The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
TOO MUCH EDUCATION.

Manual Training Much More Useful Than
the Ordinary College Course.
A Gottingen professor, who is alarmed
because good brewer comm ands larger
wages in Germany than Greek profess
,Or. has written book to demonstrate
that there is too much learning in the
world. and that our educational methods
must be reformed so as to appreciate
the value of scholarship. He shows that
there are now entered On the rolls of the
German universities 20, 900 students, and
hat fully one-half of these hopeful
youths are doomed to poverty and dis
appointment. The Gottingen professor
S right in his doleful prediction if these
$1,000 young men are being educated
or the 'gentlemanly professions in
tead of the more lucrative and more
certain callings of industrial life. But
f these 30, 600 young German college
Students had it in mind to turn their
lands to manual labor when they left
ollege they would not be hurt by the
took of learning they are accumulat-
ng. A carpenter or blacksmith or a
,hopkeeper is none the worse for being
scholar. The real trouble is in that
false idea which is current that educa-
lion disqualifies a person for manual
pursuits, and that the educated man or
woman must find station somewhere
n the professions. Still, it is loss of
lime for young person to devote years
o the study of the dead languages
when the same period spent in a manual
raining school would give the prepara-
ion required, and thus enable him to
secure profitable employment immedi-
ltely upon leaving school. 1t has
'ong been the fault of our educa-
ional methods that there are too many
'aptains and not enough privates being
urned out from our schools and col
eyes Now that it is coming to pass the
,rivates are receiving more wages than
he captains, the fault will correct it.
elf. We have the evidence of this in
he disposition to make manual train
ng part of our common school system
lere in America. Manual training and
.echnical education in mechanical pur-
,uits is being incorporated into nearly
II of the schools of our American cities
'rivate enterprise has also taken hold
f the subject. There is private insti.
ution of this kind in New York, which
well patronized, and whole graduates
e in demand by master mechanics, as
ley make better workmen than are
lrned out by the loose apprenticeship
'stem.--St. Paul Globe.
At the ratriarch's mansion, which,
Indeed, is OnlJ big. plain, stone
house of two stories. we were met by
several priests in long black gowns,
which fell in full folds from their
necks to their feet, and in tall, round,
black caps, with capes falling down
upon their backs. These put their
hands to their foreheads as we entered
and motioned us to come in. We then
assembled wide stairway, at the sides
of which were brass. ratings. and at
the top of which stood more priests
similarly attired. Here we were taken
into great hall. where the portraits
u the patriarchs of the past looked
Town upon us out of gold frames and
ben on into a second grand salon, in
which were number of Turkish SOL
nlers and church dignitaries, and at the
oack OF which in chair of state sat
The patriarch himself. He rose as he
saw us and moved toward us. Tall,
2road-shOuldered and well-fOrmed, he
Is one of the finest-looking men / have
ever seen. He has magnificent head,
vel set on pair of broad shoulders;
iarge' Intellectual eyes. big. straight
nose, and long, patriarchal beard OF
sable silver. His high forehead was
oordered with black cap of fine cloth,
which rose for full six inches above it,
ma from the back of which fell cape
OF the same color, forming striking
background to his strong, intelligent
lace. He wore long, full gown of
some fine black cloth, and he had two
gorgeous gold medals about his neck.
each as big as the palm of your hand,
ana between these hung cross of dia-
monds. He met US in the middle of
the salon. shook hands with US, and
conducted us to divan at the right of
MS chair of state. We then chatted
through the interpreter. the legation
addressing him, according to etiquette.
IS your blessedness IF. G. Carpen-
-er, In LOuisville Conr;o. Io,,,,,l