The Opelousas courier., 1895-08-03
Hand That Tpcks the Ora
die Rules the World"

kind. Wrapped in these words
lie hidden honeyed junction t,
feminine variety. The saying ha
passed current as inspired wisdom
instead Of a monstrous joke
Poor woman, how assiduously sh,
has rocked the cradle hopins
thereby to rule at second hand
Alas! how often the most con
scientious mothers must see theil
loved bant!ings leave the cradle
and pass on into and through life
BY paths as Numerically opposite
to those mapped out by their low.
ing hearts as the paths to heaven
] are from those to hell.
Scientists are agreed that what
we are depends on two factors
heredity and environment. W.
are born with certain inclinations
and propensities, due to the lives
Of our ancestors, and as these
propensities are suppressed or
cultivated by the surroundings in
which we live, SO developes the
human being. AS hard as it is
for vain man to admit, tits the
truth, that we are all much the
creatures of circumstances, and
circumstances too that our moth
ers control but very little. Let
ns suppose that a few women be-
gan to sing, The man who hoes
the corn feeds humanity" the
women next them repeated the
strain, then the men began to
hum it and at last the little song
became a fad and the whole world
was singing, "The man who hoes
the corn feeds humanity Then
people began to talk about it,
they said it was true that there
was no other occupation worthy
the energies of a true man, hoe
ing corn was the one sphere for
which God made him, finally it
passed into a proverb and all
men accepted it as a heaven-born
that corn-hoeing was the
one sphere wherein a good man
exercise his muscle or his
brain. The bare thought Of any
occupation was rebellion,
Eebellion against thse4Aws alike of
BOD and man. IT'S true God
pave him a mind capabfAof grasp
ng other ideas than Nose sug-
yested by the hoe eaandle. But
evidently, God had not
'hought upon the ~insistency with
which women-and men too
sing, "The man who hoes
he corn feeds humanity"
Understand, they should only
be the corn, their minds must be
b centred on the one idea that
hey should become in a manner
lypnotized so that no other idea
0uld enter.
Now much of the seed planted
night be weevil eaten or imma-
ure, but that was not their bust
less, their sphere was to hoe corn.
hey could not help sometimes
why the stand was so
l0or, and when the Woelen came
and bent the young growing
orn downward they were prone
3 ask questions, but were sum-
told to shut up their
ninds were too narrow, too one
deaed for them to understand
re logic of these things. More
'yey, if they did their part right
J they were blameless as to re-
So the noble workers
worked away and never was corn
'etter worked. But alasf When
larvest time came owing to poor
eed there was a short crop and
gnen the women went to harvest
I they were negligent, left open
re gates and allowed the beasts
7 the field to destroy much, the
!lrrs of the air took off a good
leal, and theslazy women did not
lalf 90 their Muty, SO much was
e1t "a the fESd to rot. Then a
Ireat cry went up from all. the
children of men crying
rs bread.
Now the wicked women did not
slen the men to realize how neg
cent they had been in planting
.Aseased seed nor how careless
oey had been in harvesting the
sops, SO they cuddled them up
s1sn 9 soothing aattery -" You
.oaidnt help it, some corn is
'oolld to be imperfect, it is not
Yar iault, you did your part we'll.
s95 y y our fault either; il God
! nis wisdom sees ct to send FAM
"a On our land we cannot blame
'alselyes for it, we must simply
IN ~ the will Of Providence.
they saddled off their own
xs.ss on the shoulders of the Al
1n's REQUIRED year after year