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PAMPERED BOYS.

They have been having a scholastic row royal at Oam aru over a boy-pupil at the local High School. The boy was a " molly coddle" sort of human, clever enough m his country school, but when his fond parents sent him to a High School as a boarder his troubles commenced. The other boys " larked " with him, and finding him a milksop and inclined to be a tell-my-mother-on-you creature they increased their torments until the fond but terrible paternal relative appeared on the scene. He thought his beloved boy brutally illused and brought the matter before the Governors of the School, The father accused the house master of winking at the insults heaped upon his offspring, and even the fond and doting mother managed to have a say m the matter. One fine morning 1 the boys, after baptising the new scholar m the bathroom after the total immersion style, locked him m, and, like a spoiled child, he gave way to shrieks and screams. The house-master hearing the row ran down to him and finding nothing wrong promptly administered an application of slipper to the end of the youth's vertebral column. This proved the climax. The indignant parents withdrew their estimable Bon from the school and sent him to the Dunedin High School, where, m reality, he has gone from bad to worse, and has m. more ways than one jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Tne translation has neither been to the comfort of the boy nor to the satisfaction of the parents. They assert he was persecuted m Oamaru, but they have to admit that he has been more than persecuted m Dunedin. Our advice to euch a doting pair of progenitors is to put their son carefully m swadling pjqthep apd shield him from the blasts of heaven m a glass cake. " The father has never read Mr Midshipman Easy or he would have had moro sense than to trump up such a case for the world to look upon. Boys will be boys, and young lads who go to public schools must take their chance m the boy world as men have to do m theirs. The Board after consideration of all the 'circumstances brought up by the irate father and more irate mother found that the case was too slender to warrant them taking any step the matter of censuring the teachers for allowing anything of the sort to go on. The estimable mama, while tho parties wero being examined is reported to have threatened " topunch the head" of the teacher responsible for the care of her darling. The overfond parents of the boy run a big risk of spojljng him as a man. Ho may be \n their eyes the essence of goodness and the personification of genius, but outsiders will take a niore impartial view of the lac}- 4 boy will never be able to battle for his rights as a man if he is pampered and petted' as a youth. In this respect the boy's greatest enemy is pf his own household. It must not be understood that a bully among boys is an estimable character. Rather is he the reverse. But if a boy is to be anything more than a milksop all his life, ho should not be listened to when relating tales, m which he appears as the victim of boyish pranks.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
568

PAMPERED BOYS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

PAMPERED BOYS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

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