The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-05-29
Echoes of Woman's Clubs
Chaimen Of Committees invited to freely use these col
We wish frequent reports from
every Club in the State

every -
ed for the use of the people, these
buildings will show the influence OF
woman's acceptance of her RESPONSE
bilities and her cooperation with the
professional educator. The two forces
working together will provide for
the child those means of growth and
development which will help him to
arrive at his full estate, and, by his
increased intelligence and his ability
to apply it to all things great or
small, to exemplify the truth of the
doctrine that real education is Life. -
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THE THINGS THAT REALLY MAT
| TER.
A young woman artist submitted a
design to periodical. After due
consideration the design was returned
with a courteous note suggesting
wherein it was defective. Instead of
being disheartened the girl tried
again and when returning the modi-
fed design to the editor wrote as
follows: Papa used to try to train
us to look below the surface to the
essential things beneath that really
mattered and sometimes the reason
why design is not accepted gives
me an idea. could not have learn
ed in any other way. / don't think
that any artist who really loves her
work can afford to neglect an honest
opinion or criticism from any one
who has had experience
Wise father! Fortunate daughter!
What better thing can a parent do
| for a child than to teach him to care
for the big things of life and to
| brush aside as he would gnats what
! might easily become nuisances and
| burdens. A prolific source of trouble
is the disposition to magnify trifles.
| have seen a breakfast table trans
formed from peaceful company into
warning camps over an issue which,
when simmered down to it's real pro-
portions, could hardly be seen with
the naked eye. 1t may have been as
small a matter as the question wheth-
er certain neighbor wore a silk or a
derby hat on the previous Sunday. |
have known communities to be
equally excited over as diminutive an
issue as to whether the school teach
er ought to choose her own boarding
place or to accept the place to which
the authorities assigned her. I have
known churches almost rent in twain
over the question of introducing new
hymn books or changing the hour
OF certain service. And | have
known multitudes of individual lives
that have grown narrow, weak and
grabbed because they got into the
habit of confusing the non-essential
with the essential, the trivial with |
the important, the temporal with the
eternal. After all, the things that do
not matter are pretty inconseuuen-
tial beside the things that do matter.
For example:
Clothes and food do not matter.
OF course, we must dress decently
and in good taste and we must have
sufficiency of substantial, palatable
food. But the frills and the fancy
dishes are not worth enough to justi-
fy spending long days over them.
Imagine Socrates or Marcus Aurelius
or Emerson or any other great soul
much concerned over the size of his
wardrobe or the number of courses
at dinner. Recognition on the part
of others does not matter. No one
need despise popularity, provided it
has not been attained at the sacrifice
Of ones conviction, but if we happen
to be left out of this or that evening
company, or if nobody pays any at
tention to the good things we think
we have done, why should we sulk or
tune?
Whether or not we have our own
way does not matter. The proper ,
'ngoing of the universe does not de-
pend on our little schemes and am
'itions coming to their realization.
We may stake a good deal on them
ind believe it would be vastly better ,
or the home, the neighborhood, the
'hurch, the state If they were carried
tut, but maybe we have distorted
Jew of our own Importance.
What does matter then? Our ,
york matters much. 1t is of supreme
Importance that we should do the
lays assignment faithfully and :