The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
TO a TOUGH BOY.
words OF Counsel and Warning 10 ALI En-
bryo Desd-Bests.


bryo Desd-Bests.
Young man. have watched Won
with unqualified admiration. The
first time l beheld you. saw st 3
glance that the aim and object of your
existence was to be 8 tough boy and
you have since been my daily study.
aud each day has added to my delight
in observing the rapid strides YOU are
making toward your high and emo
bling ideal.
L am pleased st the msrtyr-like de-
votion with which you struggle with
the cigar at which your face pales.
your head reels and your stomach
trembles. but to which you adhere.
nevertheless. with . more than Spar
tan tirmness.
Again am | made happy at the fine.
manly instinct which leads you to
mingle choice slang and elegant pro-
family with your improving converse
ton, and | feel certain that the ladies,
whom YOU are naturally proud to have
their own offspring. or al least that
their boys could have The benefit of
your exemplary companion>hip.
| presume that YOU are up 10 the
taste of liquor also, for can not think
that one so Enthusiastically and praise
worthily tough a. YOU appear can have
neglected so important an element of
toughnrSs as TO take drink now and
then. and possibly occasionally TO get
tipsy. Of course you do not like the
taste of liquor. any more than YOU de-
light in the flavor of tobacco. ! I'M
derstand that perfectly. and honor YOU
all the more because of YOUR >clf-de-
NAL. No worthy object can be
achieved without more or less of dis
comfort; and | make sure that one day
YOU viii be- great destroyer OF to-
bacco and competent drunkard.
Young man, the path which Won
have marked out for Yourself in life i
perhaps not without i'll rough and rug
ged places, but it i full of promise for
Yourself and for others also.
The ruddy glow in your cheeks which
betray> your youih-of which a. a
tough you are naturally sshamed-will
shortly turn to the livid hue which
Man. with q capital NJ. and your elastic
step will after a TIME materialiZr into
the elegant >lnuch of the apntheo>i> of
the Tough boy. the Dead Beat. Your
pearly teeth will long ere then have
turned To a heautiful amber. or still
more beautiful Jet. If. in,lerd. YOU have
not succeeded in casting them from
Won a. reminders nf childhood, and
therefore unworthy of 30 tran>cendant
I character - Yourself
In tlat happy day YOU will have risen
above The few weaknesses which Vet
adhere to you. Ynu will have over
,,on.e the foolish pride which cau>c> you
la wash your face every day of your
life and which leads YOU to wear cloth
ing fashionable in cui and devoid of
tatter>. You will also have risen above
the sordid ambition of securing a name
and a place in the world, or of reaching
that station of affiuence of which I'M
your childish moments YOU still dream.
In a word. YOU will have become the
perfect being. the butterfly of which
you are A. yet q beg your pardUn) but
the ugly grub.
And then the good YOU are destined
to accomplish. In a few wears YOU will
have 80 far succeeded in demoraliZing
your stomach, and racking YOUR nerves.
and wearing out YOUR heart, and. i'm
short. knocking out YOUR entire phvsic-
al system. that Won will be the making
of the fortunes of a half score of doc
tors; and should YOU succeed in finding
a young woman fool enough 10 marry
you. and shosld YOU have children. il
will be your proud satisfaction to know
that your greatness shall live after You.
and that your children. thanks 10 their
parents toughness, shall i'm their turn
greatly aid in making the medical pro-
fession a profitable one SO long or.
rather. 80 short-ss they shall live.
Yes, Young man, you are a noble
creature. Keep on in your glorious
career. and when your epitaph is writ
ten. Il few years hence, let il consist
only of these simple but proud words: