Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27

call him 20 your minds eye clad in knlck-
e:s, with hard-leather hish-top shoes on
lis feet--a blue serge cap on his head:
But he's Just the same boy, only few
hundred years older He jumps up from
the breakfast table. grabs enough books
to stock a Carnegie library-which Mr..
SIS boy couldn't have done-and bolts
out of the dining room when the clock
points to four minutes Of 8.
You go to the door in time to see him
Jump down four steps at time. run IN
front of an automobile and dodge car
riage. hopping onto passing car with
hand and waving with another While
he shouts TO lad his own age:
iii, Bill, got yer gogerfy YETI
Probably Mr. Shakespeare didn't know
any boys like that.
But if you're waiting when this same
modern boy gets off his car in front of
the school building, with at east one
min:Ita and half to spare, you see the
same shining mornin' face and here. at
last. the snail-like pace School has be
come so imminent now and the outside
life of the beautiful September day so
throbbing and promising and compelling
that the boy is 10th to enter.
But the same dressed-1p appearance,
the same new clothes, the same kind OF
red apple that Shakespeare's boys must
have brought with them when they
walked down through the dusty lanes Of
Old Avon or through the narrow ill-snell-
ing streets of London you will find the
schooIboys of Washington bring with
them tomorrow
Same Old Boys and Girls.
Teachers pet" remarks Johnny Jones
10 the new boy, who, you may be sure.
is quite a little smaller than one Jones
person, but who has unfortunately
brought with him an orange or bouquet
or eome thank offering, and most unfor-
tunately announced that ne IS ''gona give
it ter teacher"
Johnny has had more experience, SO of
course he wins in the squabble that fol-
lows Don't you suppose that he's glad
he came to school Certainly he is. Not
only did he lick the newest boy, but
he Wol a nice fresh yellow D"Hnge, and
made a reputation for his II and let
his best girl Mary Jane, see him do it..
Mary Jane. it may be told confidentially.
while not approving fights, likes oranges.
Now on the other hand school days are
not like college days. When young
mans been off 10 a university, where he
has learned to dance and to smoke and
per haps to play foot ball, he's always
anxious 10 get back there when the long
summer is over because ii is back there
that ne will meet the best friends he has
ever known-the friends of the days when
his blood runs hot and high, and when
the heart is open and free, and respon-
sive to all that is best in him.
But the boy and the girl VINO go 10 ire
same school are as rule both from the
same community. They are together.
even in big city. almost as much in the
summer in the winter. although nat
urally enough there is a constant chang
ing of the attendance. a never ending
change in the membership of school, a
constant shifting of the population. which
means that there must be change OF
ones school aCQuaintances.
And yet while the boy and the girl are
too young too self-centered. too content
with their own very narrow circle to
bother about getting back to the time
when they shall meet the friends made in
the schoolroom. they are surely not
ayerse to meeting new chlms, even al
though they probably wouldn't acknowl-
edge the fact.
III you watch Tommy Smith. who lives
in your block, the next time you see him
on his way to school the chances are that
you will see him with one arm around a
red-teaded boy who hasn't any particular
claims to beauty and probably none at
all to brilliancy. If you see Tom Smith
five months from now his arm will be
around Red again and there will not be
any one else who can butt in on this
friendship a mite PossiblY-nay, prob
ably-T ommy and Red have their circle