Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-31

She Disdains Even the Trouble of
Teaching Her Grandmother.
From the London Queen.

from the LOnoon queen.
The girl of seventeen, whose ideal of music
is Dorothy" and who can just strum through
1.-THE Queen Of My Heart" and the last new
waltz or polka, finds Chopin and Mendelssohn
deadly dull and old-fashioned when played by
one Of the older generation. She has been to
a school Of art and can make an Indifferent
sketch in chalks of plaster of paris hand or
foot SO thinks she can afford to look down on
| the somewhat over-smooth and over-colored,
but pretty and artistic water colors of twenty
years ago. She has been to banjo class to
an ambulance class, to cooking class, and
though the wounded or the hungry would come
off very badly if they depended on her efforts,
| she has at least learned enough to be able to
lay down the law to her relations She has
also ''gone in for" some branches of art or
science, of which she supposes her mother and
aunts barely know the names.
Then as to amusements. Croquet according
to her, was a game only fit for the inmates of a
lunatic asylum. She ridicules any of the games
that made pleasant evenings twenty years ago;
1T is not that she does not care for them and
says so, but she condemns them as absurd, i'm
possible, the offspring of a diseased brain, She
is, as was said of Lord Macauley, .'cock sure of
everything" and of nothing more than of the
superiority of the young over the old.
1t Is something to be thankful for that we
have not reached the standard of manners
which still prevails in some parts of Australia,
Polynesia, and Africa, where the absence of
old people was noticed by some inquiring trav-
eler, and he was informed that as soon as they
killed and found ready tomb in the maws of
the younger members of the tribes.
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The Average Man Disappointing.
From the Philadelphia Sunday School Times.
common method Of planning for desired
result in the sphere of benevolent endeavor is
based on averages. If certain amount of
money is to be raised in church or in a Sum-
day school or in a community, it is very easy
to see that an average of SO much to each mem
Der will secure all that is desired. If GER
tain work is to be done which involves a speci-
fled number of workers. it is obvious that an
average OF SO many workers to a given field
will be ample for the necessities of the case.
This simple sum in arithmetic is very often ac-
cepted as the warrant for a hope of results
that would gladden. the hearts of multitudes;
but unfortunately the issue is ordinarily very
far short of the expectation. The reason of
the failure is, that the average man never does
his duty. 1t is always the extraordinary man
that accomplishes anything in this world. Not
the extraordinarily rich man nor the extraordi-
narily able man, nor the extraordinarily good
man, but the extraordinarily faithful man is
the man who finally counts for good result in
any undertaking in life. This truth is an i'm
duty Of all those who would gain help from
others or give help to others. II you are PLAN
ming to raise certain sum Of money or to Sc
cure certain number of helpers, the first
thing for you to think of is: Who are the ex-
traordinary persons to whom I can turn at this
juncture? II. on the other hand, a call is made
on you for aid in an emergency, your question
| ought not to be, What is my duty as an average
helper just now? but, What is my duty as an
extraordinary helper? A good average is poor
attainment. He who is not above the average
is below his own fair level