The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-14

Children, written and composed by her
for her own four children, but which are
to be published for general use. The
songs are accompanied by movements for
developing the muscles of the body. Mrs.
Chant expressed herself as highly pleased
with oEr little town and its surroundings.
s.sosiab's- scraps.
1t was our privilege to listen to the adj
dress of Mrs. l.. Ormiston Chant in the
Opera House in this place on Social
Purity" We feel free to say the address
was one of the best to which 1t has ever
been our privilege to listen. Mrs. L. Or
mission Chant as q public speaker is, for
brilliancy of thought, like the full-orbed
queen of night among the lesser lights.
Her address from prints to fms was n
onward flow of the beautiful in rhetoric
and logic and poetry of sentiment. 1t is
unfortunate so few Of our people heard
this brilliant speaker on this all-important
subject. We caunot attempt to give even
an outline of this mastery address in the
short space allotted to our scraps. Apart
from the moral ethics and Christian teach
ings that pervaded the entire discourse,
her graphic word-painting of the social life
of her native city, London, was intensely
fascinating. We fail to understand why
SO few of our people take interest in these
public lectures. These lectures as a rule
embedy the observation and experience of
years and are the fruits of laborious study
AMI research. We lavish means upon our
children to aid them in their search for
knowledge, and yet how little we encourage
them to attend these public addresses that
are often epitomes of histories and text
books. We do not like the thought that
this lack of interest and attendance on the
part of the masses is owing to an indiifer-
ence for mental culture and that they have
no relish for the limpid waters that flow
from Pierian springs. And yet we cannot
accoun for the want OF interest in these
public entertainments on the score OF
economy. Let there be a horse race adj
vertised and the whole neighborhood is
ablaze with excitement. All thoughts Of
hard times and the necessity Of economy
are forgotten. Women old and young and
of high and low estate will stand for hours
in the blaze OF a torrid sun watching in
tently the man@uyering of unprincipled
jockeys in the interest Of pools under
the pretense of Scoring" And men will
whoop and howl and bet their bottom
dollar on the speed qualities of spawned
and ringboned horse flesh. All this swell
tering and ~whooping and betting is to en-
courage the breeding of horses. Or let a
circus show come within reaching distance
and it is the great day of the season. Sud-
denly there is felt, with the masses, the
necessity for a day off in order to 'rest up
and chew peanuts. And o, the enjoyment
OF the circus show when once in the swim
in the big tent. Men and women old and
young 90 into ecstacies over the aerObatic
exploitsof feminine equestriennes in scanty
flesh colored garments that are a burlesque
on decency, and lend the air with shouts
of laughter over the monkey actions and
vulgar slang of coarse.jesting clowns. 1t
is an old adage s'Straws show which way
the wind blows
We hear our Borough Council are re-
ceiving numerous proposals from different
parties to supply onr town with water
works. Various systems are suggested
a~rtesian wells. This source would give us
pure water for drinking purposes. This
mode OF supply is being adopted in some
places and gives, so far as We are able to
learn, entire satisfaction. Judging from
the analysis made recently of the water in
the public school well we are led to the
conclusion that the water from q majority
of the wells in town is unfit for drinking
purposes. Most of the wells SO far as We
know are shallow and as near sources of
contamination as the well referred to.
Shallow wells in a porous soil in a town of
any considerable size must un~avoidably
receive more Or less contamination from
drains, sinks and ~cesspools where there is
not perfect artificial drainage. No doubt
the cause Of many local epidemics are
traceable to wells that are not suspected.
If We can have a system of water works
that will give us both protection against
fire and also pure drinking water, bg all
means let us have them. The time draws
nigh for our annual Borough meeting and
it will be well for our property owners and
taxpayers to consider these matters, that
when the time m they may be able to
decide intelligently and wisely whether or
no il is best TO construct the cisterns or to
vote the appropriation made for that pur-
pose for securing some more efficient and
satisfactory water supply. We confess we
almost shndder at the thought of digging
these hidden presidential death-traps. The
water in them will be ~unavailing and use
less for all purposes except to extinguish
fires, aud almost useless for that purpose,
as nothing short OF a steam engine will
draw water out of them and at the same
time throw it onto a burning building. A
steam engine would exhaust one OF these
cisterns IN a very short time. Ii We u
have a medieval appliance for extinguish-
ing fires, then let us go again and play get
cheated with Salem. She sold us her old
antiquated engine at a good round price.
She now has some old cisterns that be-
ionged with it and for which she has no
further use. We doubt not that as a sol
to conscience she would be willing to make
some amends by selling us her old musty,
fungus-breeding oisterns at about twenty
five cents TO the dollar On original cost.
This question Of A water supply is a very
important one, both as regards health aud