The National tribune., 1896-03-19

lend of humanity we must first deal justly
! with the eeutler. frazier sex, aud wipe out the
| pernicious and ignoble custom which makes it
easier for man TO violate the code of social,
! moral, aud business ethics than woman. Then
1 leave her natural wants 10 the guidance of her
noble, Intelligent feminine intuition, and rest
assured the world will be happier and better
for it.
Julius W. Gogarn, Grand Rapids. Mich.
THE Boys SIDE.
Friends OF THE &C. AND LH.w.: I sm
on the boys side. They deserve champion.
They are often abused, and hard and undeserv-
ing things said about them.
Ii is true they are hard to manage in school.
! know they are full of antics, plan many
tricks, aud accomplish many Jokes; but they
are not thoroughly understood by most OF
those who have authority over them, who do
not realize that the high-spirited boy is de-
veloping into the pushing, successful business
man of after years.
Some of the accusations against the boys are
indices of superior life in them, and the
legitimate outgrowth of their multitudious ex-
periences.
TIE girls life is circumscribed. Her ex-
perienccs only occasionally extend beyond the
home, the lawn, the garden, or the school
room; while the boys home is the world.
He climbs every surrounding hill, and
makes excursions into the forest and over
plains. He knows the coyotes hole, the ground
BOg's nest, the fish shoal, where the squirrel
hides, the birds hatch their young the hen sits,
the yellow-jacke;s build; and if there is a
hornets nest within 10 miles he knows just
where t is and on the limb of what tree it
hangs.
He can locate all the orchards and vineyards
and watermelon patches in the surrounding
community, and knows when their products
are ready for use. He sees everything; he
bears everything; be handles everything be
dares.
Ho is cosmopolitan in his makeup, in his
sympathies in his likes and disiikes in his
knowledge, in his will power; ne can ask a
thousand questions in thousand minutes that
will puzzle a thousand wiseacres; he is ana
lytle. and viii on opportunity dissect watch,
just to see how it is fixed inside, aud to give
the matchmaker job.
TAis is the kind of boys we have to deal
with They 90 TO Sunday School. We hunt
~ some prosy mother or old maid or mex
rerienced yonng girl and appoint such TO
teach that class of boys.
Teacher and pupils have but little in CON-
mon. Their likes and dislikes antipodal !;
their experiences are as different as those Of
the Gagged canary and the eagle. That woman
teacher VINO never climbed a sapling, or hooked
apple from a farmers orchard, or played a
game of shiny" or stcle n ride on a street
]
pered the alleys aud streets at all hours, catch.
| ing glinpses of all kinds of life; that woman,
who, at the age OF 90 does not know one half
IS much Of life in general as the boy Of 10 or
IL. IS placed there, and is expected to teach
that class Of boys.
Tic result is a familiar one, but the reason
somehow is poorly understood. Then. under
these circumstances, do you wonder that the
boy OF Is is such scarce article in Sunday
School!
Why not meet the boy on bis own ground
be more patient with him? Most Of his antics
are natural Characteristic Of his class. The
jack knife. the kite. the top, the skate. the
slod, marbles. etc. arc of as much importance
to him as the doll is TO his sister.
Or. yes. be viii white stick or cut papers
IN the family reoH, and you will drive him
from the house for the dirt; not realizing
how clean that dirt really is. and that his occu-
patton in the house viii keep him off the
street.
'Boys win be boys" There always have
been. and ] guess there always will be- boys;
aad they must have an innocent outlet to their
animal Spirits else the result will be disas-
trous
The boy is also vivid dreamer, and his
struggles IN the arms OF Morpheus indicate
that he is enjoying q forefaste Of real JOY, AS
the panorama floats past with skating, coasting,
| hrecracherz, and scenes from Halloween night
as prominent features.
Aud as the Chinese invention, now natural
lied ty Uncle SAM contains oceans of fun for
tie boys, so. when the eagle screams on Inde-
pendence Day. on which by common consent
tbe Toys have full license. do not fro~n or scold
u perchGnce the overlooking spirit Of boy
sends frecracker exploding about your feet
but rather smile the smile of appreciation rs
he gives vent 10 his pent-up patriotism by
greeting you in the native tongue of China.
And when few months later yea ex perience
s0f'le Of the boys praDks attributable to their
old lime habit Of celebrating Halloween night,
DO cot charge IL up 10 a natural trait Of mali
cfousuess, but rather 10 their OVERLOOKING fun
loving spirit DO moi antagonize the boys but
rather court their friendship, and they will be
your friends forever.
There is also a wee bit OF policy in the make
up 81 the boy, as his sudden usefulness about
The house a few weeks prior to the advent of
Santa Claus seems to demonstrate Aud hop
iBg The reeollections OF my boy hoods DAYS may
Sill seem natural 10 the new crop Of boys,
am, as ever, on the boys side
John Brunny, Fort Scott Kan.
LITTLE BoY's WAR STORY.
DEAR EDITOR: am &C. boy II years old.
j joined the &C. year ago. l am going to
write a true story:
There was a boy. He lived in Canada
when he was Is he read Uncle Toms Cabin"
u i8aSe btHn "sDb 10 nelD tne NOftn. lie lcft
home AVID crossed the Suspension Bridge. He
enlisted and was sent South.
lis father was dead aud bis mother did not
know where he bad gone. dc took fever and
was sick Tor some months, and could not write
| TIL he got better
When he wrote and told his mother where
he was she was glad he was helping in a good
cause.
lie was in several battles. aud at New gerne
when the yellow fever WAS there.
Ii was over three years before he got home
When the war was over he carried the colors
back 10 Washington.
Ma our nag forever wave proudly in the air
No other flag can with IL compare.
Donald ID. Landon, Etua, Ark.
A BoSG-sTLEST MEMBER.
/ To THE LOYAL HOME WORKERS. | have
] been a silent reader of the L.H.W for some
/ timei but, with others seldom heard from. am
/ stlll a faithful mcuber in the cause of Progress
/ and Patriotism, ms every good citizen should be
! WHO lives within the bounds OF the United
/ STATES Government and seeks 10 DO protected
\ by the laws Of the land.
Our worthy Secretary, Brother Amos +, Sea-
man, is still heing attacked for criticising the
Riirs. No doubt ii is hard for him TO find girl
4 that would just sait him. but many of the girls
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