The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-04-21

NdiiSu III Ills SCI VICES. 10 De-
lieve there is man in town who ever
heard Mr.. Scott use a bad word. not
even a smutty one. He minds his
own business and cares little about
what other people do. He has harmed
no one and does not intend to ever
hurt anybody. Eighty six years ago
the women folks near at hand anxious
ly asked: SIS it boy?" and it was a
boy. The little delicate instrument in
the breast of the babe has been rum
ming more than eighty-six years with
out slip of a cog. 1t wabbles little
now and then and the poor old body
has its aches and pains. 1t does not
over and over when he wakes during
the. darkness. On and on goes that
little engine in his breast, pumping |
life's fluid through the old blood ways,
but ere long the carburetor will flicker,
SCOT will smother the spark plug, the
gasoline will be all out and the HARM
less old man will be eternally at
rest.
A piece of two in my columns OF
late has made some folks wonder
which | think is best, the young wo-
man or the young man? Now the
Hired Man has never supposed he was
called upon to decide which is best
Neither is he going to decide the
tpoint in this paragraph. but he is will
ing to stake his reputation that good
clean young man is just as good as
good clean young woman. l like the
girls, but | cannot admit that | like
them any more than | like the boys,
all other things being equal. | do
not think there is a double standard
! of morals at ALL Yet there is vast
difference between what is correct for
the two. The girl has every right that
the boy has, and this one more, her
divine right of protection. We ex-
lpect the boy to protect himself. We
have carried this expectation too far
We give Bessie the best room in the
house, she gets the nice pictures tor
the walls, she gets the bright new rib
!. bons and folderols, the books and the
< celluloid trinkets to make her way
\ bright and fair, but we hang Joe up
n most anywhere, and if he has any
: playthings at all, they are stuck away
0 out in the barn, and he has the cubby-.
e hole bed room with the old quilts and
: the dull colors. He is Bessie's bro
: Their and of course you can't hurt a
S boy. That's the way we have ii
S shipped up. Well, that's wrong: How
e are we going to keep our little girls
S nice and sweet and pure, if their bro,
a theirs are thrown away. and then rur
y with the little girls? A real bad little
n girl in a neighborhood has real bac
o boy worsted by forty furlongs;: !!
h the bad girl influences a boy, nobod,
says anything, but laughs at the boy
and the boy must carry his double
# burden alone, while all the old simple
X tons in the region suppose that is tn
n way it has ever been. When the ba'
a bow influences a girl, he is tiayed ally
* for it. which of course is perfect.
Of proper. but why not have some goo
it sense also on the other side OF tn
III question. | was raised to feel a hig
es regard for the female side OF thu
d. question, and many time when
" Had. | have BACKED my sisters shoe
Of with the SCOT from the bottom OF on
e. old iron teakettle and fixed them
is nice for Sunday, when | didn't nav
ds any shoes at all, and that helped I
MT make me the happiest fellow. in tn
III whole township. After while othe
EN- lboys' sisters commenced to look at M
od III began to realize that there was
| difference between a girl and DO,
e- NV old mother then began to tell nj
do that over in the Judgment he ma
NV who had charge OF the sweat box ma
,is The same list of questions Tor DOT
ON and then | commenced to wond'
~ What these questions would be.
found out and then the good girl al
ret The GOOD boy were on an equality
As INV mind, and the bad boy and the bs
* o;rI were also equal, and then
he Started in to have pity and sympatl
,er for the unfortunate and / have tn
mi n;tv and sympathy still. IT God c;
MS Forget and forgive as readily as Il
i Hired Man can, there is not bad b'
NO or had GIRL in the world who needs
" fear 70 run up close to God and S
"0ur heavenly Father, love, !
49, Through il all, and forgive me-, !
ia ia will saw in answer: now my chiia'
uly devote half of each day to the man
ma nd, fscture Of systems of suns and plane
u,u The balance of the day | devote to I
ua W. work of forgiving children. you go
no peace and sin no more
ure The Hired Man likes Gonduc'
Corey on the Oregon Short Line Pc
. between Boise and Huntington.
have known him for seventeen yea
iii Corey must be getting to ,. be tfty y
now He used to run a frelght u
y ON the Rio Grande Western in W
X This was in those frontier times WI
. y r. iIs wiI men had to be watched pre-
i Closely In all the shakeups 90
4 r shore Il was certain that Corey wo
u ,,;xed in Never was he brou
!, + mo mot on or the the carpet for getting az !,
y \ WI anything, although men all alb
MIN aanr,o;ned various articles. sol
= MN nuns virtually raiding a whole b
X car of merchandise. Corey was
+ ways for peace, but we knew. J