Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-11
ENGLAND'S YOUNG MEN.
WHAT SHALL THE UPPER Classes
90 WITH THEIR SONSl
Uaiversity Graduates who lnherit Moth
Ing Hut ths Cssceat 81 birth and
Fanaiiy Pride OSercrOWded De-
cupations- Disiike Of Work.

Family Pride OSercrOWded Dc
caPati"ns D'siike Of Work.
The subject allude 20 Is embodied In
the question. What shall the upper
classes do with their young men,
! mean the young sons Of poorly 06
nOblemen. or country gentlemen. or the
Sons Of younger rsOns--yOdths who inherit
nothing rom their fathers but the empty
conceit Of birth or the profitless prOvis-
ion Of family pride.
People don't seem to reflect what loads
Of young university graduates there are
who actually starving at the English bar.
Genius and talent are what Is needed At
the bar. and all the university degrees in
the world won't confer either. There
are plenty Of gentlemen's SONS showed
into the church to get family livings,
aud family patronage; but there is
limit even to the church as q means Of
livelihood for gentlemen" The navy,
the army, and the civil service are left
The navy we will not consider. Entrance
TO it has to be gained at an earlier age
than that Of the young men to whom
am at present directing my attention.
~CRAMNING" FOR EXAMINATION.
OF all occupations open to young Eng
lish gentlemen should say the army
WAS the favorite. Young gentlemen like
the idle. iudolent @gentlemAn-like' life 1t
affords and fosters. But, alas! again
does the abominable comp ,titive exam
ination stare them in the face. Before
they can get into place waere they can
be idle, they have to WORK.. One would
think that man with an Oxford or Cam
bridge degree could get into the army at
once 1t is true that university graduates
are generally too old for the army; but
even il they were not question if they
would not. like nine -teuths Of the gen
tlemeu' candidates for commissions. have
70 20 to a -crammer.' for several months.
Again. l would ask. what is the use o.
going to S-hool, IL q boy has to be spec.
tally prepared after he has left 1t for an
examination on subjects about which he
should have been taught at SCHOOL, f>Ots
Of gcntlemen's sons scrape and scramble
through !he examinations Crammed by
the tutors. they answer like parrots, and
then live like gentlemen again. Such
youngsters may knew how TO dress. 10
gamble, To hunt, to play tennis. 10 drink,
smoke aud fiirt, but they are not the stun
soldiers are made of, and their ountry
will look in vain for their names among
the roll Of ker"es. Naturally the army
is full of csds. think it is fortun..'.' for
the army that II is. Cads have brains,
now and then.
FARMING FOR GENTLENEN's SONS.
Some fathers have tried setting their
sons up as farmers Farming for gentle
mems sons has been of late thought quite
the thing to do. That il has in nearly
every instance been painful failure
must be apparent to every thinking man.
II was all very nice At the start. The
young fellows liked the liberty il prom
ised But the work, Oh, that was
quite different matter They had labor
ers to work. why should they, Instead
Of farming as farmers they farmed as
gentlemen, They passed their time at
cricket. tennis, shooting and hunting,
and let the farm look after itself. 1t was
good fun as long as il lasted, and they
had plenty Of outdoor exercise. But
farming in England, Of all places, must
be carried on upon the closest thriftiest,
most economic principles. There must
be no play, At all events.
Then. lot Of gentlemen's and noble
mems sons have been sent out to Amer
lea. Lord Litchfield's son, the Hon.
Claude Anson, is a sample. He has gone
out to Texas to . ranch. What he is
going TO do there, or what he can be ex-
pected to do, il puzzle. Like the scores
Of young aristocrats who go to the states
to seek their fortunes. he is quite unfit
for II. You see, when these fine young
men 60 to America, they take with them
all their indolent, lazy, grand ways; all
their tastes for cricket, tennis, ox-hunt-
ing. They can't brush their own clothes,
or carry a bag. or do anything that .
-seryant should do.
SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTY.
The fact is, the only solution to the
difficulty is what l have suggested.
Stop educating boys TO be gentlemen
and teach them TO be men. Discourage
all taste for dress, and make them wait
upon themselves. II they have to earn
their living, get them accustomed to the
doing Of whatever accompanies actual
work II necessary, put stop TO cricket
and tennis the moment boy shows an
overweening fondness for either. Exer-
else out of doors is of course an admira-
BILE thing for young men; but when exer-
else becomes an excuse for idle amuse-
ment, which fox-hunting, cricket play
ing, ard lawn-tennis fooling have to-day
become in England. it is better that .
man did without exercise. say. For
men who can afford to amuse them
selves from morning until night. il is bad
enough: but for men who can't, il il
simply ruinous. Everything they do
that is not amusing becomes q bore
Work to such men is not amusing-at all
events not when the novelty wears of
Work. in its true, real sense, is a bore.
They hate it. Until they are educated
to like it there will be no use in thinking
Of what work to give them. And therein
lies the whole thinG. Cor. San
Francisco Argonaut-
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