The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-15

fer from many anxieties with regard
to Tom in California and Jenny in Bos-
/ ton that they might easily spare them
| selves by putting Tom at tho uniVer-
1 sity OF Virginia and trusting Randolph
| Macon to develop Jenny's talents, how
| ever rcmarkable. And there are other
lions in the path There is the enthu-
siastic neSro-worshiping school In New
| England. where Southern girls are
amazed to find black room mate.
| and, on complaining, are told that they
! ought to be glad to know such q sweet
Southern girl, distant relative of
Booker W., the most distinguished
| man in the South" find the colored
boosted of. petted made much Of and
the mere white lady distinctly snub-
! bed! There are the art schools of
Paris, with their fifty failures to ono
sicknesses, forIorn economies. terrible
exposure and homesickness: and those
of Munich. which mean the most seri-
ous privations and problematic medals
and honors; and those OF Italy. which
mean twenty years of devotion, one
! picture, perhaps, and a Dibbon. Surely
the time has come for us to take our
own money and develop our own
schools OF every kind. save many
heartache. many a grievous art
smat,erer from despair, give the best
| training to our really gifted youths
and girls.
"Do-the-Boys Hall"
Nothing Is so piteous as child of
miles or more from home among total
strangers to get an education. Even
when they are kindly treated and we'll
nourished and wisely taught (Which
is not always. by any nleans) how the
poor little heads and hearts do ache
for mother and father. and brothers
and sisters, and friends and home. and
how mysterious 1t must be to them
that an education could not be got
nearer home. The poor little In
cheap schools in Strengthened fami-
lies. bearing this awful burden! Life in
strange land IS one of the most mel
ancholy things In the world. Some
children sicken and die under 1t. and
leave in their parents hearts the life.
long shadow of little grave. Others
simply forget: and that is almost as
sad. But children cannot live and
to the young of the white race. and
that is why the poor little souls are
all packed off to England. But we are
not spurred by any such necessity,
thank God. We can keep our children
near us always. and we ought to do
it, too II we could spend one da,- in
their little shoes we would certainly
do so,
The 1000 polar Polka.
And what are the tremendous, over
OF sending our children and Young
people North. West. East. abroad--do-
ing anything with them except keep
them where they are going to live
and to die, where. they belong, IN the
south2 If there is anything that our
colleges end schools cannot impart,
our masters. pastors, teachers, gov
ernesses and tutors, It can only be
something not to be weighed for one
moment in the balance with the health
hay, oiY1f rh
In special technical preparation Tor
government service, there is no need
for doing anything of the kind Ann
we often pay through the nose Tor the
fatal ..educations" friend Of my
own sent her beautiful Young danGh-
tor to n certain fashionable school NJ
the North for three years. at s2.aoo
per annum in bills. extras" OF every
sort From time to time she wrote
her father short and most ungramnlat-
zeal French letters, signed MA .chere
papn. vo,rc toutc dcvouee Bess": she
wrote her mother in full about the
receptions and the lectures, and the
having When she came nome ncr
mother unpacked her trunk, found
huge pile of white kid gloves. big
ger bundle OF undarned stockings. an
furnished. expensive finerv and mack
age OF love-lcttnrs from the floor
walker at aleFadden's department
store. She aettled that matter most
cffectuaily. But she found that her
daughter couldn't write well-spclled,
wcll-expreased letter In English to
save her life: that she couldn't even
read her own tongne aloud TO her m
valid father IN the evenings AZ nome
without stumbling md suffering and
migrronouncing untl1 al,c shut M her
hook with bnng with toars III her
pretty eyer. And when nskcd to play.
Sic nj first ratified Off . few showX at
'cmpiF 81 "plcccg," doing considerable
"e%ccuttOn aud their In sly months
had only what her father called TINT
1000 dollar polkn" left. hc )inNinf. paid
ont that Fum FOR her music. AS 10
nhe WAS ap Ignorant as Zulu maiden
--morG 40.