Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Boys Need Company. [ARTICLE]

Boys Need Company.

Boys must have sympathy, good cheer, and something to do. Youth especially needs a warm B™p of the hand, a sunny on the face, a tender interest in the hopes and plans of an untried life. Older people often grow lean and shrivelled of soul from the coldness and selfishness they find in after lite, but children and youth especially must have’the warmth of affection for a healthy growth. We must not forget that they need company. “My bey visits but seldom,” said a young mother to us, “but our lawn is often full of boys who visit him.” Baid a young man in one of our New England colleges. “For six months I have not stepped into a house where there are ladies, and I miss their society.” And the Christian women about him had forgotten that the college boy needed just the refinement and tenderness which his own home furnished.— OenffreyationalMt. A Bombay dispatch to the London Timm says Uhamar Charki is threatened whole country are fat commotion.