The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-30

not being able to keep a good grip of
themselves.
once met a lady approaching mid
die age, who boosted that she had
never restrained an emotion I'm her
life. IF anything goes wrong, I just
go to pieces" she said, land every body
has TO fly around and wait on me-" She
seemed to think this a meritorious
thing In reality. It was disgraceful.
The one duty beyond all others for you
and me. Dorothy, Is to be equal to the
occasion whenever it comes, and to
rule our own spirit. How are we ever
going 20 rule anybody else If we do nos
rule ourselves?
&Iaying said this. let me add that I
looH upon mathematics very much as
the builder looks on the foundation of
the house. If you are planning to
build beautiful mansion, with many
rooms and corridors. with a tower on
the top and windows open wide to the
sunshine, you must first of all dig
deeply into the earth and see that your
undefpinning win be safe and your
foundation stable.
The whole Of education is built on the
alphabet. the multiplication table and
the Ten Commandments. On these you
may rear whatever beautiful edifice
you please. IL would be a very one
sided development that girl would
have who knew nothing except mathe-
mat1cs- Once in awhile this has been
shown in the case of some mathematf-
cal prodigy who has performed as
tOnishing feats with figures and has
done nothing else. At one end of the
scale place mathematics for ballast: at
the other give play to imagination and
then you viii have a perfectly balanced
character. Dc not make the mistake
Of thinking that there is no virtue out
side the ledger. Every child who
solves a difficult problem should be
told a fairy story Immediately after
ward as a reward Whatever else YOU
omit be sure you cultivate your mind
in the region Of poetry and fancy
A traveller was vending his vav over.
the mountains of Kentucky, when he
came, at nightfall to a cabin in a
lonely pass. He asked IL he might find
shelter for the night, and the hospital
1ty of the mountains was at once eX-
tended to him. Food and a bed and
asylum for man and beast are ALWAYS
freely given by the dwellers in those
hillside homes. Lying at full length on
the cabin floor and ciphering by the
light of blazing pine knots was a boy
Who seemed absorbed in his occupa-
ton. On inquiry, il trauspired that this
lad of Il, who had had very little
schooling, was working his own way
through algebra. patiently tackiing
every difficulty as he met it. and thus
1ar nc had almost no help. The traveller
discovered that the boy had a genuine
love Tor learning; the sort Of love that
pushes a student on whether he has
t~er or not. He was able to give
mn some suggestions, and after a-a1ile
TO put him in the way of going to coll
lege. That mountain boy became a
/ distinguished professor in a great uni
versity. proving himself not only skill
full in mathematics, but able to master
other ste dies in many fields.
Dorothy the real value Of mathemat-
les FOR you viii be to convince you that
whatever other girls have done a girl
like you may do. Also. it may help YOU
to adopt the motto of the wisest Of
men. Whatsoever thy hand fludeth TO
do. do it with thy might"
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph E. BowIes. }