Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Give the Boys Tools. [ARTICLE]

Give the Boys Tools.

Almost all boy an naturally mechanise. The constructive and imitative faculties are developed, in part, at a very early. Sge. All boys are not capable of being developed Into good, practical working mechanics, but inoat of them snow their bent that way. There an few cases In which the bay has no competent idea of the production of a fabricated result from inorganic material, but such cases there are. Given the proper encouragement and the means, and many boys whose mechanical aptness Is allowed to run to waste, or Is diverted from its natural course, would become good workmen, useful, producing members of the industrial community.

1 The mechanical boy ought to have a shop of his own. Let It be the attic, or an unused room, or a place in the barn or wood shed. Give him a place and tools. Let him have a good pock-et-tmlfo, gimlets, -eMsets, gouges, planes, catting nippers, saw, a foot rale, amd material to work. Let the boy have.a chance. If he is a mechanic it will come out, and he will do himself credit. If he foils he la to follow some calling that does • not demand mechanical »kill. —Boaton Journal of Commerce. ,