The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-10-16
BEING A BOY.
It Is = TrOsI b'.some DIS, Sc. Slt 81 Is MI Net.
esaly Fzia

used tip be boy oncs. but seem
to have gbt over IL SAYS a writer in
the n. Y. Times. Boyhood is curl
GUS disea5e. but every nan has 10 take
his dose Oh it H does rot mind Ii q,
the time; but when his complete cure
has been efeciel. he LOOKS back over
the perio1 OF the attack. 4nd won ders
ii he could ever have had anything SO
bad as that A boys troubles are
mental pie has strange notions OF
lie. and they rattle him so that he
doesn't 4 m N get square with mat
tiers aud ihin 5 In the estimation oil
any disinl arrested observer. Of course.
the BOY thinks ne is having James-
dandy tirde; but every one else knows
he is not.
For ipsa nee. boy thinks it is real
eo"G fun to go TO bed with all his
clothes ola, and lie awake for three
/ hours tilllthe old mEn has swallowed
his sleep-Soaxer and sought his downy
perch Then the boy gets ont of bed,
climbs out of the back window and
down 4 rain spout. barking his shins
and slEinniug his ilnuc6!cs on the way.
ami walks three miles across plowed
fields to steal a watermelon out of n
patch. Aud the next day. when they
have watermelon for dinner at home,
do you suppose that makes the hoy
feel sore, rs it would map Not
much. The boy has had his fun. and
the chan ,es are that he'll get up and
do the. ssIue old act all over again
day ss'rrsr3o-morrow.
Again boy th nks it's fun to put an
empty soap box On top of two logs.
and paddle h ms4lf up and down a
brook where there are no lighthouses,
no harbors. and not more than twelve
inches OF waller. counting the mud on
the bottom. A boy thinks it's fun to
row boat, too. He will get aboard a
big, heavy skiff. and pair Of seven
foot oars. when the thermometer indi-
Gates 90s in the summer house. and
he'll pull himself around and around
IN ring, and cut SIS and figures 8 on
the water, and think he's having more
fun than grand army man drawing a
pension.
A boy thinks It's fun. too, to get foui
old bricks and build himself an oven.
and then to make wood fire in it,
and roast four peachblow potatoes with
the skins on. and eat them withou /
salt Two boys who can have unto
themselves a small feast like this, ac-
companied by edifying conversation
about the determination OF the Sioux,
think they're having more fun than
you or would at public dinner OF
fifteen courses.
When boy gets over being boy
and looks back over the period OF his
disorder. he often won lers how it han
pened that he lived through it. But it
appears to be pretty generally admit
ted by med cal experts that the boy
hood disease Is not necessary fatiL II
does away with fex OF its victims, to
be sure; but they are Those who are
affected with The acute form in which
twenty 'o1t rivers appear three feet
deer, and double-baFrel shot guns are
mist ken for P ndean pipes.
There is one form of the disease
which ought - prove fatal but. for
some in-crulabe relson does not.
That IS tue form which causes the
patient 10 imaginc that jewshorps.
fifes. banjoes and horse-fd lies produce
music. n Never. they just
let thc-eSs Sc wear itself out II
wears a grea, many people out, toui
bat no matter.