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Humor Of Boys And Girls

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

From twelve on an increasing percentage of the children relinquish the idea that self is necessary in the joke and give more impersonal accounts. Girls more frequently than boys quote the humor of the refined adult and in personal experiences often describe occasions of their own timidity. This is probably duo to the different home training a girl receives. She is continually drilled "to be a lady," which in most cases means to drop her natural instincts and to imitate the adults of her environment. About twelve she loses the fearlessness she has hitherto shared with her brothers and becomes good prey tor their "scaring" schemes. This seems to develop the boys' teasing abilities, for, while before almost all their tricks were on their own sex, now the acme of their fun as recorded is to frighten some girl or to make he look ridiculous. A boy of twelve illustrates this tendency and by his mixed clauses gives further material for smiles. "The best joke I saw played was putting a bunch of firecrackers by a lady that were not lit and they scared her."- Century.