Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-01-25

women exhibit any signs Of economy IN
their foolish and extraragant modes OF
dressing! We are beginning TO econo-
mize, but where? In what we cat! No.
In what We wear? No. In what We
drink? No. In what ministers TO the
body, its appeti,es, lis ease and luxury
and all It's qualifications? No. We are
beginning TO eGonomize 10y lessenirg
the number Of journals and books We
read and the number of pictures We
buy, by building less convenient and
conmodious school-houses, by so re-
ducing the SALARIES Of teachers as 10
drive the best members of the profession
from the State, and by so diminishing
the support of the ministers Of morals
and religion as to turn aside from the
calling the most gifted and promising
Young men. We feast the body aud
starvel the soul We crafty the palate
and dwarf and cramp the intellect. We
clothe ourselves and our sons aud
daughters in costly and gaudy apparel,
and provide no garments OF beauty Tor
the peerless souls within us. As much
money as ever for tie body, less than
ever for the intellect, the conscience,
tue spirit.
Is not this unwise economy? Has
West Virginia too many sehoolsf Are
her schools OF TOO high character Are
her sons and daughters too literally
educated? West Virginia needs more
aud better schools, more highly accom-
plished and more literally paid teachers,
larger, cleaner and betterfurnishcd
school houses, more money and time
and culture for the head aud the heart,
less for appetite, passion, ignorance,
pride, and all tue evils that follow IN
their wake More pay for the school
teacher, less for the bar-kceper; more
food for the mind, less gluttony for The
body; the ensla,ement OF appetite, the
emancipation of intellect; the suljec,ion
of passion, the entlNoncment OF cor
science;less costly food tor the stomach,
more and better alimeut for the divine
minds God has given us-this is tho
economy for which West Virginia has
instant and supreme need.
This article cannot be better closed
than by the following extract from some
remarks of VIM. Ellery Claiming on
education, offered more than fifty years
ago.
There is no Office higher than that
of a teacher of youth, for there Is moth
ing on earth so precious as the mind'
soul, character of the child. No Office
should be regarded with greater
| The first minds in the community should
be encouraged 10 assume il. Parents
should do all but impoverisb themselves,
to induce such 10 become the guardians
and guides OF heir children. To this
good, all their show and luxury should
be sacrificed ueIe they should be law
ish, whilst they straiten themselves IN
everything else. They should wear the
cheapest clothes, live on the plalDett
food, if they can in no other way secure
TO their families the best instruction.
They should have no anxiety 10 accu-
mulatc property for their children, pre-
| vided they can place them under iDfu-
ences, which will awaken their faculties,
inspire them with pure and higher
principles, and fit them TO bear mauly,
useful and honorable part in the world.
No language can express the cruelty or
folly of that economy, which 10 leave q
fortune TO child, starve his intellect,
impoverishes his heart. There should
be no economy in education. Money
should never be weighed against the
soul of a child. 1t should be poured
out like water for the child's intellectual
ond moral life"