Evening star., 1911-01-15
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY IS.
Schools for Defective Parents


in our youth are glad to find her adding,
"An old, illiterate housekeeper who earned
living by taking school children to board
was one of the best educators l have ever
seen. Her method was loving young people
and believing in them, confidence that
they, as rule, sought to deserve"
Probably, too, "she had good common
sense" and she "stayed by the job" as
William B. Owen remarks in recent article,
"and so she succeeded"
Mr. Dooley's Little Vans
W7HAT dye know about thin little
W wans," asks Mr.. Dooley; that ye
have so carefully reared be pavin' thin IN
the mornin' befure they got up an losin' yer
temper with at night whin ye come home
firm wurruk9 They don't know we, an we
don't know thin. Yell niver know till It's
too late. I've often wondered what little
boy thinks about us that call ourselves
grown up because we can't grow amy more.
He has his wurruld, ye can bet on that, an
tbs mighty important wurruld! Who
knows why a kid would rather ate potatoes
cooked nice an black over fire of sthraw
an old boots thin the delicious oatmeal so
carefully an so often prepared f'r him be
his kind parents3 Who knows why he
thinks dark hole undher a sidewalk is a
robbers cave? Who knows why he likes
to collect in one pocket a ball iv twine, glass
marbles, chewin' gum, dead sparrow, an
half lemon9 Who knows what his r'asons
are? They're not mine, an they're not
yeers; but he goes as reg'lar firm toptime
to marble time an fir m marble time to kite
time as we go firm summer to autumn an
autumn to winter. Faith! we know naw-
thin about him, an he knows nawthin'
about us. l can raymimber whin l was a
little boy; but l can't raymimber how
was little boy. l can call back as though
twas yisterdah the things did; but why
did thin don't know"
Mr. Dooley, being humorist, takes a
pessimistic view of the matter. Ellen Key,
a serious person, takes an optimistic view
at least of the future, as could prove if
had time to quote half the book. But it
remains for Mr.. Chesterton to defend the
family as it is Do you remember what he
says about it?
Defending the Family
THE common defense of the family is that,
amid the stress and fickleness of life,
it is peaceful, pleasant, and at one. But
there is another defense of the family that
is possible and to me evident; this defense
is that the family is not peaceful, and not
pleasant, and not at one. The modern writer's
who have suggested, in more or less open
manner, that the family is bad institution,
have generally confined themselves to sug-
gesting, with much sharpness, bitterness, or
pathos, that perhaps the family is not al
ways very congenial. Of course the family
is a good institution, because it is uncon-
genial 1t is wholesome, precisely because
it contains SO many Emergencies and varie-
ties. 1t is, as the sentimentalists say, like
little kingdom, and, like most other little
kingdoms, is generally in a state of some
thing resembling anarchy. 1t is exactly be-
cause our brother George is not interested
in our religious difficulties, but is interested
in the Trocadero Restaurant, that the fami-
ly has some of the bracing qualities of the
commonwealth. 1t is precisely because our
Uncle Henry does not approve of the the
atrical ambitions of Our sister Sarah that
the family is like humanity. Aunt Eliza
beth is unreasonable, like mankind. Papa
is excitable, like mankind. Our youngest
brother is mischievous, like mankind. Grand
papa is stupid, like the world; he is old
like the world.
1.-The supreme adventure is being born.
There we do walk suddenly into splendid
and startling trap. There we do see some
thing of which we had not dreamed before.
Our father and mother do lie in wait for us,
and leap out on us, like brigands from a
BUSH Our uncle is surprise Our aunt