The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-04-13
IN GLORIOUS YOUTH
THE BOY AT AN AGE HE LOOKS
BACK TO WITH REGRET.
When He 5alks at Cutting Grass and
Takes Himself and HE Future
In the Most Serious
Fashion.

He has just arrived at that age when
nobody understands him. His father
wants him to learn a good trade, like
carpentry or automobile repairing, but
he has fully decided that he Is going to
be either u corporation lawyer or an
actor, preferably moving picture ac-
tor. He understands vaguely that a
corporation Is business organization,
and he is not much Interested In law,
but he has heard his father speak adj
miringly Of corporation lawyer ana
praise his keenness, and he thinks II
would be rather nice to be spoken or
In that way. Also he has heard II
said that a corporation lawyer must
possess quick intellect and pro-
found understanding Of human nature,
and he believes he possesses both. For
similar reasons he inclines toward the
actors profession, An actor does not
have much work TO do, and he has
heard Of some who earn a thousand
dollars week. Moreover, actors are
much admlred-he admlres one or two
that he has seen at the corner theater
himself-and there are other attrac-
tions which secretly influence him,
such as beautiful actresses, although
he would never admit this even TO him
self.
! He has supreme confidence In his en-
tire fitness for either profession and
cannot understand why his father does
not encourage his ambitions, says a
writer In the Indianapolis News. He
secretly believes that his parent is of
rather inferior intellect, else he would
have a better job and would be able
to understand his son and properly
gauge his abilities. OF late he has be-
gun to balk ut cutting the grass. He
says the sun makes him sick, but the
real reason Is that he thinks cutting
the grass Incompatible with the dig
nifty of future man of fame. His
mother found him one day In the attic
waving an old sword and charging ar
imaginary enemy, then Strengthening
his naturally stopped shoulders ant
falling backward with his hand on his
heart shouting all the while in his
queer voice, which at the present time
Is wagering between u coarse, bull-lik'
bass and Il thin squeak.
He seldom loses sight of the fac
that he is going To be either a cor
poratlon lawyer or an actor, and L
continually rehearslng for one profes
sion or the other. When he walks h
endeavOrs to initiate the debonai
grace of his favorite mOtlOn-pictur
hero and he Is constantly testing hi
powers of cross-eXaminatlon on hi
part, take him at his own valuutio
and listen respectfully when he crate
on any subject from baseball to pol
ties, OF both Of which he thinks he IN
a thorough grasp. He wears his hal
long, objects strenuously and some
times tearfully when ordered To hav
1t cut, and Is In n fever of uncertaint
as to whether 1t Is more becoming I
part Il In the middle or on the sid
; His ties and socks are very loud an
; his trousers extremely narrow an
short. He talks loudly and with tn
7 utmost assurance on all question
when anybody will listen to him. III
D only thing In the world he cannot III
derstand Is why his father, and, occ
; siOnnlly even his mother, smile at hi
+ when he Is talking most seriousl
But he fully understands that he
misunderstood