Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-11-13
HE nNEW" Small SOY.
Like His sister, He Is Now Taking GA
u New Attitude,

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Not 10 be behind his sister the con
temporary boy is now taking on a new
attitude. The small boy has Away.
been more or less of 4 mystery to TIT
social Journalist. But until the onrusl
of inventions that have increased pa
rental cares it has been comparatively
easy to devise ways and means for the
safeguarding of the household darlings
y housing student of current phenom'
ela brings facts and figures to prove
that the small boy of to-day is taking
On something like another nature. In
ether days the small boy was noted
chiefly for his love of bird-eatching, tor,
menting of dogs or cats and younger
sisters, with forays into the larder. In
fact, the sun of his depredations
though subversive of domestic tran.
guilty, was comparatively %innocuous.
To-day, however, the small boy is be.
coming a species between the predatious
Of the bandit and the daring of the ex
plorer. The police reports of a dozer
cities of the union reveal the astopish,
fact that a considerable percentage Of
tAe captures recorded are those of small
boys self-eXpatiated from home in quest
OF adventure. The circus, the sea, the
military barrack, were in old times the
longing dream of the small boy. This
is now replaced by a hankering for In.
dlan killing, %banditing on the plains, OF
the emulation of the daredeviltries OF
the Jesse James desperadoes. But ever
amcng these precious outlaws there is
mingling of youth filled with chival
llnaginings of rescuing forlorr
naldens or performing other knightly
leeds suggesting a too close application
o the novels of Walter Scott. lflderl,
sagacious police officials, asked te
count Tor the astounding increase OF
he BOY cnlprit, answer unhesitatingly
lie modern stage and the new journal
They point out that lads who
we're once addicted to the reading of the
tandard wonder volumes purveyed tol
young are now captivated by the
ensational pictures in the new Jour
ais, and at once conceive a maddenIno
sIretofndthemselyes thus portrayed
hey are, too, unduly reminded of the
llsht line between maturity and child e,
God and think to impress their manli
ess by the things that are pictured !
talked about. 1t is the consensus OF
ne police adopts that the kid bust .
ess' IS constantly growing. They give !
as their opinion that youngsters are .
o longer willing to be young when the, !
&c adventure made 50 easy by the :
ress' The absconding boy is now =
oked for as regularly in the police de ;,
lls as burglars or tramps. Indeed =
le destinations of a season of trampinp -
lder the blue skies, with no response :,
llty, no face washing or anything OF -
e domestic regime, seem to be more .,
turing to a certain run" of boys thar J.,
e circus or Indian hunting, Boys now ~
e given such a variety of study in the -,
-" my SSl d SllldtleFlng o. O.,
any things and no exhaustive knowl =,
sc OF anything. They contrast the e.,
'edom of the r%agamuilin tramp with -
elr W restrained leisure, and in a ii, L.,
ardor elope, as it were, for an ideal g..
zen the notion of being all alone, his 10
n master in the wide, wide world. is -
irresistible fascination to the imap -,
small boy. lie longs to mark the ~
terence between himself and his sis
, VINO seems to get all the attention L.
the house and the neighborhood. The eo
ycle, too, adds to the scope of the ~
rs dreams. 1t is so easy to 90 dis w.
.ces that in other days seemed so faI ~,
t after a few excursions a hundrec 49,,
es seems a small thing to the lad who th
maze a run of 30 or 40 miles. 1t j, or,
II suggested by the police sages that on
nollon OF the fatted calf is not with. 9
It's influence in the minds of Young \,
IS impatient with the undue-as the, -,
slider it%-attention paid the sister, no
lie family. Here, then, is a probleu all
the new woman. To so shape things moi
the small boy shall return to hi. shi
tent ways of innocuous adventure M,
the klondikers and other hardened ~,
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