Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — The Boy’s Room. [ARTICLE]

The Boy’s Room.

The wise parents will always seek to furnish their boy’s with a room more attractive to them than the street-cor-ner, because they realize that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Yes, is worth many pounds of cure; but in order that it may be as attractive the boys must feel at liberty to Invite to their boy friends, and to entertain them there, as the •girls’ friends are entertained in their sisters* room. Then let the boys have a “good time” of their own choosing. They don’t want a prescribed way to play or entertain themselves; they ■want chiefly to be let alone, allowed to play as they choose, and not be nagged at because they are not quieter. Just so long as their noise is a harmless, healthful, “good-time” noise leave them undisturbed. Boys will not endure nagging; it will-drive them from home into the streets more quickly and surely than anything else under the sun. Encourage the boys to feel that their room is their castle, and that they are masters in their own domain.—Woman’s Home Companion.