Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-14
NOTES AND QUERIES.


and r,reach than to work, execute and accom-
plish. The Master found all this out las h
did everything else), ever SO long ago. D.
you mind, Oh Constant Reader, the words h
puts in fair Portals mouth} elf to do wer
as easy as to know what were good to do,
says she to her maid, "chapels had beer
churches, and poor mems cottages princes
palaces ;" and she adds, {" It is good divine
that follows his own instructions: can easie,
teach twenty what were good to be done, thar
be one of the twenty to follow mine own teach
ing As the song says, So say we all of us
But thoughts travel with tremendous speed
They get so much impetus, at times, that
nothing seems to stay their progress and gu:
they come spite of all precautions or question
of fitness of occasion. Now it is hard to keep
from calling attention to some of our incon-
gruities; as it is hard to dismount from a
hobby horse, once we mount him. 1t would
be an objectionable offense to talk of the pa
rents and guardians, teachers and trustees who
have charge and direction of the school going
children of this vicinage otherwise than as so
many christian people. Even non-pTofessors
have holy horror of paganism and this
Querist would be calling things out of their
proper name if he should charge heathenlsm
upon his constituency. And yet, look at one
phase of this schooling process of ours. There
are five days in the week devoted to school at
tendance Five times six is thirty (if that's
"good GRAMMAR That is to say, each child
who attends the public school devotes six
hours day for five consecutive days to the
stuffing of its head with reading, writing and
arithmetic Then comes Saturday. which is
a holiday, and then comes Sunday. The So
called Christian Sabbath being come, these
children who have been spending six hours
day in learning the ways of this profane world
as they are expressed in spellingbooks, arith-
metics and grammars, are painfully dressed
in their best, and when the hour comes, are
sent to Sunday School. And they stay there
one whole hour! That is one hour a week for
their souls to thirty for their minds and bodies.
Is that fair proportlon2 Mind we are decid-
edly opposed to the Bible in the public schools
or God in the Constitution. We are opposed
to the consolidating of Church and State or
legislating creed into anybody. Let's be
free to believe what we like. But is this
thirty to one fair dole2 To be more practical
or, rather, to be nearer what we are IN earn
est about, why not assimilate the public school
system to that of the Sunday schools, as to
the time spent in confinement And then,
why not have some public school libraries
Is not the present fashion too hard, too unat-
tractive, too rigorous, too much OF the all
work and no play order of things2 1t will be
seen that we hang on to one of our hobbies
with most pertinacious sitting. The more
we think of the present school system the
more we see in it that is crude and ugly and
cepellant. Somebody will come one of these
LAYS, who will reconstruct the whole works
and at first he will be cursed by the fogies
while at length he will be an object of adora-
ton and blessing by the little folk. Among
the first things that this good revolutlonlst
will do will be to cut down the hours of atten-
lance, and then lessen, by three fourths,
he number of simultaneous studies. And this
Notary means to herald the way of this Bene-
actor with great big b, and prepare the
Constant Reader for his coming. .... Tho a
,ood deal has already been said and sung and
written about the glories of Autumn in gen
raj and October in particular, much remains
o be said and many things already said may t
7ell be repeated In the first place, how Z
much more cosy and homely seems the morn u
no meal when the breakfast table is set oppo- n
tie a cheerful fre-how much more cosy than l.
4 August, of a hot day, we mean. Says f
.eigh Hunt 1.-The utility, as well as i,
3 beauty, of the fire during breakfast, |;
eed not be pointed out to the most unphlo- e
istic observer" And then the evening meal, l.
neither it be fashionable dinner or unfashion- 81
BILE tea-how much more like a satisfying D
EAST it is accompanied by the genial glare of tt
ne well trimmed lamps how much heartier tt
the cheer; how the company warns to the Il
ne sentiment of the occasion. Your true o.
ctober evening sees pater familias IN his c
ressing gown and slippers; hears the singing
pleasant ballads of the olden time, at the
ano; acknowledges an appetite for the we'll 1e
umbed volumes of the bookcase, and listens m
th sympathy to the purring of the house tr
t on the fire place rug. Comfort is the word vi
e comfort of peace, of tranquility, of the &C