The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-07-04

dents as that acted on the stage. The
work of the scouts was top notch and
shows good training in first aid.
The scout executive leaves for Hama
and Kiuahulu mex week for a weeks
STAY. There is plenty of work mapped
out i'm this district and it is hoped
that a scoutmaster will have been
secured for troop eight before he re
turns to Waikiki. During his absence
The commissioner will be in charge OF
the work on this side of the island.
Scouts are acting as ushers and or
derlies at the Foresters Make Hap
Ply"
July 8, 1922.
Dear Scouts:
"The Glorious Fourth will come
along tomorrow and | wouldn't blame
YOU if you were too busy to listen
TO me today. When | was a boy, q
vounge boy | mean, every me OF us
in the neighborhood always tired 10
be the first boy up and out to shool
4 ire-cracker or a cannon on the
morning of the Fourth. But nova,
DAYS we have the safe and sane
4th and we dn't have that KIND OF
competition.
"That reminds me of what ! am go.
ing to talk to you o TINS week anu
that is,
How Old is a Boy
"\ funny question you probably
CIV. Won might as well ask how long
il q string?' But still that isn't alto
&c her true as I think I can make you
see If YOU think you are so wise as
all that YOU lust ask your mother, any
!. one of YOU. whethe" or not she thinks
your father is a boy, and | bet every
one will get the same answer, GER
tairlv he's nothing but a big over
, grown boy And there | have you;
/, and that brings up some of the points
that I wanted to make.
Some of the fellows that are go
ing round wearing pants think they're
=, hos when they're not at all, they re
inst human varieties of the blow-tiSh,
!, that's the fish that puffs itself all up
b and makes itself look like a feroclous
y old vaUipadoodle. You know the boy
, that puffs out his lips until you can
i rearlv sit on them, and sticks out MS
: chest. and talks a whole lot with ms
mouth but not with his brains? Well,
n that bOv tries TO make out That ne S
4 about 40 when really he's only about &
+ wears old and his putting and blowing
y doesn't amount to very much. 1t only
proves that he's a blow-fish and ISM
i a boy at all.
''Then there's a fellow that goes
o around looking like a boy but he ism
one either because he acts like a biz
Q old steer fattened up for the Fair, Of
ii che of the oil dbroken down horses
>. that have seer bitter days n have
g hen turned out to pasture to eat ant
y. stand in the shade all day. He's too
d high falutin' lazy to do anything an
e he ought to be. classed with the Oh
Stiffs, He has lived perhaps IL o.
# II years but he has the ambition o
re an old hound hat lies around l tn
1t shade all day. No he's not a BOY Il
age or anything and the real boy
ought not TO let him spoil any oil thel
do'cgs.
N There's another sort of a FELLOW
to who makes ont like he's some mar
" gllv' some experienced fellow OF abou
~ 25 or so who knows everything an
looks upon the things that real boy
to do as kid stuff. His chief ambitio
,g ee,ns to he TO tilt his hat on n sidt
a, huIly some one under his size, sit o
ne the corner somewhere, maybe on u
or store ariling, and spit out into tn
es street and make wise remarks. IN
kind of a fellow doesn't belong in tf
bov's g at all until some good n
W boy ONE along and gives him
"a. good licking for some mean thing he
We done and then he usually becomes
his ~eal boy again.
Ct The real boy doesn't know ever
Ia thing, he's always learning. He lik'
rts FOOD games and sports, He tries
NO be honest. he doesn't let himself
lazv. or grumpy and he doesn't pu
in himself all up. The real boy usual
is between 6 and IS years of age, II
always. but that doesn't make him
boy. What makes him a boy is h
cheerful playful spirit, his desire
learn, his straightforwardness, and
Ups active desire to be doing somethir
re TO the real boy the Scout doings a
his the real stuff and he goes after It.
"Of course / haven't told you
our the kinds of fellows of boys age W
a are not boys but you can him I
rest of them out for yourself.
as sincerely yours,
in CLINTON S. CHILDS,
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