The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-23
Short Talks With the Bows.

My son, | heard you speak ofyour
father the other day as "the old
man. and OF your mother as cher
hishness.''
What's the matter that you can't
refer to them as yourfather and moth.
er?
Suppose your parents should speak
OF you as "the kid" and "the fly"
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 ia.
ther or mother in ten had the advant-
ages you enjoy. Forty or fifty years
ago they walked three@r 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
i'll this country. Years ago a calico
dress was seen at church far oftenel.
than silk. Men went to meeting clad
III 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 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, ifyourmoth-
er is trembling and weak and has no
care for the frivolities ofthis day, it is
toll which has brought these, davs OF
hard work and nights full OF anxiety
that their children might be spared
the same slavish life. Where they
wore blue-ieans you have broadcloth.
Where they ate iohnny-cake you have
sweet cake and pie. Where their mode
OF lie 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 q word to saw 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 a dime to spend
for Fourth OF July he thought himself
well fixed. The boys want about S5
apiece nowadays, and that's all gone
before noon
Ii we got new book it was con.
sldered great piece Of extravaganza
The lad who had cash enough to walk
into panoramic exhibition, buy a
pair of skates, or treat himself to
sweetmeats was looked upon by the
rest OF us as JAY Gould.
Im 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 will 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 second hand museum
and no cash to run it.
| dislike stingy boy, but when I see
a lad planliing 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 a big diff
ference between being stingy and being
economical. The richest men OF
America are liberal in giving to
churches, asylums and to the uniortu.
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 fifteen years
old you've got a sneaking idea into
your head that it's big thing to use
an oath occasionally. You never
made a 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 a mean
habit, for it is a habit. ] know tha.
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
swearer III this country who doesn't
feel aqulet satisfaction in sitting down
to converse with 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 fool or drunkard. Even a
heather can swear.
Now, don't get the idea that | want
you to be too good The too good
boy is % nuisance. He was born to be
an angel, but they forgot to spike on
the wings. Go to the circus! Certain
ly! know there are people in this
world who look upon circus as the
next thing to a 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
you every animal and curiosity, and
then we'd take reserved seat and see
the circus. When a man has trained
a horse or mule or dog to obey him
with almost human intelligence he has
proved to you the practical value OF
patience and perseverance. Every
shade of men will stop on the street 70
see man lift, or to watch a jumping
match. Then why deprive you of the
sight OF the performance of an athlete,
who has spent years to bring his
strength and agility to perfection?
Would | take you to the theatre?
To good play-yes; to Buffalo Bill
transforming hurrah-no. Five PLAYS
out OF seven are healthy in sentiment
and point moral so plainly that
even a child can catch on.
l want my boy to rub against every
day life q little while he is n boy. Ii
he has an idea that q hunters lite is
tull OF Juicy buffalo steaks and victo.
ries over grizzlies, I'm going to send
him into the woods for week to live
on woodchuck meat, carry q cold in
his head and be jumped out OF has
boots the first time an owl boots. Ii
he asks for money I'm going to give it
to him, but | want to sit down OF a
Saturday night and see how he spent