The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-12-02

slow and some are quick. 1t is not the .nlart-
est child that makes the smartest man on
woman. II is a powerful strain on some Of
EN- to keep up, andthe dull ones oughtnt to be
crowded until they hate books and dread the
time of going to school. Some folks send
their children to school to get rid of 'em, but
my opinion Is tho parents ought to help the
teacher every night. 1t shows the children
how much interest they feel in their educa-
ton II is a sign Of a good teacher when the
children get ambitious to keep up and get
bead marks. and bring their books home Mt
night and want to go to school IL 1t Is raining
a little. Wrap 'em up and let EN- go.
There Is nothing that demoraltnes q school
boy like staying at bome every few days and
getting behind tho class We used TO walk
threa miles TO school, and we never minded
it at all. 1t was a frolic ali tho way there
and all the way back and we dld have the
best dinner in tho word Delmonico never
Ind as good things as our mother used 10 tx
up for US 1t seems to me 50 now. A child's
lifo Ii full Of romance and fun-tho best sort
OF fun. A child's dream are splendid, but
we don't dream low, hardly ever. used 10
read Robinson Crusoe and dream It all over
agaIn. How l did long to be ship-wrecited
on an island and raise monkeys and goats
and parrots.
Slow children are generally sure children,
but they don't show or much Daniel web
ster wes most always foot in Bis class, but
when be learned anything DO never forgot
It. Soma b rs are Wild Gnd restless aud have
nc love for books, but they oughtn't 10 be
given up or backed or abused continually.
II they have good parents they will come to
them elves after awhile
II is astoni hing how humiliation will fol-
low q boy. One time n boy stole a quarter OF
q dollar from another boy at school, and that
followed him to his grave. He got to be q
great man and was t5irty years in congress
and was a senator, and one day wnon he
made q bit er speech against tho corruption
of TIC opposite party and denounced theiI
stealing and plundering by Wholesale, one Of
bis opponents replied by saying be would TO
mind the gentleman that preachers OF moral
ity should como into the pulpit with cioan
hands-tkat Ben franklin said, "He that
would stea! a pin would steal a bigger thing"
ami he asked no quarter from the gentleman
on that score1
30, boys, remember aud keep your bands
clean. Folks will forgive mischief aud q
heap Of othor things, but they went forgive
meannesA
woman's Work Among the Sick.
tOliver Wendell Holmesl
little things mean a great deal In tho sick
room. VIII you have m orange or q hgp
said DR.. James jackson 10 n ine little boy
now grown up to goodly stature, and whom
may be fortunate enough to recognise among
my audience OF to-day. "A fg,' answered
Alnster Theodore, with alncrity. No fevor
thelef said the good doctor, or he would
certainly have said an orange"
Now, 1t Is in Just theee little ~unimportant,
~sIlimportant matters that n good nurse is OF
i~ncnlculable aid to tho physician. and the
growing conviction of the Importance OF
thorough ira. ming Of young women as nurses
Is ono OF tho most bopefn, Signs Of medical
advancement So much has boon done n
Is doing tina. the days of tho Sairy Camps
and Betsy Priggs arc mber What IL
there in tho hour Of anguish like the gentle
presence, tho quiet voice. the thoroughly
trained and skillful land of tho woman who
was meant by nature and has boon taught by
careful discipline to render those s~ervicss
which money tries TO reward, but only graf
ltude can repayI / have always felt that
this was rather tho vocation Of women than
general medical, and especially surgical,
r~ractics
/ have oftou wisbed that disease conld be
hunted by It's professional antagonists In
couples-a doctor and a doctors quick
.vitted wife making a joint visit and attack
ing the patient Il mean tho patients malady,
of course-with their united capacities. For
l am quito sure that there is n natural clair
voynnce in a woman which would make her
as much the superior OF q man In some pr iticu-
lars of diagnosis as she certainly Is IN di,tin-
gushing shades of color. Many a suicide
would have been prevented II the doctors
wife had visited the victim the day before it
happened. She would have seen in the mer-
chant's face his impending bankruptcy while
her stupid husband was prescribing Tor dys
persia and indorsing his note; sho would
rec Jgnize the lovelorn maiden by an ill-ad-
justed ribbon-a line in tho featuro.-a droop
In the attitude, a tone in the voice-which
means nothing to him, and 20 the brook must
be dragged tomorrow.