The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-24
The Stun ChiIdS Life a
Happy One in Summer
The of the Tenemens Despite the Oppressive Artificial
caps Them Extract Whole Lot Healthy
Life, for They Are COnnOisseurs in the Art of Making
the BestOf Things.
BY GUY T. VISKNISKKI.

boys have secured pieces OF wood
from somewhere and with partial sue
cess are initiating the 1uggler, to the
great delight of the rest and the Won
derment of the girls. They are adept
mimics, these boys, and they spare
not even their king, the cop, as he
comes swinging in a. lordly fashion
down the lane between the rows of
push-carts to see what all the rumpus
is about anyway.
Rattley-bang! Boom-boo boom !
goes the drum and stops. The chair
falls from the jugglers nose, two
dozen smaller probosces are relieved
of similar strain. and their bare
footed owners fall in behind the man
as he goes among the crowd, hat in
hand, the youngsters holding out open
palms and bowling and scraping over
imaginary contributions every bit as
grandiloquently as the juggler when
some one drops a cent into his hat.
Even before the last copper has been
inveigled from the bystanders, a
hurdy-gurdy pulls up into the gutter,
the straints of 'Mr. Dooley" fill the
air, and instantly, as far as the music
carries, girls fall into one another's
arms. and in and out the crowd they
dexterously go, past push-carts and
wagons, baby carriages and garbage
cans. their gliding feet carrying them
gracefully hither and thither the joy
of the dance filling their little hearts
and causing them to laugh in pure de-
light.
The boys hardly ever engage in
round dancing when the hurdy- gurdy
strikes up. Instead to the time of the
music, they stand on their heads, toss
sticks in the air after the fashion of
pompous drum majors, and, il they
dance at all, do a sort of fling all their
own, that gives full license for every
sort of boyish oddly and is not ham
pered by any set rule of "one-two,
one-two" time.
Somehow the stirring effects OF the
hurdy-gurdy last a long time after its
swarthy player has trudged with il
around the corner and out Of hearing.
One result is that invariably the boys
let loose their pent-up selves of earlier
morning. and he who is not engaged
in wrestling in the street, diligently
shooting craps dn a sheltered spot be-
tween two tenement stoops, or chas-
ing some fellow i'm and out among
the streets distractions, or playing
cat, or delving in the garbage and
waste cans as If they were gold mines,
is not to be found. This last occupa-
tion is a fascinating one. IL is not
boys grouped around one can industri-
ously examining its contents, with a
boy every once in "A while pulling out
some treasure" I'm announcing his
good fortune with a whoop that is a.
sure cure for the blues
Doubly joyful is the yell IL the find
happens to be the comic section of
some newspaper. Waste paper is re-
ligiously searched daily for discarded
comics, and, one brought TO light, the
finder and his partner sit themselves
down, gloat over every word and
color and line for an Internationally
long time, and then pass IL on TO their
playmates. The comic sup" is one
OF the chief latter-day joys OF the
street youngster, and II you have be-
held the mirth awakened In his face
thereby you viii not fail 10 bless the
man who first invented II.
Blest is the youngster who delves
so successfully IN the waste paper bag,