The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-09
Making a Man
 of Him
By DONALD cHAMBERLN

" AAO 10 LA4C AONJ iAAN JSN+-S S@N-@- iting you, Mrs. Crabtree?
 "My nephew"
 He looks as if he had come in a bandbox. Whats his name?"
 @Albert."
 "What are you going to do with him, put him in a store window to show his clothesT
 "No. brought him here to try to make a man of him. He Is my broth CTS son. His father died when he was a baby, and he has been brought up by doting mother. He had nurse till he was fourteen, then goyerness. Since then his mother has not been willing to trust him with any one but herself, and she Is the worst caretaker he has ever had"
 Poor fellowI have known cases ike that"
 His father was a splendid man, and Bert is as like him as possible at his age except, while the father was taught to rely on himself, the son is handi- capped by a mother who wishes to make milksoD of him."
 "'As the twig is bent the trees in- clined.'"
 'aThats 1t exactly. You can dwarf a man as well as a tree. Now, Bess, l wish you to help me make change in the boy"
 "I2 How can 1 do anything about tf"
 suggested a plan by which she could make a start in Bert's reforma- ton. He had never associated with any one but girls, and knew that if I turned him at once over to the boys they would soon send him back to me. I proposed to initiate him through 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 l told her that I 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 1t ton purposeI and was obliged to swim ashore, holding him up, for he couldn't swim a stroke. The feat was difficult, and 1t 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 it 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 nev- CT 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 true grit and, getting up, struck out, fell again and kept 1t up, Bess al- ternately laughing and encouraging him. Then she skated with him, and doubtless he found that quite pleas. ant.
 don't claim that Bert made a first class swimmer or skater or rider. To do these well one must begin very young. Indeed, 1t was not my pur' pose to make him proficient in any Of these. What wished was to draw him away from the feminine tastes bis mother, his governess and his nurse had implanted in him. He developed 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 a 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 a candidate for and winning a place on the university foot ball team.
 When his college won the champion ship during his senior year Bert. who was very active as well as strong, was one uf the principal men on the team, and 1t was he who gained the points that gave them the game. l 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 to a sterling man
 i had observed that this training of my. nephew had been attended with that of which 1 by no means disap' proved. It 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 be had left me to see for herself how viewed | Ehe matter,