MAKING A MAN.
Hurry the baby as fast as you can: Hurry him, worry him, make him a man; Off with his baby' clothes, get him in pants; Feed him on brain foods, and make him advance; Hustle him, soon ns he’s able to walk, Into a grammar school; cram him with talk. Fill his poor head full of figures and facts, Keep on a-jamming them in till it. cracks; Once boys grew up at a rational rate, Now we develop a man while you wait; Rush him through college, compel him to grab Of every known subject a dip and a dab. Get'him in business and after the cash, All by the. time he can grow a moustache; Let him forget he was over a boy. Make gold his god ami its jingle his joy; Keep lima-hustling and clear out of breath. Until he wins—nervous prostration and death. - Nixon Waterman, in ‘C.E. World.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 8
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154MAKING A MAN. Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 8
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