Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-06
CONFIDENCE CORNER
Human Gardens and the
Workers There.
BEGINS AT SCHOOL
SOMETIMES THE GARDENERS ARE
NOT APPRECIATED.
q Plea for the Spending of the Next
Two Months in Touch With
Nature.
Written f.r The Evening Star.

Written f'- The Evening Star.
Tomorrow the doors Of knowledge will
kwfrg open and the cIan2 of the school ben
Will b" heard in the Land.
If one might be in a position to look
down on mundane things. | imagine the
earth on Monday morning would be de-
scrih.d as a co!nrful moving garden, in
which all the LITTLE flowers of humanity. the
Roses and Daisies and the Sweet Williams
and Johnny JGnp-I-p were all scurrying
ard hurryiEg, as though before a frolc-
some breeze, edJy-rg at This corner, diyid-
Ing Al that, coEvorging here. separating
there and drifting gain hither and yon un-
Ill Il bunch h&d been Jeff impart:ally, at
every wide, inviting door.
The fancy might be carried further For
once inside the school room The heart and
brain Of the child are subjected to ANALYSIS
no less minute than the totauist applies
to the stamen ana petal OF a flower. just
how much OF the dew of learning one may
absorb, and just what soil another needs to
insure It's fullest strength, and whether
shade or shine mast fall upon another
L would duf my Tam p'Shanter to these
gardeners of the word, The bonnie, brave,
bright schpnlma'ams who leave the hills
Just when they are putting on autumn
glory. and the SEA when II il beginning TO
reflect more beauty thdn II ever borrowed
from the summer sky - 20 charrfuIIy back
10 the noise and tumuit OF the town that
they may SOW ~ the open minds Of men
to-De the - IDS fuT the harvest of by and by
] should like 10 start u movement for the
greater appTeciat on Of school teachers
i have called them the gardeners Of the
world. But they are the treasurcrs. For
they have in tE%ir keeping the children OF
the land; AMI children are the heart riches
vi the universal family.
Every woman does not think TO say with
COrreli5 that her children are her Jewels"
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mayron or her gallant sons But deep in
hsr heart she knows that all other loves
must bow 10 the divine passion Of her
motherhood, IS the eleven sheaves bowed
down tn One on the dream fields Of Canaan.
think some ore may take .Ssue with me
here Il may be 1 stIII have to prove my
statement. And / can DO ii by all the eai
mothers that live, Some good and tender
women who look Well to the sr!rltra1 ar5
temporal needs OF little people may rate
mother love next To one other. but they
are not the women who have felt the seek
ing lips OF babies on their breasts. Old Ma
ture keeps one primitive quality and ono
alone, with all her cultivation. And down
IN the heart Of every mother. whe. ner sh,
happens 10 be "A gentle lady or a tawny
tigTesS, ere Is u spark of Sayagery still
Anything that mjures her child is bound
to feel the stroke Of VCngtan"e Ard I
often wonder why it is that any one who
benefits her child. say, Tor instance the
school teacher. does nOt come In for a
like portion OF reward!
Home-Trainipg Bad
II must be admitted ;hat there are some
children whose training at home has been
defective. and whose society is not an un-
mixed joy to their teachers. In fact, al
though i hate to acknowledge the truth.
come small persons are the dwelling places
of large-sized imps, and the labors of the
teachers who have to drive out these bad
spirits should not be as lightly considered
they seem to be. There is more being
learned in the sunny rooms of school than
books can convey. The quiet and orderly
hours are fraught with the wonderful ill.,
fuences OF silence: and the children sun
flowers, who sit facing their goddess of
day, are directly under the influence of her
soul rays. What she shines IN to them is
OF more Importance than any of US may
estimate, / am sure. do not know what
the sun gets from the earth except rain
SaBd our dusky planet yields that like an
Indian giver). But benefits are reciprocal
In every scheme of life, and It Is just pos