The Arkansas banner., 1847-06-28
x LITTLE ROCK, MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 2s Is47

came home late, and generally tired, and of- ten pesplsxed, and did not wan, then to be worried with domestic matters. E
 He loved his boy, and was proud of him and his wife told him he was very uncom- mon boy, and he believed her. She talked . great deal oi the peculiariiies of his mind. and the traits of his character, and told many anecdotes indicative Of his superiority. men, sal and spiritual, and much that the husband would have thought 'sgreai nonsense,n if it had been anybody but kiS wife talking, and hts boy she was talking of. But as is was, it was amusing to see the compIaeence with which he listened. He paid the bills regu- laEly, and left the rest to his wife; satisfied that he had put his money out to good in- terest. and never doubling that he had done his whe,s duty. So when at the present time she told him she thought they had bet ter withdraw Arthur, and place him at
 "select school, where only twenty boys were iaken,' he assen,ed, and told her 10 do as she thought best
 "The Rector of the Grammer School,n she said, Sis not a man of enlarged mind He does not enter sufficiently into the origi- nal capacities of boys, but makes she,n ali go through the same mill, 10 matter how different their natural talenk. Indeed, the school is so large, that ii would be out of the question for him to to justice to them all, even If he were man of more compre- hensive and discriminating mind than he is There are upward of hundred boys there, 1 believe.r
 "Ahl there it is," said Mr. Harrington, in- dignantly; sthey will take in sach crowds 5 Quite forgetting that other mer besides mer- chants may like to make money in their pro iessions, too. So 1t was pretty we'll settled that Arthur was to go 10 this select school,n of which Mrs. Harrington hae heard grea. puff from Mrs. Osborn, for many mothers besides Mrs. Harrington mainge their sons' education is this ''work-day world" of ours. There are good many moral shalf or phans" m our community. And so Mrs. Harrington consulted some half dozen of her friends, quite as deep as herself in the work of education, before she decided, and spoke at las, to Mrs. Ashhursl. who replied,
 "We have no idea of withdrawing Fran cis. His father is quite satb6ed with his 
 Mrs. Harrington was surpassed at hearing father cited as authority. out she turned and applied herself to Mir. Ashhurst, for she was one of those who rather liked to have others do as she did, and pat,onize a school, or withdraw their children, according as she inclined, but Mir Ashhurst sad--
 ''l am perfectly saiifsed, ny dear madam, where Frank is. He studied har. |, which is the greater point, and l think the general system of the establishment good. am always unwilling to make a change in . | child's school. without see strong reasons Tor doing so. for much time ! think is lost in changing studies and teachers. New systems, new books, are,always introduced. and not often for the better, and as long as Frank studies well, and has time for exercise, am satisfied where he is.n
 "The scholarship may be equal" replied Mrs. Harrington. .'n these great schools, al- though even that doubt, but what chiefly object to for my son, MT. Ashhurst, is the influence of such crowd of sll sorts of boys" (Now Mrs. Harrington had holy horror of ''all sorts" of people, st any time of lile.) s'Now the moral in- iuence must be so much purer, so much healthier, ol select number of boys, whose 1 families you know"
 s'There, my dear madam, differ from you," said MT. Ashhurst, smiling. ''I look upon the moral influence Of a public school IS decidedly-not perhaps what you would ,all purc-but healthier than that of select | ew' Indeed, if it were not for the lan- | yuages, had rather Frank went 10 district school than any other"
 "Oh, MT Ashhurst! A district school l ou surely are not in earnest. Pray, what can they or any public school lave over private one :n
 s'Just the one, said Mir. Ashhurst, smiling, 'that you seem so much to dread-'all sorts ,f bovs' Maniness of character, that first | point in education, is only to be acquired by l throwing boy early on himself. Ofcourse { IS parents duty to watch over his child; l md to cultivate the higher moral feelings is he home part of the business. But to make l Jim hardy and vigorous in mind as we'll as ,ody is the great object of outdoor educa- ion.n
 D~eS uJ NCat ouS Nou WOusu tOh WISH TOUT son 10 acquire unrefned habits and 'ooiish manners, which he must, if you con- lemn him to mix with his interiors, bv way # making him hardy. as you call it."
 "By no means,n replied Mir. Ashhurst But am very far from thinking tha, con lemn him to mix with his inferiors, when ct him find his own footing among his quals, and perhaps superiors. And look 0 the influence of home for the refinement # his habits and manners,
 Mrs. Harrington had been little annoyed | the turn the conversation had taken--not hat it altered her views and opinions in the east, what conversation ever does--but tha, fer husband happened to be present; and as 's occasionally indalged in some slap agains, he .white-kid gentry" she feared Mr. Ash Iurs.'s arguments might meet more ready cquiescence than she desired, so saying,
 "Well, we must talk this over another ime," hastily turned the subject, and there