The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-04

I1oW to interest CHIluTeH anu heep them interested, how to develop mind and muscle without overtaxing them. how to provide occupations that de- light and instruct and do not weary these have always been among the se- rious problems of the nursery and the | primary school, and the new science of Child study, now become the basis of practical pedagogy, may be able to solve them and so confer boon upon the world at large. Meantime we have learned that 1t Is not because of total depravity, but because of physical ne- cessity that small children cannot keep still and that it is folly to expect that they should. Perhaps this will help us to be more patient with the restless, the fidgety and the wriggly. And we might ask ourselves how we should like, | when in the midst of some delightful, expressing occupation, to be caught up suddenly and set down hard and com manded under penalty, to keep still" Oh, the misery of it!
 A BABY's INFLUENCE.
 A touching story is told of baby's unconscious influence for good upon the women prisoners in Russian jail. The jailor was Colonel ". and he and his wife had just taken charge of a large prison in one of the central prov inces. The colonel was terrible dis ciplinarian, but kind enough man in his way. His wife was gentle little enthusiastd who had made up her mind to reform all the women prisoners, This particular jail had very bad reputation, and the women especially were often in mutiny. Colonel V. got along famously with the men, but the women were too much for him, and he meditated flogging and all sorts of terrible measures. Once Madame V. took a walk through the prison yard when the women were exercising. Be hind her walked nurse. with ner baby. The prisoners. as soon as they got sight of the baby. locked around and Madame ". at first fearing v1o- fence, was relievedto find that only baby olatry was the matter. First one and then another of the women begged to hold the child for a moment; some laughed with joy. and many shed tears. Madame V. had happy thought, and she spoke 1t out. "The best conducted woman of you all at the end of the week will be allowed to tend the baby for half an hour"
 Never was a change so instantly wrought. The women became amena- ble to every word of the warders. and at the weeks end it was with the ut most difficulty that Madame V. could decide. among so many well-conducted prisoners, which had the best claim to the promised reward. The baby's visits were afterwards frequent, and the women's wards were completely re- formed.
 NOT AN ACCEPTABLE THEORY,
 The Brooklyn preacher who has ex- cited much indignation among those who heard or read of his public declar- tion that there are not now. never have been, nor ever will be, any women in heaven, will find few to accept this new and. startling theory. No followers will he have among artists who since Christian art began have delighted to portray angels of womanly grace and of feminine traits, with long, floating locks, and swirls and trails of drapery that q gentleman angel would never have been able to manage. Nor among the poets. for their word-pictures of heavenly visit ants have shown us the sweet serenity, thee dignity and compassion of a. Baat- rice as well as the majesty and power of Michael or Gabriel. And could Burns have written that most tender oe his poem ITO Marvin Heaven" If he had not believed that she was there? '-''
 The devout Romanist will not accept
 this theory, for 1t is his cherished be. lief that it is an earth-born woman
 who continually pleads In heaven the
 cause of the sorrowing, the suffering
 and the sinful. Nor any of the be-
 reaved, from whose sight have passed
 mother, wife. daughter. sister < ol friend, and whose sweetest consolation
 is found in the thought that in heaver
 the loved one is safe and happy for
 evermore. sr,
 The Brooklyn man seems to bas'
 his belief upon the fact that the Bibl'
 says nothing specifically about tn
 presence of women. In heavenv Th'
 most that the Bible teaches abou
 heaven Is found in the Revelation Q
 St. John, and in that book is found on,
 passage at least that ought to be con
 vincing. The inspired seer writes, q
 the great. innumerable multitude. Q
 all nations. and kindreds. and people and tongues. standing before the throne
 clad in white robes, with palms in thei
 hands, and worshipping God. .Ant
 when he cannot answer the anEelI
 question, "what are these and whe11c
 came they?" he is told: ..ia...
 "These are they which came up out c ! great tribulation." l Without irreverence, one may say tha
 these few words sufficiently prove tha there are women. and q very sreet muf
 titude of them aoo1 1iA .hsavsn s:.a 1, a1