The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-12
A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE,
How Il Would Teach a Boy to be
a True Bayard.

a True Bayard.
Mamma nerer used to act like that.
till Alice was engaged. It makes all the
uitteref:cc in the world when you have
sister who assumes the "going to be
married' dignity. and gets private let
ters FIAT she goes off into a corner to
reaG, and wears a ring with real dia-
"monu in.
and Alice was engaged to q Toptree,
and they were such an ancient family
that | got very tired of their .gencaloei-
cal tree, besides feeling very small, and
OF no account, after Fenwick "Tree-
top, as | often called him, had conde
seconded to come into the family, for
Allce looked down on Dorothy and ]
from that pinnacle.
My name is plain Mary, and nothing
else. Mamma often told me that she
nearly called me Rose Mary
that would have been pleasant, for in
the language of flowers it means ere
mcmbrancc.'
When Jack Turpin went off to sea-as
snip surgeon-she bowed him out OF
the front door herself, and didn't give
nm chance 10 say goodbye to me,
only she couldn't see. as 1 did, the
pleading look in his eyes that said, ..be
trtco to me- I knew. thouoh NOT ,
word WAS spoken. But papa shook
hands warmly and said, 'Give us the
hgnt or your countenance again, John, 5"
aad thought it perfectly sweet Of the
white. haired old darling. But then
papa isn't ''mother with marriagea-
Die girls. SO he con say things.
1t was that set mamma so much
against Phil Rowlock, and there comes
my grievance. He was talking to the
fair Ethel Winman one evening, and
when speaking of a mutual acouaint-
ancc, Glanced to say: OF course
She encourages all the young men
to the house, for she has marriac eable
girls. 1t wasn't anybody we knew,
Out saw m;tmsna freeze. up at once
md knew he had offended her. For
she did not wait us to. marry, and SAYS
tits libel men and boys start nova
days that if you ask male creature
to your home you are yearning to take
him to your heart-and half the time
they are not able to support them
selves, much, less wife. For boys.
nowadays she says, are talking about
the other aex rs if they were grand
fathers> and had experience. l know
they Go, talk and act foolish, and when
brother Will is talking about my ex-
ttaSagant dress. l do a sharp little sum
in arithmetic, and find that while I am
satisfied with a ten-cent muslin in sum-
.mer they wear dollar-a=yard tweed,
and more jewelry than is good taste
for q girl.
So was provoked at Phil, for he is a
good sort OF boy, only he thinks it
sounds big to sheer at girls. l often won
der that boys with sisters can do it.
shouldn't wonder at an orphan, if his
mother died before he knew any thing
about her, but boys with sisters should
E1aov BETTER
And I said something like that TO the
boys. and that it was mark of a higher
civilization to be able to show proper
respect for our sex, and not treat them
as an inferior, for that day was past
And then told them bit in the papers
about o class being asked 'Why Moses
was q gentleman?' and one little boy
said, because when the daughters Of
;Jethro went to draw water the shep.
herds drove them away, but Moses
helped them, and said to the shepherds
ladies first, please. -
And / hope Moses did it in friendl,
sort of way, as one chum might to an
other, and not as if the girls were hi
interiors in any way. Whittier knows
what mean, for he wrote:
90 for knight like Bayard,
Without reproach or fear"
And always thought he was one 9
that sort himself
Well, after that, mamma was NOR
severe than ever, and talked severed
about ladies who were too free an,
easy with their girls, and Phil didn'
come back, and Jack Turpin was a
sea.
And then one day papa's secone
cousin, Randolph Massey, came to visi
u.s. He was a model young man an,
polite to torture, always standing til
we were seated, if we entered the roor,
just for a moment-and ever ready t,
pick up a peanut shell if any one hap
pened to drop one. We all thought hi
manners perfect, and held him up a