The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-03-02

be nm in-door boy who falls 4 49,,
this saint and the country laL -sela.,.
gets into his clutches
There Il another kind Of how Mn.
should live out-of-doors. H. i IN.
timid. emotional. merely nervous w,
apt TO be labeled ''giri-bcy" Fss
temperamcnts fall 70 these lads often
and none are more easily misunder.
stood. The fellow will moi ficht: N,
risks appal him. II in the water. M
likes 10 feel bottom. He has 4 rool
chance 81 going 10 pieces early; hi II
he lives he comes 70 something. and
only needed kindly help 70 have given
him in youth the sturdincss he misses
so much In later life.
will recall two such fellows. We
used to try to make them fight one an
other. II was like a battle between
two doves. One grew 70 he 4 gallant
Major-Gcncral In our great war. and
the other became q resolnie and fear.
less guerilla soldier in The widest
fighting ON the Kansas line in that great
strife.
What did Wordsworth mean about
the child being tho ''fa,hcr Of the
man?' Character is often d question
Of health. Out-of-doors is a great
stcadier Of nerves. and those lads
should get II early and in large doses.
II wars were fought indoors. every
| body would run away at once.
rode once through the Yellow stone
and across Montana in days when Sit
ting Bull was q name Of fear. and The
common. daily risks 81 :-sys' w"rA =
rious enough A bad ford was our first
experience. and my saddle turned An
hour later on a rocky path IN canyon
eight hundred feet deep. Idccliae 70
say how scared l was; but a week later
we were all Of Us more or less ind fer
ent to danger. II was worth while 10
90 into the woods once a year 70 get
made over again in this fashion, and
..kind Of feel yourself persimmcncd up
a Bit" as my guide Dan Harrington
used to say. when we floated together
down the swift Allegash.
Among the indoor boys are often
good scholars, who lead their classes.
and at college take honors. and then
some fine day merely stop living for
want Of good stomachs or sound hears
II seems as IL some Of them were wound
up to run just so long and no longer.
But suppose that they 20 through.
and come TO the bar. or get % the no
bier position Of physician. and are
looked 70 asthe successes Of the future
Then something happens. and the man
ceases To live. Meanwhile some young
scamp who spent his youth in the man
u~facture Of legs. and took honors =
baseball. picks up the peach the other
fellow let fall. and goes on comfortably
munching il. with health for a partner.
having illustrated the fact that life 4
essential to success.
What | want TO say 10 the boy WIZ
merely studies or reads. and does no
also play. Is that plenty Of men WIN y
life who never did much with thei
heads in youth; but, that, as = rule. "a
great winners in the contest Of man
hood must have healthy bodies. an
that youth Is the season for play.
Il Very often it i not the boy fanl
that he has 10 outdoor life and n
taste for il. The father. a lucky mer
chant or manufacturer. proud 81
clever lad. sets him to work early. am
secs with joy his eager ambition 81
, lcgc life the father looks upon as tim
|. lost. as four years given 70 games AM
the learning Of what makes no MAJ
materially richer. At last. wears after
, the lad grown old. and broken In M
. dull monotony Of successful tr'de'
|. comes 70 me or TO some one and says
: II am rich. ! am vrctched. What sna''
!. Ido?"
Ianswer: go and shoot ducks. lure
! trout. kill salmon. ride a horse ns
: has neither vigor nor enterprise " y
! any Of these things. A 20 traye1 ~,
! pictures. books and music. he iacke.
: custom Of liking. He has been 'or'
! , years in trade-prison, and being dr'ss
! out Of 4 sudden. knows not what % q
I The gentle art o. being pleasantly ~
" re can never know. l have mot y
learned what to say 70 that nan
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