The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-13

: ' 9 4 H.a .f. ciai Circles is. due to the Fact that most of the well-known Business Men of today were brought up on the Rollo Books.
 Many years ago they read in thelit- tie paper covered Volumes obtained from the Circulating Library that ev- cry Person who is Good will be Suc- cessful and sooner or later handle a lot of Money. So they worked on the Theory that if man could get . Bun dle it would prove that he had been Good. because any one who Is not Pretty Good these days will end up by working for Trust at so much a month.
 So, come Fond Parents--gather the Olive Branches in circle around the Steam Radiator and read to them re- garding the only Boy who was on to his job and the only Girl who didn't talk back to her Elders.
 Rollo lived Stainless Life. so that he could grow up and have Burnsides and be the head of a large Mercantile Concern. In every Juvenile Story ap- proved by the Pastor, it is pointed out to the tender Youth that they must be pure and upright. and likewise they must get the Stuff. It is not on Rec ord that any Boy with Department dNCTdeo VI wv VfCt 8ASW aR w w merely Poor and Respectable.
 No. each one Is finally as Rich as all get-out, with girth measure of abont fifty-two, and he carries a gold-headed Cane and steps up on Platform at the slightest provocation to address the Young People and advise them to save their money and get an Education and grow up to be Members of the School Board.
 
 be put back into every Home. They would give the fly Kids of today many a hearty Laugh and they would not get them worked up so that they would moan in their sleep and dream about the Indians.
 And Roilo! wouldn't he make a ter rife hit with the Gang that gets to- gether out in the Alley every Satur- day afternooni
 Roilo had no Faults. The only req son that the Angels didn't take him at the first call was that they knew that they couldn't keep up with the Pace that he had set.
 Rollo's chief Virtue was that he was Tight Wad. It is quite pleasant to associate with some one who knows how to unbuckle, but in our Fiction we always admire the far-seeing Youngster who hurries home with his Nickel and puts it into the Tin Bank
 He is preparing a Nest Egg for his Old Age. In sixty five or seventy years he will be old and that nickel. figured at compound interest, will run up to about thirty-five cents, which will buy him Good Cigar in some places.
 Can you imagine what all the ornery little Boys, with sunburn and warts and stone bruises, all Of whom wanted to be Trapeze Performers In a circus or else grow up and be like the James Brothers, thought of little Rollo? No doubt they spoke well of him.
 Rollo never loosened up and chip ped ir to buy Mask and a Catcher's Glove for the Cub Juniors
 He never knocked the bottom out oS a Copper Boiler and sneaked 1t down to the Junk Shop to get money enough to buy Candy Cigars for the Bunch
 He never tried to smoke Rattan or Corn-Silk, or go after English Spar rows with a Nigger-Shooter. So far as we can learn he devoted nearly all of his time to rolling the Hoop
 Rollo was a Reformer. That made him very Popular. Of course, grown up people don't muchs like to have some cadaverous Willie with stringy side- whiskers and a tied-in-the-store White Tie come around and tell them how tough they are and how good he is. but with the Children 1t is dif- ferent.
 For we read right in the Book that when little Rollo would find his play mates conspiring upon some act of Mischief he would rebuke them gently and call attention in a few appropri- ate sentences to the Moral Aspect of the case, and they would all hang their heads and be abashed and reIin- quish their Sinful Intentions.