuG Ilth.