Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-16

justice and common sense alike demand
that the necessity for them should diminish,
as the value of preventive over reformatlVe
work is understood.
1.-The sympathy which does not result IN
action is mere sentimental emotion, and
our soul growth demands that We shall
express our loving thought in service OF
some kind. Cultivate sympathy in your
and make them morbid. Like all other
great truths, it is best taught by example.
Children are naturally sympathetic: look
ing from my window one day on the eve
of a summer departure 1 saw two little fig
ures going slowly down the path and care
fully sprinkling something as they went
Upon inquiry at luncheon as to what they
were doing the eldest replied, oh, mamma.
we We're sprinkling bread crumbs SO the
poor little ants won't get hungry while we
are away
MANY heartbroken. lonely men and wo-
men suffer much before they attain
unto the joys and sympathy with and Of
service for others, and this they might
often have been spared had they been
encouraged TO think of others in their
childhood.
eff we could only know all that little
child feels and thinks we should be so
tender, so considerate of them We hurt
them in a thousand ways, we grown-ups;
we SO absorbed with own point
Of view we cannot see theirs, and some
mothers and fathers never realize the full
need for sympathy until the baby hands
or skirts with which all parents are famil-
lar and the baby voice has passed for
ever from earth. and there remains only
that unending Juggling at the heart strings
which we call vain regret.
Eight years ago made the plea at the
first national congress of mothers that this
work should be for all regardless of race,
color, creed Or condition, and / still hold
the conviction expressed then that ignorant
parenthOod Is the greatest menace which
shadows all the nations of the earth today.
l do not mean ignorance of Greek, Latin,
higher mathematics, literature or any of
the many attractive forms in which learn
ing appeals to us. but ignorance of those
things which vitality concern the child's
well-being.'
japanese First Secretary.
AS The Stars report closed yesterday Mr..
Eki Hioki, first secretary of the Japanese
legation, was speaking as the representative
of the japanese minister. Mr.. Takahira-
His subject was Conditions Affecting the
Children of Japan
He said that his mother died before he
could have any recollection of her, but that
his observations had led him to entertain
the highest regards for motherhood its
duties and pleasures.
Though social and political conditions were
upset by the revolution of 1868, when the
Samurai stepped down from their high es-
tate and mingled with the common people
and western ideas of civilization and educa-
ton were adopted, the high principles of
courage andeducatiOn that prevailed during
the feudal or Samurai age have never been
abandoned.
An address was delivered by Mrs. Wilbur
F. Crafts, who spoke of child life along the
Mediterranean and in Egypt and Palestine
as witnessed by her on a recent Sunday
school cruise.
When the convention adjourned the dele
gates went in body to the Capitol where
a wreath of laurel was placed at the foot of
the newly erected statue of Miss Frances
Willard in Statuary Hall. card accom-
panying the offering bore the words I'm
loving memory of Miss Frances E. Willard.
from the officers and delegates of the ma
tional congress of mothers at their ninth
annual convention, Washington, d. c.,
March is. 1906"
Leading Social Event.
{ The leading social event OF the congress