Arizona republican., 1909-03-09

> HOULD you be fortunate enough to
 be the parent of a real boy-one who
 |loves to tease the cat, to take your neighbours son out and lick him good and proper. to look on all girls as interiors, to see in every dog only an opportunity to tie something to his tail. to wish to play tenpins on his fathers bald pate be not discouraged at his evildoing, for q professor has arrived with an Idea, and be claims 1t works out all right.
 The professor says that music crres every badness to which boy nature is heir. He goes further and elucidates. Some boys need easy. slow. sinewy music such as Isadore Duncan does her funny dance to, but other boys, ach! need Pip roch's maddening tone and the heavy diapason of the base drum and cymbals and the basso horn and then some more. For. says the professor, you must grade mischieyous boys and here is his value to the world. and hence he expects to draw sufficient Income to keep him in creature comforts. In other words, the Herr professor says that he Is the only living thing In the way-up grade in the Boy Culture line, and, of course, be expects the longsuffering parents to whom he relates his plans to pay him for the knowledge he possesses. For he can. so he says. take the worst boy that ever played hockey. give him the proper kind of music cure and send him home to help wash the dishes and mind the baby.
 Making Experiments.
 To some mothers and fathers in the world the new idea seems good and some of them have already started to in- vestigate on their own account the possi- bilities of this wonderful cure. Some of their experiences make interesting reading.
 Mrs. Joseph Smith, who is an awful good soul. has a musical family on the female side-that is, her three girls all play the parlor organ, and Sadie. the oldest. sings in the young peoples quar- tet in the church. and at one time was thinking of joining an opera company. There are two boys sn the family, and Johnnie Is worse than Will and Will Is worse tan Johnnie. Between them its mischief from morn till night. But then the neighbors have always thought the poor children are not go much to blame, for their father made things pretty lively when he was a boy, and 1t has been hinted by them that know that he not only does not go to church himself, but one Sunday morning about 9 years ago
 
 barroom just as the congregation filed out of church.
 Failure Recorded.
 We'll, Mrs. Smith read about the music cure and became awful interested. She talked 1t over with the minister and at the meeting of the Ladies' Aid, but no one could see where there could be any chance for such a pair of boys as hers. She Is a very trustful woman, however. and she decided she would try the music. She didn't know just how much to give at one dose, and she called the girls into conference. It was agreed that the boys, being so bad, there could be only one method of dealing with them. and that would be to give them plenty as a starter until the effects became apparent. The Grace girls, who sing so well. and Mir. Atkins and MT. White were called in to help the evening the first dose was given, In fact, 1t was a real nice par Tor social. They sang hymns and old time songs and somebody played an ac- cordicn mud Mrs. Smith never took her eyes off them boys. Mir. Smith had gone to bed. When Mrs. Smith finally went out to the kitchen to get the refreshments for the company, the boys saw their chance and left the room without being noticed. They went where the coats of the company hung and what do you think they did? They tied the sleeves of