The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-08-31
PLAYING WITH CHILDREN.

girls of the high school age DE SpedN-
ers at the meeting of the New York
city branch of the Vassar Students
Aid Society at the Hotel Astor re-
Gently. The speakers wers kinder
gartners from other cities who are
attending the international Kinder
garten Convention. They declared
that it was important for young girls
to be brought more closely into con-
tact with chiltren in order to develop
that quality Of 'nurturing something
else" which "is the highest attribute
@. human nature and to free modern
girlhood from 'h,hat convenuoaailty
which is the bane OF young women.
Incidentally two of the speakers
criticised the college method OF TO-
day, though from different points OF
view.
Mrs. James Hughes, OF Toronto,
told story to illustrate how help
less many young mothers are in the
face of their babies needs.
II visited often in certain mouse
where there was a baby she sald'
"and one day l get down on me
floor and played finger game Win
the child. The next time | called,
the instant the baby saw me ne selzeu
NV hand and ratte,, the floor, as
peremptory reminder that | was 10
sit down and play the game again.
Now. that mother didn't know how TO
he child with her child. She was
charming, and she loved baby dear
ly.-but she'd never learned to give
it what it craved."
Touching on the question OF col
leges. Mrs. Hughes remarked tnat
great deal was said abG.lt the de1ec'
tive education C women. but she be-
iieyed the education of men was just
as defective She thought that COZ
lege training and curricula tendeo
too much to the material, were TOO
:nuch shaped to the sole end OF CIV
ing the student a vocation.
But Miss Bertha Paine, OF the
School of Education at the Unlver-
sity of Chicago, took the opposite
view.
81 believe" she said, that the rest
lessness which SO many college boys
show along about their sophomore
wear is due to the fact that they hnd
SO little in their work that is con-
crete. Sometimes l think the most
valuable part of college life is the
MANAGEMENT of fraternity house,
things of that kind that come incl
dentally. The poor boy gets that sort
Of discipline in his home lie and
work. The one who is better OH ire
q1ently doesn't
The election Of officers of the so
ciety took place at business meet
ing held early in the afternoon. Those
elected were: Mrs. Charles w. Stlm'
son. president: Mrs. Charles E. Pot
ter. treasurer; Miss Mabel Mcmahon,
recording secretary, and Miss Edith
Deane, second director.-New York
Tribune.
TWELVE REASONS FOR LOVE.
Do you love? Are you going to
marry! 1uTu !Ou AtooI 6A'S - A
sons for your love.
A recent authority on love and mat
rimony says: Don't marry unless you
can take pencil in hand and write
down II substantial reasons for low
ing that particular person.
Can you give II reasons?
| Love has not reason nor does 1t
listen to reason. 1t is to be doubted
II the happiest married couples in
the world could give II reasons for
marriage or II reasons why that mar
rage has been a happy one.
A man married because SHE is
/ trim and dainty. becau-e he is lonely
and she mothers him, because she
can sew and keep house, because sac
makes him feel a comfort 10 himself
and to mankind, because she IS the
one woman in the world to whom
| he can confde his sins and fears,
his hopes and ambitions without feet
/ ing like fool.
A woman marries because he has
a nice smile, because he sends her
flowers, puts en- her overshoes, takes
care of her. has heart or brains which
appeal to her, because he needs her,
because he magnifies her virtues and
oyerlooks her faults, because he is
the only man she knows who can
enter the very garden Of her soul
without trampling flowers.
But where are the TWELVE SUB
| STANTIAL REASONS?
Love bears burdens without feel
ing them, but love does not reason.
What has tangle of curly hair to
do with reason? Yet it may have all
to do with love.
What has the power of a pair OF