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7“How long were you up in the air,lost to society before they reach thettDennis?” asked the aforementionedage of discretion.ttphilanthropist.It is the boast of Americans that noect'“A domsoit longer thin Oi iver wantone need be without an education nor beatto be oop agin, under loike circumilliterate in their country. This is onlyinstances,” retorted Dennis.half a truth, for many laboring menit“Why, Dennis, that was only a babytoday cannot take advantage of thetiV”cyclone; you ought to see a full-grown,splendid free school system. They, asVadup-to-date cyclone,” said a bystander,a rule, have large families and manyutowho looked as if he might hail fromwants to supply from a small purse,tiKansas.and consequently some of the familyftils“If that wuz only a babby, it’s baekare forced to assist in the maintenance0’B,”in Oirland Oi’ll be before it grows to beoLthe household. Factory laws limitnfla man,” was Dennis’ rejoinder.the age at which a child can be emleatThen moved by a common impulse,ployed, but the duty of society is toVhewe all directed our steps towards theprovide for the child and educate it unhveend of the room, where the man withtil it reaches that age. It is incomprereatthe smiie and the apron was soon enhensible why society should say to the\\ti-gaged in giving a fine exhibition oflaboring man: “Your child must notnat.glass juggling, which so pleased thesupport itself, an8 until it reaches atiancrowd that they vociferously encertain age you, its parent, must proSE•o-couraged him to repeat his act.; aud he,vide for it.” The parent’s only answer068in turn, was so much tickled by the apis to show society his empty hands.padplause he received, that his smileCompulsory education would, if rigidists,broadened till the corners of his mouthly enforced in every part of the country,vntouched each other at the back of hisgreatly advance the general moralitybadhead. H. S., Jr.of the people, but it would be a decade before any real good could be noticedIVrceratCompulsoryand a half a century would be almost too short a time to expect anythingdAle.Education.tangible from its enforcement. This is a long time to wait for results, but thePp8?T T 7 HEN you tell an Americanonly way to correct social evils is toIeruse radical methods and strike at thedm\/\/ he must do this or that, heroot of the evil. Pendennis.S€hoy Y naturally revolts againstttlythe mandate. Coercion ofasany sort is inconsistent with his ideas of personal liberty. But the averageWinter Apples.sewis,Americau is progressive aud at allsc’11times ready to adopt new ideas,even ifWliat cheer Is there that Is half so good.0stthey are contrary to previously conIn the snowy waste of a Winter night,88uzceived traditional principles. ComAs a dancing Are of hickory wood.And an easy chair In its mellow light,olnepulsory education was looked upon atAnd a pearmain apple, ruddy and sleek,okfirst as an infringement upon personalOr a jenneting with a freckled cheek!w3t,liberty and like all reform measures itA russet apple is fair to view.wbetyhad its enemies who sought to cry itWith a tawny tint like an Autumn leaf.n’down, but liberality prevailed overThe warmth of a ripened cornfield’s hue.©Iie,bigotry and it has become one of theOr golden tint of a harvest sheaf:And the wholesome breath of the finished yeararrecognized institutions of this proIs held In a wlnesap’s blooming sphere.mhegressive age.They bring you a thought of the orchard treesSfthL’sThe school children of the presentIn blossomy April aud leafy June.eymust bear the burden of nationalAnd the sleepy droning of bumblebees,110responsibilities in the future, and ifIn the lazy light of tire afternoon,carntheir early education and moral trainAnd tangled clover and bobolinks, Tiger lilies and garden pinks.mblt;d-ing is neglected the republic will sufferokin the years to come. The state isIf you’ve somewhere left, with Its gables wide A farmhouse set in an orchard old,Stthn’responsible for the moral and intelYou’ll see it all in the Wintertide,islectual training of its future citizens,At sight of a pippin’s green and gold.aridand if they are allowed to go astrayOr a pearmain apple, ruddy and sleek,Sathrough lack of paternal solicitude, theOr a jenneting with a freckled cheek.wd,strong hand of th6 government should—Hattie Whitney in St. Nicholas.U{abe envoked to save them from ruin.alivonIt may be harsh to invade the sacred precinct of the home and take a childHopefulness.wofanfrom its parents by force, but it isccbetter to rescue the child while it isPaper Read Before the Chautauqua Circle.idsusceptible to good influence than spareA few miDutes before Socrates drankkierthe feelings of parents who are crimthe fatal cup which ignorance andbeaninally neglectful.superstition placed to his lips, he badee\llfOur advanced school system hasthe Athenians a cheerful farewell,agallmade education something more thanending with these words: “My timeinhemere book-learning. Moral and physihas now come to be gone; 1 to my death,heOical training are recognized as consistyou to live on. Which of these is best,dcaeently a part of a child’s education asthe Gods alone know.”olaclass lessons and elementary studies.Standing today in the presence ofagle,A child that is neglected and permittedmy fellow members of this circle, sometti?hto roam the streets at will may attainof whom are endeared to me by alltoPgood physical development, but itsthe ties of friendship the rules of theovidmorals and intellect will suffer, whileinstitution allow, I hardly know whatree-the spoiled darling of indulgent parentsto say as a farewell greeting—exceptorhemay be intellectually advanced beyondperhaps to moralize on what we mightP*opits years but its physical growth hashave been, what we may yet becometiiisbeen sacrificed. “Lopsided” is a slanginstead of what we are. You and Iheheword but it is the only one that forcihave known some men whom we candobly expresses the appearance of a greatbest think of as dead or forgotten;diyenumber of youths seen on the streetsmen possessing neither that love whichtheeof any large city. It is seldom a pergrapples friendship to the soul withu,fectly developed child is found amonghooks of steel, nor that courage whichh,p.’these little truants. If you notice aprovokes enmity. The memory ofwtogroup of them closely you will findothers is to us “like the shadow of auzsomething lacking in the personality ofgreat rock in a weary land.” We canP(atX-each one—one has the robust frame ofnot think of them in any other way,sea young giant topped by the head andnor can we imagine the force of theirriokface of a child; another, pale andlives as misspent; the quality theythwizened, presents a keen face full ofrepresented in the equation of lifeuyintellectual beauty. These are theBeems impossible of elimination.medchildren compulsory educationBut after all, in the final analysis ofIOiAaswould benefit moat and their environhuman existence, when the rC-agencies of time and circumstance, heredity and environment have Ann thttr work,is,ments are such that unless aided in their early years by the state they are81
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