Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1891-02-07
Vol. UI.-NO. so.

structlon! There are grown men who white and
white as sort of accompaniment to thoughts or
conversation, and never produce an article as
result OF their work. There ere others who make
every stroke of tle knife tell, and, though their
thoughts and tongues are quite as active, they
are constantly making articles of use, or toys for
the little ones. As children at an early age are
allowed the knife and delight in it, and as wood is
common material, why should not parents and
teachers, studying practical educational methods,
ascertain the best application of the knife to these
methods? In the Sojd training, Vera Helt, of
Finland, has devised many models in wood that a
child can make, while it is still unsafe to put
knife in his unframed hands, These tools are the
scroll saw, the plane and the file. But the knife
age comes to all children, and to most when they
have not had training in the use of other tools.
Hard wood for small children should be used in
preference to soft, as it affords greater resistance
and mistakes are not SO easily made
THEORIES concerning the planets and their move
ments are oftentmes ingenously woven into SEN
fences thst have meaning lurking in their quaint
phraseology. Simply listening to what might at
first sound like the idle jngling of senseless
lHylCo, SOulGGlllCS dWdhGuS u HDC vi thought,
which, if carefully followed out, would show the
innate selfshness of human nature, the utter
thoughtlessness to the comforts and needs of
Others.
The man who could sit quietly by his freside
idly specializing on the possible destruction of the
sun million years hence, or, as the story goes,
troubling his brain about the results of such
catastrophe, while "hs wife oed over the tub,
to provide daily their 'grrb,'" is no uncommon
type of man; his prototype can be found every
where, nor is this popularity confined to the male
sex alone.
1t is no uncommon thing to find men and wom-
en-, too, bestowng time and thought on subjects
that will in no way benefit them or humanity while
all around and about them the many duties that
60 to make up perfect life lie unperformed The
allimportant questions of how to secure the right
and avoid the wrong, receives from such not even
passing thought, if their personal ease and com
fort is not materially affected by the decision. 1t
is this thoughtless element In human nature that
is so difficult to reach. So long as we or those
who are closely connected with us, suffer no in
convenience from bad law, we may remain in
blissful ignorance of its existence, but when once
that law has been enforced so that its glazing de-
fects become apparent, we are reused to action.
Dissatisfaction has ever been potent lever for
good. If the germ of life were content to lie
dormant within the tiny casing that encloses it,
there would be no seed time, no harvest. So with
woman She had first to become dissatisfied with
the existing state of affairs, and then she began to
set herself to work to right them. That many
are not yet enlisted in the cause, arises from the
fact that they have not stopped to think or they
have not been affecied either directly or Indirectly