Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-16
HERE'S TO THE BOY!
WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES IN
EVERY ONE OF HIM.
just Y Few Items Recorded In One
Days News Prove the Good Quail
tiles In the American Lad's
Makeup.

Boys, just ordinary, everyday boys.
They don't seem to amount To SO
much. Big sisters would like to have
them kept out of the way when their
callers are In the parior. and mother
often feels like inviting them to trans
fer their operations OF Indian scalp
ing and building dams and railroads
to some other boys mothers back
yard, and father seems to be the only
one that really believes In the boys.
But watch them carefully and you
will see that there are wonderful pos
sibilities in every one Of them. writes
Carolyn Prescott In the Chicago Amer
lean. See how carefully the boy plans
his actions, and watch him ia case OF
an emergency, and tell you the boy
is always Thereon as he says. he Is
Johnny on the spot"
In just one issue OF daily paper
happened to find enough news re-
garding boys to convince me that the
world would be a pretty poor place
to live In were II not for them.
Just one day of "a hours. and here
are few things that one Pittsburg
paper had to say about the boys Of
western Pennsylvania:
"A boy has just returned from OK
ford university, where he received
honors In the legal department, six
of the eight honor men being from
the United States, which fact, by the
way, is being widely commented upon
4. - 4, n~{t tatx tall
But there's nothing surprising in
the fact that the American boys out
strip their English cousins, IL there?
In a neighboring Ohio town 4 boy,
and colored boy at that, held his
father at bay after he had pounded
his wife into insensibflity. and finally
shot him, this being the only way IN
which he could save his mothers life.
A small boy, aged ten years. jumped
from a boat to recover a bucket that
had fallen overheard. and was not
seen. The river was dragged for his
body, but he made his appearance an
hour later, none the worse for swim
Of more than a mile against swift
current
Here's another: A Newcastle lad,
who showed his Spartan courage by
hiding from his sick mother three days
the fact that he carried bullet i'm
bedded in his neck. Fearing It might
alarm her and make her worse he
kept his painful secret until blood poi
son set in and the secret was made
known. He will probably die.
Turning the page we ind a picture
ing eagerly over bits of cloth. n We
| look closer we SEQ that the cloth 10
made into shirts, and these boys made
their shirts themselves, under the d.
rection of their teachers in the vaea-
| ton schools-made them, bsrttonholss
and also there will be really no ne
cessity for those boys to get married
SO that they may have a wife to do
their mending and sewing for them.
Scattered here and there through
the pages that TEEN with news Of the
worlds doings, we And, IL we look,
news about the boys, mostly good
news, for the average upto-dats Amer
lean boy Ia a pretty good sort OF fell
low after all He is wideawake and
full OF ginger and energy and enthusi-
asm and all the other characteristics
which make him pretty good fellow
to know.
Yes, this would be pretty lonesome
world il 1t were not for the boys. even
though they do get in the way once
In awhile and have fashion Of mess
ing things up. They will get over
these habits soon enough, so gave
them all the encouragement they do
serve.