The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-11

elder brothers and sisters right royal
Iy. "a boys boy for a that" is the
cry that never dies out by those con-
doning his follies. Parents deny them
selves necessary comforts, pinch. save
all this to give the young man
better start in the world than they
had and keep him from having to
face the world penniless, as they con-
stantly remind those growing up, who
look to them for liberality.
The young hopeful hears the old, old
story OF how his father trudged foot
sore miles to his ill-paying work, etc.
He breaks out with a groan from his
Iusty young lungs: Dad, how many
more times are those doleful tales you
fling out SO heavily at me to be told?
Give us something. new"
Young blood has not the least desire
to have these truths flung at them.
When they feel that the latchkey given
them should not compel them to be in
by midnight they confront the head
of the house with the information that
they are nearly of age and it's best to
manage themselves as other boys have
done.
Then the dark days come when the
plucky youngster not out of his teens
packs his most needed belongings and
with little bag and baggage starts off
to put out for himself. He braved the
anger of his exacting father when
away he went to a hard position which
he had taken and capped the climax
by hiring a plain hall bedroom, whose
furniture consisted of a cot, washstand
and an apology Of small table. j
want no luxurious furniture stuff to
hamper me- said the boy who was to
manage himself I've had too much
fostering and brain-clouding at the
homestead"
What mattered it to the youth, who
was feverish to find out what he could
fill in the world that he had CHANGED
to roam to the nearest town to COM
mence managing his career-a dis
lance of dozen miles away? AS soon
as the meager words on postal con-
tanned his address, that he was we'll,
and sent love to all, the mother and
sisters kept back their tears and in
broken accents murmured he had
been too tenderly nurtured to undergo
hardships which they feared he had to
face. The father testify broke in:
You women are the ones who spoil
youths career; instead of hardening
him for the ups and downs he has to
expect, you keep up making it easy
for him and adding to the burden
have to bear. The boy can manage
himself better than you can"
Young men like the dear, sweet, old
fashioned home which they have been
reared in, but they do not feel f1attered
to hear themselves called ''the kid"
from the time they are in their teens
and until they are out of it because
they are the youngest in the family. 1t
is no laughing matter for him to hear
them say f1atteringly: you are real
dude, in the new suit the governor
gave you" He likes the suit best
which he pays for. with money he has
earned. The first time eager mother
and sisters start to visit him, late
Monday afternoon, they are weighed
down with packages they have talked
over that he needs-his house slippers,
box of neckties, bottles of perfume,
volumes of books, pictures, etc. The
little ballroom looked like menag-
erie when they piled all in.
Yet these dear mothers and sisters
persist in telling that they know how
to manage a boy.