Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-02
Both Experience and Observation

Dear MISUNDERSTANDING written each month
since the beginning OF the new year. l viii
venture TO- call again before me close q
corner IN which may chat a while. cor l
wish 10 say in response TO Kitty Wells COM
ments that the little poem. L nfoFgiVen.
anything thar I had read for several years
ms Bible not excepted.
Alma Green gives Us a sensible letter IN
rezard 70 raising q wearing brass
iewelry By those who have no personal in
eerest IN the subject Those who DO not want
Is wear such ornaments are free 70 leave
them IF without meriting any special com
uleEdRtion. while l. would De- a matter OF
selr-ienial to those who have a "hankering
after such things
wish 10 say that there are doubtless many
things both in her native state and the state
ok her adoption that she has never SEEN Tor
fury IN the common schools OF her native
state. this scribe mas met many parents who
are hy no means anxious 10 give their children
an education whatever In TACT there are
many Who keep their children out OF school
sinaply TO spite the teacher. OF their neighbors,
While others allow their children TO RUG r..
wfld'' for no other reason than the disinclt-
nation o. the children 20 90 10 school
There may b. some communities where
there IS no crying need for compulsory
edacation. but even here Il would De no
disadvantage. since il would impose no hard
ship upon thosC who are really doing their
besz. and Il might be the means Of reaching
ngrnity The objections 10 education-compul-
sory or otherwfSe-that / presented last sum
mer were such are frequently urged ~
parentE themselves and II Mrs Xix viii
return to her native state and bear me CON-
ranv for a few months 1 will Introduce hsr
q some Of each class represented. for their
name Is legion: then IL she does not agree
that compulsory education is the crying need
q the times I am much mistaken
Same urge that IL would be a great mari
shin for poor family who can scarcely teeu
AMI cIOthe their children at home TO be com
.ueIled 70 send them 10 school TO be laughed
mt BY those who are more fortunate tnan
sore trial sometimes for there are many among
the refined class who are guilty OF such
conduct toward those whom they regard as
their interiors; but the child's future pros
poets should outweigh a little morufcation
nj presert and. as a rule the child who wears
plain cloths and lives on plain fare SURPRISES
the one reared in luxury.
Experience and observation has taught one
woman tuat parents are. indeed. self-denying
creatures. but while many viii make the most
uuheard Of sacrifices for their children $
health comfort, animal pleasures. or ca
rrfce they viii sacrifice nothing TO their eou-
rsffcnaI interests They want them to have
nice manners and mingle with refined people
hut give no heed 70 the true refinement when
elsnnses the heart purifies the mind and ele.
Yates the whole life
-lle gives US a good letter on the Importance
81 Christian education but II she lives 70
fhe axe Of threescore and ten she will learn
. that Il q much easier 20 tell parents their
dr-y than 10 get them 70 do ft-and teachers
ar about the same kind OF material How
ever / win forbear for the present, since 1
might get a-going'' and never stop
- VERA NOBLE.