New-York tribune., 1910-07-18
PLAY At SHEPHERD KNAPP
"Boys' Town" Realizes That Girls
Are Really Worth While.
UNCONSCIOUS COMPLIMENTS
"Aw, They Don't Do Nothln but
PLAY with U.s. Says Fresh
Air Guest.

rvervbodv who has read the tale Oh
| Bows Town knows that girls were par
of the BOYS town. Boys are all atAe III
their loud voiced disdain of their petti-
coated fellows. But they are ALL 100 iho
| that typical young American nero "ho' IN
cana Bile of letting blue-eyed young "oiiih''
see him stoop TO pick UP flower sne hau
I idrouped-purposely. of Course-hopped nan
a mile with the blushing blossom grlppeo
tenderIy between the toes of one OF ms
| dusty bare feet.
! In at the Shepherd Knapp Fresh AR
| Home near I.itchfiefd, Conn. the otheI
| day they had a boys town for lew houfs'
/ Ordinarily the home accommodates one
! hundred boys and one hundred girls" oh
THURSDAY however, the girls, having come
TO the end of their allotted two weeks were
sent home in the early morning, and she
bovs were left monarchs of all they sur
veyed for the day.
During the morning they amused them
selves in the ordinary way. The only dill
fa-ence was each urchin tried TO convince
his compan Mons he was enjoying the ap-
sence of them girls
! Gee. Jimmy" one would say with very
marked sincerity. ''ain't it great without
| the screech owls around"
You got the dope all right, all right, OF
| boy" Jimmy would reply.
| And then third would chime in with as
much in the jargon of the stro is as pos
sibIe to prove his real mesculintty: 'Gosh'
now a guy en- wallop d ball without bein
| scared of hittin a skirt and gittin' yelled
/ at by q teacher
| Their triumph was, however. but short
| lived Girls to take the places of those WHO
| had left were to arrive at about O'Clock
| in the afternoon. The boys, to show their
! manly Indifference, decided to go for
tramp through the country. so as not to he
on hand when the inferior sex should arrive
The Girls Take Possession.
| The girls arrived on time, and had got
well started in the enjoyment of about
thirty swings which the place affords be
| fore q bov appea red. First came two who
stouped on the far boundary of the grounds
and surveyed the prospect before them
Then they started and ran for dear ltfe-Ho,
not away from the despised girls, but
| straight through the midst OF the swinging
misses shouting at the top Of their iusty
voices as they ran Spring chickens, spring
chickens -
| The little -naidens. astonished, ceaset
| from their swinging and gazed with wonder
while the young savages Skinned UP a tr.e
in the centre OF the group of soups,
once seated on the lower branches. they
we're seized with paroXysus Of laughter IS
they looked down on the girls.
Did ye ever see such q bunch OF spring
| chickens" ?" gasped one.
| Gee. no. out I bet they'd make good
eatin'. all except the golden coils, sasped
! back his compa Mon.
And then they g1lffawed again. that
J -I,7 fyf A n
PIES upon the girls beneath. Then they be
gan to act very strangely for women hater7
stump We TO jump down, Levy. dared
one.
| What IN me bare feet protested Levy.
| You're afraid Yourself. 7 stump you
..Ye dassent foller me- taunted his COM
panion and down he shot. while the little
! girls emitted crescendo shrieks that ended
| in .-Ob's" of admiration he quickly
climbed UP TO his former perch unharn1ed-
! OF. course, Levy had to follow suit after
/ that.
As he started up the tree again his
| companion called, Lets see you come up
I the rope.
"Aw. that's easy" sneered Levy, and
| started up hand over hand on one of the
swing ropes.
Toes, toes. with ye toes, gToaned the
upholder of male superiority in the tree.
! So Levy. already half way up, dropped
back to the ground and again started. This
time he used both feet and hands, gripping
the rope sailor fashion between his big
toe and the next
Evidently this was an accomplishment IN
| which he stood alone. and which all MS
| comrades thought put the official seal on
male supremacy, for they called for II
| again and again.