The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-29
The Graduates Daddy.

The Graduates Daddy.
Just now our esteemed contemporaries
are devoting no small share of their valua-
BILE space to the college graduate, says the
Atlanta Constitution.
1t will strike the thoughtful reader that
people generally are disposed to give too
much advice to the graduate. Give the
young man a chance. He is by no means
the bookish dreamer, or the conceited dude,
that some persons would make him out.
He has not been buried in his text books
during the past four years. On the contra
ry, he has been talking politics, reading
the newspapers, developing his muscles and
taking very active interest in the every
day affairs of life. He knows many things
that are not embraced in his regular course
of study.
1t is unnecessary to advise this bright
and practical youngster to forget certain
things that he has learned. He will forget
easily enough. Nor will it do any good to
preach to him about his mission. He will
find it sooner or later.
If we felt disposed to give the graduate
any advice it would be to suggest to him
the Importance of taking few weeks off to
get acquainted with his old daddy, who by
this time is quite stranger to him. The
young collegian will find the old man worth
studying. His garments are not cut in
the latest style. Perhaps he wears a SLOUGH
hat, and has horny brown hands. He may
seem little out of place in circle of gay
fashionables. But, for all that, this plain
old daddy, with the traces of time and care
upon his wrinkled face, is man among
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and thrift, gave the graduate his education,
and paid for it.
The old man, then, is worth studying
His head may not be full of the fancy
! points of culture but it is hard and wise
head all the same. The graduate may be
thankful if he has one that will do him as
much service. 1t is quite drop to come
down from the study of the worlds most
famous men to the wrinkled and brown
handed farmer who has left his cotton field
to attend commencement, but we have no
hesitation in telling the gifted graduate
that, if he desires to make man of him
self in an honest way, he cannot afford to
/ disregard the old mans principles and
methods.
This old-fashioned and half forgotten
daddy is not saying much. He feels that
he must first get acquainted with his brill
liant son. But his whole life is volume OF
advice. He has let speculation alone and
has been satisfied to make himself indie
} pendent and comfortable by hard work and
thrift. He has stuck to the church
of his fathers, and has never been bothered
by the agnostics, or any Of the modern
philosophers. He has made his word as
good as his bond in business transactions
and has never gone back on friend. He
has humbly served his God and his country
doing his duty as he saw it, and while there
are richer and more distinguished men in
t his country, not one is more widely loved
and respected.
a This is success in its highest and hest
+ sense. If the young man who is leaving
-, college to go out into the world has g
, glimpse of tho truth--if he sees the beauty
and strength and nobility of this quiet life
, of honest toll the chances are that he will
get on the right track and stay there.
The graduate will find his old daddy his
best model. If he will follow in his foot.
steps he will not go far wrong.
r Readers of tho July number of Harper's
Magazine will find in the second instalment
of Daudet's Port Tarascon" complete
realization of the anticipations aroused by
the first chapters. The rare humor o.
; which M. Daudet is master adds an indie
i. Unable zest to the story, which abounds in
= alternate droll and tragic situations. Twen
S ty-four illustrations by the eminent French
artists, Ross, Montenard, Myrbach, anc
, Montegut accompany the article. Among
the other illustrated papers in the same
number of the magazine arc Howard Pyle'i
' quaint account of "a Famous Chapbool
: Villain who fourished in the early par
: of last century; "Texas Types and Con
J. trasts,' by Lee G. Hardy, describing Ger.
r tain phases of life and manners near the
4 Mexican border, a paper on Social Life il
1 Oxford by Ethel NJ. Arnold, with portraits
1 of some well-known celebrities at the uni
a versity; and Dr.. Henry Lansdell's narrative
of journey through Baltic Russia in
cluding visit to Riga, Dorpat and othel
y places not often seen by American tourists
Q In ''Some Colonial and Revolutionary Let
S ters' by Frederick Daniel. the reader i.
j. made acquainted with an interesting col
V lection of old-time letters now in posses
sion of the state of Virginia. l.. Z. Chtten
den, whose article in the May number Of
Y the Magazine attracted SO much attention
a continues his "reminiscences in al
, article entitled Treasury Notes ant
a Notes on the Treasury" Robert
S. Peabody, in architecture and Democ
. racy." discusses the influence of democrat
ic institutions upon the art of architecture
: The recent revival of paganism in Italian
|. literature is described by Frank Sewall il
n an article on "Giosus Carducci. and tn,
II Hellenic Reaction in Italy, In the depart
: ment of fiction, besides Daudet's new nov
, cl, there are several short stories: ~
. Poetess,' by Mary L. Wilkins; 1.-The Moon
+ lighter of County Clare" by Jonathan
. Sturees, an experience resulting from
q personal study of of the Irish question:
S, 1.-Two Letters by Brander Matthews I'll
e lustrated): Truth and Untruth." by Mat
is Crina and The Scarecrow,'' b
&c S. p. Mclean Greene (illustrat
-; ed). Besides Mr.. Aldrich's poem, 9TH
:, lia." which occupies the place of honor il
the Magazine. there are poems by William
&c Sharp, Matthew Richey Knight and Georg
4 Edgar Montgomery. In the editorial de
IS partments George William Curtis writes O
v the value of criticism. of sone aspects O
Of art in America. and of the change that ha
taken place in the observance of our gres
national holiday; William Dean Howell