The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
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where we can go and sit and observe
the street cars that stop at the corner
one every twenty minutes from 5 In tho
morning to IL at night.
Not day in the past month but what
we have noticed from two or three 10
five or six fine ladies with babes in their
laps a single car in the late after
noon and not servant in attendance
This is the healthiest sign we have
seen in twenty years and the prettiest
sight we have looked upon since we
saw own dear wife with her first
little babe. We said ten years ago that
the day would come, we hoped before we
died that the possession of babe and
the crown of motherhood would be the
greatest honor and the most sought after
than anything pursued by women and the
thing most honored by men. To see
! these mothers as they getting to be
seen, with babes in their laps, gives a
promise for the future that could not
have come while the care of the babes
was left to Servants" If there Is any
thing in the raising of children or In the
first Impressions made upon them, then
this care by the mothers is a good sign
and should grow, and 1t must grow, or
| the world and life is nothing. 1t were
better that man had never been made II
the care and instincts of motherhood is
lost to the world. We have seen many
a gloomy day in the past few years over
| the statement that statistics show an
| increase in crime and criminals, but
surely nothing else could be expected
! IL the care Of children is to be
turned over to Servants There has
! been too much dependence on servants
| to care for the babes and then to trust
the training Of children to the schools
An honest expression has been hard to
get on either Of these questions. especial
ly the schools. Men as we'll as women
nave been disposed to depend upon schools
and 1t became such a popular idea that
politicians kept in the popular trend more
IN FEAR of losing votes than in confidence
OF the systems that have been upon us.
Now. | am willing to risk all my con
ceits on the assertion that a great ma
jority Of people have come to look upon
our school system, especially as 1t is in
the country. as damnabie system. Per-
maps country and town VIII agree to this
with scarce dissenting voice
but the blight is broader than the rural
schools and because of this dependence
Of parents upon others for the training
of their children They have tried to make
farmers at their schools, and they have
tried to learn girls to be housekeepers
at them, and they have proposed to turn
out mechanics there. MY observation is
that the training received in this wav has
been more a drawback than a help.
y young agriculturist came into our
settlement a while ago who had gradu-
ated with high honors in some of the
states, and he has done good by Impress
ing few young men OF the settlement
that upon their fathers farm, rather than
at these schools, is the place to learn
useful and practical lessons in agriculture
This young graduate that l speak of did
pretty well so long as his old
father sent him money and i'm
PIGMENTS and horses and wagons
and would come over once in a while with
twenty-five or thirty hands to catch him
up with his crop, but when he had broke
the old father with his Experiments he
soon began to cry out that farming was
4 failure on the poor lands of Georgia
and would have movc2 west If he had
oeen able to go
The last time / saw this educated"
armer he had come down to an old-fash
oned two-wheeled cart-the only thing
us father had left him that would not
Ell lie had On a load of marketing
nat he was hauling for another fellow
'heh the axle of his old cart broke and
fopped his load fat in the road He
vas sitting on rock by the road with
rs head upon his hands in a deem study
'hen me and Brown approached him.
nd ne informed us that his college train
lG had learned him no way out Of such
Il emergency as he was then in-broks
own IN the road and miles from a
hop. He failed to be able to figure out
ow he was to go miles to shop and
eep cattle from eating Up his load while
e was away
Brown smiled and 1 smiled.
we mad never been inside a college ia
III HVes, but in less than thirty min.
res we mad cut young pine saplfng
aHe new axle pried UP the wagon
ld got on the wheels and the Young
an was on his way again. He never
turned to our settlement The next
ne we heard of him he was in the leg
azure crying out against trusts fran
lses and the ''unearned increment" We
ar that he is doing pretty well nov
ice he has nothing to do but talk. but
VIII ever remain an impression to me
d Brown of the error that lies in de
nding upon others or upon anything TO
I'm your children in the way they
ould go
md isn't it funny to all old people that
Is nave to so ava yfrom home to learn
useileepirg? | pity the Door down
dden man that gets one OF these girls
wife. Nc such training can instiu
o girls the practicability of life IF
y could all marry millionaires it womb
but as the wife of the average man
y would never fit. ! pity such girls
: the poor man that may get ore and
babes. poor things. they need all on,
y AS rule. the rich girl or the rich
ing man, can afford to be A fool b,t
sure a curse and a thing to he sor-
'ed over that any poor people shouIa
e !nstilled great notions that none but
rich could meet the expenses of,
nd they teach the mechanics TO-
if you will visit the negro COLLEGES
und Atlanta you may this training
is greatest perfection. But when vol,
e gone among them and sounded tho
Tents, You will find that as a rule thev
no idea of becoming the workmen Of
future They expect to he IMAM
RS, superintendent" or. if falling
his, they will go into politics or into
olution of the problems" and make
not in many an old town tonieht.,
many other nights
1t started out to praise the heaIthful
and the sweet sight of seeing 60
y mothers on the street cars WITH
own little babes. These motber.
nave no fear that perhaps thew will
trouble in securing a seat so,ra
~ hat