The daily Alaskan., 1915-01-22
Making a Man
 of Him
By DONALD CHAMBERLIN

He looks as if he had come in a 0andbox. What's his name?"
 Albert"
 What are you going to do with him. put him in a store window to show his clotheS?"
 No. I brought him here to try to make 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 governess. Since then his mother has not been willing to trust him with any one but herself. and she Is the worst caretaker be has ever had"
 Poor fellow! have known cases ike that"
 His father was a splendid man, and Bert is as like him as possible at hls age except, while the father was taught to rely on himself. the son is handi' .apppd by q mother who wishes to make milksop of him."
 As the twig Is bent the trees in' cIined.
 That's It exactly, You can dwarf mun as well as a tree. Now, Bess, l wish you to help me make change in the boy"
 "IY How can do anything about IF"
 suggested a plan by which she could make start in Bert'S rrtorma- ,lon He had never associated with unl one but girls. and knew that If ( turned him at once over to the boys they would soon send him back to me, proposed to initiate him through a 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
 would make him my heir. But he was to remain with me so long as l lived
 warned Bess to go slow at first with Bert, but she didn't heed the warming. She took him out in canoe, upset it lon purposer and was obliged to swim ashore, holding him up, for he couldn't swim stroke. The feat wuS difficult, and 1t sObcred the girl She didn't upse! him any more, but she forced him to laarn 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 pS>on. BeSs was encouraged from the furt that when thrown he scrambled pack on to bis horse without being urged to do so.
 When winter came such sports as swimming. horseback riding and the like gave pla e to skating and skiing. Bert put on skates, which he had nev' er used. hOb-Ied 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 gri- 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 dU these well one must begin very young. Indeed, it was not my pur. pose to make him proficient in any of these. What l wished was to draw him away from the feminine tastes his mother his gOverneSS and his nurse had implanted in him. He developed a taste for manly amusements, and this drew him toward manIineSS generally Bess took charge of him when he was seventeen, and when she had had him d 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 ne did of brawny stock. he surprised Us all ny becoming a candidate for and wtnnin. Il place on the university foot uaH team.
 When his college won the champion >hIp during his senior year Bert, who Na> very active as well as strong, was unc ut the principal men on the team, and il was he who gained the points that gave them the game. took Bess to SEQ the game. and she was not only very much interested in 1t, but very proud of one whom she had convert rd from a Miss Nancy to a sterling nan
 had observed that this training or LII, nephew had been attended with that of which by no means disap' proved. It was plain that the two had prrome seriously attracted to each other The day Bert was graduated rom college he came to me and told me that he and Bess were engaged Ress came to me as soon as he had test me to see for herself how viewed