The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-06-19
USEFUL Things
SHOW CULTURE
Editor Tribune:

LulLOf 1TlDuu6.
Since the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary the world has had
its reformers-honest, Conscientious,
guiltless men and women filed with
desire that constantly burned to
make the world better and the men
and women who lived in it happier.
But, we are sorry to observe, they
nearly all begin at the wrong end!
Nearly every girl born into this
world, and every normal, healthy girl,
expects to get married some day-for
marriage is the full blown flower of
manhood and womanhood-and yet,
few girls prepare themselves to as
sumo the duties and responsibilities of
that relation. AS the flower of man
hood and womanhood is marriage, so
the ripened fruits of it are children.
! Our educational system is all wrong,
and our ideals are heller SHELTER and
all awry If the flower of life is mar
riage and it's fruitage a family-then
the important thing for mankind is a
| thorough preparation for the great
| work-the sumum bonum as it were
of life. Man differs from all the other
objects in creation in that he is a self
cultivated self-pruned product. We
perform this operation for every other
thing worth while.
Reading and writing and arithmetic
are good. But an inseparable concom-
liant is hygiene. And today we hear
cries from every side to do away with
drugs. But drugs are necessary sc
long as we continue our present meth.
DDS of living, and education. Today
we worship the book, any old book
it is bound. We build Libraries, fl
: dissipate our substance in languid i'm
agination sprees-probably psychical
ly more deleterious than whisky o.
morphine. But we do not live, nei
:. Their do we prepare to live. And to livt
I and prepare to live are the true ant
S proper bases of life and education
e Every woman expects to preside owe
d some househOld-every man expect
! to be the head of a family. And nei
S Their serve a substantial sensible ap
premiership. And this Apprenticeship
being the most essential thing to lif
and living it should be universally dis
: seminated. See the thousands of vic
n Tins of atrocious cuisine seekin
e nepenthe in narcotics, intoxieant:
S laxatves, stiptics and other drugs
II Hundreds of women rushing into tn
) sacred portals of marriage withoU
y any knowledge of its most essentia
II duties-why, they couldn't boil waite
/ without burning it! And her ignoranC
e turns this life that should be one {
o love, and trust and heaven int
IL grinning, horrid monstrosity ths
would make of hell a pleasure plac
Bad housekeeping peoples the jail
: of the domestic arts makes sinners {
e saints. A man with a sour stomach
4 bound to have a sour temper. A prof.
n erly prepared diet would sweeten bot
6 The city council has appropriated $50
for the city library and expressed i
r self as sorry that it wasn't more. Ha
it thrown that money into the sea
were better expended. Had it adde
n thousand dollars to it and establsl
II ed a domestic science department
Y. the public school, future generation
h out OF a fullness of peace and happ
u mes that comes from theories mate
= ialized into properly prepared artic
II of nutriment. would rise up and blei
II them.
! Educate and cultivate are very d.
is ceptive terms. Some people imagiI
that reading any old thing, or slmpI