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