The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-02
WHY Is 1T!
A Few Well-Timed 1nterrogatiOns and
Reflections.

Reflections.
There are 30 many unanswered ones,
we are grieved to add another, when the
sphinx.like where do all the pins 60
has as yet received no solution. Our
question has not to do however, with
pins-those evangels of civilization, but
with something deeper and broader,
that extends back of pins, dear as they
are to the feminine sense of complete.
ness. It is not political, or religious,
particularly, nor does it relate to that
bete noir of life tour best society,". 1t is
a plain, unvarnished, practical every.
day, yet insolu uble achy do not the Meth.
odists patronize and sustain their own
school?
Why do the children and grandchild.
rem of Trustees attend the public school
Having at great expense, with many
sacrifices, erected building for the pur-
pose of educating the frivolous female
mind, why don't the accompanying
feminine presence fill to overflowing its
pleasant chapel and spacious halls and
delightful bedrooms. Here is church,
the largest communion in town, that
boasts of its wealth, and its ability to
pay its pastor the largest salary offered
here. Its Sabbath School full and pros
porous its classmeeting.rooms too small
for the sanity souls that would fill
them; its Chautauqua Circle overrun
with membership, and its College con-
spicuously empty, showing on its roll.
book preponderance Of Presbyterian
with small sprinkling of Episcopalian
girls.
For everything there is a reason and
q remedy. The reasons are known to
every citiaen Of this place at least. 1t is
with the remedy we would concern our.
selves.-the present and future of this
institution. That person does not exist,
however poor or humble, who is posi-
lively ,citlto,a influence. What is it
then we ask of every communicate of
the NJ. +. Church? The actire use of
that influence. Suppose that each
member should pledge themselves to
obtain one pupil, either day or boarding,
for the school! What very small
thing it is to ask and how great would
be the result. Placing at once upon q
secure foundation the school that al.
ready has a long list of brilliant alumne
to back it. Financially good boarding
school is good investment for town,
it is felt at once in all branches of trade.
Finally, it would encourage and hold up
the hands of the strangers in our midst,
who have had the courage to undertake
the school in its present condi ton.
Shake off the lethargy, indifference,
and selfishness that binds down the ma
jority OF people, more powerful than
any chains his Satanic majesty may ever
forge, and make an effort for good, for
the greatest good, superior education
the one pleasure whose luster time can
never tarnish. The one friend that age
or poverty may never take away-boeks
and the power 10 read them under
standingly.
With cherished volume in your
hand, the one bound in boards and
printed in diamond, as we'll as the soft,
flexible back, whose exquisite illustra-
tions famous artists have not disdained
to study over, you may draw the cur
tains and forget that outside the winds
howl and rave up and down the earth,
that sickness and sorrow hold carnival
around you; that over the way perhaps
some pale-faced sufferer wearily wei.
comes death that not square beyond
you another soul seeks oblivion. STEPPED
to the lips in the wisdom and wit Of
men and women whose cold fingers may
never write another line-you may find
the greatest boon earth holds, forget.
fulness. CAMEO No. 2.