BOYS ARE NOT WHAT THEY WERE
Tommy Flynn, seven-year-old son of a teacher at the Brighton College (England), put an advertisement in the “agony column” of “The Times” seeking a companion for the summer holidays of the same age as himself, “with straight, dark hair, tall, not too fat, and good for fighting and cricket.” Interviewed, Tommy told a reporter: “You see, so many of the j youth of to-day are no good at fightj ing, they have not heard of Jack | Hobs, they possess inexcusably curly i hair, are short and, worst of all, they : are fat. The fact is that boys are not 1 what they were.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 14
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109BOYS ARE NOT WHAT THEY WERE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 14
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