The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-18
DOES EDUCATION PAYl

The following has been gotten up by some one who values education and is Iciipped From an exchange: DOES AN EDUCATION PAYf | Does it pay an acorn to become an oak?
 Does it pay to escape being rich Iignoramus? Does 1t pay to it oneself for supe- rior position?
 Does 1t pay to get a glimpse of the joy of living?
 Does 1t pay the chrysalis to unfold into the butterfly?
 Does 1t pay to learn to make life a glory instead of a grind? Does 1t pay to open & little wider the door of a narrow life? Does 1t pay to add power to the lens of the microscope or telescope? Does 1t pay to know how to take the dry. dreary drudgery out of life? Does 1t pay to taste the exhilaration
 of feeling ones power unfold? Does 1t pay rosebud to open its petals and fling out Its beauty to the world?
 Does 1t pay to push ones horizon fur
 ther out. in order to get wider out look, a clearer vision? Does 1t pay to learn how to center
 
 one's mental force effectively7 Does 1t pay to have expert advice and training, to have high ideals held up to one in the most critical years of life? Does 1t pay to acquire a character wealth, a soul-propstty, which no dis aster or misfortune can wreck or ruihl Does 1t pay to acquire power 10 get out Of life high and noble pleasur es which, wealth cannot purchase? Does 1t pay to make lifelong friend ships with bright, ambitious young people. many of whom will occupy high places later on?
 all the lessons that history and science can teach as to how to make life lhealthy and successful | Does it pay to become an enlightened citizen, able to see through the soph- istries of political claptrap and vote tintelligently on public matters? | Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsprings for watches Ithus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold? Does 1t pay to experience the Joy of self discovery, to open up whole cCn- tinents of possibilities in ones nature
 which might otherwise remain undIs- lowered?
 Does it pay the sculptor to call out
 from the rough block the statute that
 sleeps in the marble, and which shall | tell the story of heroism and greatness
 to unborn generations? Does 1t pay to have ones mentality
 stirred by the passion of expansion, to l feel the tonic of growth, the indesorib- able satisfaction which comes from the Iconsciousness of perpetual enlarge ment7
 Does 1t pay to have your years filled with the most delightful associations with cultured people. at an age when ambitions and high ideals have not
 been dulled or shattered by disappoint-
 ments, or the unbounded faith in hu-
 man nature shocked by violated
 pledges ?--Orison Ewett Warden in June
 Success.
 It Is a significant fact that though | there were in Porto Rico the first
 school year during American occupa- | ton only 800 public schools with 25,000 Ipupils-surely a goodly number to be- gin with--the public schools which opened there in September numbered
 LOOT, with 60.0o0 pupils. The demand | for education increases with the march of civilization though the march be
 through blood. One of the signs of the times Is the rapidly growing interest on the part of woman in all educational
 affairs. And 1t becomes a more and
 more responsible interest they are talk ing-and an interest which received more and more recognition from man and mans government.
 The school laws of Connecticut pro- | Nid ethat any woman Of voting age may cast her vote upon all questions concerning the schools, whether it be | to appropriate money for new build ings, to provide supplies or to elect lschool officers. 1t Is said that when this privilege was first given to wo- men they filled positions on the school boards and school committees, but that recently they have not concerned them