Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-28

hausted to make much racket wher
released, 80 the houses where they live
are "kept quiet"
Among women I have known, the
one loveliest where many were lovely
had little book learning. 1t is moi
what she knows, but what the woman
is that makes her charm. This one
kept household accounts with exact
ness, wrote pleasant letters, spelled
perfectly, wrote a readable hand. She
knew that the verb must agree with
the nominative, and the nose is not ar
organ of speech. Her voice was sc
sweet I hear it yet, though years have
fed since it was hushed in eternal
silence. She lived to old age, and tc
the last the banner over her was love
yet she never heard of the differential
caculus, nor knew that man is mag
nifcent efflorescence of protoplasm
1t is urged that every American is a
possible president; that he should be
we'll equipped, many-sided person
equal TO any fortune, and 80 on. True
but do not forget that our greatest
..-"the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of time'-
had what would now be called q
meagre education, cared nothing fol-
books, and was without a library. II
is doubtful if any one of our chiefs
walked through the Valley of the
Shadow of Dante while schoolboy.
Few are born great, and if great
ness is to be achieved it will not be by
piling books at the top of ones head
till brains cannot move.
President Lincoln taught us that il
a man loves learning he will have il
though he live in a wilderness.
If your boys tastes are not scholar.
ly you may make him miserable try.
ing to force a love for learning. He
will 90 through the books, and the
books will 90 through him there is
no assimilation. You cannot change
his nature any more than you Can
make your Rose of Springs smile on
old Cresus, instead of signing her soul
away to Romeo waiting in the shad'
ows.
There is no reason why our little
people should be bound under the
same rigid rule as the heads of the
Flathead Indians; why 80 should
learn what perhaps six will need. As
the English say in their straightfor.
ward way, if your son is to be trades.
man give him a tradesman's educa.
ton. The man who under happy stars
might excel as an architect or ma.
chinist may be a poor lawyer, and sen.
fenced to it because his father was bred
to the law and there was judge some
where among his ancestry. ,.-----.---
The founders of our free school sys.
tenn Il hope they rest in peace y little
dreamed of the latitudes and longi.
tudes that would grow out of their
idea of sound English education ac-
cessible to all; or as General Grant
sensibly wrote, "Every child in the
land can have the opportunity of
good common school education un-
mixed with sectarian, pagan or atheis.
tical tenets." Their idea has been
elaborated into a toilsome course sap
ping the strength of the strongest.
German, Latin, music, drawing and
studies whose names I do not know are
brought in.
A girl of II, who determined to do
or die, said to me with effusion, 81
want to know-just everything" At
last accounts she was making eyes at
a handsome youth who may rescue her
from impending lexicons.
After all, what are our children be-
ing educated for2 The boys are to be
breadwinners-that is decided. They
must hurry through and "hustle for a
living" The girls-let US believe it
are the future homemakers. The word
helpmeet is obsolete-left behind with
the woman who made Eden Paradise.
Constantly the question is being
brought up, "Shall this and that be
added to our public schools ?" But
who asks, "Can the scholars endure
any more ?" They have no protest
nor petition; they must stand like hu-
man vessels ready to be filled to the
brim with mixtures of facts. / plead
for childhood of the soul as we'll as
of the body, for the free air, the bless.
ed sunshine, the moderate task ended
at the school house. This night young
heads are leaning. against their moth
ers, tired as no. young things should
ever be, and it is a sorrowful sound to
hear child waking from what might
be the sunny slumber of light heart
beating to healthful music TO ask in
troubled voice, "Do you think l can
make the pass grade ?" 1t is said that
they like to 60 to school. Yes, and
they would like it twice as we'll if
there were half as much to learn.
Many children have known but not
one who loved study for its own sake.
Companionship is what lures them.
Instead of wandering up and down
the wilderness of wintry facts let them
loiter a while among the dear illusions.
The Happy Valley of Childhood is but
narrow, where the golden water bab'
bles to the talking bird and the singing
tree, where the sun always shines and
the years are summers. They who
adjust the load that presses so heavily
on the springs of life have much to &C
count for.
Boston has been shaken by solemn
protest from the city physician against
the ruinous manner in which children
are overworked. Not the orphans in
factories, nor the poor in the tene-
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