The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-30
JUVENILE ',.99ITIONS.
JeaIousies and Warnings That
BeSet the Small Boy.
HIS MISERY AND TRIUMPHS.

RE wanted anu NoutoHC AeI-H T at
Mans Memory Deeply Stirred by
Pair of Sleeve Protectors.
'"The other day at a poultry market
| saw chicken butcher wearing a
pair of those basket sleeve protectors,
and | stood and laughed like a fool"
said the fat man. First time I'd seen
a pair of basket sleeve protectors for
years. and so Just had to laugh. Tell
you why When | was tike used
to look with wonder and awe upon
fellow who wore a pair of basket I
sleeve protectors. l considered that
fellow with u pair of those things was
all right, all right, plus some more.
"They had a kind of jaunty air
about 'em that | couldn't and can't de- /
fine. but 1t was there, and ] reycred
and reverenced 'em. made up my
mind that if ever grew up and got
the price, me, too, for pair of those
basket sleeve protectors, no matter
what sort of work I'd happen to tackle.
"Queer dickenses, boys, eh? Mem
Der those patent pencil attachments
have 'em yet-hitched to their aprons?
Well, thought those were pretty nifty
things, too. and | used to secretly
banker to own one of 'em. Made up
my mind that would own one of 'em,
too, when got to be a man, but some
how never seemed to want one
when / reached the shaving age.
"Guess some of my ambitions as a
boy were pretty crazy anyhow. l was
so jealous of the first boy | ever met
that could spit through his teeth at
mark and hit it that hated him. That
same boy pretty early in life got job
driving a delivery wagon for a grocery.
Well, pretty soon after he got that job
he was wearing a pair of those patent
elastic sleeve supporters, or holders, or
whatever you'd call 'em-things with
a clutch at either end that pulled the
cuff back from the wrist. This boys
pair of those things were pink elastic,
and how he used to faunt '@n before
my eyes!
HE knew blamed we'll that those
pink elastic sleeve supporters looked
finer to me than any Star of India or
Victoria Cross could possibly look, and
he knew besides that because ! had
to go to school and wasn't earning any
thing there wasn't a possible chance
on earth for me to get a pair like EN-
and so he just held 'em over me and
made my life miserable. Yet when |
got to the wage earning age never
seemed to care at all for pair of pink
elastic sleeve supporters.
Another boy that hated had a
maroon colored cardigan jacket That
was before the day of sweaters. This
hated boy wore the cardigan jacket
beneath his regular outer coat and SO
he didn't have to wear any Overcoat.
That. considered. was a gorgeous
bIessing-not to have to wear an over
coat to school. despised this boy for
having 1t on me that way. Anyhow,
his maroon colored cardigan jacket had
a couple of pockets In front that he
kept full of all kinds of junk-some-
times he even carried mice to school in
'em. And that made my indignation
all the greater-the fact that he had
those two fine covered up pockets to his
cardigan jacket.
zone great triumph did come to my
like life, though. and that was the fact
that was the first boy of my school tc
own pair of copper toed boots Well
/ sprang the first pair. as say at my
school. and guess / didn't break the
hearts of all the other boys or nothin
Besides the copper toes. these boots
had red tops. with a silver star and
crescent stamped on the red tops, ant
that made the blow all the more fright
ful to the other lads that had to SCI
me stalking around In those boots
After awhile. though. nearly all of th'
other youngsters showed.up With cop
per toed boots and thus took the whit
out of my sails.
awe never see boys wearing peake'
cans any more--notice? | don't meal
these dlnky little cloth caps with peak
to 'em. but regular soldiers caps witt
glazed peaks. First boy that turne'
IN In our nelghhorhood with one o
those things on made a sensation, al
right. This same boy had got hold o
q carpenters pencil somewhere. ant
he'd stick that carpenters pencil IN
derneath his forage cap, with tn
aharpened end projecting In might
blase way that certainly cnused us I
regard him as some pumpkins, wa
always crazy for carpenters pencI
when | was boy, but | never sc
hold OF one--never did have muc
luck when | was u boy anyhow NJ
folks were too blamed respectable.
AS u matter of fact-you can beiiev
It or not, but I'm telling you the trut
they wouldn't let me at the age Q
ten apply for the Job Of brakeman o
a passenger train. That though
was the finest job In the world-brakt
man on passenger train--just swing
ing a red lantern all the time, an
wearing a peaked cap mostly on til
left ear, and the peak pushed back S
as to show an oiled hang plastere
down, and sitting on wood box |
the smoker talking to fellers, and Gu
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