New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

] had heard a good deal about these JERSEYS
and now much more beautiful they were than
other cows and how much Fiehef mix they /
gave and so / was prepared to admire this
one, because being a HolsteIn myself | had
no cause TO be enVious.
As the social leader Of the pasture. l made
friends with her, showed her all the choice
spots where the best grass grew. and gave her
trst chance al the stones where the Hired
Nan poured the salt every week and tried
generally TO make things pleasant and at
tractIVe. She told us that she had taken
pine the State Fair, and we were so glad
glad and proud TO have her with us-that we
gust stood around and listened whenever she
was through eating and inclined to talk
What interested and surprised most was
what she said the New Education
There three ways" she said. of
looking upon calf nature: the first, that
calves wholly bad, thing will
admit 81 her own calf, second, that all calves
are wholly good, which no Will believe
OF her neighbor's calf and third, that in
each calf Is a germ which be quckened
by being trained upward till the calf becomes
a liberated soul, rejecting the universe, till the
race grows and flowers and beauties itself
till Il passes beyond the apex OF bovinity,
TIL. instead OF being mere COWS We became
what YOU might call supercows-'
1t was beautiful picture--beautiful ana
thralling-the way that Jersey put it. and | felt
OF internal swelling going on in my soul she
talked.
After the Jersey had been led away reluctant
and protesting from the pasture, we started TO de-
velop our unsuspecting calves into supercows.
There only one protesting voice in the pas
rure: Whteiace. whom / had always thought 50
progressive and advanced, Whiteace, my soul Sis
ter was not with US She said she couldn't see
that il would Toe any advantage TO her little son
Norman to become a supercow.
But Whteface," ! argued, think how special
izcd is the bovine existence now think of the linn
l-ations of our education-It has only two aims:
- produce beef or milk Do YOU desire nothing
better for Your ot1spring:'
Well Miranda" She replied my name is Mi
randa well, Miranda, l don't know what else
there Is for COW do"
Do, Why, let them search for the truths of
nature: let them stimulate and facilitate their
appreciation Of life-to think clearly"
Miranda" she interrupted, would being a
surercow give Norman a chance to eat any more
grass Could he drink any more water or 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 il filling, Miranda?"
IF the soul Is saturated with 1t. Whteface."
Well. / guess l don't want Norman be
surerCalf ! can't see that II would improve the
flavor OF his cud, teach him TO tell a 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,
CBosS!'
The calves were about the right age for what the
Jersey had called the kalbergarten-such a beau
tiful idea the calf garden, like the human kinder
earten YOU know. 1t was eXating thought
eXalting and ennoblng feel that offspring
were as flowers and the Hopkins pasture only
garden Tor their development. Well the next
morning every COW but Whiteface took her calf TO
= clea- s-,9t W.. had selected and arranged them IN