The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-01

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"Suier liItle Chlldrri, to come unto me,
and i"rhid thcm no'i tor oi such ia the KING
dom nj Heaven" 81. Marx x. Is,
The great DIR. Johnson pretended IL think
that all Scn,chn,an were savages. A friend
ni his remarked that Lord Chief Justice
Mansfield was Scutchmau who had gone
to England when twelve years old. "0h,
yes," said the Doctor, 81 suppose il is p"s
sible to make something out Of a Scutchman
il you oan only catch him young"
The children Of America are so precocious
that they require tn be caught young" il
anything really good is to be made of them
Their liberty is almost complete aud their
pussiblitie are boundless, but there are Ger.
tain Onnditions of life in this country which
make the home education ri tue young
people extremely difficult.
More thun ninety per cent, Of adults in
America work nari -Or pretend tn work
hard-at something for a living, The cl. S.
of hereditary leisure which arises from. long
accumulated aud we'll in,es I'd sayiugs is
very snail, D0mestlG help Is scarce aud
thrTei"ie dear, and mnst women do u great
part, it not al. ur their own mouse work.
the father. Therefore. is absent FROM home
for the greater part of his time tn" moth
er's haIns are fully occupied, and as a re-
suit children are generally allowed to do
pretty much what they please. When the
country WAS more thinly populated there
was luli occupation for the leisure hours oi
even young children, but now with mush-
room cities and gigantic industries sprinr-
ing up on every side there is rush for
populOus towns and the evils OF ovcr-crOwd-
ing are seen on every hand. Children aie
allowed IT, run loose, and the educstion oi
the streets is not good. The parents are
fully occupied aud the question arises chow
shall our children be properly trainedP"
Here we may pause to consider that m''St
parents are artuated by generous desire
that their children shall have better edu
cational advantages than they themselves
enjoyed. They all like TO think thBt the
little ones may rise a step higher on the
soc'al iAhder ana oe removed from some OF
the duiI honot"py aha soro'd surrounding
Of their own hard lot in early life. They
wish and pray that those who come after
them may carry on the good name ana
hon"rsoie tradI'i"hs "i the'r parents associ-
a'ed WIN more "i the culture ana rehne'
ment from which they had the misfortune
tn be excluded. But can amy impartial OBJ
server say that as matters stand at present
those paternal wishes are in fair way IL
be hiihiic"! There Is an absence OF The
ruggsh virtues of the past, hut where is the
refinement at the present? The observer
dues not mud II visible to the naked eye
tn" parents say that they do their best 10y
sending the children to school. And here
arlres the crucial point of the whole diff
Guilty. Ul"'n the modern school teacher
deyolve many of the most solemn dntiet
which in more primitive times were ex
cluslVely within the province ot the parents $
The teacher aIso prncticnIIy usurus IN,
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''''''."ns w "''''s'e'' i"e '"'"' /"
ech"Dl Tor thlF'y hours ~ the week. ana u
church. at the utmost, for four. It's moral
,,,,,oI and ,,bysicl dsvaIonn,a,,, dons,,d
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"h'h'y upon "hdI 10 sFeh anu uear" "hS
learned during those thirty hours OF hearty
vigorous. aspirinp. all.obseryant Young life
WI ora7s ,,,, H.
Wv wv N'"''' ''' fe'f'o Dt'"
such momentous responsibilities resr Wall
5 into the average school room not the nor
, mai or Tho biob.r ,r,dcd as,a ahlisbman, hu
INV e'''''i"" e'u"''y e0"""i '""'"' ""eIe'
necessity, the great bulk Ofnur childreI
r are urepared for The duties and vicissiiu Ie
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women VINO doubtless are excellent IN thel
way, but whose intellectual light is not o
,hs, L,,d l,L.,v 4, sat tb. Iahioh r;,a- i;
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oiaze' Mos' VI '"e"' nave 'ounn refuge u
: teaching from the drudgery OF iarm lite, a nc
in return for their LIGHTER work sccer, ra
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OOrer, Their scholastic requirements dc
| certainly not deserve higher reward, how
ever good their intentions or uuimpeacI
able their cha aructers. The yunng woman
will abandon teaching with delight when
the lover cumes alnnR who can sunl.ort her
and the young inan will throw up his schunl
boks-snd his haL--when he procures a
berth on the railroad, IN the LAWYERS offie.
or in the drug store of the surgeon, Even
should thnse aua-ter educated people have
renamed TEACHERS they were absolutely and
Iudrr,uslv unouaiiied tor their pnsltInp,