Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-06-21


that educating the head alone does
not develop character, nor turn ont
practical and successful business
men and women, and that it il time
that the head AID hands of the ris-
ing generation were receiving equal
attention.
Why do farmers sons and daugh-
tiers 50 frequently ontstril their city
cousins in books and business when
it comes 10 q contest? It's because
they have had employment about
the farm as they grew mp which city
children cannot have 80 readily.
This exercise between school hours
strengthens their bodies, and con-
sequently their minds. Exercise,
and | maintain useful exercise, il q
necessity to perfect development.
Not gymnastics and football and
such, but the sort that somehow
helps to solve the bread and butter
problem. Had the young lawyer
above spoken of been taught to earn
his livelihood by some manual labor
before or as he studied law, it might
have been the making of him; il
would at least have been the saving
of his relations.
In the understanding have gath
cred from the years as they passed
by, believe il had twenty child
rem to educate not one of them
should be taught in a school that is
only bookish school, excepting
perhaps the country school, where
some hours each day could be spent
in chores about the farm. The risk
of uniting them for anything but
books is too great; and the hazing
banqueting and tricks that are vain
that are going on in those institu-
tions 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. It's 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 pillow furrow or shoe a horse
better than they can talk philoso-
ply or plead at the bar; who can
make loaf of bread and broil 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 live, and
somebody must do the work that
living demands. And those people
who will not lend q helping hand !,
but willingly prey on their hard
working relations, are a disgrace to
modern civilization.
The truth is. we are too ambi-
tious, too DESTROYS for easy places;
we'll do the eating if somebody else
will do the cooking; wen pay the
bills, too, if somebody else will earn
the money; we can't do everything;
people succeed best in pursuits con-
genial to them; we have no taste for
drudgery, therefore we should not
do it. This is about the smart
logic that is being practiced to the
extinction of many family. 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. it is thought, will give them
grace and culture and fit them to
adorn the high positions they are
expected to FIJI, but rarely do. Let
us think on these things and in
delibly stamp it on our hearts, that
no amount of culture and ease can
make amends for the lack of indus.
try and thrift.
Gods good gifts are not so un-
evenly distributed; we have to work
for our share with hands as well as
minds. In short, the way to be
smart is to be smart.
The Head of the Sidneys says he
approves of the stomachic argument,
and would like to see it operated
upon at home little more vigor-
ously.