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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-01-05

Buy your oysters from McAboy.
SOC a quart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
nlt in lasting benefit to the Omaha

suit in lasting benefit to the Omaha
schools.
Having once determined on his course
OF conduct, he was adamant. No fac
tons, no persuasions, could bulge him
Everybody found that his yes and no"
meant just precisely that. Those who had
been continually complaining began to
look at things from the broad Davidson
point of view. They were sure they We're
right before complaining, and then they
took another look.
Moreover, the harmony in Omaha lasted
during the entire seven and half years
OF DR.. Davidson's SUPPLEMENTARY. His
years OF service in Omaha were years of
good fellowship, years of uniting all in
terests. He became very popular. The
children loved him, and he had the re-
spect and confidence of every parent. He
was in constant demand as speaker al
public gatherings and banquet boards,
and he was invited into the principal
clubs of Omaha
His cooperation in public affairs other
than school matters was sought, and he
responded without becoming involved in
politics or in local wrangles
And when DIR. Davidson received the
call from Washington-which came to
him entirely unsolicited-the Omaha board
OF education unanimously protested
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suit of classical studies in the high
schools?" he was asked.
L stand for a balanced course of
study. he replied "One that combines
the practical with the academic work.
do not believe In the overexaggeration
of the Importance of the classics as
studies. Those of us who have had a lot
of Latin and Greek and have realized
their great assistance. both directly and
indirectly would very likely take them
again II We We're to repeat our college
course. Whether or not to start the
study of the classics in the high schools
is a question of individual preference, in
dividual capability and individual tastes.
The matter should not, of course. be left
to the immature judgment of the pupil
entirely. The elective courses are deSir-
able because the parent and teacher can
thereby map out a course for the pupil
more nearly adapted TO his needs than
was possible in the old days when cut
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of the year she married a plain, every
day employe Of mercantile firm. q man
with just ordinary shoulders and . Sc
rlous expression OF countenance, she says
he wasn't another, only a friend Of hers
But it gave one a sort of uncertain feel
ing about II, because IL seemed a. II.
even under the most innocent and up-
right intentions, you We're liable 70 Ana
Another tucked away.
1t seems to that this tendency to
better yourself 20 frequently usres
things up almost too much.
OF course, there are cases where n n
woman remains married she 10 liable to
stop living. either by means Of slow
starvation or club, and others whore
the husband has an unbeatable tendency
TO fiirt his eyes at Lottie Kickytoea or
Name Manicure or the young lady who
manipulates the typewriter in his once
and hates the sight of the boss. bur
needs her job.
l said an unbeatable tendency. I mean
by this that by the time his MIN co,,id
get him cured he'd be dead.
But You take just the ordinary sftu.-
ton. where life has become insupporta-
BILE and yet people go on living QUITE
comfortably. 1t seems to me that h.rs
this thing OF disseminating thu marital
relation 70 overdone. 1t seems IN ~
that when one of us enters that relation
business TO stay there
There are no ordinary circumstance,
Oh. of courSe-I had forgotten that or.
cumstances are always extraordinarv
and different from those Of anybody else
who ever lived on this beautiful 1rasn
earth.
But You take II even then, and sunnos-
ing that you do better yourself -,
much indeed, and that second hushsns
of yours is ever SO much nicer than tha
first one you got 50 tired of, DONE vo,,
think you paid rather a high price for
him?
Copyright, 1911, by Charlotte O Roxe..,
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Futile and Useless.

JAMES cREELMAN. at a dinner in Ma
J York. said OF an opponent OF civil,
service:
IF this man had his way. he would
render our civil service boards "A fut,,a
as the career Of Tom Slack
Tom Slack was q lawyer. but doubt
noon he decided to take a breaSv e.
ride, so he put on his door:
Back In two hours
ION his return he found that som. ana
had written underneath:
What for""
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ieves in Three *H's" and Three "Ps" of Education

