Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
THE PROSPECT.
In looking about us at the prejudice
and discrimination, we sometimes
wonder what the future will bring to
us and our children. We have not
time for conjecture. We must keep
busy making for the years to come.
Nothing can defeat our effort if we
have made up our minds to win. Our
enemies can give us but temporary
hurt. We sow the seeds of progress
and racial development now. Who
can destroy the seed or the rain that
falls upon it? If a man stamp upon it,
he only more firmly plants the seed
and sends the drops of rain more
quickly to the roots. Some of the
most unreasonable discriminations
have their chief value as fertilizers.
Perhaps we are inclined to expect
too much in our day. In life, as a
people, we are mere children. All our
hopes cannot be realized now; we
must live and build for the future.
The day will surely come when men
shall “brothers be for a’ that.”
No need for discouragement. What
if we find those against us whom we
had hoped to find for us? What if
those are silent whom we expected to
champion our cause? They too are
passing through a period of evolution,
for, as the poet says:
“But if twenty millions or summers
are stored in the sunlight, still
We are far from the noon of man;
there is time for the race to
grow.
Man as yet is being made, and, ere the
crowning age of ages,
Shall not eon after eon pass and touch
him into shape?
All about him shadow still, but while
the races flower and fade,
Prophet eyes may catch a glory slowly
gaining on the shade,
’Till the peoples all are one, and all
their voices blend in choric
Hallelujah to the Maker—‘It is finish
ed—man is made. ’ ”
Here and there we find those who
see the true vision of humanity—no
high, no low, no black, no white—just
man. —L. E. S.
GENTLE INFLUENCES
BEST FOR CHILDREN
In no phase of life can any doc
trines or rules be universally applied;
for although there are always certain
fundamental principles, still, with
every different condition they must be
tempered.
Wh'at to some might be but encour
aging, to others would prove demoral
izing; and while to some certain pun
ishments would be but just, by the
same methods would others be bit
terly wounded and perhaps cowed in
to deception.
If a happy medium of gentle justice
cannot be universally employed, per
haps the lesser of two evils is indulg
ence rather than continued severity;
for love is stronger than reason, and
what it fails to teach nothing else
can as consistently emphasize or ac
complish.
Holland in his Kathrina portrays
beautifully and states unreservedly
that “The heart is wiser than the in
tellect and moves with stronger hands
and surer feet toward wise conclu
sions."
If theories and bare justice prompt
ed by mefe intelligence were a more
beneficial influence for children than
simple mother love, then, indeed,
would chaperons, companions and
governesses be more satisfactory
guardians; but, then, what would be
come of "The hand that rocks the
cradle”? and what tender memories
would there be in after life, to guide,
influence and govern us?
With experience one must neces
sarily learn that civilization would
be helplessly imperiled without the
higher power of sentiment, and it is
this invisible force that we need, and
as a community, should strive to en
courage.
George Eliot says that “the emi
nence and nobleness of a people de
pend on its capacity of being stirred
by memories—of striving for what we
call spiritual ends—ends which con
sist not in immediate material pos
session, but in the satisfaction of a
great feeling that animates the col
lective body as with one soul.”
And if this living force of sentiment
in common makes a national con
sciousness, certainly the remem
brance of a childhood regulated only
by justice rather than mercy, could
hardly inspire pleasant thoughts,
much less gratitude, which binds with
honor the present and future to the
past.
Whether happiness should come or
not we should undoubtedly prepare
children to do without it; but when
tenderness can accomplish the desired
result more satisfactorily than sever
ity, it seems so unnecessary to embit
ter childhood with stern measures.
All due reverence to justice, but
can one expect a child to take pleas
antly a nauseous dose of medicine be
cause of reason, or to cease the yearn
ing, homesick sobs, no matter what
principle may be involved?
Logical arguments and reasons may
be absolutely necessary in a court of
appeal, but in simpler life are sim
pler measures equally appropriate.—
London Carter in Chicago Examiner.
ALWAYS A LITTLE MORE.
♦
We can always stand a little more,
Always do a little more,
Always try a little more.
Than we really think.
Effort out of weariness;
Striving out of care,
We can always do a little more
Than we really think our share.
We can always shift a little more,
Always shift a little more.
Always toil a little more
Than we thought we could.
Struggle, when the tide seems strong;
Honest, when the world goes wrong,
We can always do a little more
For the common good.
We can always wait a little more,
Always ache a little more,
Always trust a little more,
Than we thought was right.
Purpose of the golden will
Steering as to manhood still,
We can always do a little more
To lift the world to light.
—Baltimore Sun.
LAGGARD IN SCHOOL IS LAGGARD
IN LIFE.
“Almost 90 per cent of the pupils
who come out of the third or fourth
grade at the foot of their classes came
out of the high school at the foot of
their classes," says a veteran teacher.
“If they enter college they continue to
tail-enders, and after they pass in
to business life, it is assumed, must
go on as tail-enders.”
Being among the last in one’s class
es tends to become a habit. The lag
gard at school and in college is the
laggard in life. He is among the also
rans in whatever realm of life he en
ters; at least, that is what this teach
er believes. And no doubt she has
ample experience and observation to
back her opinion.
But almost any rule falls down if ap
plied too strictly. There are certainly
plenty of examples of successful busi
ness and professional men who never
shone in scholarship at school.
Nevertheless, it is good doctrine to
urge that mental habits acquired or
practiced in school are almost certain
to stick to one through life; that the
boy who hasn’t pride and energy
enough to get his lessons is not likely
to be more than a mediocre success
in after life. And, in general, it is
true.—T. H. Roth.
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST
Issued by the U. S. Weather Bureau,
Washington, D. C., for Week Be
ginning September 15th.
For Upper Mississippi Valley and
Plains States: The week will be one
of generally fair and cool weather
with some probability of frosts the
first half of the week in the middle
and northern plains states and the ex
treme upper Mississippi valley.
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