Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-22

learn TO select foods suitable TO our
conditions and least harmful TO our
bodies But this education is slow,
and tuition is expensive. Many OF US
die before we really learn how TO live
in a purely physical sense.
The art of living has been called
thought so as to take in mental. moral,
and spiritual living, il becomes the
finest of the fine arts. 1t assumes
celestial splendor If we could only
master few rudiments of this art.
Some one said only yesterday, IF
ii wasn't for eating, how much pleas
ure we might have" One half the hui
man family, the female sex, spend
perhaps half their time preparing
food, or in labor pertaining to it. Well,
We must eat.
But what about the other side OF our
family life. our personal relations to
our most intimate friends, dwelling
under the same roof, our husbands,
wives. children? How much time and
thought do we bestow on these rela-
tionships Do we earnestly strive to
SO conduct ourselves in these relation
ships that both our associates and our
selves shall develop finer characters.
more Iovable dispositions, more no.
BILE aspirations, holier affections? And
this is not selfishness, for the home is
the foundation of civilization. and its
overflow determines the color of the
stream.
And our toll, TO what end is it? In
whatever department of human enter
prise do we labor only that we may
amass wealth? Then We starve every
other principle in our natures. We
may furnish our abode ever so magnif-
icently out of the proceeds of our
business, but if we think mostly of the
display as an evidence Of our wealth
then it is not home. Our own souls,
and those of our loved ones, are poor
ly fed We should balance up the "a
ton.
And this includes sympathy with
and charity towards the unfortunates
who may be about us. Relieving dis
tress is one of the sweetest spices
We can mingle with our daily food.
The bone and tissue il nourishes will
stay with us on the other side.
DO you know the world is dying
for a little bit of love-"
So in the state. We have civil dut-
les. There are two extremes; we may
devote ourselves TO politics, or We
may neglect them altogether. In eth
er case the ration does not nourish
a sturdy patriotism. OF course, a GER
tain number of persons must give
their time to public affairs, but the
tenure is limited In a few years they
fall back among the people whence
they came. And we are learning by
some bitter experience how dangerous
il is to the health of the body polite
TO allow those persons unlimited lniiu-
ence in public affairs. We need some
wise craftsmanship to compound for
US a balanced ration, politically, that
shall nourish in us a pure unselfsh
patriotism, a love of civic righteous
ness. and awaken in US a tender civic
conscience. We have political dyspep-
STA, and the case is urgent.
And, again, in education. We are
running altogether to specialization.
Evidently the specialist does not have
balanced mind. He may learn one
thing quickly, and do it we'll. but that
is all. When that one thing Is done
he is out His conceptions Of truth
are obscure. perhaps enron ions, and
he is untitled for the noblest work of
human intellect, the apprehension and
the love of truth.
For, truth is many sided. and must
be viewed from all angles. A truth
half perceived. and imperfectly under
stood. is not a truth, and may be a