The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-24

grounds our very beinson natural
law. They should know the laws Of
health first Of al, since their physical
being Is the Arm base Of the whole pyr-
amid of Character. According TO law
IS the method Is It is the philosophic ex.
PLANTATION Of the universe so far Is we can
spell it out The blessed word sshealth'
once literally meant ''holiness," and
that means simply Wilderness" This
body Of ours was meant to be the tenn
pie Of tho Holy Spirit, but enemies have
taken possession Of it and dimmed or
we'll nigh extinguished the Shekinah.
The alcohol and nicotine poisons leagued
with bad food, unnatural dress, bad ven
tilation and ill-proportioned exercise,
are the demons that hold the sacred
citadel. Yet we call ourselves science
loving people and think we care
to know Gods reason why! His
laws written in our members"
we pass lightly over that We may
learn mans formula for parsing verb
or constituting foreign quotation. Even
the SaxOns knew that ''every man has
lain on his own trencher;" that what we
eat, more than all other contingencies.
determines what we are; but we pass
over these weightiest matters of the
changeless laws Of hygiene that we may
1.-THE the mint and cummin of gram
NAUTICAL punctilio and msthematical
accomplishment. Even when we study
the natural sciences we soar amid the
stars and hammer the rocks or dissect
flowers; but place the study of our own
more splendid organism at the foot of
the list, instead Of building the whole
edifice of education upon this solid
rock. against which the gates of hell
shall not prevail. Our obliquity Of Wis
ion at this point is fatal to the logical
sequence OF our entire scheme, and
will be the amusement of wiser and
happier generations. In the school Of
the future carefully trained hygienists
!, will be steadily at work studying the
habits Of the children and teaching
them, on scientific grounds, how they
may form those upon which physical
sanity is conditioned. ." AS a be-
ginning of this vital education 1 would
teach on scientific grounds the unreal
sonableness of using alcoholic drinks.
BY every practical method of illustra-
ton and experiment would set before
my pupils that the tendency of yester-
day is likely to become the habit Of to-
day and the bondage of tomorrow.
They should be drilled into the fact that
the alcoholic habit is cumulative. subtly
strengthening by what it feeds upon,
SO that the ignorant claim that drinks
like cider, beer and wine are prevent
ives of drunkenness, should be an insult
to their intelligence.
In my geography should be laid down
the maelstrom of moderate drinking,
and the Niagara of drunkenness; in my
grammar, the conjugation of the verbs
Ito be" and Ito do" as related to boys
life proceedings should be no more ir-
reg ular, and in my arithmetic the knotty
whose solution most Of study was ex-
pended,
believe this systematic instruction,
which both forewarns and forearms
them, to be the road out of bondage for
the children of America. No other in
stitution of the Republic reaches them
all. Powerful as are the forces Of the
pulpit and press, the former does not at
= tract all ears, and the latter is largely
/ influenced by the saloon in finance and
the saloon in politics. But to the
school-house door come white and black.
native and foreign-born; inside it's
walls are invested their formative
years, and the laws of their being, as set
| forth by science, must appeal to their
! self-love, an attribute upon which we
may always confidently base our cal
! culations. The German, who learns
that the laws of nature take sides
| with local abstinence, will gradually
| cease the cry Of ''fanaticism. His
boy comes home from school and tells
him that in time of pestilence aud sun
stroke the beer-drinkers pay forfeit and
the total abstainers get off scot free;
that these last are at premium with
| the life insurance companies; that they
! win in the athletic games; that they are
the successful explorers and victorious
soldiers, and that chemistry, physiology
and hygiene prove that this must always
be so. Mein Herr scoffed at the cru
sading women, but the dignity of sci.
ence will do much to silence him, and
it will convince his children. beseecb
you then, as the truest guardians of the
State and the most intelligent and help
full friends Of the child in our midst,
who is also in the market place, and
who is sure to be auctioned off to the
forces that bid highest for him, stand
| by the mothers of the Nation in their
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1.-THE little soldiers newly mustered in
To the army Of temptation and OF SIM
Drunken Mother.
On recent Northwestern railway
train passing through Iowa en- route to
Chicago. in Pullman sleeper, was a
! woman of education, wealth, foreign