The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-11-20
Making a Man
of Him
By DONALD CHAMBERLIN

| VINO W the Muyllke young man VM-
iting you. Mrs. CrabtreeT"
my nephew"
"IIe looks as n he had come In a
bandbox what's his name?"
ALBERT"
"What are you going to do with him.
put him in a store window to show his
elothesY'
mo. ! brought him here to try 10
make a man Of him. He IL my broth
er's son. His father died when he was
| q baby. and he has been brought up By
a doting mother. He had a nurse till
he was fourteen. then a governess.
| Since then his mother has not bees
willing to trust him with any one but
herself. and she is the worst caretaker
he has ever had"
"Poor fellewi ] have known cases
Ne thst"
~Hs father wss . splendid man. ana
- - - Ne ~ ~ possible at hi
- sssspA WIN Ne father was taughf
10 rely on himself. the son Is handi-
capped ~ nstAsr who wishes -
make a mfhsop Of him"
-'As ,hs twis b bent the tress iar
snped'"
'sThafs II exactly You can dwarfa
nan ~ well ~ . tree. Now, Bess. 4
wish yOu to help 10 make a change In
the boy
III How can ! Do anything abost
-.
l suggested a plan by which shs
could make a stan IN Hert's reforms-
ton. He had never associated with
any one but girls. and knew that IL
l turned him at once over to the boys
they would soon send him back to me-
| / proposed to initiate him through q
| girl who was more of boy than boys
usually are. There was something else
| didn't tell Bess. In order TO get Bert
away from his mother | told her that
l would make him my heir. But he
| was to remain with me so long as
| lived
warned Bess to go slow at first
with Bert. but she didn't heed the
warning. She took him out in canoe
upset it Ton purposel and was obliged
to swim ashore. holding him up. for
he couldn't swim stroke. The feat
was difficult. and it sobered the girl
She didn't upset him any more. but she
forced him to learn to swim
His next lesson was in horseback
riding. Her first lesson In this was
more gentle than her swimming lesson.
| At any rate, she gave ii on turf where
there was no danger of killing him
when he took a tumble. which he did
every few minutes during his first
lesson. Bess was encouraged from the
fact that when thrown he scrambled
back on to his horse without being
urged to do so.
When winter came such sports as
swimming. horseback riding and the
| like gave place TO skating and skiing
| Bert put on skates, which he had new
| er used. hobbled down to the ice. his
| feet went up into the air. and he went
down on the back Of his head. /. But he
was trueSgrit and. getting up struck
out. fell again and kept it up. Bess al
ternately laughing and encouraging
| him. Then she skated with him. ana
doubtless he found that quite pleas
| ant.
l don't claim that Bert made first
| class swimmer or skater or rider. T0
do these well one must begin very
| young. Indeed. il was not my pur
pose to make him proficient in any of
these what | wished was to draw
| him away from the feminine tastes
his mother. his governess and his nurse
had implanted in him He developed
q taste for manly amusements. and this
drew him toward manliness generally
| Bess took charge Of him when he was
| seventeen, and when she had had him
| year he would occasionally break
away from her for companions of his
own sex. Within two years there was
not a vestige of feminism in him.
Then he went to college. and since he
had developed physically. coming as
be did of brawny stock, he surprised
us all by becoming candidate for and
winning place on the university foot
| ball team.
When his college won the champion
| ship during his senior year Bert. who
| was very dCltc ub Wei dS was
one of the principal men on the team.
and 1t was he who gained the points
that gave them the game. | took Bess
to see the game, and she was not only
very much interested in it. but very
proud of one whom she had convert
ed from a Miss Nancy toa sterling
man.
! had observed that this training OF
my nephew had been attended with
that of which by no means disap
proved. 1t was plain that the two had
become seriously attracted TO each
other. The day Bert was graduated
from college he came to me and told
me that he and Bess were engaged
Bess came TO me as soon as he had
left me to see for herself how viewed
the matter.
"Well, Bess." said !. you have made
a man out OF a milksop and
HE never was a milksopT she In
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