How Boys Help Their Parents

The boys have gone back to school, of, if they have passed that stage, to college. Tbey were very handy about the place h: stomer. Not that they were Industflally useful, for it is hard to get hired-man's work out of a Bchooi-boy, or a college-boy, ta vacation time. Btrt they kep1 down the grasa ín the tennis coort, and hlndered growth of barmu-les on -the bottoms of the boats, and the spread of rust on the golf elttbs. And they helped vcvy ïmuli to keep up the family interest in Ufe. Boys really do help keep things movIng. They are more or less exponsiv to mahitain and edúcate, and as a rale they are so averee to any form of ttaeful labor that the prospect of woïitng them up in wage-eamera of ten seems very dim; but they do make for sport, and in that way they are a true help. Some of the boardmg scnoois see iu it that every boy, big and Httle, plays football, miless he is excused from that exercise by hls párente' wlflh, or for reasons satisfaetory to the master. The game is pretty roogh; the boys get hurt soiuetinies; but most parents anderstand the situation, accept the prevailing opinio that the discipline of football is wholeeome, and let thcir boys go luto it lf they are pliysically sound. And very proud the fathers are, -wheu they have due excuse, and deeply interested always, for football is thought to bring out and develop the true inwarduess of boys, and the parent who sees his off spring contend in it with vigor and distinction is glad to argue to hiiuself tüat some of the real Bluft' has got iuto bis ureum atter au, and that the boy wlD bold bis owu in the world. Of course, he goes to gaines in wliich his son's quality is going to be tested, and preseutly he goes because it is football, and he has learned to like it, aiwl because it is a family interest which all the niembers of the faiuily share. There is a great deal to be learned f rom a competent boy; but the lesson most conimonly learned by the elders at tuis time of year is that there are few tliings in life so important, remunerativo and not-to-be-missed as football.- Ward Sanford, in The Illustrated Sporting News.