Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-05-12
Learn Something Useful.

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of learning seem to take pride in get
ting up course of study, much of
which is about rs practical for tie COM
mon wear and Tear of everyday lie Is
the old-iaShiunri coat of mail. an! li>t
about IL Srrvir|ablr to lis p1>S,.,;+or \
young man who is aiming a. rrt rood
practical education, GOES to one of these
colleges and pores for four wears over
the dead languages. Latin. Greek and
Hebrew. and Frequently graduates rs
Ignorant of the first principles of mrdi-
cinr. hNTrnr, or common SriI>r hy that
tim" Is he is of cash. He has Il body 10
feed and take care of. but any knUwl-
edge of such Il practical affair rs that is
treated lay the learned faculty aS if con-
sidercd unworthy of notice. And so the
youth enters on life. after years of
preparation $50 callrd), and about the
first we may expect 10 hear of him is
his obituary notice. or if he lives. Ii. has
studied nothing he can Use. and 50 is
obliged to learn nearly all anew from
the first, and with the additional task of
unlcarning much he has learned be-
fore.
In the ease of "Our Girls this is
still more true. II was only the ,hrr
day that Young girl of our arquaint-
anc". who is pursuing Il selected course
"i study in one of the collegiate in>iitu-
tons of this city, was examining the
printed curriculum with reference to de-
,i'iing what study She should take up
next term. While consulting ;bo II the
matter, she read over the hong list of
trNt-ho"k> "n science, language. litcra-
turr AMI mathematics. when suddenly
she exclaimed. "rll tell vou what |
would lik" la study would like to
study medicine. don't mean that |
want 10 be Il phySrian and practice. hut
Just 10 kHOw Whd to ,iO n home ii any
body is sick. or ANYTHING happens. |
am sure II seems Is if that would be
more useful to me than and she
turned To the prescribed course of
study :" than this spherical trigonome-
Try and navigation. | don't see much
Use of navigation for MS, and we cant
run for II doctor every time anybody
sneezcs or coughs. and | would like to
know what to do for anyone who is Il
little sick" This young woman is lust
about right. Here is matter concrrn-
ing which "Our Girls need some SIM
pie but careful instruction. Who uiveS
them any? A. daughters in the family,
they can repeat the dates of the Grcciau
ami Roman wars, work out an intricate
problem in algebra. and give the trrhni-
cal names of all, the bone, in the body;
brt if the baby brother left in their
charge burns his hand or i; seized with
Group, how many of them know the best
thing to do while waiting for the doe
tor And when. rs wives and mothers,
the duties of life increase, how MANY of
them have any practical knowledge
which will help them to meet calmly and
intclligcntly the everyday experience of
accidents and illness which are incvita-
bic in every ones life? 1t is bv no
means the amount learned. or the time
consumed in acquiring, but the j,rdcti-
cabiHiy of the thing learned. which rcn-
ders the knowledge of value. And Just
here l. am going to give Our Girls" a
short "health talk"
Once upon time there was a very
great and learned man. who wrote pom
drrouS tones on medicine. and the art
of preserving the health. So numerous
were his wu..kS that his rooms were
filled with them. and SO successful was
his practice that he was applied to for
counsel and advice from all parts of tho
kingdom. At last, after Il long and
useful life, he lav upon his dcath-br,l,
and his great library of hundreds of
huge volumes waSabout tobc bequeathcd
to and divided among the royal doctors
surrounding his bedside. one volume to
each, with the injunction to study it
carefully. The doctors. each in his
anxiety to get tho biggest book. rushed
pell nell to the great man 5 library. and
very soon nothing was left for the faith
ful physician who had remained with
his master but the very oldest and small
est book of all, containing but single
leaf.
The royal doctors hurried home,
elatei with their heavy loads. but what
was their surprise and chagrn on OPEN
in~ them To find nothing at all written
inside. Blank paper only. In the
smallest of one leaf book was written all
that the great man had found really
worth preserving, and this was simply
tbnsn tIrn,. :. Il