Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-04

/ AUlIIN nuNHOI HuDOI NiAlNAAttH vi
OF Nature Joy IN this generation
naturally creates CORE
sponding philosophy OF nature. satisfy
Ing its deVotees. doubtless, even though
a bit superficial Two notable utter
ances have, OF late. associated garden
Ing With an inner impulse making Tor
the moral bctterment OF the Man with
the Hoe. Lord Rosebery IN his speech
| opening the local flower show at era
| mond, created one Of those graceful IL
| lusluns In language which quite bellies
| his sad personal disclaimer OF AN ig-
I noranCe Of flowers. And our own Prot
/ Bailey chairman OF the country life
| commission. crowns his report with a
| pastoral on the future Of the rural
church which makes up In earnestness
what the report may lack IN beauty OF
| expression. IL is true that these two
declarations have many points OF d.
vorgencc Lord Rosebcry ls fellcitous-
I " saying the pleasing thing before
| friends and ncighbors whose hower
show Us quite as much intended as an
occasion for genial gossip AZ for an cx-
h,bltion Of plants and fruits. our Up
lft commission, however. IS IN grim
earnest all tho way through It's lam
gunge Is that Of the horticultural eXhl-
billion, not that Of the modest flower
show But tho conclusions Of both the
lonely nloupher Of the sands and OF the
practical head OF the experiment sta
ton are almost IDENTICAL as TO the in
trnsic moral inylgoration which the
garden cvokcs.
The Two Grant and Meade. after
Opposinr crossing the river. cstab-
Armies. llshod Their headquarters
near a deserted house
whose neglected fields overlooked the
ford. At l:l5 y. M Hancock and War
rem having met with no opposition Ia
their advance 60 the heart OF the will
dcrncss Grant telegraphed Tor Burn
side, whose Ninth corps was stretched
from the Rappahannock 90 Manassas.
TO make forced marches until he reach
ed Gcrmanna Ford There BIS great
reason 10 believe. il seems to me. that
he should have brought Burnside up
nearer before the movement began. For
as II was, his men we're nearly marched
to death TO overtake us; and as re-
suit, they we're altogether too tagged
out for the work they were called on 10
do the morning OF the second day. The
same criticism, however, can be made
on Lees failure TO bring Bongstreet
within striking distance. Though. 20
be sure. he did not know whether Graut
would cross the Rapidan at the fords
above OF below him; II above, then
Longstreet was just where he would
have needed him | have always sus-
pected that Lee feared a move on that
lank more than one his right. for there
the country was SO open that ne could
not conceal the paucity of his numbers.
as In the Wilderness.-Mor Schatf, in
the September Atlantic
Mothers His mother, who from
Part In the first co-operated 10y
Education. ally with her husband in
this unique educational
experiment, sought successfully to cul-
tivate the boys imaginative side. While
his father was infusing into him the
scientific spirit, she was making him
acquainted with the delights of Alice
In Wonderland" Mother Goose" and
other tales and rhymes OF childhood H.
listened to them he read them for him
self with all the intense eagerness Of
the ordinary child. and he remember
ed and interpreted them with rare
facility and with wealth Of original
detail, Before he was three he had
memorized many OF the simpler verse;
and as he grew older he developed
pronounced talent for elocution. Thus,
by the time he had reached the age Of
six, when il was decided to send him 10
school, William james Sidis was men
tally far In advance OF other children of
his years. Nor did his health appear
to have been Impaired in the slightest
by the process of Intellectual discipline
to which he had been subjected. Phys
ioally he was as he Is today--a robust.
sturdy lad, Astounding i'm energy, fond
OF games. ever ready for play. There
was absolutely nothing in his appear
ance 70 indicate that he differed I'm any
way from the average boy OF six. Ap-
preciating this. Mrs. Sidis, when she en-
tered him at the nearest grammar
school, thought she would say nothing
about the preliminary home education
the boy had received. She merely an
swered the usual questions about his
age, place OF residence ETC. and then
left him at the disposal % the school
authorities, who informed her that Ia
would be placed In the first grade
From an article in Success Maya zine"
In which n. Addlngton Bruce calls at
tention 10 remarkable experiment in
education.
Picnic All the vacation. all the real
Groves outdoor recreation, almost,
Passing. that hundreds of thousands
Of good, honest. hard-work-
ing Americans get out OF the year Is
had at the picnic grove. IL il 20 that
weather-worn pine table in the grove
that thousands OF as good women as
any I'm our country must go FOR taste
OF someone elses cooking, the taste
that Is so good after a year In the
kitchen, II was at the picnic table
that "A great many OF our proudest clti-
zens learned how 10 properly use knife
and fork. The picnic grove Is the SUM
mer camp, the roof garden, the seaside
pavilion, the summer hotel OF more and,
II may be, better Americans than ever
go 10 the real summer camps, the real
roof gardens and seaside pavilions and
summer hotels. Yet they are passing
away, II would be the part of good
sense Of sound Americanism. for US to
remember that as a people. We cannot
afford 10 turn our backs upon the old
fashioned picnic grove, but must pre-
serve Il along with our other parks.
When We realize this. perhaps we will
also see through the delusion, no less
silly than grave, which Is responsible
for the shameful conditions that effect
| uallv paddock the great public parks
against ninety per cent N the public
Recreation
| Tariff II is All nNer-for the
/ Revision present Ihc President
| downward. asked FOR substantial re-
vision downward" he
gots unsubstantial re-
/ vision downward. But Il Is downward;
| az least We know 10 Is in some respects.
and guess q rs ON the whole Many are
/ the Wisc-acrCs who perceive how much
| more the President could have accom-
| plished IN some other way We cannot