The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-16
Short Talks with the Boys.

man, and OF your mother as "her
highness.
What's the matter that you can't
refer to them as your father and moth
er?
Suppose your parents should speak
of you as "the kid" and "the fiy?"
You'd soon begin to think you had
been born in the wrong family. The
son who is ashamed of his parents
ought to be ashamed of himself.
Suppose their ways are old-fashion-
ed and their grammer little off, and
they don't feel like keeping up with
the fashions of the day? Not one fa-
ther or mother in ten had the advant-
ages you enjoy. Forty or fifty years
ago they walked three or four miles to
a country school to pick UP little
learning, while now you are talking of
going to college. They began poor and
have toiled and labored and saved
for their children. You just remem-
Der that things have greatly changed
in this country. Years ago a calico
dress was seen at church far oftener
than a silk. Men went to meeting clad
in homespun. The rule in most houses
was for children to stand up to eat.
The biggest piece of pie went to father
and mother, and children were not al
lowed to sit up until 10 O'Clock at
night, or to argue a question after
the head OF the family had decided it.
My boy, don't get any foolish no.
tions into your head. If your father
is old and gray and bent, ifyour moth
er is trembling and weak and has no
care for the frivolities of this day, it is
toll which has brought these, days of
hard work and nights full of anxiety
that their children might be spared
the same slavish life. Where they
wore blue-jeans you have broadcloth.
Where they ate johnny-cake you have
sweet cake and pie. Where their mode
OF life and forced economy prevented
them from enjoying society, amuse-
ment or books, just think how you
make the shillings fly, and what is of
fered to interest and amuse youl
Now let's have a word to say about
economy. I've been right amongyou,
and | know that you want this, that
and the other, and want it bad"
Up to the time of the war if one of the
boys Of that day had dime to spend
for Fourth of July he thought himself
we'll fixed. The boys want about So
apiece nowadays, and that's all gone
before noon
If We got a new book it was con.
sidered q great piece of extravaganza.
The lad who had cash enough to walk
into panoramic exhibition, buy
pair of skates, or treat himself to
sweetmeats was looked upon by the
rest OF us as Jay Gould.
Pm not saying that you shouldn't
have money and use it, but right there
is vital point. Be sure that you
really need what you buy. Ask your
self if it viii pay. Money is the
wheel on which the world moves. Ac-
quire the habit of throwing it after
every novelty brought out and you'll
by and by have a secondhand museum
and no cash to run it.
| dislike stingy boy, but when I see
lad planking his nickles down at the
desk of a savings bank / know that he
is one of the future men who is going
TO build our railroads and do our
Wholesale business. There's Il big diff
ference between being stingy and being
economical. The richest men of
America are liberal in giving to
churches, asylums and to heunfortu-
nate, but they never waste. They
don't indulge in this or that simply
because they have money enough to
pay TOR it.
Now, if you are about fifteer- years
old you've got a sneaking IDEA into
your head that it's big thing to use
an oath occasionally. You never
made greater mistake. 1t is true
many men use more or less oaths, but
/ would like to have you find me one
who isn't ashamed of it. It's u mean
habit, for it is a habit. 7 know that
you can point to the greatest man in
the land and prove that they spit out
oaths, but that's no reason why you
should follow suit. There isn't a
swearer in this country who doesn't
feel quiet satisfaction in sitting down
to converse with a man whose lam
guage is clean and dpure. There'snoth-
ing manly I'D using an oath. Swear
ing is about the first thing you hear
from fool or drunkard. Even q
heather can swear.
Now, don't get the idea that want
you to be too good. The too good
boy. is a nuisance. He was born to be
ON angel, but they forgot to spike on
the wings. Go to the circus Certain
lyl | know there are people in this
world who look upon a circus as the
next thing to visit from old Satan
himself, but they ought to have
lived forty years ago. II you were
my boy I'd walk you In, show