Show f t ABOUT BOYS AND GIRLS i j Mow They are Brought Up 1nI1 Brought Outs in England I I The boys begin outdoor sports almost I 1 when they began to walk The gover I l to take the children for ness is expected chidren regular and long walks daily The boys lawn have cricket hares and hounds tennis riding swimming and boating and keep up these outdoor exercises and much all through life recreations pretty al Ie Gentlemen oi all ages engage in these sports and when too old to play the more vigorous games take a hand at bowls Every Englishman knows how t play and to the last enjoys the play The Englishman is a Spartan He is hard and hardy He suppresses his feelings He has feelings but they are so deep down that he seldom gets at them They never come to the surface I is deemed unmanly to show feeling He plays as a boy at football It is a cruel almost brutal game Ho runs his risk I have seen a boy taken off the field unconscious j when he came to hiuiself he said Oh its nothing These boys are manly fellows honest I truthful trusty generous and stouthearted stout-hearted I never had an English boy tell mo a lie In tho upper classes few would in any war act dishonorably Only through servility would the boys of the lower classes consent to bo sneaks Eng lisli boys look upon German boys as lsh pedants upon French boys as babies and upon American boy nS elderly gen tlemeu temen American boy is the mystery An English boy stops in his short breeches just as long as can be Ho has no fancy for parties and balls and evenings in drawingrooms He calls such things bores He prefers football and cricket he chooses rather to roam the fields with gun and dog j he counts it gain when he has been in the saddle for the day He is taciturn Ho uses slang This is the vernacular A green grocers son who puts on airs he call a cad j an awkward boy who is inapt and a bit cowardly he says is a duffer j a hiding and deceitful boy is known as a muff When the schoolmaster is angry he is angy waxv He always uses negatives A fellow is gushing when he remarks that I a thing is good a Rugby or an Eton boy never ventures far bevond saying It snot s-not bad or its i ot half bad He never would dream of saying thats immense when he meant the same thing ho would say Its rather jolly A sixpence is a tanner and a shilling is a bob His father is the govnor and his mother is the master His companion is his pal and his dog is his brute He never has a picnic or a circus but only a lark So universal is the use of slang among English Eng-lish boys that thoy have no notion that their vernacular is slang To talk in any other tongue would be not only affectation affecta-tion but cheeky Girls as well as boys use nasty for disagreeable and beastly for offensive English boys are never effeminate and they are very taking because they are such splendid boys They dress like boys till they are eighteen years old They obey like boys j they study and play they feel and think j they feed and sleep they disport themselves in all ways like boys till they become men and then they put away childish things All foreigners in America ask where the children are The absence of the boys and girls is altogether alto-gether the most striking feature of American can society I is deliciously refreshing to meet in America a boyish boy or a girl ish girl Manish boys and womanish I girls are the rule in American life so foreigners think and say English girls are suppressed but they do not know it I seen they are not heard and they are not often seen They are never put on exhibition Their manners man-ners are quiet and their dress is always very simple The richer and higher of rank the plainer they are dressed asa rule Children never wear jewelry I is not often that an unmarried lady wears jewelry jew-elry at all and i so very modest pieces such as a pin or a ring Children are never put into finery They are kept in the nursery till they have acquired quiet and unobtrusive manners They do nc dine with the family till such age as guarantees good table manner lsl I brilliant complexions of the children j somewhat due to the soft and humid climate is a result of careful diet and regular hours of work recreation and sleep The girls are with their mothers much less than are French girls and are with their nurses and governesses much more They are very hy and modest Their reading is religiously looked after and few read sensational or flashy fiction Solid reading is the rule Indeed they read but little and know but little outside of their text books The girls and for that matter the women have no genius for conversation They seldom prattle interestingly as the French ladies do and take no great delight in whisperin scandal as the German ladies do The embroider and sew and all have fancy work on hand They never sit idly Even in the drawingroom in the evening even-ing they will converse while dointr Rnmo sort of needlework The girls ride ° take long walks play tennis and roam the gardens and fields Among thE wealthy Classes they have their horses and dogs and spend no inconsiderable time with them I The date for u girls entrance into society is not left to be decided lef by a I whim an accident or not at all She is not in society while she is a school girl She does ncts pavU iET r have beaus orjpm on the dress and mariners of a young lady till her girlhood days am past and she has quitted the school room When the time comes she is brought out A party is given at the opening of the season and she is introduced into society This would not be earlier than her seventeenth year and perhaps as late a her nineteenth Robert Laird Collyer |