The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-22
AN ESSAY ON BOYS.
Advice to a Father Who has a Son Who
Despises Labor.


the editor Of the World, has been
passed over to my bareau for elu-
ciCation:
Editor of the World: Please in
form me the best thing to do with
boy that ont work in summer.
NJ. J.. p.
This was doubtless referred to
me because ! have given more at
tention to Human Industry than
anything else perhaps. I have also
been interested in the accumula-
tion of boys.
But to get right at the solution Of
this question, Mr.. NJ. L. B., without
stopping to try and find out what
your name is by carefully scruti-
nizing your initials, l would say at
first blush shat if I had a hoy who
would not work in summerI would
use him as a winter boy. Nothing
interests me more, NJ. L. B., than
the careful study Of boys. would
rather put on a baseball mask and
watch a boy than to 60 stealthily
into a hole in a neglected canon
and pull a grizzly bear out by the
tail. 1t is more exciting, too.
But 1 think that industry among
boys is not making such fearful
ravages as it did when I was boy.
Boys seem now to be more able to
restrain themselves in the matter
of forming industrious habits and
do not become the slaves of man
ual labor. can see that overdid
It as boy, and now that l am
abundantly able to take life easy
and enjoy well.merited rest my
whole being seems to be so soaked
in a morbid desire to work that
even in England, where it is looked
upon with horror for a gentleman
to exert himself, l frequently lost
caste by doing chores around the
barn.
In the South, where industry is
controlled almost solely by colored
people, l can see now that l lowered
myself by giving way to this wild
uncomfortable yearning for toll.
So that boys should not be al
lowed to think that industry is the
one thing for which we were
created. l wish I might say this
in an impressive way so that boys
would heed it.
How would it do for the World to
send a man down to your house, NJ.
L. B., and see what he could do
with your boy in order to make
him a summer boy?
The world wants to do what is
right by it's readers, but the trouble
is to get it's friends to harmonize on
a policy. A few weeks ago sub
scriber for the paper wrote to this
Office asking how to preserve water
melon rinds so that they would not
work in sIifmaer, and here you con,s
with wild and scedopiacFg for
a recipe that will ssKe your boy
work during the same trying sea-
son.
am anxious to adjust this mat
ter so that both of you will be
pleased, but I have good many
other things to think of, and it is
hard to give your matter the time
and thought that it really merits. !
would like to dwell at greater
length upon the horrors Of indus
try were it not for several far more
importaut questions that are wait
ing here for d reply.
On my desk there is a pressing
inquiry us to the best method fol-
the amelioration OF pimples which
it will not do to ignore. There is
also Il tear stained note from Ere
mont, O., asking what to do to re,
store animation and induce artif
ciaF respiration in hen that has
fallen into the swill-barrel through
no fault Of hers. Another sub
scriber, in spirit of badinage,
presume-for surely NO one coulC
be so ignorant asks what he cal
do to make his hydraulic ram sing
while moulting.
So you see, NJ. L. B., that a maj
who answers all these question
during the week and then write
the matter for Il thirty-two pag'
Sunday paper is what might bt
termed a busy man.
Some would tell you if your boy
will not work in summer to till-hin
up with New Orleans molaSses an'
set him il! d warm place, out tha
is no way to talk to a parent. l sa.,
use him as winter boy or swal
him with some man who has a DO,
that won't work in winter.