For Our Young Readers.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 33, 18 December 1896, Page 15

For Our Young Readers.

BOYS THAT ABE WANTED. " Wanted —boys," this want I find, As the city wants I read of. And that is so —there's a certain kind Of boys that the world has need of. The boys that are wanted are steady boys Unselfish, true, and tender ; Holding more dear the sweet home joy a Than the club or the ballroom's splendour. Boys who have eyes for the sister's grace, Swift hands for the household duty ; Who see in the mother's patient face The highest, holiest beauty ; Boys of earnest and noble aim, The friends of the poor and lowly, To whom for ever a woman'B name Is something sacred and holy. Boys are wanted whose breaths are sweet, The pure air undefiling ; Who scorn all falsehood and smooth deceit That lead to a soul's beguiling. Boys who in scene* that are glad and bright Feel their pulses beat the faster, But who hold each animal appetite As servant, and not as master. Boys are wanted, whose strength can lead, The 'veaker upon them leaning-; Boys whoso "No " is a " No" indeed, And whose " Yea" has an equal meaning, Who are strong, not only when life decrees Its bitter and heavy trials, But can practice its small economies, And its everyday self-denials.

'• I often wonder just what she thinks of me," said the yoang married man. '■ It is easy to find out," said the elderly married man. " Just sit down on her hat and she will tell you what she thinks of you in less than a minute.*' Johnny : "Tommy Jones don't know how to swim, because hia mother don't want him to go near the water." Mamma: " Well Tommy is a good boy." Johnny : " Yes ; he'll go to heaven the first time he falls overboard."