The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-12-01

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late Thomas Hughes went down deep
into the heart OF every manly, fun-ioving
right-thinking boy, when he drew his
immortal picture of life IN the great En-
glish school OF Rugby. Tom Brown vas,
after all, just plain, everyday sort Of a
boy, one who never did anything that
| lay beyond the scope of thousands OF
other average Anglo-SaXon lads, and
that is one of the strong reasons for his
popularity. Every boy who reads Of his
doings in School Days at Rugby feels
that he can do just as we'll as Tom did.
| and thereby become the stra ghtforward,
| popular and successful young man that
the public school boy finally developed
| into.
But, after ali, there has been but one
Hans Andersen, one Tom Brown, and,
while we should not lose our reverence
for those classics. let us not forget that
the world has progressed in many ways
since it first wept over the sorrows Of
''The Little Mermaid" and that the as
founding march of science has wrought
prodigious changes in our condition OF
living since Tom went gayiy posting
nome through rural England for his first
vacation at time when there were no
railroads to make the trip one of trifling
consequence instead of a serious jour-
ney.
There are things for boys and girls to
think Of today that Squire Browns phil
osophy never dreamed of, and we are
forcibly reminded Of this circumstance
by reading a little pamphlet which tells
OF the special features designed for the
1898 numbers of the Youths Companion,
a periodical which might well have car
ried on some Of its earlier subscription
lists the name Of Tom Hughes, as ii was
a popular Juvenile weekly at the time
that he and the late Dean Stanley were
schoolboys together in Rugby and busy
ing themselves with the fun and the
mischief and the serious work that the
whole English-speaking world has since
become familiar with.
But in spite of its great age. the
Youths Companion seems 10 have kept
well abreast of the times, for the pros
pectus shows us that II will deal, during
the coming year, with such subjects Of
today as the gold fields of the Yukon"
which will be described by miner who
has actually spent winter on a claim
lying within the Arctic Circle; the work
ing girls who support themselves in
newspaper offices, factories and hospi-
tails, and who are now class thou
sand times greater in Importance and
numbers than ever before in the worlds
history; amusing phases of the sport
called bicycling, which has taken such
a firm hold on both young and old; sci |
entific kite flying, which will be explain |
ed by Lieutenant H. D. Wise Of the |
United States army, and the marvellous
Y ray.
These. however, are only a few of the !
extremely up-to-date subjects. Many !
other things are promised for the COM
ing year, and so wise is the selection in |
the matter of topics as well as writer's |
that one is forced TO wonder how such |
an old publication as the Youths Com
panion can keep its youth as we'll as it |
has
There is an old Persian proverb which |
says that a buyer has need of thou
sand eyes and the seller but one, and |
certainly no buyer has greater need of all !
these eyes than ne whose duty it is to |
select reading matter for such a publica- |
ton as this. one. He must consider, first |
of ali, the necessity for exciting and |
holding the attention Of Juvenile read !
ers Then ne must remember that truth. !
honor, courage and intelligence are quail |
tiles that should underly every bit OF tie |
fiction. It would be impossible to make !
a boys hero out OF any lad who so far |
forgot the schoolb0y code of honor as to |
tell The teacher about the wrongdoinSs |
of companion. In real life telIale OF /
this sort would receive the old-fashioned |
schoOlboy penalty of three kicks |
and be thankful for escaping SO /
easily; but there is something in the life |
of locomotive engineer or fireman that |
appeals with Irresistible force 20 the boy |
ism heart and ii is interesting to note
that number OF stories relating TO both |
these phases CT modern life and work
Will De published during the year. Cy
Warman viii tell OF The Wreck OF the
Fast Mail" j. L. S,effens will spin a /
yarn about John Howe of Seven
TruSc," Wilder D. Quint will tell How
the a. Was Saved and. Ray 5. Bak-
er viii supply story called While the
Two Sisters Burned"
Very properly the conductors Of the
Youths Companion have an eye ON the
tastes OF the adult members Of the fam
lily as we'll as those OF the boys and girls.
and they seem TO have given some atten-
lion 10 The difficult art o. admins tering
under the euise OF entertainment. the
sort OF useful knowledge that every right
patent would ike 10 have in
stilled into the brains OF his children.
For example, Orators and Oratoryv viii
be treated by such authorities as the Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, Mr.. Henry Watterson
and Justin Mccarthy. NJ P, the latter
supplying some new anecdotes OF such
famous men as BeacOnsieId. John
Bright and Gladstone. Percival Lowell
VIII discuss The Aims OF the Modern
Astronomer" and Professor y. 8. Shale-
XII nave something 10 say about The
Depths Of the Earth.''
In the matter OF fiction the paper vev
Justly prides Itself on having secured the
services OF such writer's as Rudyard Kin
ing Frank X SfOrsten MAJ = W, |