The Monte Vista journal., 1898-01-01
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that she did not believe in clubs. The
women were reading books and the
men were not reading anything, and
this inequality would make trouble in
the family.
do not know of more than one
strictly literary club of men in Colo
RADIO. The growth of the study OF
books by women of Colorado is more
remarkable and worth more than the
| output OF gold.
MIR. Huxley says child learns more
In his frs, seven years than ever after.
In those seven years he is more with
his mother. 1t Is well that she knows
the best that has been said and written.
George Eliot would now sign her name
to her own book.
The first kindergarten In Indianapo-
lH was in an old broken-down shack
Of house that poor white would not
move into. The kindergartens Of that
city are now altogether comfort to
the eye and heart. The recognition of
n child's worth and rights is of slow
growth, bu, /, grows. The recognition
Is almost strong enough now to stamp
out and stamp to death child labor.
I As one indication of what we are
coming to, consider this-the program
of the oratorical contest at our State
University. The subjects note are
these: william Lloyd Garrison" No
young man in any university would
have chosen him in 1850. He published
the Liberator. He said what was true.
that the constitution of the United
States recognized slavery. He had
these words standing at the head of his
paper: THE constitution In league
with death and n covenant with hell"
Suppose he We're alive now and looked
at the shape of things In this country,
what would he say: l venture to say
that no young man would take him for
subject. No more than he would take
Altgeld. Bu, 1t is something and means
much to recognize n man so soon after
he Is dead. 1t has taken France all
this time to put away her Napoleon
and take her Joan dare. The peasan:
girl who wanted 10 go home and tend
her sheep and spin was tormcnted and
roasted. not by a newspaper, but by "A
bishop. The witch has become a hero
and n saint.
! say hero advIsedly. ms do not say
| saintess or authorcss. There Is no sex
In courage or goodness or invention.
There is no such word as actress. Why
don't you say doctressI Garrison was
fortunate. lie lived in time when
things moved. The next subject l note
Is ''Savonarolo,' another anarchist.
Another is Victor Hugo" whose grent
book has been put out of a public H.
brary Of an American city by some
chump Of a librarian who weeps at the
grave of Martin Farquhar Tupper The
next is 1.-The Ideal Of the Twentieth
Century" This orator and not oratress
has been reading Looking Backward"
And then follows Government Owner
| ship" This young man has been pois-
oned by socialls;ic literature and the
| poison works. And then I note Wen
dell Phillips and then TRUSTS"
You perceive what these young people
of our State University are thinking.
This means mOvement-bettcr years TO
come-good new times.
We cnnno, utterly break from the
past. We ought not. In the family
Bible between the Old and New Testa-
ments, there are "A few pages devoted
| to the family record-nnmes, dates Of
birth. marriages and deaths. But there
Is no break between the Old and New
Tcstnmcnts. John the Baptist begins
where Malachi left or The ten com
mnndmcnts survive. Moses was n
great help TO Henry George.
| UHu VI IIe new Ill OIu--
old In the new. and prophecy of the
as the days go on.
As TO the individual. he cannot on the
1st Of January Gu; loose from his past.
There is something Of herediiy. bu;
nothing | can make any good OF.
am not going TO blame my grandfaih-
cr for my defects. The whole art Of
living is TO hold fast that which IL
good. We can lc, go some things bad
or worthless.
a young man came home Friday
night and said the people ON the street
seem TO be more polite than usual. He
turned n corner sharply and ran into
somebody and said: Il beg your par
don" and the other man said: 1T was
my fault" Ordinarily he would have
said: what are you trying 10 dog"
The chinook" is blowing-thc warm
wind. The peopl. are friendly-aii
people. sat Christmas even and
thought Of the millions who were wish
ing well one 10 III. other. | thought OF
| the people In the dugouts and ut sea.
and OF the Gordon lilghlanicrs In In
dla. II Is n good time and n kindly
one. l like the dinners for the poos
children. II IL no, everything, hut a.
Is something TO make one happy for n
day. The warm wind blew my way
yesterday. and ! wen, 10 sleep In char
ity toward all mnnkind-cvcn gam.
wnrdcns. Bui ! am not satisfied I'll
every child has n good dinner :,i, days
In the year We wish one another kind.
ly wishes nt least two days Of the year.
There Is great power In n broken wish.
My words shall not return home unto
me. said the Lord-neithcr do yours. II
we have attained In on" week OF good
cheer and fricndilncss. why no, nifty
two weeks. md so make ls9s u year
OF our Lordi
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