The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-06-04

remain in custody and under observa.
ton until there is no possible doubt o.
his sanity, if such time ever comes
He viii therefore be taken back to Mat
teawan, unless his attorneys succeed in
gaining the consent of Mr.. Jerome tC
permit his Incarceration in one of the
other State asylums. The young man
himself evinced no surprise at this de-
cision of Judge Morschauser, but thinks
that he did not have a fair showing, as
the newspapers only printed such tes-
timony as was interesting, so he says
emitting much which was favorable to
his case, but not picturesque He seemed
to recognize the newspaper sense" OF
this, and said he would probably have
done the same thing had he been in
the place of the reporters. He APP
peared perfectly cheerful when he
learned that he was not to be given his
liberty and not at all crushed by the
news, as one might suppose. Sane or
insane, Harry Thaw probably realizes
that he has gotten off pretty easily for
the deliberate murder of Stanford
White. His money makes his confine-
ment quite bearable; his family and
friends visit him frequently, he is still
young, and, of course, firmly believes
he will be free man some day. That
Evelyn Thaw is still playing to the
gallery is shown by the dramatic reason
for the annulment of her marriage to
Harry Thaw. Her lawyers have stated
that she only brought the suit in the
first place because the Thaw family put
such pressure upon her to do so, and
that she now withdraws from the ac
ton because her husbands present po-
sition demands a wifes loyalty which
piece of business the public will re-
gard with stony-hearted Indifference, it
is feared. The truth OF the matter is
that Mrs. Evelyn is not satisfied with
, the allowance of 81, 900 which is paid
her every month, and is trying to get
control of the estate of her husband,
which she could not do, OF course, if
she were divorced from him. The
"Thaw affair" will probably now re
solve itself into a fight between the
sharp little adventures and her moth
er-in-law for good, fat portion of the
Thaw millions.
= To most people it will be a surprise
to know that many of the churches of
New York City employ paid teachers in
their Sunday schools. In two of the
churches of that city these classes are
taught entirely by men and women who
receive compensation for their labors,
and in some dozen others part Of the
teachers are paid. The idea originated
about five years ago with a few fami-
lies who were not satisfied with the
Bible instruction their children received
at Sunday school, and who conceived
the plan of having the children taught
sat home, with some competent person
hired to instruct them. They engaged
a teacher from the Teachers College
to come every Sunday morning TO the |
home of one of them for this purpose, |
and the thing worked so we'll that they
soon had more applications for admis-
sion tc the class than they could ac-
commodate. IL was then decided to
start the Model Sunday School in the |
Teachers College, equipped with SUI
perintendent, officers and teachers, all
of whom were to receive salaries for
their services and for which instruc-
ton the children were to pay SIS a
year. This Sunday school, or more
properly perhaps, Bible class, has nov
$50 members, and its success has in
spired the churches to adopt the new
idea. The curriculum of this Model
School is graded quite as carefully as
that of any everyday school, and the
interest displayed by the children has
been truly remarkable. The ptid teach
'ers connected with the church Sunday
schools receive from s. to SO Sunday
for their work, and, of course, the
children do not pay anything. At pres
ent all the paid teachers, except those
employed in the Model Sunday School,
are Bible students who intend to make
religion their lifework. and who are
obtained from the Bible Teachers
Training School on Lexington Ave, New
York. DR.. Farkhurst was one of the
first TO employ paid teachers in the
school connected with his church,
which has increased the attendance and
worked well in every respect. AT first
the idea may not strike one very favor
ably, but the more ii is considered the
more it commends itself. There is no
denying the fact that the children of
the present day know very little about
the Bible. Indeed, it is necessary 10 go
back several generations to find those
really well versed in holy writ. Since
the Bible is no longer taught at home
to any extent, nor in the schools. chill
dren have no opportunity of learning
anything about it except at Sunday
school. AS Sunday schools have existed
for many years and yet children know
almost nothing about the Bible it is
natural to conclude that the teachers
must be at fault. 1t must be admitted
that as general thing the teachers in
our Sunday schools are sweet, attrac-
tive young ladies, who have engaged in
the work either from religious zeal or
because they have been urged to do so
by some person connected with the
church or Sunday school. Their meth
DDS are usually very simple and not
particularly Interesting 10 tHe cHliureH,
certainly not very instructive. OF course,
the trouble is that these young ladies
have never studied the Bible properly
themselves, and could not therefore be
expected to teach it properly. In the
hands of one who has made an intelli-
gent study of this holy book it is made
thriilingly interesting and most impress
sive, and If, as we believe, 1t is most
important for children to study il even
more seriously than they do their his
tory or geography, should not this in
str1iction be given to those best calcu-
lated to impart it? We pay our preach
ers, why not our Sunday school teach
ers?
Will wonders never cease? Mrs.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in the
world" who up TO the present time has
lived in such obscurity that most peo-
pie did not know where or how she
lived, who went around year after year
in the same shabby clothes, who was
supposed to suffer real physical pain
when she was forced to part with
dollar, has suddenly blossomed out into
full-fiedged society woman, or scme-
thing very like ii. Mrs. Green is evil
IDENTIFY a woman who when she makes
up her mind to do thing does ii in no
half-hearted fashion, but as thoroly as
she knows how. When IL suited her
best not TO spend money her yearly
expenses would have put to the blush
many a careful manager who felt she
was not throwing away a penny, and
when, on the other hand Mrs. Green,
for some reason, concluded that the
si;ne had arrived for her to emerge
from her obseurity, and take herproper