New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-12

c,,,ieJ ON IN orr schools. Thanks to the pro-
tesla of The press, paicuts generally now are
awake 10 the evils Of this ovcr-worklng sys-
tenn and individually hold Jealous isn"'""'
teachers IN check vacations are proiouS'" ;
studies are fewer; but even YET tHelo arc
not enough lapses Of rest allowed 70 'lie i"l-
mature, slowly growing brains oi orr cnlIoi'n'
MANY n boy and a still larger number Oh Rhls
would have their minds made more s'rohR
and alert for life if they were compelled 10
d Cd books for year. and set TO WotN Old
farm. or taken 10 travel without tutor.
Knowlcd0e then would be absorbed az the
faIlow soil drinks in the Juices OF the ram
In no career does this intellectual squander-
ing process begin rs early and continue wa"
rs inex0rabIe cruelty to the working power
rs in literature, and especially IN J"urp'ulsi''
All the bright school-boys or girls nowadays
who have an idea which seems new to uehi
seethng IN their brains, or see inc many
wrongs in the world that need righting feei
that heaven has put a pen into their hahus
and sent them ont as teachers. L "dn''
said a Young woman of sixteen, year or TWO
ago, " TO help the age and TO earn 80 a week
She finally secured position on cheap
Sunday paper to write squlbs OF literary gus
sip. and was paid just enough to Keep her
from starving. From that day there was III
end of all development OF her mlho.
She became poor hack, hurrying mere ana
there to scrape up grains of matter to De
dishad nm in An article which nobody would
remember five minutes after reading. She anu
her writings and her life itself by the sheer
power of exhaustion now are things OF noun
ing. nothing worth" Yet when she Weh'
/. into the Office shc was clever sincere eher-
gpfic, with brain which, II generously ieu
and suffered to grow, might have gwen some
real vor,, TO the world. How many thousands
are there IN the lower ranks Of briin-workeiS
in inst this woman'5 case ! At first they put
their brains 10 work to help the age and to earn
their own living, bus soon they let The aye take
care of itself, aud, to keep themselves alive
70 ON wringing The tired BRAN, which, like a
dried sponge, vii, not yield dfop o. mols-
tire. Even the masters OF the procession go
on catering the empty mill once luil q
Golden wheat. They Will not lake time to I'LL
it. 20 long as the empiy claiter brings them
money.
what are they 10 do they ask. They must
live. In the first place, why set out 10 earn a
living o. being the te chels and prophets Oh
the world unless we can take breath long
epouoh TO learn something 10 teach, on to hear
the divine message Of prophecy? Ii Il boy has,
or seems TO have. the genius winch VIII make
him great writer. why not give him some
other way OF earning his living than the pen
Lei the word he is to speak grow IN HIM
slowly. and some day when God and Nature
see fl. il will come forth, as did the water OF
life from the well which was for the health
and support OF the people. Why set him
TO trading III ii, drawing 1t hom a
spigot at 50 much me sure : Or !
the profession is already chosen, and
if is mlddle-agcd man who is thus destroy
ing his working power as author or profess
sional man, let him consider if be cannot
/ cc.nOmlzc ia some way 80 as to give II rest.
He and his family must live, perhaps; TUT
there is 10 need that they should live IN that
certain style which they think essential.
House decoration, high order Of music, arr,
society we have come crate is the necessities OF
modern civilization. If man must pay for
them by the slow death OF power and mental
faculty in himself, he and his children would
be better Oh IN the mud hus of his Gothic
| ancestors Let us consider what Fictitious
| hXlirv we can 90 without, to gain instead the
prlcecss necessity of occasional absolute rest.