Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-22

and l mean It now But I've been noticing
lately that you've gone further than l told
you to go, and that you're doing lot OF
jumping on other boys yourself. Now, let
me tell you that that is just as cowardly
and unmanly as when boy fails to take
his own part when he is attacked or is be-
ing robbed of his rights. / don't want
you to be sissy to run away from the
other boys, and I'm glad to see that you
aren't and don't. But you must not be a
bully; 1 won't stand that; and so don't you
let me hear again of your jumping on any
boy as you did on the Smith boy yesterday.
Just for the sake of having a fight. And 1t
makes no difference whether the boy Is
bigger or smaller than you. Do you I'M
derStand?"
Again Willie saw n light so that by the
day his mother returned home he was skill
ed in knowing when and how to take care
of himself. and had lost all of his old whin-
ing habits, which had given place to sturdy,
masculine ones. The mother noted the
change. and vaguely wondered about 1t,
but she was not enlightened as to the
cause until. at the dinner table. Willie trl-
umphantly announced to his father between
mouthfuls that he had knocked the stuff
ing out of that big Raymond kid when he
jumped on me after school"
Mrs. Howard promptly all but tainted
dead away from shock. When she had re-
covered sufficiently she started in TO reprove
Willie for such ignoble conduct, but she
got no further than, why, my Then
Willie's father broke in with
The Fathers View.
Willie is no longer q coward. He is
boy All boys who amount to hill of
beans fight. They have to fight TO get and
to keep their rights. You were raising
Willie in girl fashion. AS a result. he was
getting licked a school all the time by the
other boys and had developed Into an Al
coward by the time you left for your sis
ter's. Since you've been gone I've tried TO
raise him as a boy should be raised. And l
think I've succeeded. At least, ne knows
how to take his part, and that's an accom-
pIishment boy cannot learn too early In
life. For If he does not learn to take his
own part among his school fellows, he may
never fully know no VITO take his part when
he has to dig for himself in the grown-up
world. He is learning now how to give and
take in all manlineSs, and at the same time
he Is being taught that he who picks
quarrel for the quarrel S sake is as I'M
manly as ne who runs away from a quarrel
that is forced upon him. He Is going TO be
continued in such instruction; for he Is
boy and not a girl, and must be trained
while he is young and there Is time TO play
well the part that he will be called upon
TO play the moment he becomes a man.
That part he cannot play well unless he
has learned how to take care of himself
In all emergencies without infringing on
the rights of Others
And this time. Mrs. Howard understood.
and since then she has been doing her part
in rearing Willie in the way red FLOODED
boy should go.
Still another way in which not few
mothers manage 70 give poor boys great
lead over their own darlings is by continu-
ing to dress them as mere babies when they
are somewhere between the ages OF three
and seven or ten, when the man spirit be-
gins TO crop out.
The Pierces' only boy is in his sixth year.
yet he has hair reaching down below MS
shoulders. and it is put up on curling kids
at night by his fond mother, so that he VIII
look "too cute for words" by day, when, in
cidentally, he is the butt of the boys in the
street by reason of these same artihcially
nreuarel locks