Boys

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 15, 7 February 1884, Page 3

Boys

♦ Boys are distinctly less ea?er to pet out into tho world than thev were 50 years ago— are, in fact, hardly eag«r at ull They do not fret to be their own masters, as why should they? Home is pleasanter, parents are- g-en-tler, their own tastes are more consulted, and they are, as we believe— though this will be disputed —much more timid of faring- unsupported tbr realities of life. They have seen more, j talked more, heard mote than their forefathers; as one result, show none of those strong " biases" which mothers still expect from tradition in their sons, and which Mpransr quite as much from concentration or poverty of ideas as from any other source. They do not, we think, shriuk more from hardship, or from work; but they have grown At once more selfdistruscful and more far-sighted, and therefore less disposed to act without hesitation or inquiry. They doubt about every career open to tuem, criticise all proposals, and stand idie tor months, som'%uies years, not so much from w-mt of industry as want of decision. — Spectator.