, 1889-01-17
rBE GERMAN sCHOoLBOr.

There srs 0sod Psints About uio.
Though he Differs From Our Hoys.
The German sohoolboy b not much sea
boy according 70 American ideas. He \ .
very sedate and polite little chap. He hss
S SS:r & rr:S:ss sn Ss he :,ss
him for Mark Twain's good Iitsls hoy. He
gets up very early In the morning .
irudse o6 TO school - strsighs = BE ssssu
bow legs will carry him. His fsos es1
hands are clean. He tov hs y eon,beS
veil eack from his shiny red torehseA.
His trousen may b svsr 20 carefully
patched, they are never ragged. f
He carries his books 10 . knapssck -
bis back. This knapsack 10 great shins.
the German email boy thinks. because s6s
His favorite amusement b to get lot q
little white haiped, shiny. faced comrades,
with knapsaclss on their backs, In military
line. He marches them up and down b.
fore the school house during tho recssseA,
drilling them In the goose step or teaching
them how to salute, present and wheel.
This military drill " ~ dear to tho small
German heart as 10 scrub, 0ne-Old-Cat or
marbles TO the small american heart. In
dian base and football would be too rough
afraid OF getting Kicked on the shins, or al
being tumbled over in the dirt. He never
gets tir-d however. Of trying to turn his
pigeon toes out rs he marches his company
along the street after school. He knows
all about the words Of command and abuse
which the officers use iu drilling the
soldiers, because he has watched the drills
ut the barracks every holiday. Indeed the
height OF his sch oolboy ambition is to gst
tiny hemlet bearing the arms Of his faith
erland and red and blue uniform. He
longs to be soldier just ~ an east ssds
New York boy longs TO become cowboy.
The Gegman soho 0lboy IL not much 0f
. fighter. He sl"ps and scratches his coma
rsdes occasionally, but he never Furnishes
them. Like his father, he o.n Gu. sli
doesu't know how 70 ball his nsts. Whsa
another boy slaps him he becomes vesy
digninsd. ., He doesn't say,. YOU'RE an
other" orsa{ffet my big brother TO Hx
You Fritsis oPYsphei%sr" ho iisps oct
big s:sS.n s:.y % ::s ::9s'0' =
The GefntSh tchoolboy has much bsttsr
manners for his years than the GernaA
student. Whom only 9 ser9 yssrs old 10
:ays, EXCUSE ms,""if you please" snt
can boy would say them onos. He tips
his hat 10 every one who speaks with him
on the street. He will try patiently for
Ave minutes TO tell . tourist whore The oas-
tie or library is, and doesn't laugh whsa
the tourist calls the library Tho" in.
stead ot "she," or the castle ''she" instsaA
OF "it."
In the school room the German boy b
not the young scapegrace that Tenier has
painted him. He doesn't know anything
about chewing and thro wing paper wads.
DE doesn't kick the boy who sits before
him, aud he doesn't pull the hair Of his
neighbor. He doesn't even understand the
utility of . crooked pin. His teacher al-
ways maintains such u careful watch over
his movements that he has no time for
these side issues. he therefore learns Q
vast deal moro ip the same length of time
than the American boy.
A little chap OF IL or 13 years generally
knows all about that bad man, Napoleon.
He caa tell just how Napoleon beat the
good Prussian king at iona and then In
suited the beautiful Queen Louise &C Ber.
lin. Heknows just how many Thousands
Of the allied troops put down Napolon At
Leipsic. n hs 10 q Leipsio schoolboy hs
will point out reverently The room in the
old Rathhsn where the wicked Napoleou
lived while in Leipsic.
Then the German sch0olboy can tell q
tremendous deal Of anecdote, biography.
and fable concerning Martin Luiher.
Frederick the Great, the Great Kuriurst,
and iher German heroes. In fact. IL Is
the small German boys education in the
history of his native land that makes him
a hot little patriot at 10 years, and the pro-
verbally loyal soldier in after years.
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