The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-17
A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE.
How I Would Teach a Boy to be
a True Bayard.

ill Alice was engaged. 1t makes all the
difference in the world when you have
sister who assumes the ''going to be
married. dignity. and gets private let
ters that she goes off into a corner to
read, and wears a ring with real dia-
mond in.
And Alice was engaged to a Tortree,
and they were such au ancient family
that got very tired of their genealogi-
cal tree, besides feeling very small. and
] OF no account, after Fenwick Tree
] top" as often called him. had conde.
scended to come into the family, for
Alice looked down on Dorothy and l
from that pinnacle.
My name is plain Mary, and nothing
else. Mamma often told me that she
nearly called me "Rose Maryland
that would have been pleasant, for i'm
8 the language of flowers it means .sre-
membrance.n
When Jack Turpin went off to sea-as
ship surgeon-she bowed him out of
the front door herself, and didn't give
MIN chance to say goodbye to me.
only she couldn't see. as did, the
pleading look in his eyes that said. ''be
true to me-" I knew. though not a
word was spoken. But papa shook
hands warmly and said. "Give us the
hghtofyour countenance again, john"
and thought it perfectly sweet of the
whlte.haired old darling. But then
papa isn't mother with marriagea-
Die girls, so he can say things.
II was that set mamma so much
against Phil Rowlock, and there comes
my grievance. Ho was talking to the
lalr Ethel Winman one evening, and
when speaking of a mutual acquaint-
anee' chanced to say: "Of course
she encourages all the young men
% the house. for she has manageable
girls. F" 1t wasn't anybody we knew,
out saw mamma freeze up at once
and knew he had offended her. For
ae aid not want us to marry, and says
Ills libel men and boys start nova
Gays that If you ask male creature
,@your home you are yearning to take
MN to your heart-and half the time
hey are not able to support them
selves, much less a wife. For 6ous,
nowadays, she says, are talking about
,ne other sex as if they were grand
ia'hers, and had experience. know
.ney do talk and act foolish, and when
brother VIII is talking about my ex-
,aavagant dress. do a sharp little sum
~ arithmetic, and find that while am
sa'isned with ten-cent muslin in sum-
mer, they wear dollar-a-yard tweed,
and more jewelry than is good taste
for girl.
90 was provoked at Phil, for he is a
sood sort OF a boy, only he thinks it
sounds big to sneer at girls. l often won
aer that boys with sisters can do it. 1
shouldn't wonder at an orphan, if his
n,''ner died before he knew any thing
ABOUT her, but boys with sisters should
kaoc better.
and said something like that to the
"'.s. and that it was a mark of a higher
s'saizatlon to be able to show proper
Inspect for our sex, and not treat them
~ an inferior, for that day was past.
ana then told them bit in the papers
soout class being asked "Why Moses
nasa gentleman?" and one little boy
,aia' Because when the daughters of
,e'aro went to draw water the shep-
ae,us drove them away, but Moses
'ped them. and said to the shepherds:
Ladies first, please"
ana hope Moses did it in friendly
~ .s.s Of way. as one chum might to an
s'aer, and not as if the girls were his
sleriors in any way. Whittier knows
wat mean, for he wrote:
70, for knight like Bayard,
without reproach or fear.'
a aa ! always thought he was one of
vat sort himself.
"ell after that, mamma was more
asere than ever. and talked severely
.9Out ladies who were too free and
.ass with their girls. and Phil didn't
sa'e back. and Jack Turpin was at
aug then one day papa's second