Arizona republican., 1901-08-19

noticed they were of school age, and it was long past the school hour. I asked them why they were not in l school. when in 6 chorus they replied, Its vacation. moving week." Upon 1 inquiry I found that the public schools of the eiiy honored this savage system of yearly house changing by week of holiday in order to allow the families to get relocated for another twelve months. It seems a regular custom with many people to change their | dwelling places each May and October. It seems to ma this is a grave error.
 It must make an impression, in no wise desirable. upon the character of | child 70 remove from it all tradition and associations connected with it's early childhood home and to bring it up in a tenement building. without even an inch of ground for it to play on. ] thus forcing 1t to find it's recreation in the streets.
 I have looked with pity and compass sion in my heart upon the huge army of little fellows who make living here selling papers It seems unholy that they must have the experience Of ma ture men when they are yet youngsters. In the faces of many one may read care anG responsibility, and as, with amaz- ing agility, they worm in and out be- tween trucks and drays, or hop on and off fast rolling cars. one's heart rises and falls in sympathetic wonder ment We must admire them, they are so rugged, SO active and so clever but thoughtful person with a mothers n- stinct must also pity them. One may see gathered in a group little bands Of these waifs, where the elGest will not appear to be over l2 years of age spin de legged, hollow eyed and sunken checked. all rolling up and smoking the deadly cigarette. They seem care free and happy. but one realizes that it is only the buoyancy and animal spirits of youth manifesting itself. and thsn we are grateful that they are ignorant ly unconscious of what sweetness and life is" since fortune has decreed such strenuous life from these little men.
 But these are not the only sorrows of city life. The isolation in the midst of masses; the unneighborly spirit the every -man-for- himself tendency, and the unsociable atmosphere are all pa- thetc features in a world which should be dlctated by the gospel of Jesus Christ Then there is the poor creature out of employment, friendless and per- haps penniess. one in mighty surg ing mass of humanity, who walk the streets with the iinmistakably anxious countenanCe. meeting one disappoint- ment after another. until, not infre- quently. he ends it all by a plunge in the lake.
 l wonder if I should be doing justice to the subject of my theme did I fail to mention as objects of pity the enor- nous army of the unclaimed women who are here at the university study ing for degree. Not that they. any more than the innocent little newsboys. are conscious of the pathos of their situations It is not their intellectual activity or their chosen state of single blessedness which I lament and criti- else. but it is their Indifference to their personal appearance and matters of the toilet and in fact toward all things womanly. They are clever, quick and competent in every department of study into which they venture. In fact. the gentlemen confess it to ma that they excel. But I question. Is it worth while? Are they doing the best thing for themselves and humanity in giving up everything that is by nature dear to the feminine heart to cope with man in his intellectual race? I would never Geny woman higher education, but think that in her desire 10 achieve the distinction of learning she should look well to it that she does not sacrifice the