Nuhou, Volume I, Number 7, 16 December 1873 — OUR BOYS AND GIRLS! The Good Templars' Fair [ARTICLE]

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS!

The Good Templars' Fair

Un iast Tuesday cvcning in thc school room of Fort Strect Church, was well a jojous oeeaaion, and \vas also. what is more im--;portant to thc partics intcrcsted, a pecuniary ??uccess. We dop ? t prctend to report deta.ils of| cvcnts. We have no newsman ; but we want to ! gpeak of one prominent and attractive feature ofi she.fair~thc predominanee of fair young faces. i lt was a delight to look on so many joyous girls,! Whafc a niee turn out of maidens Ilonolulu ean make. The grace aud charming decorum of so many young ladies do honoi* to thc scholastic training and family order of oui' eommunitv ; — and as we looked upon the array of fair young feces, we thought that surely there is no need look abroad for pleasing persons and refined: manners. But this attractivc picture has an ob-' versc side—thc masculine one, whieh we arc sorry 10 say, was not a fitting countcr part of the fcminine feature of the oecasion. The hoySj thougli fewer in number, were as notieeable as the girls 3 and attraeted as mueh attcntion as ineipient hoodiume, as thcir sisters did as refined young ladies. We see a sad imitation of youngSan Franeisco on; ehe part of our boys. Thcyjknow about mueh at ten as they ought to know at fifty ; tbey have got the self sufficiency of men before virihty hae ' >?prouted the tenderest of down upon their and a equad of shavere in jackets ean be as noisy j and rowdy as a lot of roughs in a lagcr beer salpon. Now we would not havc boys t:> be tamo ; ;b I\liss Nancys and mousing like mollieots about; home;—we would have thcm hardy and even roughj with an oar in hand, or a bat, or a ball, or teanng their pants in the woods, or breaking their ghins among the rocks of the mountains; hut we would not have them reserve their vigor und vitality only to be rowdy and insulting iu thc presence of their eiāa* and to aet like blase yOung gamins beforc and lady-like girls. We are not venturing upon t!iis leeture on our i,oys solely .011 aeeouni of what we observed thc - other evening at the Fairalthough the boys were quite noisy and rude on thcct oeeasion, but : n aeeount of mueh that we have notieed on | Other publie oeeafeions and in thestreot. Of couvsc there are &ome niee, studious boys, but they are lū a deeided mitiority t Boys, a bra\e m\q who lia* eome \sovth and gtit in him 'wiH alway* be escoed!ngly respeetful; nay, even revereutia! In the;

! presence of l*adics, and <;v'n of al! woinen,! j W'hetlier .cstoemed as ladic6 or not. [t is une ufj I the trueet marks of >u»rth in a iuiui in i j to have a tgndcr respect fbr all woaien, and to be j ! subdued in their presoice. But if in bojhood he ! ims confined lns ncrvclej?« hatuls chicflj to !"iis! ! books, and lator on t<> kid glovci?, or ha> grada-' j ated in gossip ahel slang befbrc hc is t\vclvc. ha*j I entered the tobacco era bj firtocn, aud ean >wagj ger ovcr his loss of innoeenee abuut ehe samej | period, then you may expcct to i?ec a man who Is; a eoward 'when the gage of real battle is tnrown| l down before hini : l»ut a valiant hooulmn, In the: ! presenee of agc,| or fcminine iefinemcnt.