Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-16
Your Rio Brother.

shave, and is in general the big boy of
the family. there's small tenderness for
George. He is nobody's darling"
now. He often passes days on days
without a solitary kindly, afrectionate
word addressed to him by any mortal
on earth. And for days on days he
doeSn't care, doesn't miss any love.
But there come occasional minutes
when it suddenly flashes upon him that
this lie chilling world and nobody
seems any longer to love him.
This big brother is not chicken
hearted. Quite likely he himself is at
fault that he secs no more OF the ten
der side of his homo. He avoids his
father, who begins TO be somewhat
stern with him, and TO suspect him OF
voluntarily going to the bad. He rare
ly gives his busy mothers heart much
chance 20 draw nigh to him and show
him that ,wcalth of dcathlcss love that
is ever warm toward all her babies,
whisker or no whiskcr. He DULLES
the small fry in careless, not de-
neutrality-suspicious. way. He nags his
sisters, who are about his age. and is
generally Hisagreeable TO them about
two-thirds OF the time; but it is more
the resuE of spirit Of rude fun than
want of regard for them. lie is head
full of athletics, or the regiment. or
business, ard js a great deal out of
doors. The rough and boisterous in
his nature ~ having its full develop
ment. He IL hungry most of the time.
His physical personality is just now
completing Es growth, and he has not
adjusted it 20 his mental, moral, nor his
Hsthetical personality. He often acts
like young bear.
Yet, for all that, George is by no
means hardened 10 affection; no, not by
score of years to come-I mean UNI
less he is going wrong, drinks,
carouses, and IL cosrsely animal. He is
tender-hearted. You, his sister, could
lead him with straw. You ought TO
do it. He would take to your tyranny,
which, by the thousand little womanly
arts at your command, you could cast
over him, as ducks take to water. II
you were to meet him at the door.
girl, at night, few times, with kiss
and hug; if you were 10 dance along
at his side as he went forth, few
mornings, and rs you walked TO drop
letter In the lamp-pOst box, and chat
and contide in him. and sparkle about
him like n sistrcly sunbeam-and
where is handsomcr or more manly
form than Georges TO walk the avenue
with? If you were TO pat his check
occasionally at the supper table as you
hi .hai,. f,,-t 1;,tI.,
touch, that nobody sees, but that he
would thrill under, from your girlish
pllm-this, instead OF saucy jokes at
the expense of the down on the same
cheek, which may make everybody
laugh, yet which is an exasperating
sally; If you would try. half try. girl.
Georges sister-you might win that
boy
Boys are queer creatures. anyway.
They all have soft hearts. They are
dreaming OF love two-thirds of their
time. They make love to a big dog, a
horse, the heroine OF novel-or. alas,
some actress who would delude them
for the fun OF il. This boy sometimes
feels the fact that he is crowded out"
of his mothers and fathers attention
and endearment by the younglings. He
sometimes, | say, not always, feels the
indisputable fact that home is n sort OF
clearinghouse to him. he wishes, in
such moments, that it were not so. but
he does not exactly know how to fix
things. A boy is not adroit; he has no
small courtesy ready at hand; he is at
the awkward period OF his life, and
could fight easier than he can manage
that sweet finesse that is necessary TO
win and keep the love condolences OF
home. Girl. you can do all these things
for him, nine times out OF ten. And If
you try you will be astonished by the
wealth of affection that the fellow will
pour out on you. That is, if he is not
yet poisoned at heart by some evil COM
panion of the outside world. God grant
that you yet have time, and with your
George that il is not yet too late!
A big, hardly grown young man is eX-
ceedingly sensitive in certain direct
ions, though Indifferent enough in
others. You must not make fun OF his
clothes; you simply must not.
You must not joke him about his
attempts to be older than he is. You
must not carp at his manners. his blum
ders in polite things, or his efforts TO
play the gallant with your pretty neigh
bor he can stand great many bows;
but there are sneers and laughs that cut
him to the quick. II you indulge them
it may seem of small account to-day;
but he will call you disagreeable at first,
and end by actually hating you. Years
will not suffice for the healing OF such
arrangements. OF all the people in
the house, he can endure ridicule from
his sister with the least grace; for he
often thinks with envy OF your more
graceful ways; it comes natural to
woman to be graceful rather than to
man; and for you TO sneer at his blum
ders is simply maddening. Take my
warning. Help him out in these mat
tiers, and he will never forget the kind
ness. Lend him your taste in the ques-
tion of dress. quietly and privately.
How many young fellow might
have been saved from ruin if little of
the care that is given TO the bib-and-
tucker small creatures had been be-
slowed on him. | tell you, mothers,
you had far better allow tiny Johnny
to GO with a dirty face, if necessary,
that you may have a five minutes con-
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