Year: 1869




HIS REGULATIONS WITH THE sold MAN"
/ We suppose the first severe trial
boy has to undergo is to submit his viii
to the old man, whom he is taught to
consider bis father To be restrained
/ in doors at night, to be forbidden to 90
in swimming FIVE times a day or to be
hindsred from pinching the rest of the
children just for fun, is an interference
with natural unalienabe rights every
way injurious to his feelings


And then, when upon some over
whelming temptation, the boy asserts
his independence of parental control
and receives a tanning with a switch
from ounce bush upon the back or
bare feet, it really becomes very seri-
GUS thing. We never could see that
the smart OF the operation like this was
assuaged by the effectionate assurance
that it was bestowed out Of pure
love.


THE FRET LONG TAILED COAT
We do not think that any boy ever
put on his first long tailed coat without
a sense of shame. He first twists his
back half off looking at it in the glass,
and then, when he steps out Of doors,
it seems as if all creation was in broad
grin. The sun laughs in the sky, the
COWS turn to look at him; there are
faces at every window his very shad-
ow mocks him. The very boards
creak with consciousness of the strange
spectacle, and the old pair Of pantaloons
that stop light in the garret window
nod with derision.


If he is obliged to pass a group of
men and boys, the trial assumes its
most terrific stage; his legs get all
mixed up with embarrassment, and the
flap of the dangling appendage is felt
against them, moved by the wind of
his own agitation he could not feel
any worse were it a dish rag to be worn
by him as badge Of disgrace 1t is
happy time for him when he gets to
church and sits down with his coat tail
under him; but he is still apprehensivs
with thinking of the Sunday School
and wonders if any Of the children will
ask him to swing bis long tailed blue.


GOING HOME WITH THE GIRLS.


The entrance into society may be
said to take place after boyhood has
passed away, yet a multitude take the
initiative before their hearts are pre-
sentable. 1t is a great trial to a tender
or tough age For an overgrown boy
to 90 to a door, knowing that there
are a dozen of girls within, and knock
or ring with an absolute certainty that
in two minutes all their eyes will be
upon him; is severe test of courage
To 90 before these girls and make
satisfactory tour of the room without
stepping on their toes, and then sit
down and dispose of ones hands with
out putting them into ones pocket, is
an achievement which few can boast
If boy can get so far as to measure off
ten yards of tape with one of the girls,
and cut it short at one end, he may
stand chance to spend a pleasant
evening; but let him not fatter him
self that the trials of the evening are
over. ..... ...


There comes at last the breaking up.
The dear girls don their hoods and put
on their shawls, and look so sarey, so
mischievous and unimpressable, as if
they did not wish any one to go home
with them. Then comes the pinch and
the boy that has the most pluck makes
up to the prettiest girl, bis heart in his
throat, and his tongue clinging to the
roof of his mouth, and erooking his
elbow stammers ont the words, "Shall
| see you home?" She touches her
fingers to his arm, and thus they walk
home about foot apart, feeling as
awkward as goslings As soon as she
is safe inside her own doors, he struts
home, and readily thinks he has been
and gone and done it. Sleep comes to
him at last, with dreams Of orinoline
and calico, and be awakens in the
morning aud he finds the doors OF life
open to him, and the pigs squsaking
for breakfast. Springfield Republican,,