What a Young Man Should Know

What A Young Man Should Know
By T. S. Stribling
This is Mr. Stribling's second appearance in Everybody's—each time in a story marked by a delightfully novel type of humor. Mr. Stribling is one of the very few people who can write understandingly about young folks in the terrifically serious years just before twenty, and this romance of Sim Toyne, aged seventeen, is as real as your own youth.
SUCCESSFULLY to live down his seventeenth year, a boy should be equipped with a mother, a sister, a shotgun, a husky man friend, a wise altruistic girl friend and a watchful police.
At seventeen a boy's career teeters between the White House at Washington and a gray, rather somber house at Leavenworth. A push, a mere nudge at the right moment in the selected direction, is decisive.
Sim Toyne owned the dog and gun. He received his pro rata of police surveillance. Doll Breen was husky enough. Mrs. Breen, if not his real mother, had corrected the misdeal by long devotion. But the when it came to a wise altruistic girl-friend, Sim Toyne rocked along in the same boat with the other fifty-odd million American males.
Technically Mrs. Irene Petway was no longer a girl. Her title precluded that. Besi

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