The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-07-14

and win applause from the audience as
well as the best of them.
''Some tor renown on scraps OF learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.''
His father was persuaded that he
was unusually talented and expected
him to make mark in the world, and
10 this end encouraged him to try the
great highway, law. When will parents
learn to know that recIting other peo-
pies thoughts will not stand for brains
and that good looks are not of the
avail that hard work is in securing
honored position2 When will our
schools and seats of learning pay less
attention to elocution and the showing
off processes, and give more to those
solid requirements that aid business,
and turn the mind into storehouse of
historic facts from which to draw as
the years roll by?
1t seems to me that We have had all
the evidence we need to prove that
educating the mead alone does not
develop character, nor turn out practi-
cal and successful business men and
women, and that it is time that the
head aud hands of the rising genera
ton were receiving equal attention.
Why do farmers sons and daughters
SO frequently outstrip their city cousins
in books and business when it comes
to contest2 1t is because they have
had employment about the farm as
they grew up which city children can :
not have SO readily. This exercise
between school hours Strengthens their
bodies, and consequently their minds
Exercise, and l maintain useful exer.
else, is necessity to perfect develop
ment. Not gymnastics and foot ball
and such, but the sort that somehow
helps TO serve the bread and butter
problem. Had the young lawyer
above spoken of been taught TO earn
his livelihood by some manual labor
or as he studied law, it might have
been the making Of him 1t would at
least have been the saving of his rela,
tions.
In the understanding l have gath
cred from the years as they passed by,
| believe if had twenty children to
educate not one of them should be
taught in school that is only bookish
school, excepting perhaps the country
school, where some nours each day
could be spent in chores about the
farm. The risk of uniting them for
anything but books is tco great; and
the hazing banqueting and tricks that
are vain that are going on in those
institutions are enough to warn parents
against subjecting their children to
such associations and temptations.
This country Is not in need of any
more polished heads and idle hands.
Its most crying need to-day is for
skilled workers, for men and women
who care more to be useful than they
do to be ornamental; who can plow a
furrow or shoe a horse better than
they can talk philosophy or plead at
the bar; who can make loaf of bread
and broiI a steak better than they can
chatter French and embroider pillow
shams. There is no use trying, we
cannot rise above the stomach. We
must live, and we must eat TO 1--we, and
somebody must do the work that living
demands. And those people who will
not lend helping hand, but willingly
prey on their hard-working relations,
ale a disgrace to modern civilization.
The truth is, we are too ambitious,
too deSirous for easy places, we'll do
the eating il somebody else will do
the cooking wei! pay the bills, too, if
somebody else will earn the money !;
We can't do everything; people succeed
best IN pursuits congenial to them we
have no taste for drudgcry,therefoEe we
should not do 1t. This is about the
smart logic that is being practiced to
the extinction of many fa4,ily. Par
ents take the hard and give the easy to
their children. The mother tends the
kitchen and dairy, and the daughters
the parlor and school. This, 1t is
thought, will give them grace and cul'
ture and fit them to adoru the high
positions they are expected 10 fill, but
rarely do. Let US think on these
things and indeliblY stamp 1t on our
hearts, that no amount OF culture and
ease can make amends for the lack OF
industry and thrift.
Gods good gifts are not so uncvenly
distributed we have to work fer cur
share with hands as we'll as minds. In
short, the way to be smart IS to be
smart.
The Head of the Sdneys says he
approves of the stomachic argument,
AID would like to see it operated upon
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