The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-25
SOME BOYS.

and Demoraltxing Habits.
Some boys are never in time: late to
meals, school. church. often miss q
train; keep their friends waiting after
making appointments for certain
hours. Business men do not want that
kind Of a boy in their stores or Of
fees.
Some boys are slangy; interlard their
conversation with all the slang phrases
afoat! Refined people do not admire
that style OF youth.
Some boys are disrespectful; call
their parents old man, old woman,
nickname their teachers or employers.
contradict their elders; such boys are
not usually popular.
Some boys are lazy; let their moth
ers bring up the coal and kindling.
carry the basket or bundle; let their
sisters sweep the snow off the side
walk, while they are coasting, skating
or sitting by the fire, saying 1T is SO
awful cold Such lads forget it Is
just as cold for some ono else to do
the outdoor work as it would be for
them.
Some boys are selfish. rude, thought
less, never willing to give up their
seat in crowded street-car; always
want the scat by the window in the
steam-car, even ii somebody else has
never travelled that road, and would
like to view the country; always for
get to help an aged and infirm person
across the cutters, or put letter in the
box when little child is trying to
reach up on tiptOes, and is still too
short; slam doors, or leave them wide
open; yelp like an Indian; whistle or
stamp their feet in the house when
mother has such a violent headache,
caused by being up all the previous
night with baby, who had the Group or
collie. and who has just fallen asleep.
and screams again as the noisy boy
rushes into the room; never thinks to
wipe the mud off his shoes, hang up
his coat and hat, or put his school
books in their proper place. Such boys
should try to mend their ways.
Some boys are cross and disobliging
at home; il mother wants them to go
an errand they want to know why John
or Mary can not be sent; they have
nothing. he has every thing to do;
never has any time to fly his kite or
spin his top; if baby must be amused
while mother is busy he does not see
why he has to be nurse. Frank or
Harry or some other fellow he knows
never has to do girls work. and the
cross look and disobliging manner in
which he performs the smallest task
causes every one to feel unpleasant.
and mother sad to think her SON is that
kind OF boy.
Some boys are always ready to fight;
the least thing done or said causes Of
Tense, and up goes the hand to strike;
even baby's soft cheek gets vigorous
slap. little brothers and sisters ears
Jingle, playmates shy of when he be-
gins to get angry, for they, too. have
had their share OF his kicks and cuffs.
lie thinks it manly to resent every
fancied wrong with q blow; but we
know such boys are generally the
worst kind OF towards.
Some boys arc grumblcrs and fault
finders, the weather. the pleasure cx-
cursion, the clothes they wear, the
presents received, the meals provided
by kind parents, the teachers, both in
day and Sunday-school, the concert
or party, or drive, or parlor game, or
any thing else. even the country or
town they live in come in for Il share
OF faultfinding and grumbling about.
Boys, don't. it will grow on you as the
years roll OH.
Some boys think it manly to chew
tobacco, smoke cigarettes, drink glass
Of beer or whisky, congregate on street
corners. use profane and obscene Ian
guage, desecrate the Sabbath, attend
low theaters. Such boys will find to
their sorrow that in a few years such
habits will steal all the manliness out
OF them, and they will be degraded
wrecks, summed BY the good and pure.
Some boys spend all their time in
reading dime novels and other demon
alizing literature that is broadcast
over our land. Those are the sort OF
boys who fill our warehouses and pris-
ons.-Louise Moore. in Christian al
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