Show BOYS AND question would oui girl marry i good gracious ou ought to know better than toak boak such a que tion Q but we suppose for tho time bp ine do not know any better home the question A well now come to think it over thre th re lie certain conditions under which our girl might many mie young if he were nali and did not work at his trade and lured a giedt man men to fo him she might thirry the youir min she would he was not called a badik smith Q but the oung blacksmith is and well educated 3 A but he shoes horbes for a living Q well is not that an honest va of getting a living A ye it s honest but not elegant besides lie have as much money as our girl wants Q how much does our girl wanta A well she might pet along on 10 a ear she must hae a residence in the ia qua itera carriage carri Aae arp ses di servants saratoga anda cottage ind a cottage in the country the young backsmith furnish all that at 3 pei du d u Q hut suppose the 3 oung blacksmith could forge a few notes now and then and pas them without anybody finding it out A well if he forged very carefully and in a gentlemanly manner and called it by some less angly name and she wis quite sura that he was doing no mor ejnor less than ars around lam slie might take his cae under con nde rahon its something like bis be ing a big bos blacksmith and being known as a great nou manufacturer Q suppose he ind been a black smith like campanini and bad into a great singer A oh then she d mirry him money or no money and be ery proud that lie had been a blacksmith OUR BOTS question who answer this is the american bov Q to do fora living A he wants to be a bank clerk or a broker or a liwer or get a place in the custom or or 0 o into the army or become a minis ler Q what is tle ambition of the country and village amican boys A lo 10 go to the city and yet a situation Q much kiy A for 2 per weak the firt ear and perhaps if be 13 nil ha can make otherwise Q both and antt brought up A they go to until seventeen or eighteen years of acre and then inner around home or street corners until the get man led Q and then A then thero n a row and the old lolka of the hit part manage to iuela borne way for the young folks 0 the second part and both parties drag out a sort of a miserable existence is our american young hiam idad of living A life for him is no life dt all un have ins Sui rimer and inter sails of clothing change x f y vi at 1 r his neckties with every fashion endure the miseries of a semi fashionable house and spend what 13 left of the month in taking a oung woman to the the i tie with carnage and idle ies ddurant supper at the closie ot the pel lonrance lo nuance Q A yes it is right but the ciack smith s cannot do it very easily Q by the way what his become of all the american Amei ican appi entices to useful liades A hie aie all dead Q and who are moist of the worked s in non and wood aind leathea lea and anck ind mortar A itie foreigners Q but what can the boy do A lie can aspire to be a vander bih Q and does he realino his asana tion A not often but sometimes he bunes a bank teller or cashier or publia official who sud and leases his chort be bind him Q but do not american oos learn trades A ob et but they frequently commence cathu late in life Q A in the slate anson |