The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The young people should be given these
opportunities when they want them,
and they are likely to want them when
the best time exists for them. If such
desire is manifest, people will DO well
to improve it. lest the desire pass away
to the detriment OF all concerned.
Young people soon grow TO an age
attend college. This one and that one
have said to me that they were now too
old to go, more, Judge, for the looks
of it than for any sense of increasing
age and mental stagnation. The sue
cessfuI scholar never ceases study till
life itself ceases
But many parents urge they cannot
send their young people to school oW
ing to depressing debts and business
pressure Debts are troublesome, es-
pecially chronic debts, yet many d par
ent. if he waits till free from debt be-
fore sending his son Gr daughter away
to college. will never send them. Better
to remain little longer in some debt,
and give the toung people the adyan-
tages OF culture when it is best tor the
them. when they Will take it, and are
of the flexible, receptive age demanded
for best studentship. Debt is trouble
some, yet should not alarm one SO
! nan, frIU
whom parents are responsible to Heav
Ell the faireSt chances TO make the best
! of themselves.
Along with accumulation of proper
| ty which to the average Anglo Saxon
is SO charming, the parent should be
eager to put a fair share into the head
and heart of his children. The public
schools do not offer scope enough for
all. and such as would be likely TO uSe
well the advantages beyond such
schools should be sent to college, even
though property would be more slowly
accumulated. One is better started In
life, as American life is now. If there
is given him college education rather
than a farm well set up and stocked.
Said one Of my students to me not long
ago. "a quarter section: I'd rather
have d college education than sixteen
quarter sections
For after all, man with ali his mani
fold powers is the supremest object Of
attainment Better be a man than
millionaire without manhood.
/ If education is neglected too long
the young people are likely TO get
fastened in business of one kind OF an
other, and so miss the better thing-a
we'll developed mind Such business
complications or start in profession,
or too early marriage, is likely to take
the place of an enlarged education if
parents neglect sending their children
to college. The average young Amer
lean of either sex thinks much of
getting started early in business, but
, often regrets in later life that he did
, not remain longer beside the Pierian
spring and drink deeply from it.
, Said business man to me not long
ago-"If l were young | should do
: differently from what did. | grew
up in Illinois, the country was new, and
schools and colleges few and poor, and
l wanted to get into business. But
ought to have gone to college anyway"
But now white haired man, only
commercial traveller in his old age, he
felt he might with more cultured pow
ers have done more ana better. Now
and then, we will, under such circum-
= stances, say that he had no chance to
S get an education. But colleges are so
p common and schooling costs so little,
that anyone with health, grit, patience,
and purpose can get a thorough educa-
tion.
:, Parents would often do well to get III
f. debt if need be to educate promising
:, boy or girl. Most business enterprises
are started and carried along through
credit means and good investment
d both for money and manhood could
: thus be made Better than store or a
G farm or stockyard without debt is a
. highly educated brilliant son or da@gh-
ter though debt has been contracted to
: educate them. Next to God the grand
y est, mightiest thing in this mundane
4 universe is a man. But crude, material
. gold can be changed by the alchemy OF
;. mind and study into character that ls
q eternal. to exist parallel with GOD hlm
3. self.-The Kingdom.