Show u What is the matter t d tat s 0 Wrong lIit11 boy with I the American small s t 1 1r Entail fuU 4 IS Manifestly wrong with something the average aver-age schoolboy today especially d es-pecially in the great By JOHN HOWLAND cities To observe it ono a needs only to enter streetcar street-car or pass along a city where a considerable number of the e youths are congregated i proverbially the fact is accepted that boys will be boys the impar q idea i in almost any quarter of the modern city looks upon any cons con-s hie group of schoolboys anywhere in a public place as a potential m1 for producing anything from annoying disorder to an incipient here is something of the precocious and affected in the city school re omething suggestive of anything other than the innocence that s I to his years Study his actions a little in public and the false ill he felt Feeling that false note too there is nothing reassuring Boldness enters markedly into it There is lack of anything ap I wing 1 reverence for anything There is vanity which clamors for the f eye no matter at what cost of modesty and breeding Presuming It his youth and his numbers in any public place this modern city g gives rein to a counterfeit spirit of youthfulness which carries with jaded atmosphere of a wizened old age of rakish cunning and con d The exhibition is as painful as that other extreme in which the V jimrian at some settlers reunion encouraged by his doddering van Is out upon the ballroom floor to go through the mazes of the dance Is lie British and continental European long has criticised the lack lit dishness in the American child Within a dozen years the Amer leurologist and psychiatrist have been deploring tho precociousness 11 city child in America The city youth in school walled in by the tb Lionel narrowness of his school fraternity and his own luck of per be 0 and sense of proportion ha3 come to be more a sociological prob an ordinarily is considered 1 the one fact that by virtue of his NUMBERS only the school n ny make himself obnoxious one may read tho viciousness of the eq In the same fact too one may read the tendency toward under e the individualism which later must mean so h llo the youth of the world b here are signs of reaction from the present t l > oy status Innocent youthfulness anywhere got individual will be smiled upon always the time 9 e ing when the mob spirit of the schools will be itt ith in the measure of its deserts et ho wise youth who attempts to anticipate the ble will be taking a long step forward |