Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18

about two weeks old, a Jersey
brought to the Hopkins pasture for visit
| had heard good deal about these Jerseys
and how much more beautiful they than
other COWS and how much richer milk they
gave, and SO l prepared to admire this
one because being a Holstein myself | had
cause to be env1ous.
AS the social leader of the pasture, made
friends with her, showed her all the choice
spots where the best grass grew, and gave her
first chance at the stones where the Hired
Man poured the salt every week, and tried
generally to make things. pleasant and at
tractive She told that she had taken
prize at the State Fair, and we were so glad
glad and proud to have her with us-that
just stood around and listened whenever she
was through eating and inclined to talk -
What interested and surprised most
what she said on the New Education.
There three ways, she said, of
looking upon calf nature: the first that
calves are wholly bad, a thing will
admit of her own calf second, that all calves
are wholly good, which will believe
of her neighbours calf; and third, that in
each calf is a germ which be quickened
by being trained upward till the calf becomes q
a liberated soul, rejecting the universe till the
race grows and flowers and beauties itself
till it passes beyond the apex of bovinity;
till, instead of being COWS, we became
what you might call supercows.
1t was a beautiful picture--beautiful and en-
thralling-the way that Jersey put it, and l felt
sort of internal swelling going my soul as she
talked.
After the Jersey had been led away reluctant
and protesting from the pasture, started to de-
velop unsuspecting calves into supercows.
There was only protesting voice in the pas
ture: Whteface, whom had always thought SO
progressive and advanced, Whiteface, my soul Sis
ter, was not with She said she couldn't see
that it would be any advantage to her little
Norman to become a supercow
But, Whteface," argued, think how special
lied is the bovine existence now think of the linn
itations of education-it has only two aims:
to produce beef milk. Do you desire nothing
better for your offspring?"
We'll, Miranda" she replied (ny name is Mi
randa)-"well, Miranda, l don't know what else
there is for cow to do"
DO? Why, let them search for the truths of
nature; let them stimulate and facilitate their
appreciation of 1ife-to think clearly"
Miranda" she interrupted would being a
supercow give Norman a chance to eat any
grass? Could he drink any water sleep
any sounder in the shade of the chestnut-tree?"
Learning Whiteface, lays hold on the substance
of truth that nourishes the spirits far above
material food
Is it filling, Miranda?"
If the soul is saturated with it, Whteface"
Well, l guess l don't want Norman to be
supercalf. l can't that it would improve the
flavor of his cud, teach him to tell burdock
from a plantain III be content if he grows up
to have just ordinary calf sense, and knows
where to find the best grass and goes quietly
along the road from the pasture to the barn,
and comes when the Hired Man says: c. Boss,
C'Boss!'"
The calves were about the right age for what the
Jersey had called the ka1bergarten-such beau
tiful idea the calf garden, like the human kinder
garten, you know. 1t exaltng thought
exalting and ennobling-to feel that offspring
were as flowers, and the Hopkins pasture only a
for heir Wall no