The record-union., 1893-07-22
BESELENA'S BOYS.
The Seattle Maiden Expresses Her
Preference.
characteristics of the Youth of Sev-
eral of the Leading NATIONAL
tiles in the World.

Every boy wants to be President Of the )
United States. From the time he IS able |
to see and understand what is going on |
about him in the big busy world he cher i
ishes this idea. AS soon as he is big |
enough to be told anything this fact is |
impaired to him. His birth, his sur |
roundings-all these are secondary con- |
siderations. Even if he be the son of |
laborer, he has just as much chance OF
being President as the son of the ablest |
politician that is, if he has the requisite
amount OF brain tissue. With brains and
pluck and courage the American boy can
accomplish wonders.
This great desire ever before the small
boy causes him to gaze at the world
through a pair Of roseate spectacles. 1t
is a hard thing to discourage a good,
healthy Yankee boy. Like rubber pail
tossed by Dame Fortunes hand. ne re-
bounds from all adversities with the
same impenetrable vigOr with which he
started out. In appearance he has
round, good-natured face, covered with
freckles of various sizes; his halr SUCKS
out through tattered straw hat; his
trousers are torn at the knees, and you
can see various degrees of patchwork
adorning them; his feet are bare and are
crossed one over the other as he leans
idly against q convenient door-post
whiting a stick and whistling anything
that comes into his little head, from the
dead March in Saul' to the latest popu-
lar air.
The Yankee boy is shrewd to driving
| bargain, and keeps a watchful eye on the
mighty dollar, and he devises various
ways and means of obtaining this dollar
The fever of the age is upon these mlnla-
| ture men, as it is upon their elders, and
| thew know that without this necessary
| evil even the Presidential chair is an i'm
| posi- 6ility.
The German boy is exactly the opposite
! to his Yankee brother. He is phleg-
matic-that seems his chief characteristic
in one word; he is good-natured, too, like
the American boy, but he lacks ambition.
| He knows he can never be either Kaiser or
! President, but in spite OF this RESTRICTION
| he takes life philosophically. At an early
age he shows tendency toward pretZels
and beer He likes nothing better than
to spend a Sunday afternoon, If 1t is
warm and pleasant, in company with his
parents at some German summer resort
where he sips the beer from his father s
glass, eats bologna sausage and pretzels,
and listens to music discoursed from
| German band.
The son of the Fatherland likes
music. This liking is born in him, and
he can no more help it than he can his
nationality He has decided preference
for Wagner, and stems to the clash and
fury of the orchestra in Interpreting one
of that masters work with look OF con-
tented satisfaction. When he grows up
he will perhaps be leader of a band HIM
self, or proprietor of summer resort.
You have all seen the little Irish boy
the wild, care-free son of the old Emerald
Isle. The two chief characteristics OF the
Irish boy are his wit and his temper.
Every one knows that the very first place
his mother carried him was to kiss the
Barney stone. He is a good-natured
little fellow, but give him half chance
and lie will fight it out with as much
science, at least with as great guStO, as
Jim Corbett himself. His sole ambition
is to be policeman, and when he grows
I'D he gratities this desire. Then proudly
he struts down the street the first day he
r dons his suit of blue with its big silver
star. The President himself on Inaugural
ton day never felt prouder. Or, perhaps,
he becomes an Alderman and dictates in
ward politics; but whatever he is, he is
always the same, good-natured to fault.
The little French boy finds his CHIEF
amusement in playing soldier with a
little wooden army, and as he manages
. the maneuyers of his soldiers he sings
, la Marseillaise." He imagines he is q
second Napoleon or Marshal n ey and puts
Z his whole heart and soul into his play,
} Whatever the French boy attempts he
does it with his whole soul. He is Ell
thusiastic, impulsive and combative. He
has strong opinions, and is ready to fight
t and bleed and die to MAINTAIN these
opinions. If he is wrong, as he often is
, as his impulsiveness often lead him intC
= error-he is ever ready and willing tc
: frankly admit his faults. He usually turns
out to be soldier, because he, too, has {
tendency forever in him which is war
: like.
I And now for the last of our pictures
The little Italian boy. with big, dark
; dreamy eyes and swarthy complexion
his chief pastime is TO stand in the sun
g He loves sunshine, because 1t remind