Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-05
O, SAY, FELLOW!

Say, boys, what are You going to do
in vacation? Got any plan, or are You
figuring on just laying around town"
and resting?
If your plans are to hang around and
rest you had better draw new ones. If
you hail the end of school year and the
annual interim between school years
because you think You will have more
time to spend lying around pool halls.
smoking cigarets ard four-f flushing as
a dead game one, get it out of your
head and get something better in. If
anything on earth is pitiable it is the
gang of boys that hang around togetla-
er in public places given over to
amusement of a more or less respect
able kind. who smoke cigarets. or pipes.
mainly so that some one will notice
that they smoke, who swear and spit
and talk TO each other OF the girls,
usually designating the young women
by their last names, who if by any rea-
son they come into possession of a dol
lar bill take it out of their vest pockets,
kiss it with a flourish and put it back
culated 10 suggest the unutterable ca
reer of vice and lavish expenditure they
propose to enter upon, a careless, swag-
gering, fourflushing gang who gain no
respect from any who sees them and
have very little for themselves Why,
boy. that outfit is simply pitiable, just
pitiable. You despise them while in a
way you envy them. They despise
themselves. No fellow who begs a dol
lar of his mother to crafty his own
laziness and petty vices fails TO COM
pare himself with a better boy TO his
own disadvantage.
People know about them. Once in
a while one of these fellows gets a
chance to go with nice girl. Gener-
ally she drops him sooner or later. He
never has any money TO take her any
place unless his father has plenty of
money and little sense. In that case
he often holds TO the girl and marries
her to her sorrow and an ultimate d.
vorce case. You see he has lodged all
responsibility When it comes and must
be met he sidesteps and tries TO get
away from it. His wife finds him out
and despises him. The fellows who
thought him a pretty good fellow while
he was spending dads money get sick
Of lending him five and never getting it
back. He feels abused to think that so
much is required of him. Nobody had
required effort of him, henever re-
CURED effort of him, he never re-
dub. When he must do for himself he
finds it out. accepts it as final and it's
all off with him.
If you are even on the outside edge
Of that gang cut It OUT. Don't spend
your vacation that way. Get out and
do a mans work, feel like a man, get
tired like a man and come back at
the close Of vacation with money
enough to hold UP and keep you
Strong" until the next vacation. Work
on a farm. It's the hardest and health
lest work there is and the longest
hours. Il pays good money. too, gives
board, and If a fellow is white ne won't
have any trouble about his washing
and mending either. It's all good
clean money ard health. Six weeks in
the harvest fields will put a boy into
the best physical condition he was ev-
er in. Try it. Come back when it Is
over and hold out in each hand at arms
length a cigaret smoking, white-livered
habitue of the pool rooms and the pur-
lieus
Say, boy. think over that vacation.