Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-25

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ours in literature with no Shakespeare.
Milton. Dickens,ss Tennyson, Victor
Hugo or George Eliot! These coun-
tries have not only left us an heritage
in the past, but are still enriching us
through their universities, advance
ments in science, music and literature
Of these reighbors across the ocean,
England is in closest touch. IN reality
our "mother-country. !" Having the
same language forms medium Tor
closer relations in trade, and social
intercourse, and for interchange of
thought in our literary sphere. Thus
are both countries benefited.
In days of last century, the home
life of our people in the south closely
resembled that of England. They had
their estates handed down from one
generation to another. We Of this
day experience little Of such life, and
| am not sure that we have wholly
advanced in that line. How much we
lose of all the associations that would
fill place that had been the home Of
our parents and grandparents. con-
tlnuous years. Thus thro' all the old
countries the traveller feels that he is
in a "place where history has been
made
Of another difference, with margin
as our gain, one has written: ''The
American woman and the English
woman are products of two exactly
opposite conditions Of civilization. In
England the being to be looked up to,
the being for the woman to sacrifice
herself to, is Man, and the root of the
evil, and it is an evil both for man
and woman, is deep. He is the heir
to a title, the heir to large estate,
and a person of great Importance from
his birth. American woman is just
the opposite of her English sister. In
the eyes of any state in the union a
girl is of the same Importance as her
eldest brother, if she gets no more
she certainly gets no less from her
fathers estate than he and she can
scarcely estimate the advantages of
| her freedom"
1.-The thing the American woman has
| to be most proud of is that she has
made her mark upon the old and con-
servative civilization (of England).
English women have looked on in
wonder at the comfortable intimacy,
the agreeable friendship, and the
helpfulness Of one American woman
to another, and they are beginning to
copy American manners"
We boast of our miles of railroad
and great variety of manufactures but
are not proud of the. accidents, with
loss of life and limb through these
agencies. During the last year the
per cent was much greater than in
England. "Where England had only
six head-on collisions in the two years
19O4-5, we had ITO in the one year
1867. They travel slower but more
safely.
About year ago, an article an
peared in one of the magazines entitled
ga Murderous Country" with the
following startling sentences; Judge
Thomas of Alabama states that in the
year 1906 there were 118 homicides in
the United States for every million
: of population. In Germany there
were but 4.6 to the million in Canada
= 12.4; in Britain 8.4. The proportion
; in the United States is larger than
: in any other advanced country The
2 reason he gives is that the people Of
D the United States have not beer
f properly taught respect for law
k human or divine AS if this were no
v bad enough Judge Thomas furthe1
n declares that 1.-THE murder rate il
d advancing in this country
S We feel that our number of suicides
f is too great but statistics place us ia
n down in the list here, (and we prefe
e to be down than up in this instance)
Y All European countries noted, excep
Russia, Ireland and Spain, have
+ greater per cent than we. But our
v is too many and one writer says
: There ought to be more of the Spar
:. tan Americans of to day, more powe
v of resistance, more strength to bea
q burdens, more courage to face disaste
r. ana apparent defeat. In too man.
J. homes the disciplining and trainin,
J. of the will are forgotten, boys an
e girls grow up as if they were to b
k masters of their own time and condi
8 tions We need fewer pleasure
,r seekers and more soldiers.
f. In this connection the question come
j.: to us, do our American youth have as
10 great respect for their elders as thos
n of other countries? Might not Chin
1T and Japan teach us a lesson here
e Have the children the respect fo
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