Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — What a Boy Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What a Boy Can Do.

This is what a boy can do, because boys have done it: He can write a great poem. Alexander Pope wrote his famous “Ode to Solitude” when he was only twelve years old. He can write a great book. Macaulay wrote his first volume, the “Primitiae,” which took the literary world by storm, before he was in his teens. He can write a successful play. John O’Keefe, the famous Irish actor and playwright, wrote a play that Is considered good today when he was only fifteen. He can become famous. Charles Dickens did his “Sketches by Boz” so well that before he was twenty-two his name was known to all the world. He can “make his mark” so well that It will open his career. Palmerston, England’s great statesman, was admired in school for his brilliant work and wrote letters home in English, French and Italian that are models of composition today. He can enter a great university before he Is thirteen. William Pitt did it. —London Telegraph.