Mohave County miner., 1913-04-05
How City Boy Show-
 ed Otf to Cousin

teen-year-Old son, haS decided to move away from the city and into the country. Following is an extract which gives some idea of how the city boy, George, looks on his country cousin Fred:
 1T do not desire to convey the idea that our boy was wicked boy. He wasn't. He was just the average type of what we call the ''upper middle class" boy. He was merely tuned to the low moral tone of the city. Vice, to him, was not monster of hideOus mien. He had seen it from childhood. and although he had not done so, he was arriving at the embracing stage He scoffed at the idea of visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo when his cousin pro- posed it, declaring 'only rubes go there,' He sneered at the proposal to go to the University of Chicago, which he calmly stated was only jew-and jay school where no one went. All the real folks go to Yale or Harvard He admitted that he never had gone through the stock-yards, or the city hall, or the art museum. He didn't know where Armour Institute and Hull House were. In fact, In one week his country cousin knew more about the city, it's condition, it's in- situations, and government than mine did. He read the papers, discussed happenings, made inquiries about various parts of the city, and one day went unattended to tbe public library, then to the Crerar, 70 look up some historical records, and being unable to find them was directed to the Histori. cal Society, and came late to dinner full of enthusiasm. Thinking it a good opportunity, laughed and asked George where the Historical Society was. He did not know Nor did he know where the Crerar was, but salo that the public library was that big building near the Illinois Central terminal. He never had been in it, nor seen It's fine decorations and marbles.
 "You two,' I said to the boys, show me the truth about a thing that has puzzled me for years, aud that is why there are so few Chicago boys hold ing Chicago jobs. In our office there are seventy men, and 1 do not think two of them are natives. The evident reason is that the Chicago boy knows so much less about his own city than the country boy does that the country boy gets the job.'
 "I thought such examples, brought to his attention at the moment when the proof was self-evident, would awaken him to the serious view oi life. The process, however, was slow, and most of the time it. seemed as if we were not making headway at all. It was discouraging at times, and ir- ritat.ng. For example, one morning Fred said:
 "Let's go down to the Field Museum today.
 "Aw, what's the use?' protested George. That won't get you any, thing. Say, Dad, there's bully matinee at the Illinois today, take us to it.
 "I took them. Leaving the theater with the boys, I observed Aabby- faced, loose-lipped, young.old man, overdressed, weary-looking, and worn out at perhaps twenty-five, lettering in the lobby. He was type-a type of the cane-carrying, cigarette-smok- ing, loose moraled youth that is becoming more prevalent, and so strong was my disgust, l called the at tontion of the boys to him as another objectlesson.
 "That's product of idleness and viciousness, l remarked never think ing but that both would be as disgust ed with the sight of this semi-de- generate as l was. "A boy who wastes his time and money as he does soon degenerates into that sort of travesty on manhood.
 'Him?' exclaimed my son, oh, he ain't so worse. That's His father is president of the he----
 
 Company. They say he has an allow ance of five hundred dollars a mnnth