Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-16

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Suppose y our pa rents "a ould speak
81. g & you a .'ttlhe kis " and The Ayr
You'd soon begin % think you had
been born il tho wrong family The
son urlr tho $ ashamed Of his parents
ought to 10 ashamed 81 himself.
Suppose their Il ays are Old fashion.
ed and their anlnaer q lie tle off, and
they don't feel like keeping as With
the fashions 81 the day11 Not one IA.
thers or mother ia ten had the advant-
ages you enjoy orty Of City years
ago they walked three orr ourmiles to
g country schoo Us pick up q little
learning, while now you are Ia king of
going to college. They began poor and
have toiled and labored and saved
for their children You just ren,em-
Der that things have greatly changed
IN this country. Years ago q calico
dress was seen al; church far oftener
than a silk. Men went to meeting clad
in homespun. The rule ia ia most houses
was for children to,5 stand IN Is eat.
The biggest piece Of pie went to father
and mother, and child ren were not al
lowed to sit up until 10 8 clock at
night. or to arp,ia 8, question ! & 81
the head of the family had decided s..
Ny boy, don aget any foolish mo-
tons into FOUR head. gIf your father
is old andgray and bent, il your moth
er IL trembling and weak and has no
care Tor the rivolities 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 YOU!
Now let's have a word to say about
economy. I've been right among YOU,
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 a dime to spend
for Fourth OF July he Thought himself
well fixed. The boys want about SIS
apiece nowadays, and that's all gone
before noon.
If we got a new book it was con.
sidered a great piece OF extravaganza.
The lad who had cash enouoh to wall
into a panoramic exhibition. @buv q
pair of skates, Or treat himself to
sweetmeats was looked upon by the
rest of us as asJay Gould.
Pm not saying that YOU shouldn't
have money and use it, but right there
is vital point. Be sure that Won
really need what YOU buy. Ask vour.
self if it will pay. Money is the
wheel on which the world moves. Ac-
quire the habit of throwing it after
every novelty brought out and vou'll
by and by have q secondhand museum
and no cash to run it.
Idislike q stingy bow, but when Tsee
a lad planking his nickles down at the
desk of a savings bank L know that he
is one of the future men who is going
to build our railroads and do onr
wholesale business. There's a bic dif.
ference between being stinpv and Reino
economical. The !, richest men of
America are liberal in giving to
churches. asyluns and to the I'M ortu.
nate, but they never waste. They
don't indulge in this or that simply
because they have money enough to
pay FOR it.
Now, if you are about fifteen wears
old you've got 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 hut
I would like to have YOU find me one
who isn't ashamed OF it, It's q mean
habit, for it is habit. 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 q man whose Ian
guage is clean and pure. There's moth
ing manly in using an oath. Swear
ing is about the first thing you hear
from a fool or drunkard. Even a
heather can swear. -,
Now, don't get the idea that I want
you to be too good. THE too good
boy is a nuisance. He was born to be
an angel, but they forgot to spike on
the wings. Go tn the circusi4 1rartain-