New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-05
BEING A BOY.
II Is q troublesome Disease, bit it is Not Nee.
e,sa-i Fatal.

II Is troublesome Disease, bit it is Not Nee.
e.sa-i y Fatal.
used to be a boy once, but I seem
to have got over it says a writer in
the n. Y. Times. Boyhood is Curl.
Gus disease, but every MIN has to take
his dose OF 1t. Hs does not mini it at
the time; but when his complete cure
has been effected. be looks back over
the period OF the attack, and won ders
if he could over have had anything SO
bad as that. A boys troubles are
mental. He has strange notions of
life, and they rattle him go that he
doesn't seem 70 get square with mat
tiers and thin, IS in the estimation OF
any disinterested observer. OF course.
the boy thinks he is having a James
dandy time; but every one else knows
he is not
For instance. boy thinks it is real
good fun to 60 to bed with all his
clothes on, and lie awake for three
hours till the Old man has swallowed
his sleep-coaxer and sought his downy
perch. Then the boy gets out OF bed.
climbs out Of the back window and
down rain spout, barking his shins
and SHINING his knuc!zles on the way.
and walks three miles across plowed
fields to steal a watermelon out of
patch. And the next day. when they
have watermelon for dinner at home,
do you suppose that makes the boy
feel sore, as it would u man? Not
much. The boy has had his fun, and
the chances are that he'll get up and
do the same old act all over again
| day after tomorrow.
Again !, boy th nhs it's fun to put an
empty soap box on top OF two logs,
and paddle himself up and down
brook where there are no lighthouses,
no harbors. and not more than twelve
inches OF water. counting the mud on
the bottom. A boy thinks it's fun to
row q boat, too. He will get aboard a
big, heavy skiff, and o pair of seven
| foot oars, when the thermometer indi-
Gates SOC in the summer house. and
he'll pull himself around and ground
| in ring, and cut S. and figures 5 on
the water, and tn nix he's having more
fun than a grand army man drawing a
pension.
A boy thinks It's fun, too.to get four
old bricks and build himself an oven,
and then to make q wood fire in it,
and roast four peachblow potatoes with
the skins on. and eat them without
salt. Two boys who can have unto
themselves a small feast like this, ac-
companied by eaifyinc conversation
| about the determination Of the Sioux,
think they're having more fun than
you or would at u public dinner OF
fifteen courses.
When hoy gets over being. n boy
and looks back over tie period OF his
disorder. he often wonders how it hap
pened that he lived through it. But it
appears to be pretty generally admit
ted by medical experts that the boy
hood disease is not neces sary fat.l. It
does away with few Of its victims, to
be sure: but they are those who are
affected with the acute form in which
twenty-'oot rivers appear three feet
deep, and double barrel shot guns are
mistaken for P,ndean pipes.
There is one form of the disease
which ought to prove fatal but for
some inacrutabIe reason does not.
That is the form which causes the
patient to imagine that .jewsharps.
flies, banjoes and horse-idi dies produce
music. Usually. however, they just
let the disc Sc wear itself out. 1t
wears q great many people out too;
but no matter.