San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-16
SCHOOLS N SCHOOLS.

what? Pleasure, politics, dissipa.
ton, club life, sporting circles,
dress, display, society, courtship'
street MASKING, athletics, mutual
improvement societies, ct al. What
shall it be?
When at the beginning Of the
historic period that marks our
knowledge Of the human race, it
was asserted that it was not good
for the man that he should be
alone, a universal truth and one Of
world wide application was wrap
ped up in that little declaration
against solitariness. The need Of
companionship was recognized as
one Of the earliest inherent de-
mands of the man who had come
into his inheritance of conscious
feeling. The creative intelligence,
either within or without him, dis
covered that within him and an
essential part Of him which re-
quired companionship. 1t was not
good for the man to be alone, and
not being good for him the COM
panion was found for him.
What was not good for the man
was no doubt bad for the woman
for they are formed on the same So
cial lines, with the same social
needs. requiring equally compan-
ionship and association with their
kind. This necessity Of the primi-
tive man has not grown less i'm
perative with the ages. AS the
needs Of civilization have forced
man into the close ranks of society
this necessity of companionship,
this need of association, this call
for comradeship has grown with
his increasing communion with his
kind, until the social instincts have
become social commands compan-
ionship the requirements Of nature
to such an extent that the distinc-
tion between the savage and the
civilized lies largely along the
lines Of this social feeling. AS the
rise is made in the scale OF that
civilization the element Of sex
comes into play and the man is not
satisfied with the companionship
of his fellow man, but needs and
seeks the society Of his counterpart,
woman.
The poet, with a broader range of
meaning than is generally accept
ed, says that "In the Spring a
young mans fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love-" 1t is not 80
much is the spring Of the year as
in the spring of the life that this is
true; and 1t is no more true Of the
young man than it is of the young
woman. There is something in the
pulses as the period Of puberty
passes and the maturity Of the
physical approaches that impels
the young man and the young
woman to seek the society Of each
other. This impulse is at first
general rather than special, but it
Is in obedience to it that the young
man released from the confinement
Of the shop, OF the store, or the
office, or whatever occupies his
hours OF labor, dons his best, and
leaving the cares OF the day behind
him seeks his recreation in the So
ciety Of those Of his acquintances
whom he finds congenial.
Thus the Social School" takes
the place of the business one, and
the lessons learned there are O: no
less Importance. To the conclu-
sions of his observations in the
world Of business Will now be add
ed his observations in the world Of
social forms and observances. He
will find the same human nature
spreading itself in the drawing
room as in the counting room, in
the reception room as in the store,
in the little home parlor as in the
shop. He will find the same greed,
the same goodness, the same desire
to help and the same disposition
to hinder, the same meanness and
the same nobleness, the same dis
honesty and the same honesty, the
same manhood and the same want
of it.
There is an impression that it is
in the fashionable society almost
exclusively that tho enyiea and the