Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-11

New York, Aug. 5.-He is our coming
citizen. He is the person who will make
our laws who will elect, who shall rule
us and who will decide whether the city
shall be under good or bad government
s sometimes his name is Patsy or Danny
then he has CLEAN in his eye, no matter
whether the wind of poverty blows cold
Z upon him or not. Sometimes his name is
Billy or Tommy, and then he has got n
sturdy goaheadatiyeness that tells that he
was born under the stars and stripes
Sometimes his name is Fritz, and then he
~ has German solidity that means u setting
his teeth together and determination to
succeed in whatever he undertakes. What
X ever his nationality, he is our coming
citizen.
"a BoyHooD IN BrsY GOTHAM.
IA think like him best when his name
& is Patsy, for no matter how hard it may
III be to sell papers in the morning or evening
there is always that merry twinkle in his
"a eyes and he is always ready to meet joke
three-quarters of the way. Hei generous
m OF heart and very sympathetic He is the
AZ idol. of the smaller boys, to whom ne has
Y taught game of marbles and to whom he
"A gives his wisdom in chunks. He isn't
N above making paper boxes for the girls,
"a but the delight of his life is to career after
fire engine, or to have a visiting ac-
quaintance with one Of the tiremen. He
will work like slave, sweeping floors and
polishing them, rubbing brasses and black
ing shoes, to get n chance TO look at the
engine and to see how it works, and to
4 crowd in with them on the patrol wagon
and help at a real fire is bliss untold. lie
a is never tired; when he was made he was
given muscles of India rubber, and he has
no nerves. When he goes home-if he has
one-and there is a woe and u wall because
the baby has cried all day he can take it
I'm his urms-small, bare skinny ones
and have it laughing in five minutes, He
is the dread of the milkman and the ice
man, for he sees no harm in getting from
them whatever he wishes without the
usual legal tender.
THE GAMIN IN POLITICS.
The time of political campaigns is glori-
ols one for him. He hurrahs with the
Democrats and yells with the Republi.
cans; he carries torch in honor of Baby
: Mckee and helps hold a banner in memory
of Baby Ruth. He goes wherever he
wishes, and if you want to make him
happy treat him to either hot corn or
hockey pokey ice cream. He has the utmost
contempt for an deliberately dressed man,
and will yell with a shrill, voice, do
YOU catch on to his giblets dudsH' and
cause some youthful dude 10 blush the
color of his pink shirt. lIo is not re-
spector of persons; he has n condescending
kindness for women and children; but il
the Gar from all the Russias was standing
by de member from de Ate,' the gentle
man representing his district would get
MS appreciation.
HIS CHARACTERISTICS.
Of his accomplishments, it may be said
that he can swim like a fish, that he can
run equal to any trained athlete, and that
he has collection of Saxon undefled that
can scarcely be matched OF his vices it
may be whispered that he will smoke any
thing from a, stump picked out Of the
gutter to real cigarette what some bloke
dropped that when he is forced to rush
the growler he'll take drink out of il and
have his ears boxed because the barkeeper
gave such short measure. But his vices
are not many. He is inclined to he con
temptuous of boy in q velvet suit what
4 rides pony" but way down in his poor
little heart there is desire to ride that
little pony himself, and sometimes the
boy on the pony would do a mean thing
that Patsy, in all his ignorance, would dis
dain.
WHEN HE GOES INTO JOURNALISM.
Sometimes after he has sold papers for
five years beginning when he was SIX he
gets to be known at the office, and is given
a position there, either to help IN the en-
tyne room, at the elevator, or, if he has IA
very good reputation, and the last boy has
died of excessive virtue, he is taken on as
office boy. From that minute he owns the
paper, he refers to himself rs 1--WE" and
( he is just as capable of making the gentle
man who writes specials warm Il char out
side, waiting for the editor, as, he is to let
TIE dfIHt WOHIHli Hu tIlub tle resi- III tle
fellers can git bite" He likes to be mis-
taken for Mr.. Dana or Mr.. Watterson,
though ne would not hesitate to snub
either. He will criticise your mode of
writing your name, and he won't hesitate
to tell woman who happens to please
vim what pretty frock she's got on. lie
pntronizes reporters in fact, has no re
Ipect for anybody except the sporting
hitor. He is occupied, when not making
pfe pleasant for visitors, in reading the
Book may be the history of Jim Shocks,
the Boy Murderer" or the old files of the
paper He is pretty sure to get advanced,
and the office boy has a better show of
being editor of the paper than the cheeky
young reporter, graduate of some swell
college, who knows il all. And the reason
Because the boy learns the practical work,
ing OF everything, and is ambitious.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Sometimes when he is about II years old
Patsy retires from the newspaper business
and joins de gang then he sleeps during
the day and floats around among the dives
or wherever mischief is brewing at night
His lower lip and jaw protrude, and liz
swaggers along, dressed so that lie is
delight to the neighborhood. He will tel
YOU he thinks nothing Of women and il
'ol want to see something in the line OF
iris go down TO Coney Island and see hi,
sdy friend. Ii you go, you will have u
rift to tho Bowery end of the island, anC
lter free concert hall; there after YOU
ave ordered beer which, respecting youl
tomach YOU decline TO touch and lcay,
for the gentlenanly waiter, YOU will see 4
young woman in pink frock and Il whit,
sash, with her hair bleached at intervals
the hair is much trizzed, fastened IN in q
coquetsh way, while the makeup on thu
young woman's face iS given every op
portunity to display itself. Having heaft
that white is
THE COLOR OF PURITY,
shn has laid H. nm thick ,1vpr the mink until
she presents the appearance of II something
between a corpse and Il whitewashed girl
however, she has put on her eyebrows
what she has left off of her face, and OIL
each end is an artistic black spot as ii they
curled just there. She sings a lovely song
about the naughty boys, then comes down
in the audience, walks up To strange meu
and says: Hello, boys; pretty hot, ain't
.it?" They get her something to cool hel
off, and Patsy sits at the other side of tht
hall and looks at her with admiration
mingled with a fine scorn.
She had a black eye the other day, which
she told the other people came from Q
knock against the door but Patsy's fist, il
il could talk could tell the story of thai
eye She works there from the time the
first boat arrives until the last one goe,
out, and when the end of the week come
she hands over her earnings to Patsy Will
the same love that Miss Lilywhite wuulC
settle her fortune upon her betrothed. Sh,
takes an immense pride in Patsy; lie is BIZ
and brawny, and whenever he wants Il
can get position as buuncer in one Of tho
low theatres. But if Patsy ever thinks, il
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