Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-22
ADVICE TO B0YS-FROM VARIOUS
STANDPOINTS.

STANDPOINTS.
Has the observant reader noticed .
pair of pinions sprouting from til,
American boy, and an aureole O
glory lowering over his head?
Mop Well, that is very singular
indeed.
Has there been a marked anf
steady increase in the attendance a,
Sabbath schools5 Is the juvenile
pastime of attaching damaged tin.
ware to the canine caudal rapid,
dying out! Are farmers apples
safe within the orchard without Q
cross mastiff and hired man with 9
shot gun standing on guard?
No, again? Verify this is amazing
Evidently the amount of good ad.
vice seriously hurled at boys during
the past couple of years by humorous
and semi-humorous writers has not
struck and stuck where it would do
the most good. II must be inferred
that the wise counsel rendered in
such prodigal chunks has fallen upon
sterile ground. The American boy
is a queerly constituted animal, and
# he was offered his choice between
thousand dollars worth of good
advice without money and without
price, and fifty cent circus ticket,
at twenty-five cents reduction, he
would choose the latter.
That the columns of advice to bows
published in the daily and weekly
papers of late have not converted the
American youth into a premature an
gel may be owing to its Impractical
nature. Puck was once boy him
self and knows just what kind of
counsel will strike responsive chord
in the juvenile breast. He has
oceans of such advice on hand, and
now that the smoke of battle has
cleared away and the country has
experienced another quadrennial say-
ing, he proposes to let little of it
escape, just as feeler, and if the
boys cry for more, it shall be forth.
coming.
In the first place let us advise boys
to stay on the farm. A writer who
undertakes to give advice to boys
and neglerts to urge the sons OF
grangers' to remain on the farm,
doesn't understand his business, and
instead of essaying to mould the
plastic character of youth, should
embark IN the more congenlal bust.
ness Of peddling CLANS, where brains
are not a necessary qualification fol
success.
Remember, boys; stick to the farm
and work fifteen hours a day. You
will grow up horny handed, and at the
age of forty years your back will be
more bent and bumped than the city
mans at seventy. A back the shape
Of croquet wicket is an emblem of
honest toll; and you will learn the
art of putting all the big fruit and
vegetables on top and assuring your
customers that those at the bottom
are still larger. You will also es-
cape the wiles and snares of n large
city.
Stick to the farm, and after work
ing fifteen hours planting potatoes,
and turning the grind-stone an hour
after supper, you can enjoy the &C.
static bliss of going home. and, by
the dim, uncertain light of a tallow
candle, or the fitful glore of smok,
oil lamp, reading in your country
paper that farmer Snales has put 6
new roof on his plg pen, and Jonas
Boges has given his barn a new coaI
of paint. After absorbing a column
or two of this sort of thrilling intelli'
gence you can turn to the advertise
ments and be made happy by discov
ering the announcements Of four new
patent medicines. How much more
elevating and instructive is 1t tt
spend an evening thus than to follow
in the footsteps of the boy in the
large city, who, perchance. witnesses
a comic opera which knocks a nail ol
two out of his coffin, or attends sci
entific lecture and learns a lot of non
sense about the sun being so fa1
away that a railroad train wouldn'
reach it in a thousand years, or visit:
free library and stocks his mine
with the best thoughts of our leading
writers!
The boy who stays on the farm viii
never bring the gray hairs Of hi
parents in sorrow down to the grav'
BY marrying a millionaire's daughte
or becoming the boss of Tamman,
Hall. Such boys enjoy many ad
vantages over the city boy. Th'
latter is not made happy by hei.'s
summoned two hours before daylight
to milk dozen cows and chop fee,
for the cattle. An when he doe
awake he doesn't feel as if he coult
not get out of bed without the assist
ance of derrick. There are man,
other pleasant sensations the boy i
the city doesn't experience. There
fore, boys, stick to the farm.
Be kind to your step-mother. !
she makes the house inordinatel
sultry when you are around and mar
ifests a disposition to caress yo
with the stove litter, don't run ava