Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-16
HERE'S TO THE BOY!
WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES IN
EVERY ONE OF HIM.
just Few Items Recorded in One
Days News Prove the Good Quail
tiles in the American Lads
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 parlor, 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 in 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 a daily paper
l happened to find enough news re-
garding boys to convince me that the
world would be pretty poor place
to live In were it not for them.
Just one day of "a hours, and here
are a 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
by the educators of the British isles"
But there's nCshing surprising in
the fact that the American boys out
strip their English cousins, is there?
In Q neighboring Ohio town boy,
and a colored boy at that, held his
father at bay after he had pounded
his wife into insensibility, 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 a swim
of more than a mile against a swift
current.
Here's another: A Newcastle lad,
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 find picture
GO dozen sturdy lads who are bend
ing eagerly over bits OF cloth. If we
look closer we see that the cloth is
made into shirts, and these boys made
their shirts themselves, under the di-
rection of their teachers in the vaca-
ton schools-mase them, buttonholes
and also there will be really no ne
cessity for those boys to get married
so that they may have 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 find, if we look,
news about the boys, mostly good
news, for the average up-to-date Amer
lean boy is a pretty good sort of fell
low after all He is wideawake and
full of ginger and energy and enthusi-
assn and all the other characteristics
which make him a pretty good fellow
to know.
Yes. this would be pretty lonesome
world if it were not for the boys, even
though they do get in the way once
in awhile and have a fashion of mess
ing things up. They will get over
these habits soon enough, so give
them all the encouragement they de-
serve.