Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15
ABOUT BOYS AND CHRIS.
How They are Brought Up and
Brought Out, In Enxland.

ABOUT BOYS AND GIRLS.
How They are Brought Up and
Brought Out, In England.
Robert Laird Coryer in letter to Chicago Newa
The boys begin outdoor sports almost when
they begin to walk. The governess is expected
to take the children for regular and long walks
daily. The boys have cricket, shares" and
hounds, lawn tennis, riding, swimming and
boating, and keep up these outdoor exercises
END recreattons pretty much all through life.
Gentlemen Of all ages engage In these sports,
and when too old to play the moro vigorous
games take hand at bowls. Every English
man knows how to play, and to the last enjoys
70 play. The Englishman is q Spartan. He Is
nara I ana hardy. He suppresses his feelings:
he has feelings, but they are 40 deep down that
ne seldom gets at them. They never come to
me surface: It is deemed unmanly to show
iegung. he plays as a boy football.
A. cruel, almost brutal game. He runs ms
risk have seen a boy taken off the field un-
it's noshins These bows DO are manly
lows; honest, truthful, trusty, generous and nd
stout-hearted: I never had al English boy tell
way act dishonorabiy. Only through serviiity
would the boys Of the lower classes consent 70
b be sneaks English boys look upon German os 7,
boys as pedants, upon French boys as "baOleS,
ana upon American boys as "elderly gentie-
m aas,. The american boy Is the mystery An N
SASAASh wy oLOpS III MS SQOTt UTeCCuCS SuOs -
long as can be. He has no
FANCY FOR PARTIES,
ana balls and evenings in drawing-rooms. He
calls such things "bores.' He prefers football
ana cricket; he chooses rather to roam the helds
with gun and dog; he counts 1t gain when ne
mas oee9 IN the saddle for the day he is .acl
a green grocer's son who puts on airs he calls q
cad; IN awkward boy who Is inapt and 2 6 6lt
coWardiy he says Is a "duffer; a hiding anu oe-
Ce1LluL DOV lS known n Umuff," W hen tDc
schoolmaster is angry he Is "waxy. He al
ways uses negatives. a fellow is gushing when
an Elton boy never ventures far beyond say ing,
"its not bad" or sits not half bad" He never
WEad dream Of saying tha IS nn1S say
and a shilling IS "bobt' His father is the
companion is his .'pal,' and his dog is his
"brute.' He never has a "picnic" or a "cir-
Gus, but only a g. lark" So universal is the use
notion that their vernacular is slang. To talk
IN any other tongue would be not only aitect s
nasty" for disagreeabe, and
"BEAsTLY' FOR OFFENSIVE.
English boys are never eteminate, and they
are very "taking" because they are such splen-
did boys. They dress like boys till they are Is
years old. They obey like boys: they study and
play; they feel and think: they feed and sleep;
they dispOrt themselves in all ways like boys
till they become men, and then they put away
childish things All foreigners in America ask
where the children are. The absence OF boys
and girls is altogether the most striking feature
OF American society. 1t is deliciously refresh
Ing ~ meet in America a boyish Toy or 2irilsh
girl. ManiSi boys and wOmaniSh girls are the
rule In American life, SO Foreigners think and
say.
English girls are suppressed: But they DO not
know it. Ii seen they are not heard, and they
are not often seen. They are never put on cx-
hibtion. Their manners are quiet, and their
dress Is always very simple. The richVr and
higher rank the D1aineF they dressed
:ule. Children never wear jewelry. 1t is not
oftcn that an unmarried lady wears jewelry at
all, and ii so, very modest pieces, such US a pin
Or ring. Children are never put INTO iinery.
They are kept In the nursery till they have ac-
4uired quiet ana unobtrusiye mapners They
do not line with the FAMILY till such age as
guarantees good table manners. The brilliant
compieAiOns OF the acknowledgements due to
the soit and hunatd climate-is a result of
CAREFUL DIET AND REGULAR HOURS
of work, rccrea don ard sleep. The girls are
with their mothers much less tla,,n are French
girls, and are with nurses ami governesses
mucn more. they are very shy md modest
Their reading Is religiously looked after aud
few read sensational fiashy fiction. Solid
reading is the rule. Indeed! they read but little
aud know hut little uutside their text books
The girls, and for that matter the woiIen, have
tie interestingly, as tue French ladies do, and
take 40 great delight in whispering scandal, as
the German M ladies DO They embroide: and
never sit idly. Even in the drawing-roOm, in
the evening, they will converse while doing
some sort of neeGiework. The girls ride, take
long walks, play tennis and roam the gardens
and fields. Among the wealthy classes they
have their horses aud dogs, and spend no in-
considerable time with them.
The date for girls entrance into society is
not left to be decided by II within, an accident,
or not at all. She Is not in society while she is
school girl. She does not go to parties, or
have beaux, or put on the dress and manners
OF young lady till her grlhood days are past
and she has quilted the school room. When
the time comes she Is brought out" \ parry
is given at the opening of the season and She Is
introduced into society. This would not be ear
Her than her seventeenth year, and perhaps as
late as ner nineteenth.