The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-31
THE BOY IN LOVE

Willie Barney. of Brooklyn, n. Y.
; should have the sympathy of ev.ry
healthy man in the United States. Willie.
VINO Is IL years OF age is in love with his
beautiful teacher. His is no ordinary
passion. He yearns for her with his
whole soul. yearns for her so deeply in
fact that she has appealed to the courts
To have him restrained from following
her around and insisting that she shall be.
MS livery woman who is q mother will
! Indignantly declare that Willie needs q
coed trouncing; but that is because there
Is not IN all our broad land woman who
ever was boy. AS the poet says:
"Chide not the boy who loves nor greet
with jeers
The signs that from his yearning breast
arise:
Though early manhood stIl before him
While She looks back on adolescent years
in every cadence Of Her voice he hears
The music that exalts and glorities:
HIS dreams are chivairous and in her
eyes
All that is lovely. all that's pure. appears
Proud man. look back upon your hope
full days
And picture to yourself the boy. demure
And awkward. who had dreams of knight
y ways
In which to win the woman who was
your
Bright angel, decked in lengthy skirts
and stays
HIS love was foolish-aye, but it was
pure"
So it is with Willie Barney, of Brook
lyn. His is noble love. He has said that
he intends to marry the lady when he
grows up to be man. That is always
of hp hn. l,r
twice his age. He has no base desire to
wrong her by carrying her off 10 some
dark cave and holding her an unwilling
captive. His sentiment is we'll expressed
in the following poem which Willie has
written TO the lady:
ooh, how, love my teacher dear.
| think of her all the time,
And then, of how I'll marry her when l
grow up,
And then / know she'll be mine
All, Willie, Blessings on your little
man. Your ambition is not a thing to
be scofTed at. Heaven pity the man who
has never felt as you feel now. Let him
sit with old women and gossip about the
immutability of the prehensile juxtaposi-
ton.
1t appears that Willie Barney's teacher
objected because he placed flowers upon
her desk, bought scented note paper for
her, insisted or remaining in school after
regular hours. for the purpose of gaz-
ing upon her and yearning. and. further
more, because he endeavored to make her
present of a pair of brightly colored
silken garters a touching part of the
story is that Willie bought the garters
and other things with money which he
earned by shoveling snow from peoples
sidewalks. What knight of old ever ex-
hibited greater valor in behalf of his lady
fair?
when the case was called in court the
Sarters appeared as Exhibit A" In an
interview concerning the case Willie said:
She wouldn't take the garters. and in
court big. fat man that sat I'm front of
the judge took them. j don't think
they'll fit him.
Il am going back to school. and | am
going TO be good and grow up a good man
and marry Miss Sadie. | don . think I'll
ever meet anybody | love as much as l
do her
Well said and bravely. Who ever does
think he will ever meet any other whom
he will love as much as Herr Let US
hope that Willie viii fulfill his promise
To be good and that he may live to love
many another as he loves Her now, for he
that loves early and often has ecstacies
which are not to be despised.-N. Y.
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