Amador ledger., 1906-12-28

Y, ten miles from Cornell University, has in
ten years saved hundreds of the most iDoorrigi
BILE of boys and the most unmanageable of girls,
from u to IS. ('rhe story of the transformation
of Paddy O'Connor to John Joseph O'Connor,
now in Phillips Andover Academy. was graphi-
cally told.(
The Juvenile Courts in nearly hundred
American cities, doing a work unbelievable
by those who have not known definitely of their
accomplishments. MANY incidents were glven.)
There certain underlying principles in
dealing with all boys from y to is that should
be universally appreciated. First of these Is the
hunger of boys of this age for manly recognition.
All baby names and bahyish names should be
completely dropped by the time he is twelve.
Many rebel at the attitude of the home, church
and Sunday school because we'll meaning parents,
preachers and Sunday school teachers use Bobby,
Robbie, Fannie, Sammy, Freddy, Teddy, and
kindred names that boy from twelve onward
loathes. Not alone by words but in acts can
offend them beyond recall by foolishly caressing
them.
Boys equally hungry for an opportunity to
express opinions We have long understood and
commented upon the inquistIveness of children
up to the age of fourteen but we have not appro-
priately recognized that when they cease asking
questions ravenously and passionately they trans
fer the hunger to the expression of opinions with
which they are possessed to the limit.
Some one has said that never grows
old so long as she allows her daughter to dress
her, and with equal truthfulness may 1t be said
that man never grows old so long as there are
young men and boys to whom he listen. The
best meaning fathers often antagonize their sons
beyond redemption by being sarcastic when they
express yealish opinions which are to the boys
the only wisdom worthy of attention. When
boys go to the had the chances are nine out of
ten that the ignorance, conceit sef-will of the
father some other in authority over him has
driven him to perdition. The greatest privilege
that can come to any person, and the greatest
service one CAN render his country under ordln
ary conditions is to keep boy in the path OF
honor, integrity and nobility, to save one to
such life who we'll on the road that leads
wholly to the bad.
know man with marble halls,
But he hasn't you, my boy;
There are blooded chargers in his stalls,
But he hasn't you, my boy.
His yachts ale anchored in the bay,
Ana he may sail them every day,
lie may go where he choose to go,
And no man can say him mo-
But have you, my boy.
After the lecture the teachers OF Sutter Creek
treated the visiting teachers to the royal feast
in the shape of progressive banquet. ,Ihis
unique affair was enjoyed by all, and the appre-
citation was shown in the many words of praise
for the entertainers and the reluctance of the
entertained to depart even at the late hour of
1890
10 quote D. Wlnship from an article to be
published in his ''Journal of Education IN
Boston,
circumstances over (which l have had slight
control have led me to know something of the
banquetlng ant in most of the cities of the
country for third of a century, but it was
left for the teachers of Sutter Creek-a little
mining town in the Serras-to do the trick more
attactively than elsewhere in this broad land.
The occasion the annual Teachers Institute
of Amador county, which was meeting at the
Creek for the first time In several years. and |
was there for single day. After the evening
lecture, the teachers OF Sutter Greek gave a pro-
gressive banquet, which began In the supper
room of one the three churches of the place at
which the lecture had been delivered. This was
a salad course with appropriate accentuations.
The tables we're beautifully decorated with the
mountain laurel of California, with its wealth
of brilliant red berries By each plate was
card and dainty pencil and we we're told that
from here we were to go to the banqueting
room of the hotel, prior to which we we're to
write our initials the card and, using as
many words as we had initials we we're to write
sentence the word beginning with the initials,
answering the question, 'Why do you make the
Journey?'' OF "What are you to do Oh the Jour
ney to the next banquetting halI?' Here was
delightful banquet with some special Cali
forDla mountain dishes, chief of which was
Ravlolas-a favorite Italian dish into which
Is Ut al Of
with these there city dishes and reIishes in
variety. After the banquet each one arose and
read his initial sentence answer, in which there
was abundant play of genuine wit, so that
laughter waited on digestion in royal fashion,
From here we repaired to the banquet hall of the
Native Sons building, where everything culmin-
ated. First of all came the artistic effect, which
was dream of beauty. The color arrangement
was exquisite, but the lighting was the peculiar
charm. On the tables were numerous nut pine
cones. eight inches tall and eighteen inches
around. and on each one of these were from two
to i've colored Christmas candles. In the center
of the table natural wood effect with col
ored candles artistcally adjusted while suspended
from the Getting were japanese lanterns. Here
the ices we're served, and indesc11bable artistic
Stunts for prizes INDUCED in, after which
there was musical program, and then-and then
the hundred banqueters let themselves loose on
college songs and their first cousins for more
than san hour. Sutter Creek in Amador county
will be a memory of memories for the rest of