Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-05 | Page 9 | A Plea for the Boy

A PLEA FOR THE BOY. If you've dressed him up on Sunday in his prettiest little shirt. Expect that ho will promptly find his way into the dirt. Don't stand aghast and startled if ho dares to climb a tree Or wants to play in places where he nover ought to be; It's the nature of the youngster to run wild in searth of joy. Were ho tame and neat and careful then he wouldn't be a boy. Don't imagine you can train him so he'll like to wash his ears Or be a little angel whoa your company com-pany appears. Don't fancy, gentle mother, when he goes to bed at night That you'll never find the bruises that he's piclced up in a fight. And don't give way to sighing when his wilful tricks annoy; If he didn't like to battle then he . wouldn't be a boy. Don't view these different stages as the signs that he is bad. To be all the time in mischief is the nature of the lad. There is fun in getting dirty, and no real boy can see Why clothes are so important and wiser there than wo. If he never got in trouble and was careful with each toy And was never wild and heedless, then he wouldn't be a boy. 00 This Is an Advanced Agel A bushel of wheat now represents ton minutes of human labor. JTdrruerly it was three hours.