The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-18

soul that love of beautiful surround
IngS that Is the beginning OF ciyiliIa
ton
And as for clothcs-well. il there's
any money TO be spent on glad raj
mcnt 1t goes ON sisters back Mother
worries and fuses over the g,rls
irockS, and tells father that they
REALLY MUST have things that are
the very latest word IN fashion or else
they will be mortified to death to go
among their friends.
But II there is any economizlng to
be done, Johnny does it Nobody con
| siders IT important how he looks so
that he is moderately clean and has
only a reasonable number OF darns
and patches Nobody realizes that
Johnny sets Just as much store upon
having Just the right bag to his knick-
ets, or as or-edgcd a crease in his
trousers as sister does TO the set OF
her skirt and that he is Just as sens-
tive 10 the boys comment on his ties
as she is to the girls on her sleeves.
Worse still, the small boy is utterly
neglected in regard to the important
matters that are going to count big in
his after life Mother prepares sister
for society, Tor making a good appear
ance in this world She is taugh, how
to approach people. how to enter and
leave a room, and what to- say
But no one botheiS to teach Johnny
that. IL is taken for granted that he
is a hopeless savage because he is a
boy and so no one drills him in the
nicetie' OF lie The result is that little
glrlS nearly always have good manners.
while little boys are hoodlums Little
MARY drops You a courtesy when you
speak to her, and hopes YOU are well,
and so on, bu, little Johnny keeps his
hat on and says "'lo." to a woman old
enough TO be his grandmother
That's why boys have to leave home
when they are grown TO get star,
IN their professions or business. Every
body remembers Johnny Jones as such
a surly ill-mannercd little cub they
can't realize that he has developed by
the grace OF God, and not through his
parents fault, into fine courteous
gentleman.
WSsc still, so far as the trcatmen,
accorded boys goes, is the fact that No
one seems TO realize that a small boy
is the most sensitive creature ON earth
and the most hungry hearted Hc
wrltheS under rdiCulc as under tor
,ure, yet his callous family have nc
hesitation in calling public attention tc
his faults and blunders, and making
his mistakes the nail ON which tho,
hang The funny stories they tell tc
guests, That's why boys spring IN in
themselves and hide what they reall,
think and feel, so completely that their
parents know less ci them than the,
do OF any stranger that crosses their
path
And the small boy lust ache, To h,
pctted, to be careSSed. to be talked 10
and Sympathi,cd with. and understood
and praised And he so seldom get,
even kind word It's his faults h,
hears about so often ,ha, i, is no won
der that one small hoy when askc
what was his tamc said he didn'
know--that II Was either Johnny Don
OF Johnny Run-he was called on,
about as often as the other.
The Japanese set aratt \ day I,
honor the small boy, exclusively an,
Individually The Japanese small bo
is courteous, kindly. gentle and consid
crate OF Others lie doesn't even vel
, like a Comanche when he plays TOO,
/ ball, and YOU never see him in
, street fight Perhaps he is polite he
, cause he is treated politely
Let's follow the japanese custom O
/ honoring the small boy and see " "
. can't civili,c the American small bo,
. too