Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-01
CLOSE THE SCHOOLS. DO.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.


q day is simply brutal. Why, old folks,
how tired you get sitting in church an hour
Sunday morning Many Of you go to sleep,
or brace UP like fury to keep from it; but
here's the dear, little children, hour after
hour, day after day, week after week, month
after month, compelled to sit as upright and
still as they can on those hard seats, snoth-
ering down outbursts Of mischief, uneasi-
ness, weariness, with no alleviation only
few minutes recess once in three hours, and
not that if they happen to give way to any
OF the little outbursts that will overcome
them at times, in spite Of all the fear of
rigid rules laid upon them. God never
made a child to sit still three. hours q day,
let alone six. Give child its liberty and
see where you will find one healthy child
that will sit still one hour. They move in
ce-santly, in accordance with Gods laws, as
| He made them. No wonder health and Ion
gevity are decreased, and disease and death
| increased The health of our little girls is
greatly undermined in the school-room,
many of them become pale, spindling,
dwarfed and sickly. Under such discipline
where do they get bodily strength for
the future mothers Of the nations:
Notice the little girls that began
school straight and upright in their forms.
now notice them near the closing Of school.
When they sit down they hump all up, head,
neck and shoulders all bearing down on the
stomach and lungs. The fact is it is not
natural for children TO sit down six hours
day,so you can't force them to sit up straight
all the time, for they cannot do it. 1t is es-
pecially very injurious to nervous children.
and would never be required of them if We
observed the laws of life and health. Health
is Of more importance than education. With
out it education is useless. How many deli
cate girls go from the school-room to the
altar, while the mothers heart testifes with
in her that her daughter is entirely unfit for
the practical duties that will fall upon her!
Six hours day, five days in a week, four
weeks in a month, and nine months in a
wear, and Fix years in youth, bound up in
corsets and tight shoes, as mos. Of them
are together with filing their brain with a
great many truths that they will never find
use for or make use of outside Of the school |
room, Is not very flsttering for the future.
practically speaking. II you are going t"
keep the young sitting still and studying |
theories all through their youth while hab-
its and character are forming, when are they |
going ID form the habit of useful practical
labor? So say close the schools sooner
and mix play with study for the younger,
and labor with study for tie older, and in
time OF school have more vacations and
more recesses. Respectfully,
MATTE MEANwELL.
The unparalleled growth OF this city for
the past two years has clearly ou.run not
alone all anticpstions of the most sanguine
believers in Wichita's future, but it seems to |
have run equally ahead of the administrative
ability and foresight of our city solons. The
question of police jurisdiction for criminal
and sanitary purposes is just now puzzling
the brains of the municipal government
sorely. By reference to chapter nii eteer,
section twenty-seven, compiled laws Of Kan |
sas, 1881, it will be seen that tine city his |
the power to pass ordinances controlling
sanitary affairs, nj least Ear fiv. miles from
the CITY limits "r;w:,T'l NV if our coun-
ill viii -uppI' mrnL this snh ordinance
of Ike character they nil hot aca power to |
make Nich.a a. c!esn ~ thu ;n"st rigid |
sanitaIisu could dcsir~ Tho ,..r". Il public |
opir.iun a. gathered bv the EaGIs reporters |
indicates tina, thu thinking people at the city |
are Just now ;illSius themselves With those |
of the other cite. 90 Ia" ',Yirn upnn the inn |
portant question of >aniiaiaiinn in connection |
with that nj the possi,,c visit &c cholera the |
coming wear Something ought Ia be done. |
Whilst at the county building yesterday. |
one of the nomadic scribes of the EAGLE OBJ |
served rather foreign-looking gentleman,
with a very distingue appearance but yet
sharply ieno:ing the wreckless abandon of |
the true westerner. The gentleman afore-
said WAS relating story Of the first sound |
of the locomotive whistle heard in the city |
of Anthony few days ago, when :he Fort
Scott road reached the limits of that place.
Said he, I've could not imagine what the
wonderful sound could beat last remem-
bering that it was the day set for the mil
lenium by the Millerites, the whole popula-
ton Of Anthony Immediately donned their
white shirts, believing that the whistle was
the trumpet of Gabriel, sounding the fear
full event rs at hand" Who" said the
scribe, SIS this yoluble stranger" Then
the whole county ring spoke up with one
accord and said with a single voice, slave
YOU been down in Arkansas all your life
that you do not know j. Z. Horton, the
.eriel wind bag of Anthony"
4 local Faber trimmer Of the EAGLE
called yesterday upon Col. L. n. Wood
cock. in charge of the G. A. Z. Office of this
city. This gentleman has the department
offices in rooms Nos. and ., with n store
room adjoining, on the second floor Of
Zeininger's building on Market street. Ev-
erything is neatly arranged, with view 10
both comfort and utility. The Col. in
formed the scribe that the latch-string OF
the door was always on the outside for the
veterans of our great conflict between the
States. Just at the door entrance WAS dis
played that object of the homage of every
true Americsn-the stars and stripes, as
comprised in the hag of the department of
Kansas. Everything in sigh. WAS suggest
i've of pesce and good will towards men, SO
far as the estranged sections were concerned,
but upon the wall hung most striking bat
tie scene, representing the destruction Of
Gen. Custer and seven companies of the
Seventh cavalry at Little Big Horn, Mon
tana, in the Sioux Indian wars OF lS74-76-
Two hundred and fifty boxes are being
added 10 the postotfice. a like number was
added last fall. hu; succeeding events hardly
seemed to warrant any further outlay, the
benefit of which accrue- to the revenues Of
the general government But Dem
ocrs,ic president, TO the contrary not
withstaniing, the pressure has simply
rendered the expense unavoidable, let hap
per what may We hope that the six hun
dred dollars year which The new boxes
will realize for the government, will prove