Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-21

rapid transit, telegraphic communication. &c,
| there seems to be but little IL any abatement
| of the trouble between labor and capital. the
questions of divorce, suicide. increase Of in
| sanity and Of crime of all kinds.
The engine Of civilization seems 10 have lost
its engineer. and the faster its speed the more
danger Of its destruction.
MORE cREArrvE POWER DEMANDED.
The demand Of the age is for more creative
power or for an intellectual force that may be
able to harmonic the different elements Of our
civilization.
Exceptional men get their eyes open early in
NE, and, taking advantage Of every opportunity,
mount head and shoulders above their fellows:
Others are crushed for lack OF like mental power
hurl upon them
All questions arising from the mixed condi-
uons OF our present civilization must eventu-
any revert to the final question-how can We
pest develop all the energies of the indiyidualY
according TO Herbert Spencer. 1.-THE process
IN "nicn NE essentially consists is the continu-
GUS maintenance OF an equilibrium between
the organism and its environment"
1t is evident that this want of eouipoise or
correspondence between the inner and outer
life. SO
Wordsworth tells us Heaven lies about MS in
our infancy" but this il only half a truth. for
| children inherit qualities as likely 10 render
them demons as well angels
hore anu more discerning people are coming
TO realize the necessity for giving greater
study to the subject of the soul development of
child life.
Notice with what emphasis Froebel speaks OF
the danger arising from the too early awaken
| ing OF the quality of self-consciousness which
can be illustrated by anecdotes in the life of Ros-
coe Conkling.
The time must speedily come when the earli-
est and most important period of the minds
development Will not be allowed to become
dui!ed and ruined, TO its own loss and TO the
loss OF the state. to which every human being
For ages the human race has been a prev 70
| every variety of crime. and nations have risen
only to fall into degradation. The same fate is
before us unless We give to each child its in
aienabie right to develop its whole nature to
| ats highest power OF development
What an uplifting to all civilization would
take place In few generations il n truly wise
| and philosophical training could be given TO
young children in order rightly to stimulate
their mental and moral powers.
There are families who for many years have
given great attention to this important subject.
but there has been no general movement
| toward this object.
From an economical standpoint il might be
| Wise to endeavor to uplift the masses in this
manner, for the ancients teach us that one
member cannot suffer injury without danger to
| the whole BODY
ADVANTAGES OF THE KINDERGARTEN.
School authorities are beginning to recog-
nize the advantages Of the kindergarten, for in
1870 there were none at all connected with
the public school system. but by the statistics
gathered by the bureau of eduction and pre-
scented here We see q few scattered over the
country.
In Washington there is not one kindergarten
connected with the public school system, al
though appeals have been made for years to
congress for means to pay twenty teachers Of
kindergartens, yet no response has been made.
though Congress still goes on appropriating
large sums for stone and bronze monuments, but
not a cent to assist In Graduating the evil
genius from young minds
Is 1t not time We left off the worship Of our
ancestors, after the manner of the ancients
and can we not break through our shell. and
In the words of Tennyson:
Rise from our dead selves to higher thinss"
ORIGIN OF THE cHAUrAuouA
The final paper was on the "Origin Of the
Name Chautauqua." by Albert S. Gatchet. The
name Chautauqua, he said, had been Interpreted
by ''amateurs in very different ways The
article states at length the linguistic reasons
why this name, which is worded ON the Seneca
!roquois language, still spoken in western New
York, Cannot signify any thing else but lone has
Indians Tkan Tchatak Wan and the old English
and French documents vary enormously in
| their mode Of writing it. 1t is probable that
| fish were taken out by the Indians from Lake
Chautauqua to stock the brooks and ponds Of
the vicinity. The author proposes to change
the orthogrophy of Chautauqua into the more
scientific Chatakwa.
Maj. Powell in his paper read yesterday
| on Linguistic Map of North America
said that over 1000 Indian languages are
spoken, which can be divided among seventy
| i've different stocks, and that while the mum.
Der was large the tendency was not toward q