CHAPERONING BOYS by Chicago Journal

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 34.

CHAPERONING BOYS.

By Chicago Journal

WE chaperon our girls, and carefully guard them against unworthy boys, but we leave the boy to choose for himself his associates and his achievements.

Girls are naturally winsome, gentle, companionable. They win their way in homes and hearts. But the boy, noisy, awkward, mischievous, is invited into few homes, and feels none too much at home in his own.

About the only door that swings with sure welcome to the boy, about the only chair that is shoved near the fire especially for the boy, about the only place where he is sure of cordial greeting, is where he ought not to go.

It is one of the hardest things in the world to get hold of a boy—to get a sure grip on him. He is hungry for companionship, and he will have it. You can't chain him away from it. He wants the companionship of boys, and nothing will take its place. If the crime of selfishness has so encased your heart that the joys and hopes of your boy can not enter into it, the boy is to be pitied, but so are you.—Chicago Journal.