Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-17
LITTLE ONES AT SCHOOL,
Co-Education Mutually Helpful and Best
for Humanity.

LITTLE ONES AT SCHOOL.
CO. Education Mutually Helpful and Best
for Humanity.
Whatever be the school selected, tho
| mother should watch the daughter close
ly, and if she find her getting languid
and weary over her studies, take meas
| ures to relieve her of some of her tasks.
The advice of the family physician
should be sought, and if he decides that
the girl is overworked, his certificate to
that affect should be shown to the prin-
cipai of the school, who will usually CO.
operate willingly with the mother in so
easing the young student that her
health shall not suffer. True, she may
not attain to great distinction in the
class work, nor so rapidly receive pro-
motion, but she will get her growth in
healthy way, which ultimately is of
the greater Importance.
Again, in my Judgment. it is good
thing for little girl to attend school
where boys are also sent | believe
heartily and fully in co-education. The
Creator who placed boys and girls to-
gether in families, where the assoc
citation of brothers and sisters is mutual
ly helpful, knew what was best for
humanity. Wherever the expert ment
has been fairly and squarely tried, re-
suits show that school work can be-
carried on by classes of both sexes with
an absence of silly self-consciousness
without premature precocity, and to the
| advantage of both girls and boys.
II you want to see sickly sentimental
jtv n Sllr6 idea of u
utterly false notions of love and mar
riage and life generally, go to a girls
seminary, where daughters and sisters
are walled in and guarded as though
their brothers were raging lions, seek
ing whom they might devour. Also,
if you want to see immortality, bad
habits, low-mindedness and disrespect
for women, go to a boys school
where the same policy is OBJ
served. Take note also of another
point: this system of isola ton keeps the
young peoples thoughts upon each
other, leads, therefore to clandestine
correspondence and evils of many kinds.
On the contrary, let them work to-
gether. There is no sentimental halo
about the classmate who misses his les
sons, who blunders in his examples.
There is no disrespect and scorn of
girls" from a youth who sees them
we'll able to hold their own, and to
stand beside if not above him in intel
lectual exercises. Beside this, it works
in another way almost as valuab BILE; girls
are broadened in their outlook on life,
ard boys are refined and civilized in
their manners. Both learn the truth,
the honest, the natural way of looking
at each other, and are prepared to enter
life together as they should and must.
Believe me, the Creator, who shows
wisdom in the smallest atom that lives,
did not blunder when He put boys and
girls together into the arms of ono
mother, to come up under one roof
Olive Thorne Miller, in Harper's Bazaar.
In Pike County, Pa, is the Bloom
ing Grove Park Association, the pioneer
of great game and fish preserves A
few hours by rail and one is landed in a
wilderness tempered by a perfectly
equipped clubhouse. The club owns
IS. 900 acres in fee, and is the lessee fora
long term of years of S, 900 more. These
form Il tract of forty-two miles square.
The club is now giving great attention
to stocking its waters with trout and
bass. Deer are plentiful, and only be-
cause wise rules have been made and
enforced. a fine of $50 is enforced for
the killing of fawn or doe. Each
member is allowed to kill one buck dur
ing the season, and he must meet his
fate by stalking. Hounding, freight
ing and all other fatal forms of hunting
are prohibited.
Papa" cried a little seven-year-
old, Il want some money TO get"
Don't go any further" he interrupted,
throwing down coin. The child came
slowly up to him, after pocketing the
money, and barely touched his cheek
with kiss. 'Humph," calculated the
parent, from the kiss you give should
Judge that you don't appreciate it very
much" She caught hold of his hands,
and looking squarely into his eyes, SOL
emnly said: do you expect ten-dol-
lar kiss for fifty cents?"-Atlanta Con
stitution.
When summoned to dinner the other
day gentleman was busy writing at
his desk at his home in New York. He
heard something snap as he closed the
desk drawer, but thought nothing of it.
lie w-s barely rseated at the table
when a couple of policemen clamored at
the front door to be let in. The desk
was blazing merrily, a picture hanging
above it was ruined, and the carpet was
smouldering. He set off parlor match
| when he shut the desk.
AT the table of wellknown Meth
odist minister the subject of widows
was under discussion. when one of the
sons inquired: What is grass widov?"
why. Harry" responded the other,
| don't you know? \ grass widow is a
woman whose husband died with hay
| fever."-Christian Advocate.
Readers who skim over n magazine
are after the cream of its contents.N.
o. Picsyune.