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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1879)
March, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 77 THE THREE AGES OF BOYS. CHAPTER 1. "IT'S A BOY. His advent is heralded in the brief but strong sentence juat quoted. No matter what hopes have been indulged in oonoerning girl babies, there ia aomothing in the pithy announcement 'lt'ii a boy," which dispell all fanciful dreams and seta everybody on a prose basis. His very voice, as it utters a defiant war whoop in the grand army of humanity, tell the story to ex perienced years. The visions of a dainty girl darling very soon vanish before this positive piece of prose, who kicks his sturdy heels through the delicate pink socks intended for his sister, and who grows red as a turkey oook's head at Thanksgiving times when he is expected to show off before callers. He persists in an abnormal development of nose and pufKuesa about the eyes, along with several other tricks known only to interested parties. Parents and nurses beoome reconciled and accept them on trust, seeing no other alternative. He emerges from his puffy and rosy obstinaoy to a roly poly wide awake thing of beauty, whioh is a joy fully one-half of the time. There ia a prooess from infancy to little boyhood, a sweet time, when the man-child is half baby, half angel. In the clear depths of his innocent eyes is a world of hope and trust and love. His white brow is as fair as a freshly-opened lily, and his lips as aweet as hermoaa roses. He is most witching at this age, for the peculiarities whioh mark the mfiiiU terrible are yet undeveloped. He is an armful of love and beauty and promise and dread aud hope. JVove him while yet there is -.13 guile on the tender lips, and no sin in the unwritten soul, no touoh of the wurld upon Qod'l Kuished work. CHAPTER 2. (1IT UP 0M HOIISKV. "Meroy, what a noise! Look at that chair, with a string tied on the arms and made fast to the writing desk and flower stand, all to be drivon tandem by that young imp in knit shirt and fancy hat and shoes 1 Who upset that work-basket? and, good gracious, what work haa lieen made with my wool and thread ! There'a the Graphic torn to acrapa and atulloil in the ouanadore with mv screw-drivor that I lost a week ago. What is he doing with that cat? and, dear me, if he hasn't thrown t . minima a apectaolea into the grate." Where's Harry? Kun to the kitchen and see. All the eggs are broken in the basket of folded olothes, and the milk for pudding has lieen fed to the cat and dog. Bridget I .annigati is in a towering rage, and says, "Phat's the use of ahlavin to kape clane wid auch a young divil furniat ve?" Mi Kriiridity Fuaabunch calls, and is horrified hv beins requested to "be a horse aud let Harry ride straddle to Boston.' She is micstioned. also, on manv delicate points. lie gets very close to her and asks what that white stuff on her face is, and what makes her wear such a funny little hat. A few years of this juvenilo terror and then there anncara another statin of the boy. He nets a fever onlv appeased by marbles. It is useless to head off this phase; if it is shut off in one direction it breaks out more violently in some other. It goes through a period of six or seven years and ooaU much mortified pride. He is afflicted with rats, pigeons and other boyish complaints, whioh are harmless, but annoying. Me brums in dirtv steel trans to amuse bis siek sister, who grows worse under it, and in his solicitude he straps his legs fast to six feet of stilts and stoops to enter the door of her room, tn the hnrmr and dismay of his mother. He brings little notes home from school, which he tries to explain in a favorable light, hot fails to convince his parents that it was "only because Bill Wilson dropped his slate on Abe Hsouegao's toes anil made me lamth." He oarres his awkward initials on aid Mrs. Williams' cellar door, and she threatens his arrest He goes U see "llumpty Uumpty." sod goes home and throws real brickbats at bis aunt, and Bridget is met with a battering blow from his osao life a burden and home a snare and delusion. He rasrw hn iM.mlna ... - H and slits the pillow-cases to match them. Gradually he leaves off his hurly-burly life and iuipeicipuiu gliuea lint" CHAPTER 3. "WIIKHK'SMV RI.VI TIE?" "Whore's the blacking brush? I am going to a little surprise and won't be home till eleven. Is my percale shirt done up nice? I wish you d make my collars stiller. I don't thank some one for throwing my coat down and getting it wrinkled all up. How do you like this hat ? Think it looks better than my soft oue." You will Hud the pigeon boxes all deserted about this period; not a rat trap oumbera the back yard; the woodshed theatricals are all ended; the stilts are put away; kites forgotten; window glass is in ported safety. The dust has tilled the rudu initials 111 Mrs. illiama cellar door, and there is an uninvited quiet ail around the house', chairs stay ill their places, ami panta loons will no longer bear cutting over for the hoy. He gets them now out of new stuff, and mother's cut will not satisfy him. lis is not in the way now, and there is a heavy pain in mother s heart as she thinks he will never uoed her much any more. The innocent eyea have a deeper meaning in them now. They have taken into their depthB the relloctinii ol a lace younger than mother's, and life begins to look real to them. The world is full of homes where these pic lures will be recognized and hung up as family portraits homes where there are no sounds nl young voices now. I hey grow away into ine great world so soon, and wo put away the name leas feeling of desolation as we do the oast-off toys 01 ineir oniliiiiooti; anil wnen mo evening in life approaches the heart goes back along the line of time, and ia once more with the children in the dear old long ago. -C'isjrininifi Salunlny Night. Womkn and Newspapers. --The man who does not furnish his family with a paper stands in his own light. Money spent this way brings more interest than money invested in a bank. It pays a man to take a paper home with him, ana if his wife can't read, it would pay him to teach her. The man who thinks a woman does not BasMM rcail a pspor, that sho nas wen, 11 not oetter !... ..in. im m ill fif linn h until). l! limcliv- ities, a man 'that would degrade woman to an existence iiae ins own. 1110 im piwi; woman but enjoys resiling her paper. She may pass over the llusncisl or glance lightly at the . -I.,..,. I. I.i.t in HIM HUM Milt f if ten ftllC Will HMI1lini, IM . . 