The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-14

sensitive feel better after the rain
begins to fall freely.-PhaJGdeLph5a
Inquirer.
DisciplininG the Mind.
Ii for a moment we could lay aside
the thought of the established routine
which we have become accustomed to
calling education, we should, / think,
easily see that facts about things
which we do not come in contact with
are not helpful, while they usurp
the place of those things which are
needed for every day life. Do you say
they discipline the mind end
strengthen the memory? This is the
reason given for many of the arbi-
trary rules and studies in the schools,
but this is assuming that what is I'M
interesting and dry is better for de-
velopment and us a preparation for
life than are those things which are
gratifying and agreeable. The body
can only be fully nourished by eating
such food as is pleasant to the taste.
The nerves of sensation must be pleas
antly excited to secure perfect diges-
ton and assimilation, and it is a seri-
GUS mistake in our ideas of education
that we fail to recognize this beauti-
full law in intellectual processes.
There is a deal of nonsense about
discipline of the mind, of the will, and
of the body. Life is, or ought to be,
for all human beings a continual dis
cipline of brain. body, and will, and
the means for this discipline are fur
nished in the needs and processes of
life. Our failures come from not re-
cognizing these processes, or from be-
ing out of place. In either case we are
out of harmony with the ''infiowing
universe" and so fail to get our disci-
pline in Gods own way. Then we
formulate our arbitrary methods to
supply the place of the natural order,
very much in the same way as artifi-
cjal limbs, teeth, and other organs
are supplied by science when the ma
tural one have failed us from care
lessness, accident. or disease.
This false and exaggerated idea of
our responsibility in furnishing dis
cipline first grew out of the belief
that the human being is all wrong till
we set him right, ana though total
d~epravity is practically a thing of the
past. yet the opposite theory-that
the child is right till we lead him
wrong by our false estimates of values
has failed to find its way very gen.
orally into old avenues of thought,
still less have we learned to follow
and obey nature, and thereby trans
form our educational system from ar
bitrary and unattractive methods to
those which meet glad acceptance
glad, because the brain in it's natural
condition enjoys its supply of knowl-
edge as the body enjoys its food. The
flowers bloom. and fruits ripen when
we make the conditions right for
them, and then let them alone to
revel in the operations of unerring
and beneficent law.-Hdrpe1'S. BdzGr.
How One Marriage Was Made.
Frederick the Great had, as you all
know, a passion for tall soldiers and
never lost any opportunity of increas-
ing the number. He even went so
far as to want them to marry the tai
lest wives possible, and the following
is the story of how he provided one of
his pets with a suitable Spouse
One day, while on his way from
Potsdam to Berlin, he met a very tall,
young and well-built girl. He stopped
his carriage, and after having asked
her numerous questions. learned that
she was unmarried, a Saxon, and that
she had been to market on business.
The King gave her a letter and piece
of money, telling her to deliver
the former to the commander
of the guard at Potsdam. The
girl accepted the commission,
then, fearing that some harm
might come to her in following the
directions, she gave both letter and
money to an old woman, telling her
that it was the Kings order. The old
woman willingly undertook the err
rand. Imagine her surprise when the
commander told her that she was to
marry the tallest and handsomest
grenadier in the company. And i'm
agine also the surprise of the grena-
dier, who, much against his will, was
obliged to obey the Kings order.
The King, however, not forgetful of
his proteges, wished to offer them his
congratulations. On his next visit to
Potsdaln, he, of course, learned of the
mistake that had been made, and
relnedied matters at once by divorcing
the grenadier from his ancient bride,
and substituting the younger and
more attractive
Chicago Girls.
They grasp their skirts firmly with
one hand, while with the other they
frantically signal a cable train, three
cars gliding along at a speed that