The San Francisco call., 1897-04-29

to know. Work like this viii do great deal
TO abolish n taste for such books as Fourteen
Buckets of Blood, or the Butchers Midnight
Orgie'; Confessions OF Homme de Steele ;;
The Poisoned Gumdrop, or the Candy Girls
Terrible Revenge" and some OF our daily
newspapers.
LET THE WOMEN RUN THE SCHOOLS.
Let the women run our common schools.
Let the mothers go hand in hand with the
teachers. wrench the schools from politics and
from everything that savors OF politics and bid
farewell 10 the Boards of Education. In this
field women can do an everlasting good. Put
the common schools in the hands of a re-
sponsibe educational comm ission whose
qualifications are above all question ana let
the voice of the mothers he heard in the Land.
There are plenty OF capable women who
need only the opportunity OF developing INTO
''just the right person in the right place. VINO
will not countenance unfaii less or unhtnes 5,
who will be willing TO pay good ana quallhed
teachers well, who viii make life worth lly-
ing and teaching worth teaching Then Will
tine position of teacher be an honorable one
one which will give her the social position
and consequence she deserves to enjoy.
Ny paper reminds me very much OF story;
what is the name of this village. my friendf y
asked stranger. "Tarrytown." "Tarry-
town." eyes; named SO, guess, because no
one was ever known to stop here overnight IL
he could help it"
have class flied my paper under the head
OF esthetics which l have lett untouched
The beautiful must stand on a foundation OF
goodness and truth. 1t is here the teacher
pcSOllcs the hItlStr tue SA ApOucnL Vi lAO Oc"o-
tiful, first through nature and later through
art
RIpENED IN NOBLE SUNSHINE.
If the children have lived in the sunshine of
noble souls they will have received the bless
Ing, the benedictlon OF a progress that IS rear
They will journey in the direction of time
when we shall do right for rights sake when
tiny lips shall be taught 10 murmur and win
the unfoiding years gradually TO understand
George Elliors prayer:
Nav / reach
That purest heaven be TO other souls
The cup of strength in some gr at agony,
Enkindle generous ardor feed pure love
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,
Be the sweet presence of good diffused,
And In diffusion even more intense
80 shall pin the choir invisible,
Whose music is the gladness of the world
Miss Ina d. Coolbrith brought the after
noon session 10 e close with her excellent
paper, Poetry as a Factor in Education. !"
Among other things Miss Coolbrith said:
That which I have to say in this paper is
equally OF protest and appeal-protest against,
as consider them, certain intellectual evils
of the day, and an appeal for the expression
OF the higher ideals of thought Utility,
practicabiiiy, taste-tnese are the motive
powers of the day, and in our selfishness for
speed and acquisition we are daily increasing
the difficulties and suffering OF the mass OF
humanity-the laboring classes-and are
pushing from the face of the earth other forms
OF life which have just as sacred right to
their places on the globe as have we.
1t is not bur needs but our greeds that have
increased, for the root of 1t as of all evil is
gold, money getting; not philosophy, but the
Philosophers stone, is the object of general
search and the achievements of mind are
crowned with honors and reward. Nowhere
is lat felt so much SO in our literature. No
where is this felt so much as in our poetry
and poetry is the supreme flower of literature.
The race to-day does not choose its reading
TO induce but rather 10 avoid thought, hence
to secure an audience and marke the fads and
"fadayenes' of the hour, the average dialect
a
school of realis m which has supplanted those
of romance. instead of the old love idyl, the
courts of kings, the lists of chivalry, intro
duces US to kitchen interior OF the modern
home and exclaims in rapt admiration, "Oh,
how beautiful"
The poet has but small honor and less profit.
Where lies the remedy? In q return to the
simpler life. the larger scholarship, the higher
ideals OF the past.