THE DREADFULNESS OF BOYS.
MUCH of the dreadfulness of boys from six to sixteen is due to the fact that in so very few homes a boy can be natural without disturbing everything and everybody, says a writer in Good Housekeeping. But who ever thinks of providing a place for the boys in which to keep their treasures undisturbed, where they can make all the noise they like? If a man needs a den to relax in, and every one seems to grant that he does—how much more does a growing boy! Is it not dreadful to think of a live boy in an elaborately furnished room, and all the other members of the family nagging him to keep still? If mothers would give anything like the amount of study and pains to their boys and the conditions which will bring the best results, that those do who succeed with house plants, we might have growing boys instead of what we most often see, boys hard and indifferent to every one.