Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-09-24
HEART CULTURE.
4 New Cure for All the his That
Flesh Is Heir To.


Here is another new science. Its vo-
taries call it hearticure. which is under
stood to be q word invented in contra
to manicure. Manicure, or
the culture of the hand physical. is &C.
knowledged to be well enough in its
way. But as heart and hand must
work together to effect any permanent |
good, the hearticurists aim TO begin at |
the beginning with the unseen, the in
ward and the spiritual in contradistinc-
ton to the outward and visible. Since
the hand is powerless to act, unless the
pendulum of the body, the heart, keeps
even stroke and swings in harmonious
time, they propose to open school for
the culture of the heart spiritual.
Physical culture, to which SO much
time and attention have been given, 10
considered as of but secondary impor-
lance. Why? Because the spirit alone
in man is that which animates.
It is proposed to open classes for the
heart spiritual, having for motto:
"Do as you would be done by"
Most of us know this motto by rote,
| just as we learned many Of our lessons
at school, when we crammed our brains
with book knowledge of a dead past.
which could be Of little use to us prac-
tically. The hearticurists point to the
fact that too much brain work, over
study for the cultivation OF the brain,
has always been in excess of the Gull
tivation of the heart, as is evidenced by
the heartrending headings OF our daily
press news, such as: Suicide OF an
only daughter, brought Oh by over
study" Study Of what? they ask.
Book study is the answer, a study which
will be of little value to u woman after
she has taken unto herself the duties OF
wife, mother and home. Does book
lore, does schoolroom lore, make all
that is required of wife. mother, COM
panion or friend? NO." answers the
hearticulturist; a thousand times no!
So they say let book learning be sec
; ondary to the culture of the heart. Let
: us begin in the kindergarten with the
: cultivation of the heart. Then, indeed
shall we have a new race OF men anc
I women, and our children in the nex'
generation. at least, will rise up and cal
I us blessed because we have planted the
q seeds of tenderness and loving care fol
I Others, to the exclusion of self and al
q that is gross and worldly. 1t is for III
d now. in this our day and generation
t when crime stalks boldly in broad day
: light, shamelcssly defying public veal
. seeking only its own. To what are W
to attribute all this crime, all this wick
9 eduess in high places? Why, to GU
;. own fundamental crror-neglectt to cul
It tivate the heart of the young while Il
y the nursery.
:. Let us work together, they cry, shou
der to shoulder, to emancipate geners
tions yet unborn. Let us begin no.
. also to instill principles into the heart
of our young men and maidens OF ma
riageable age which shall bring fort
ID fruit ahundantly when in the divir
a, order of nature they shall become pa
"a ents. Is it not high time to inquire I'M
81 cause, while hitherto we have only bee
al straining after effect?
, In what avails the culture OF II
ie physical body Of man that shall peril
10 and return to the dust whence it came
= Let us relegate all save heart culture
! .-y1K.Hfsse, whence it belongs. Too iol
= have so-callcd meiftraranu p ,..ss g
81 ture usurpcd the first place, the place
Y honor, to the exclusion of the cultiv
ton of the heart spiritual; too lol
have we made clean the outside of I
III platter, the external, ignoring the CT
to ture of the heart, the motive power
OF our existence.
Id "Do unto others as you would ha
er them do to you" must be imbibed wi
pc the mothers milk, instilled fre
to earliest infancy, if we would have a sc
IL forgetting racce, il we would have
dc brotherhood Of man eXemplified
Id earth. Good will bring peace to m
r. and glory to God. Solet us begin at
I'D beginning. Teach good will and pes
w. will follow. Wars and rumors of WI
it will cease. Wars domestic, wars soci
&c wars political and wars physical
IN fact, no war, no cause of war can ex
when the golden rule becomes a livi
factor in our daily experience. Chi
he 60 News.
ue Dyspeptlc Orangea.