The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-14

won't kiss you when you 60 TO bed.
Thus prepared, tho insect perpetrated
himself once more: =
.H "Msry had y iittls WOOL,
4 t.f lis heees was lined with snow,
/ And everyone that Mary eeeced
/ Tho white was sure to show
sim ashamed Of you, Johnny, that
you don't speak it right. You must do
1t this time or mamma will have to pun
ish ycu." y
II won'tr' bawled the ufchin.
But his mother promised him some
additional candies, or buns, or clans, or
something that had the great social adj
vantage 81 lying heavily on his stomach.
and the wretch began 20 bawl:
| "Mary had little school, wy
as It's snow was fleece W. lamb,
And everywhere that Nary wont,
| M You'd surely find that ram" AZ
Then the guests very properly inter
| fered, and said it was shame to tor
| ment the sweet child. He had done mo-
bly,, and should have his pay right oil. 7
And his mother packed him oil TO bed
while the company found solaee in the
| reflection TINT he would probably burst
his head before, nornhit bsswling with
the stomachaehe and writhinS under tho,
nightmare. ~ Brookipsi Eagle
The jurisdiction 81 Mental Discipline
The real and designed purpose OF our
| schools il to prepare the sthdent FOR the
! practical duties 81 life. discipline Of tho
mind, then, lies at the base OF our scheme
| Of education and the question TO be an
| svered by the professional teacher Is !:
"How may the greatest degree Of men-
| tai discipline be attained2"1
I Whoever takes the pains,to glance at
the course Of study that has been
adopted by the school authorities
throughout the country, and considers
the time devoted TO it, will discover that
|. about oil O student can do il TO memoriael
tho tex.-books, with no time left to as.
simulate what he has learned To prove
that the resll purpose has not been ac-
complished, ask recent graduate Of the
high school 10 work out problem in
partial payments He was an adept at
IL in tho grammar school, but that wns
four years ago. He did not make the
law, his own, and has to goto his book to
fluid out what it Is, and the chances are
that even then hewill appeal to some
one 10 explain II for him. His mind has
not been disciplined TO the ability ofin-
dependent thought,
We do not decry the curriculum Ut
our schools, but the manner in which
. student is put through II, or rather in
which it Is put into q student. ltbe1
comes nauseating mass that leads to'
disease OF mind and body ysg iil9a
The processes Of mental discipline,
/, when propsllN piifsued, ere delight,
oven 70 childhood, and the happiest
hurs Of the childs life are passed while
under the kindly pressure Of ,ar fintell,s.
gent and conscientious teacher, who
really teaches young ideas how to shoot.
These processes, however, become irk- !
some ind mere tliudgery when pursued
through fnlse and unnatural methods,
The remedy or relief that the untutored
boy resorts to IA atr,ihhcy, ana fear Of
consequent punishment Is all that pre-
vents the remedy from becoming almost
universal. Nht'i
Pie true reinedy Y lies siu the reversal
al methods making tina acquisition u
knowledge an Incident Of disciplinary
course--the means To an end, and that
end the power Of independent thought.
The Unfortanates Who Do Not Plead
for Charity.
People seldom think OF charity with
out they are importuned, They are will
ing 10 give, always ready TO extend =
helping hand to their loss fortunate fell
low man but not feeling tho sting Of
want, they never find the opportunity OF
giving until II Is brought forward and
4 laid at their feet. There are thousands
III humano, charitsbly -diAposed people
kind, noble and generous, yet all around
there are much want and suffering, II
does not follow that those only who ask
for charity are deserving Of II. Thou
without complainingj the time has been
when they were masters q Their wants
and wishes, ard they have TOO much OF
their old pride remaining to solicit as.
sistanca but they 90 struggling ON, and
are every day forced TO deily themselves
some want OF comfort. There are homes
III every large city where the support de-
ponds upon the woman, and their only
way OF earning money Ii with the needle.
Hard ia their struggle---working contin-
,uo,isly, denying to their lives every
pleasure, aud wasting THAR health and
strength, they are hardly sble % gather
together enough money 70 meet ex-
penses. The insufiiGiency pf wages paid
10 sowing women has much Of the sorrow
and the suffering 81 the world 10 answer
tor. Often 1t will be found that these
girls have lived IN happy aud comf0rtable
homes, and this changed condi tiun 81 nf4
fairs ia Wearying and killing to them
they feel tlS Weight 0f charity, aud long
for tic coinpanionalip at which the
change IL fortune has robbed them