Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-06-10

could not sleep and could not eat. / would
lie awake nights, my muscles twitching con-
tinuously My physician called it nervous
ness of the throat and breast, and after treat
ing me for several months said that my case
or any case like mine positively could mot
used means a further increase of ef-
ficiency and that this in turn means a
still further increase of income,and so
on. The effect, then, Of increased eff
fciency with a right use of income is
cumulative for good. And nothing
truer was ever said than that the "de-
~struction of the poor is their poverty"
Poverty means diminished efficiency,
which is one and the same thing as
lack of training, of education, of de-
veIopment of faculties. Diminished
efficiency means diminished income,
which, in turn, means a further de-
crease in efficiency. And SO the effect
of inefficient and the meager income
which results from it is cumulative for
evil. Verify, we have overestimated
and do overestimate the blessing of
poverty.
A second aim in developing our
selves is that we may live upon q
higher intellectual plane. Who does
not admire the intellectually strong
man as contrasted with the intellect
ually weak man? Who would not
rather live in a land of books and
newspapers, schools and colleges?
Again the intellectually trained man
is a citizen of all times and places.
He Is than cosmopolitan; he
lives not only in all places, but in all
ages. Who that reads history and the
newspaper has not watched the con-
fict in suffering and rebellous Cuba
and lived over again in the story of
the suffering Cuban rebel patriots the
history of every war for independence,
for freedom from extortion? Who
that reads history and the newspaper
has not camped upon the battle fields
of Crete and Thessaly during the past
two months and lived over again the
conflicts of earlier centuries between
the Crescent and the Gross? Whose
are these pleasures of comparing and
epochs of the worlds his
tory? They belong only to the man
of trained intellect.
Again, we have in mind in educating
the possibility of higher
social position. And this is a pardon
able ambition. Nothing is SO bene-
fetal to a man OF a community as the
desire to excel when that desire is In
diligently controlled. Nothing is so
detrimental to a man or a community
a self-sacrifced complacency with
Indifferent surroundings.
When does the gamin of the streets
become dissatisfied with his soiled
hands and soiled clothes? Only when
he becomes conscious that his hands
and his clothes are soiled and not be-
fore. And so 1t is with men. When
they become conscious of some defect
that bars them from the fellowship of.
the best social element in the COM
munity then, and not till then, does
there exit the possibility of improve
ment.
These three aims in the develop
ment of the individual from the stand
point of self are worthy aims. There
may be many more than these three,
but I take 1t that these are not the
highest aims in the matter of edu-
cation. Let us have, instead of in
dividual happiness az the goal Of edu-
the happiness, the salvation Of
This goal is better than
5he other because the very fact of it's
being our goal means that change of
Is the individual which makes
,he whole difference between selfish
ness and altruism, between love of
'elf and love of humanity-the love of
others which is the basic principle of
Christianity.
The woman who adopts this goal as
lers will soon develop into a woman OF
broader sympathies, deeper feelings
Ind nobler sentiments. Such a woman,
instead of being the Rome of the
world of humanity, a selfish center
which all roads run, Will be q
,reat center of distribution, sending
nut upon the highways that extend
rom her into all the circles of the in
erests and needs of humanity, those
.ood things that carry with them Joy
nd gladness.
What are some of these circles into
which these highways extend and
trough which they ramify? The first
o suggest itself is the home circle.
here is no place where the oppor-
unity is greater for a woman to sac
ifice herself for others than in the
ONE. And what of the educated
roman in the home? Is it expecting
90 much of these young women, who
re before us tonight as the recip-
snts of college honors, to say that we
xpect them to make even better
ONES than the homes from which
hey come? Their opportunities and
heir privileges have been greater
nan were those of their mothers, and
hey will be recreant to a sacred trust
they do not put forth every effort to
i've to the world as abundantly as
ley have received-that is, make
ONES and social circles influential for
,e good, the true and the beautiful in
with their opportunities.
The neighborhood circle is one into
'hich woman extends her influence
" good or evil. There is a common (
sport that women gossip more than
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