Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-17
A PLEA FOR THE soYs.
Furnish Them Good implements 10 Use.-lhe
Best Nene TOO Good.

Give the boys tools suited TO their
strength and size. The ease and facility
the farm can be performed depends on
sleight-the handy and proper use of i'm
plements: and this deXterity ought to be
acquired young. But it cannot be with
tools too large, too heavy OF OF inferior
construction.
The scytne or axe suited to the long
and strong arms of the man are utterly
unit for the boy who Is just beginning
to learn their use. The experienced woo1
chopper carefully selects his axe, weigh
ing H. that he may not guy one an ounce
full users of all the implements of nus
bandry pay strict attention TO the char
acter of the tools they use. Experience
has shown them what they need, anu
one will question. and II good FOR thc
man and the expert, why not equally o!
more so for the boys?
But as before said. sleiGht cannot be ae-
quircd by the boy when using unsuitable
implements. awkwardness will character
;ze his use of them. he will get In the
habit of being awkward. and the habits
of boyhood are very nard 10 eradicate IN
later life
It is doing boy. a great wrong ="
force, habit upon him that Is sure 10
The Goddess Fagin who would teach q
boy to steal or swear Is reckoneI mon
ster by society. but 1t is NOT difficult -
, draw parallel between. this character
and those who teach youth any bad mao
il that must be unlearncd in later life o.
prove the ruin of its victims. But 1t =
not only morally wrong. II is also unprot-
table pecunlarily. to compel boy 70
work with tools unsuitcd to his strength
1t will pay to give him an implement
that is handy and one that he Will lik.,.
for he will do double the amount OF work
that he otherwise would have done, and
do 1t better.
The proverbial quality of imperfection
suitable indictments to work With.
! Give the BOY an interest In what ne y
doing, and nothing will contribute more
to that end than proper and just Gonsld-
Grafton of his needs III regard to the I'M
I, Elements he must work with, and Will
answer for his doing his work acceptably
! But in all and through all. We would
not forget that he Is boy. and wanting
in perseverance. concentration, q pur-
pose, energy and fincness of will that III
ture years "ill bring to him.
4 ! well remember that my first lessons III
| moving We're taken with an old scythe
| that for years had been considered gool
! for nothing except to NOV bushes with.
l. The temper was out for as much as a
foot from the point. and being hans on
exccraD tool. Yet. my boyish eagerncss
to do a mans work kept me pulling. Z
! the miserable thing long after my failing
strengt n adrnonished me 70 stop.
| With that old scythe ana It's u1ltitness
| for my use. peculiar twiLch or jerk Of
| the body while pointing out, was ac-
wears, and now when begin to NOV /
find myself involved in that early habit.
My father put inplicii faith in ''elbow
grease and main strength, and ne
boys. After I had learned to NOV. !
| could have a heater ..scythe. ! never
| learned to, NOV until | had good i'm.
pleinent. say. furnish boys with good
tools to work with, and they VIII not get
d distaste tor farm life as many now do.
Lewiston Journal.