The Press., 1892-01-14

like to be in it more; now l don't even sleep no longer than I can help, hate that room so. Freddy Jones has a real nice room with lots of sunshine in it, and his mother fixes it all up for him, and he has some place to be-. He's boy, too, but he has good time. "a =
 Viola and ma-they Imagine boys don't want nothing hardly. Viola took John Bunyan's snow shovel one day, an she painted an iceberg on it an g snow-bank an dead tree, an stood it up in the northeast corner of the back parlor and tied green ribbon round the handle. It looks awful sweet, but don't see how he's going to manage that long green rib- bon when he's shovelling snow next win ter. Bridget won't hardly let me walk through her kitchen no more. She says 1t wears the paint of the floor. "An' shure, this is no place for boys, she says thought one time I'd play with Rover on the piazza but out came ma, and she l didn't approve of It, Cause it scratched the floor, an she said t want no place for boys, anyhow. can't play on the lawn, cause it hurts the grass. Nov I'd like to know where there is 8 place for boys. I can't help being boy, and I want some place to be. o | think If folks was born grown up, like Adam and Eve, t would save little boys sight of trou- ble. Grown-up folks don't have to be scolded, or have their ears boxed, for just the same things that little boys do. tipped over glass of water one day at ] dinner. had to be sent in the kitchen, I an ma, she was mad. Yesterday, MT. Allen, the minister, was here to dinner and he spilled over his whole cup of cof- fee, but ma smiled with her eyes, and said for him to never mind, t want no mat ter; while Viola called Bridget in. to spread clean napkin over the spot, an give him some more coffee.
 I showed this to Cousin Annie; she's a schoolteacher. I told her I wanted to end up with verse of poetry; but l I couldn't think of any about boys, 'cept .."The boy stood on the burning deck, J an thought that boy hadn't much more of place to be than I. Annie said she would write me some verses. So here they are. Fl %%s TzE t 1 | NO PLACE FOR BOYS. ' What can a boy do, and where can boy
 
 If he always is told to get out of the way He cannot sit here, and he must not stanl | there. rsfFgss q ! The cushions that cover the fine rocking chair
 Were put there, of course, to De seen ant Il admired;
 And boy has no business te ever bs I tirg d. 5g ,1,7 MI sss M N The besattfuf roses and flowers tha , blod6
 On the fspr of the daaksRed sg,d ..s-s..ss
 boys; The houss is no place, anyway, f5r theii noise. N Yet boys must walk somewhere; and what
 if their feet 'y Sent out of our houses, sent into the street..
 Should step round the corner and pause
 at the door
 Where other boys feet have paused often | before; Should pass through the gateway of gilt.
 tering light,
 Where jokes that are merry and songs
 that are bright I Ring out warm welcome, with fiatterine
 voice,
 And temptingly say, Here's place for the
 boys?" >'--' Ah what if they should? What if youl
 boy or mine
 Should cross Fer the threshold that marks
 out the line
 :I 'Twixt virtue and vice, 'twixt pureness E'f and sin, % @ And leaveall his innocent boyhood within Oh! what if they should, because yor
 and I, s ,.,s$ While the days and the months and the years hurry by, &. :ss e., Are too busy with cares and with life's
 feeting joys
 To make round our hearthstones place I for the boys.
 There's place for the boys. They. will I find 1t somewhere;
 And If our own homes are too daintily fail For the touch of their fingers, the treae
 of their feet, '.'- :. :. >' They'll find 1t, and find it, alas in tn I street, -,. Mid the gliding of sin and the glitter Q
 vice; N And with heartaches and longings we pa.
 dear price @ :, a,: For the getting of gain that our lifetime employs, If we fail in providinga place forthe boys A place for the boys,-dear mothers,
 pray,
 As cares settle down round our shor I earthly way: I Don't let us forget by our kind, loving
 deeds s <. z5
 Toshow we remember their pleasures ant j needs, :ra @s l Though our souls may be 1exed with tn, problems of life, ,sssas 1-5 Il And worn with besetments and toiling ant strife. z sas.s- Our hearts will keep younger your tiret l heart and mine-r.zs ;;s. .sSs .'s 5. a:3 4 If we give, them aplace in their innermos
 shrine. .ss.:s ;f. < ..ss \ :. x, t}.5s. : : And to life's latest hour t will be one 0 k, -t+ our iOyss es .5s4 ss11 =. 41s 1 That we kept, a small corner, a place fo >, the boys.
 THE MAN WHO KICKS.
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