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Here is a brief extract from Mrs. Livermore's lecture on "The Boy of the Period:" "He comes into the world occupying a position such as no boy ever occupied before. He feels very speedily all the goldenness of the place he occupies. He intends to be wealthy and successful. If he does not see his way clear to the top-most position at the outset he cuts loose and goes West. We have so much of wealth and pleasure that the boy's appetites and pleasures are unduly stimulated, and before he is aware of it they master...
...Secretary Blaine's spirited exploit in the Panama canal affair, says the Nation, "resembles the quarrel and separation of the young couple, immediately after the birth of their first boy, over the question as to whether he should go to Yale or Harvard." The canal...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...
...Books for the opery" cried the boy near the theatre, Wednesday evening. "What opera?" I asked. "Why, Foost!" exclaimed the vender of operatic literature - Fact...
...boy to her lap and strokt his yellow hair...