Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-31
NUMBER 27.

One day. as ! sat thinking the mattel
lover. my little grandson came TO Sc.
me, and shook hands and asked mt
bow / was. as is his daily custom.
said. ..Bub. aias you most big enough
to go to school2n He stepped back and
looked me steady in the ere for q
moment and said. Il can't button up
my bwitehes yet. o. no, pretty
good; that settled my vote.
/ remember when was q little chap
and went to school down in old Con
necticnt. Every simmer the people
would hire some woman TO keep school
during the summer months and every
child that was big enough to walk and
talk would be sent to school. and it
was the duty of that teacher to take
care of all those little tots. / can re-
member seeing half dozen of those
babies lying asleep around on the
benches. aud those teachers were paid
one-half week. and board around.
just think, twenty-five cents day.
As | thought of these thousands of
young folks that are now being edu-
Gated and who viii in few years take
the places that are now filled by older
persons. What will be the influence
of all of those men and women?
Where will they all find work to do,
and what kind of work will they do?
It makes one feel the need of good
moral training as we'll as a good busi-
ness education. Taught to obey as
well as to govern, aud when | think
of all the helps that are being brought
to bear upon the morals of the young.
my fears aud anxieties vanish like the
dew of the morning.
How often have had the question
put to me, lis not the world growing
worse and worse?" When you take
up a paper and see so many accounts
of all sorts of crimes committed every
day aud almost every hour. it does
seem as though the world could not
get much worse. But when you take
into consideration, that we hear from
all parts of the world. and from all
the millions of inhabitants and that
every crime is hunted out and then
see so many things that are good be-
ing done in all parts of the world 1t
does not seem SO bad. No think the
world is getting better and better.
People are learning TO make the best
of life and the circumstances under
which they are placed. Make the best
of your lot whatever that may be.
One morning at the school hour,
Charley and were driving past one
of these great school buildings, and as
We came in sight we saw two rows of
children, row of boys on the right
and a row of girls on the left march
ing up the steps to the school room.
A lady stood at the top o: the steps
and they passed her. the boys on one
side and the girls on the other; each
child walked with their hands clasped
behind their back. We stopped to
look at them. We sat for some time,
and still they came and we could see
no end to this column. So we drove
on, / do not know how many hundred
children there were in that school, |
but suppose about four or five hum
dred, aud what kind of world would |
this be If all the little tots were swept
away at once, nothing but grown folks
left. Well, well. / love to see the |
little folks; yes. love the little tots,
and | love to see the young enjoy |
themselves for time flies FAST. and it
is SO short time before those same
boys aud girls are grown up.
By the way. as we were slowly walk
ing along the pavement one day look
ing at the beautiful things in the big
show windows. l saw some lovely
roses aud other kinds of choice fow-
ers in tall costly vases aud right
among them a lot of golden rod.
just stopped and looked at them It
made me think Poor relations. mix
ed up with the rich folks. and yet
those came poor country flowers held
their heads just as high as those rich
roses. and they did not blush blush.
I tell you they looked real respectable.
., it's not all gold that glittersl
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