Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-22

dfasllng a salary. When the English
iiiAn came in. the little Indian chortle,l
WIN Siee. The Euglishman did no
ch"fthhS. He watched the perfprsnance
lor 4 minute, then he quietly rang 4 bell.
= coiofta nd appeared Take this
FL away nnmllediately.' Numbered the
EhStiShman. The hellhoy heSitated. Tho
mp came at him with a tomahawk
u ~ sorry. Sah-hut-"
But WHAT demanded the English
It's Mrs Van veeker,s Bunnie and
, we an dassant say much to him. His
the Englishman.
nursemaid, two small BOYS. a clerk.
alu Bunnie's big sister appeared on the
sscehe. Bunnle was more than n match
III thetn all He was going 10 use the
parlor Tor circus tent: if he couldn't.
ne would know why. The last [ saw
81 81 h9ehle. his feet were kicking the
lace OF a stout porter, whose brawny
a aIns plhloned the young Indian He was
followed by regular circus parade. one
VI the crowd was a nervous. fussy little
tIotier' who IN one breath pleaded with
Lhe mp to be ''maala's sweet baby"
ana IN the next made whitening remarks
ABOUT eold-blooded wretches, who could
not understand little boys.
we listened to Bunnie'S last war
Whoop as he was borne off the elevator
at an upper floor. Then the Englishman
Sat down and looked at me coldly.
Don ask the stock question of all
lhterylewers, What do you think of
America For about ten minutes |
should very much enjoy telling you what
| think of Young America" He did en-
JOY II, and the worst of it was, | could
rot pun up q defense. Bunnie belonged
20 the unchildlike, wholly ENJOYABLE, or
def OF youngsters, whose eXuberance
you can not even excuse by saying, "IIe
Is BOY. lie was a veritable imp. lilHe
hundreds of others | know. The trouble
was the Englishman looked on him as
T. type. Doubtless he went home and
pictured the American child as an in
uactaDle, yillainOus little savage There
certainly were adjectiyes enough in his
vocabulary that day, and | doubt if they
got toned down before he left us.
Inns Is the type of child a foreigner
sees When he travels about our country.
lie mas seldom an opportunity to peep
into one of our peaceful. weli-rerulated
homes-homes made blessed by the glad
Someness OF happy children. The Amer
lcan youngSter he encounters is the Off
spring OF the irresponsible rich who call
Il gorgeous thronged hotel home; who
go. wandering about the country in few
erlSn pursuit of change and pleasure.
1heir children, growing up in an at
ihosphere of mere show, artificiality, and
ioVelesSness could not be different. 1t
IS only by the grace of God that some of
them become worthy men and women.
Even the Englishman allowed that the
restless, ambitious rush of society life
set mark upon the children of such a
home
Il hope you don't call a 81 a day hotel
a home he objected, quoting something
| said. I'VE don't understand it as
such on our side of the Atlantic. 1t is
nothing to us but a caravansary. YoI
would never see English children living
IN fashionable hotel: you find a few
Juveniles mere and there-but they are
Americans. Nobody could mistake them
Tor anything but Americans English
fathers and mothers, from royal prince
to the parent in the humblest home,
keep their children in the quiet, happy
seclusion that nature intended for them.
Their pleasures are so simple, and child
hood is so healthy and happy that when
youth Is over the new world they face
IS wonderful place. Everywhere | go
III America, | see young men and women,
scarcely out of their teens, who look half
wrecked, physically and mentally They
are self-satis6ed, over-dressed. shallow
minded, and as artificial as the atmos-
phere in which they have grown up. Our
friend Bunnie is on his way there now,
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