Boys have many advantages over girls, the chief one being the thought that in after years they will be men, while girls will only be women.
Most boys despise girls because they are weak and gentle and not able to partake in their games because they are too rough; they may be hurt.

Boys can always, more or less, please themselves what they do and where they go because they can take care of themselves. Girls, on the other hand, have to be protected because of their fragility and lack of judgment of what is right or wrong.

A boy is also able to take part in more sports than a girl, the reason being that men are more adapted for most sports than women, and therefore the boys follow in their fathers' footsteps, while the girls follow in mothers'. In many cases girls have shown that they are not far inferior to boys, chiefly in swimming, where they are, perhaps, more adapted than boys, through being of a lighter build and not being affected so much by the cold, owing to slight differences in construction.

At school, girls profess to have fun, but it is very pussy compared with that of a boys' school. The girls shriek, and afterwards titter over their alledged joaks, which are generally rather feeble, while the boys amuse themselves by subtile joaks. The greatest drawback girls hive in boys' sight, is that whenever in mixed company, they need chaperons. This is a great setback, and it handicaps boys very much socially.

However, the world would be a very dull place without girls, if it was in being at all, and we must thank our Maker for allowing us to be boys, but we must also thank Him for His thoughtfulness in making girls also.

T. J. B.

Source:
The Hutchins School Magazine, December, 1929. p41.