1 m see something thst s man will overlook. Occa sionally we hoar M a woman wno -nas no nine tn icad," and who "nsver looks at a paper The predjiidioed or unthinking may commend such a woman's industry, but any one who thinks will rather condemn her lack of system, . . 1 , I L. -If I .-If r... .. which leaves nerno n , i ,m,..w.- ment and entertainment. To Inures Hieep Dr. Binna, in bis "Anat omy of Hleep," 1. cm m lends the following means of procuring sleep: "Ut the person torn 00 his left side, plane his head comfortably no the pillow, so thst it exactly occupies the angle a line from the head to the shoulder should form; and then slightly closing his lips, let him take rather a full respiration, breathing as much as he possibly csn through the nostrils. Having taken a full inspiration, the lungs are then to be lass 1.. shall nwn action, thst is. the respiration 1. neither to be accelerated nor retarded. The patient should than depict to bimsell that hs Sees the breath passim; from his nostrils in a continuous stream; awl the very instant that be brings his mind to oooosivs this apart from all other ideas, cnnsoionsnens oi meinwj ii, and hs sleeps. " A ui asked the Judge what she would say in ooort if she were asked her a. The blunt jurist replied, "Say, Madam, what I believe would be toe truth, that you are not yet ansae WASHINOTONIAN RKLIC8. A fresh collection of Washington ratios recently arrived at the national capital includes a variety of household furniture, mirrors, candlesticks, china, plated ware, ate,, the robe in which Washington wsa christened, a guitar whioh he presented to Nallie Cualis, his private ledger, a half-length portrait, miniatures of (leneral and Mrs. Washington by Trumbull and numerous other articles. There is no doubt el the authenticity of these ratios, whioh have beau in possession of the Lowia family ainos the. death of Washington, having been received originally by Mrs. Lswrenos Lewis, his adopted daughter and the wife of his nephew. The Ke) iruary number of we Jfaunsiar a Amrriam llutory is exclusively confined to un published Washington matter, oomprising origi nal documents, letters and notes. It ninna with "Washington's Opinion of his tie Olheers. " This paper is entirely in Was tou'a autograph, and was prepared by him far his use iu the cabinet ia 1701, when the defeat of (leneral Nt. ( lair on the Miami indicated the necewotv of a chance in the command of the army. Next follows a tabulated statement of aslniigton s household expenses in I7NV, from the original (also In the New York State library), whioh was drawn up with scrupulous miniiteueaa, to serve as a basis (or a nnmnansa tion to the President of the United Slate. A fat timitr page accompanies each of these pa pers. 1 he e.iiior oontniiuws a nnei Bastea 01 the "old yellow house," k now n as Washington's I '.no pi. hi headquarters, the scene of many a festive scene during the days of the New Jersey campaigns. It still stands on Mm old road -ths thoroughfare of the revolution front New Windsor to Morristown. A line view of the bouse illustrates this article. Tim title "Original IhwiimenU" liegins with a genealogical aooount of the Washington family of Holland and (lermany, f minded in the middle of the 17th century by lame. Waahlaajtoo, I in it her id lieneral Washington's great grand, father, John Washington, ths first emigrant of ths name to Virginia. This curious paper was communicated to ths Now York Historical Mo. . let v by the Hon. Frederick Kapp. long a resi dent of New York. Hooond in order ernes the Rro, -ceding of a counsel of war. eoavensd at sw Windsor, Juns 19th, 1791, ths commander in elm I presiding, when arrangement tltl mails for the campaign which terminated In the 1 aniurs is) l ornwallis at York town. Nasi Wa iiiul the most important contribution made In the history of Washington staves the publication of Mpark's edition of his writings in the seventy Intters imw lirst prihiwi, covering a perwsi irotn I ",M to the close of 177(1. Considered alone, they afford a isnnplet insight into the rata qualities ol the ciliitoii, the soinier sou too man. As a reprint, ths contemporaneous aeoooata of Waahiinrtoii's farewell to his siHsers la given, ami the editor show that they all originated ia the rsirt of the touching scene ma. Is by tUV ington, ths Tory printer, tn his (JauiU. A Una steel plate engraving of Krnu noes' tavara, still standing, ami s view of the long room where the meeting took plana, are appropriate lllostra Hons. Imshiutai. Tm 111 Truth will ri..w die; ths stars will grow dim, the ena will pale hie glory, young Integrity, p goodness, these are all 1 can ever entomb Umsss bat truth trill be ever young. righto, honesty, hive, nniwrishable. No (rave 1 immortal nrinoinlea. They have baa la I hut they have been wear tuoei niuvi mmm who enshrined them in their hearts have Santa burned at the stake, Baal aat af their ashes their witnesses hevs arista. K sea an drown, no storm son wreck, an abyss can aval low ap lbs tverlaating tenth Van cannot kill gnodnaaa aad integrity aad rtehteousnsnef. tfca way that is eonsiateal with these matt bo a way cvsrlattiag. Home psatpU ara Ilk selves to hold anything fUf when she is bringing ia the ooaL 11 to ins years 01 uiscnaaaai