Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-14

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WINCH U,ncrs prov Iue.
1nc eAIs,oilve OF women OF This type
IorHiS one oi The most unpleasant ana ulI-
MIioIcSUiie features oI modern HE. IL
amy one Is 50 am OF VISION as To Idil 10
see what :. Thoroughly unIOVIly creature
S-iCll II woman Is 1 wish they wul;.l r,;,u
Judge Robert GRANT novel ''Cnle.,Veneu
Bread, ponder seriously the character
ol selma. and think OF the late that
MouHi sareiE overcome any nation WINCH
otNtloped lis average and TYPICAL woman
NC untrue 10 say that TINS type exists only
IN american novels. That IL also exists
III taneflcan life Is made unpleasantly
GNlocnt by the statistics as 10 the dwmd-
ing families in some localities 1t is
ntauc evident in equally sinister fashion
~ me census statistics to divorce
witch are LARRY appalling: for easy di-
Hoi'e Is now as II ever has been, Il baue
" any nation, Il curse to society, Il men
uVt 10 the home. an Indictment to married
tuhmii,aptiness and to immortality, an evil
e Wis fd Tor men and a sull more hideous
~ lor women. These unpleasant ten
utleies IN our American lite are made
tNdtnt by articles such rs those vhjc,
| attually read not long ago in Il certain
p'.pci, where a clergyman WAS quoted
seemingly with approval, as EXPRESSING
,he general American attitude when he
S"iu that the ambition of any save a very
rlch hien should be to rear two rhiI.irn,
only. so as to give his children AN nnnor.
UNITY to taste Il few of the good things
OF life. " ''''''SS
ms man whose profession and calling
should have made him Il moral teachrr
actually set before others the ideal nnf
ot training children to do their dIltv nor
Of sending them forth with stout hearts
ana feIcy minds to win triumphs for
themselves and their country not of al
lowing them the opportunity, and giving
them the privilege Of making their avn
place III the world but. forsooIh. of keep
~ me number OF children 50 limited
that they might taste a few good
Things. The Way 10 give Il child Il fair
chance in life Is not to bring it IN in lux
ury. but to see that il has the kind Of
training that Will give it strength of
chaflcter- Even apart from the vital
question of national life. and regarding
only the individual interest of the chill
dren themselves. happiness in the true
sense is Il hundredtold more apt to come
to amy given member of :, healthy Family
of healthy minded children. we'll brought
up. we'll educated. but taught that they
must Shift for themselves, must win their
make their own positions of usefulness
tii'tn II Is apt to come TO those whose
parents themselves have acted on and
iE,Nc trained their children to act ON. the
selfish and scrdid theory that the whole
md OF life is TO taste Il few good
things
The Intelligence of the remark is on :,
Par with Its morality. for the most rudi-
iIltnt'lA mental process would haze
shown The speaker that if the average
family i'll which there are children con-
tanned but two children the Nation us IL
whole would decrease i'll population SO
rapidly that i'll two or three generations it
W'uid very deserVedly be- on the point OF
extinction, so that the people who had
would be giving place to others with
Drawer and more robust ideals. Nor
EouIu such Il result be in any way regret
table; for a race that pructiCcd such doc
strine--that is, a race that prncticed race
SlNcldc-Would tn ,rcby conciiiSiVey show
That 1t was unfit to exist and that it had
better give place to people who had not
forgotten tn" primary laws of their being
TO sum up then, the whole matter is
simple enough. If either Il race or an in
d!Nldiat prefers die pleasures of mere
ef"rtless ease. OF selt-Indulgence. to the
infinitely deeper, the infinitely higher
pleasures that come to those who know
the toll and the WEAKNESS. but also the
JOY. IF hard duty we'll done. why, that
race or that individual must inevitably in
the end pay the penalty of leading il life
both vapid and isnoble. No man and no
woman really worthy of the name can
care for the life spent solely or chiefly in
labor. Save in exceptional cases the
prizes worth having iii life must he paid
for aud the life worth living must he 4
life of work for Il worthy end. and ordi-
nall!N OF work more tor others than fOa'
ones self
The man is hut Il poor creature whose
effort is not rather for the bctterrnent of
his wife and children than for himself:
and rs for the mother. her very name
stands for loving unselfshness aud self
ahncSation. and in any society fit to OK
fSt. is frnueht with associations which
render it holy
Tho woman's task is not easy-no task
worth doing is casy--hut in doing it. and
when She has done it. there shall come to
her the highest ana hottest ioy known to
mankind, and having done it she shall
hhVc the reward prophesied in Scripture:
for her husband and her children. YES
and all n"opl" who realize that her work
lies at tho foundation of all national hap
rln"SS and greatness. shall rise up and
ca'l h"r blessed.
Preceding the President : speech. Mrs
Srhon delivered an address in which she
spoke of the 'ChildrCn of the Nation
She spoke at length of the aims of the
organization and OF the problem to be
met by the United States IN educa ton of
children OF un-American parents, declir-
ing that the public school is il strona, Fac
tor in incorporating them into the body
polite. referring to sectarianism in
schools, Sh" advocated Il simple code of
moral instruction that would be accepted
10y all faiths. Mrs. Schof said that the
greatest work that can he done for the
children is to organize parents associa-
tons i'll every school with the purpose OF
study of all Que stions relating to child
and home. Mrs. Schoff said there ar.
serious conditions prevalent throughout
the country which are tending to under
mne high standards of marriage Regard
ing conditions in Utah, she said that in
over 800 of the 606 schools OF Utah the
Mormon religion WAS taught. The lives
OF Mormon polygamiSts were studied by
the pupils. The lives of Washington.
Lincoln and other great men in the