The Newark journal., 1909-10-29

(Copyrlght. by Joseph B. BowIes.l

 some encouragement from him. One of his earliest acquaintances is the family physician, an acquaintance started without very much formality. And who can tell how many aspiring, yet struggling, young Esculapians have been kept in heart and hope with the prospect of operating on him for ap- pendicitis and peritonitis and peri tifiitis and dogbitis, and all the other sociable ills that seem so anx- ious to entertain him The shoe maker is one of his benefciaries A certain lad, very-yes, very-well known to the writer of these Thoughts" seems to have an ar engagement with the leading shoe fac tories to consume the whole output of their juvenile department And the man who makes pants for little boys, in the language of MT. Dinkelspiel, has "schineh" on that lads father, and still he pants for more
 Saws are buzzing, wheels are whir- ring, fingers are busy with the needle, brains are thinking, hearts are throb-
 
 cles, pencils are illustrating them, presses are printing and dealers are selling them for him. From Africa they are sending him rubber and some other things; from Asia spices and sometimes a sip of tea; from Europe, lead pencils, knives, and now and then toys South America GpndC {Uh other things. The sugar and cotton ton planters of the south, the wool growers of Canada, the cattlemen of the west, the leather workers of Russia and Boston. all have him in their cheerful eye. Designers of hobby suits, workers in marble, makers of balls. bats, buttons, bikes, think of him with feelings akin to gratitude He has them all going He is a money-maker for them all
 His father has no time to toast his feet in the flyer. nor smoke his pipe of clay, and his mother is always busy keeping up with the lightning changes in his wardrobe He sets tasks for his pa and ma which give
 
 stop. To read on ahead of him. to get wise on the matter of juvenile amusements before the juvenile does. 10 have the whole circle of boys | sized up before the lad breaks into the circle-all this takes time It brings sweat
 But his patronage of labor Is not an NeE tr 1 He Is known to be a worker His services are in demand. day and night, winter and summer The things he is told and expected to do leave very little to be desired; in fact. nothing else has up to the present time been thought Of by any one of the many able thinkers engaged in trying to find some new task for him Some of the l following things he can get to do only l by living in the country; some by liv- ing in the town or city; some are his inalienable heritage. wherever he lives. Bringing in coal. kindling wood. carrying out ashes, moving the lawn, cutting weeds hoeing the garden, feeding the horses, catching ana har-
 
 cows from the back pasture. acting as milkmaid. sometimes spasmodically and often steadily, going to the neigh bors on an errand, carrying water to the harvest hands, turning the grind stone, peeling apples, shoveling snow in winter, salting the cows, and. in fact waiting on anybody about the premises who wants the humble help of boy. whet1nr the person is ia ther or mother older brother or big sister, servant girl or hired man All of this cuts in on a boys time ter. ribly. Perhaps I should be personal and say that salting cows on Saturday afternoon is task that had a great aversion for, because 1t usually inter fered with important engagements with neighbor boys.
 These chores do not constitute the industrial life he would choose for himself. He would gladly impose on himself the arduous tasks of climbing trees for birds nests, poking ground. hogs out Of their dens, getting into bad odor by killing the animal known III lhC OOS uOk LdtlH HS pOiNS CattuS, | trapping rabbits in winter matching up his dog with his neighbours in a growing contest, going swimming and fishing for suckers. That is the way he likes to work The chief value of these activities Is that they are useless ito others; and others may think they are useless to him-but not so.
 Yet he is steadily evokins large quantities of various kinds of energy from those whose duty 1t ie to see that he does his medley of chores. They say he is coming to self-expres. sion in all these ways as the baby's invisible tooth is seeking self-expres. sion on the friendly gutta percha ring. They also further say that by these energies which he puts forth and calls forth he is doing great good for which he will some day congratulate himself sincerely. They say he is starting the vitalizing habit of react. l ing on his environment and is also creating an environment on ubicb +o