Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-02
CRAHMING,

1t is impossible to get three Bushels of
apples into an ordinary flour barrel with
out badly bruising and injuring the fruit
and causing early decay or dry rot, how
ever fair the pippins and greetings may
be, and however hard and sound their con-
dition when the foolish experiment is
tried.
The NATURALIZATION of the soil of
mother earth, dressing it with great loads
Of deeomposed animal and vegetable sub
stances, burying it in layers of bons-dust
guano, plaster paris, and watering it with
chemical iquifed solutions until it fairly
seethes and swims, docs not give to the
agriculturist rich harvssts, but spindling
crops and an over-abundance of noxio7s
weeds.
The filling of the stomach with hetero-
gezeous mass of cookery and confections
and plying it with fiery liquids and frozex
substances, day in and day out, until Its
functions become sluggish and inactive
does not make good blood, good flesh and
good health, but rather creates within the
human Tame fierce fires of fever, the
gnawing Bpsins of the dyspeptic, the ex-
cruciating torments of neuralgia and sciat-
lea, or the killing sword thrusts of rheu-
matism and its twin brother, the govt.
Yet if a man dares to say that the cid
district school house and the academy.
which the fathers struggled to attend, and
whose facilities we're alone reached by
many of them by working on she farm half
the year, turned out stronger minds and
greater intelligence, in many respects,
than we now obtain with all oar princely
facilities for educational advancement, he
runs the risk of being classified with The
pagan barbarians and denominatsd to be
one of the old fogy relics of the dark ages.
But the educational accomplishments of
the fathers, costing them hard manual
as we'll as mental effort to obtain, and Of
ten hardship, did not, from its lack of
abundance, suffer them to cram their
brains SO full as to destroy the
real intellectual nVtriment sought to be
attained; but its sparseness, and the strug-
gle incident to its requirement, combined
with bodily toll and ths bodily nourish-
msnt of fried pork and baked potatoes,
hasty pudding and johnny cake, with &C.
casionally a luxuriously boiled dinner
sandwiohsd in, gave them perfect abssrp-
ton and digestion in every particular.
The fault in our educational systems of
the present is not in the excellent facilities
for study, the superior text books in use,
the talented teachers and superintendent
employed, and the moAey cheerfully paid
by the people who fully realize the bene-
fits accruing to their children by thor
ough practical course of study, but the
trouble is all summed up in the habit of
putting more studies into the pupils hop
per than he or she can take care of, wish
out he or she has the constitution of an OK
examining.
The ruination of bodily health, and the
breaking down of mind and body, caused
by this psrnicious system, is attracting
much attention In the Eastern towns and
cities and its evils are being sought to be
remedisd in many localities. Study, in
such instances is being looked upon as
labor, and too much study of too many
different branches at the same time, is
considered as overwork and an injurious
strain, and it is discovered, to use q hum
BILE phrase, that chickens Matched by
steam are different kind of chicken en-
tirsly from those incubated by natural
laws.