or the department of superintendent of
the National Education Association. The
latter meeting is the greatest in Amer
lea of those engaged in supervising and
administrative work
DR.. Davidson is also an author. He
was editor of a series of classics and
school readings and he is the author of
history Of the United States in use in
many of the western schools. In spite of
the many calls on his time, he manages,
he says, to keep up a course Of systematic
reading.
My special tastes" he continued, ARE
history and the great masters of litera-
ture. l think Sir Walter Scott is my
favorfte author 1 also very fond
of Dickens and Shakespeare, and have
read them a half dozen times. l fire.
quently see boys who remind me Of
David Copperfield and other characters.
Emerson Is also very interesting to me-"
What are your ideas about the pur-
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Society. He has been a member Of the
board of directors of the Omaha Humane
Society and has helped organize bands
of mercy among the school children OF
Omaha
Il recognize in Washington a great or
portunity, said DIR. Davidson in con-
clusion. There is a field here for a
superintendent of schools to work out
plans and methods that will be worth
while both for Washington and for the
whole nation. The schools of Washing
ton are high grade now There is no
reason why they should not be models,
including the subject of schoolhouse con-
struction for the whole country. The
country is looking to Washington for
such standards But every one must
work together to bring this about and
thus give to the capital OF the United
States the finest public schools in the
world
Copyright, 1911, by Giles Russell Taggartl
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about normal; out the prODd-
III bility of our remaining married
after becoming SO seems to be
on the decrease.
And one Of the reasons, I think, why
this Is the case is that we are prone to
think that we might do so much better
next time.
You take any woman with a common
or dry goods box variety of husband, a
man who wears a number ten shoe, a sew
enteen collar and a six-and- a-half hat,
or one of those sweet little pets who but
tons his collar on to his Adams apple so
1t won't slip up over his chin, and when
this woman notices one of her friends
going around with a nice new husband
who has broad shoulders and shiny blue
eyes with a sparkle in them and who
keeps his muscle in condition hustling on
the Job she is liable to become discon-
tented.
She looks at her friends husband. all
prinked up and spruce and pretty and
perfectly alive. and then she gazes dis
gustedly upon the showroom. job-lot
contraption that led her to the altar.
How silly I was" she says to her
self. why on earth didn't l wait a
while and look around in the larger CEN
tiers of population or almost anywhere
else? Then / could have got me a. hus-
band more like Names"
ANd then. If that woman has not been
brought up very carefully. indeed. in the
notion that 1t isn't wise to swap horses
while crossing a river. and that the state
of matrimony is simply criss-crossed with
rivers, that first choice Of hers is liable
to awake some morning and find that he
hasn't any happy home with his wife
any more; that she has discovered him,
and that this having taken place. he is
entirely lost.
Often and often. too. when a woman is
acquiring a husband she forgets that
she is liable to have to keep him quite
a while Thus she is careless and over
looks many little flaws which otherwise
would show her plainly that he wouldn't
wear; and, above ALL that he wouldn't
work. But she figures that II he doesn't
suit, why. after a while, she will take
him over to court and have him de-
tached. believing. perhaps. that after
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against his leaving and tried to outbid
Washington by electing him ahead of
time for another three years and by vot-
ing to increase his salary $1,000 more a
year
And the board was reconciled to the
change only by a realization Of the un-
usual facilities offered an educator in
Washington. such as being in the cos
mopolitan capital of the United States
and being nearer the centers of learning
the Library of Congress, etc.
DR. Davidsons favorite recreation is
riding or driving a horse. His vacations
are not so long as his teachers or school
children's. He is always too busy to get
very far from the center of things long
at time. He has, for instance, never
been abroad. He has planned such
trip several times, but could not go be-
cause he was kept in
He has Travelled all over the United
States, however He is In great demand
as a lecturer and speaker and organizer
in national educational matters He has
Just felt obliged to decline an invitation,
for instance, to speak in San Francisco,
Cal, at the meeting of the National Edu-
cation Association. He directed. as pres
tdent, the 1911 meeting at Mobile. Ala,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

OF only does DR..
William NJ e n a r d
Davidson, Wash
ington's new super
intendent of schools,
believe in the three
.'R $ in education,
but also in the
three HIS" and the
three II s.
by the I n r e e
HIS +" said DR.. Da-
wilson, the other
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y X The Question Of Staying Married. x y

ward she would be in just good po
sition. even better, to acquire his sue
cessor than she had been to get him.
1t used to be entirely different. 1t used
to be that when a woman felt the little
ring slip on her finger she knew that it
and all it signified would remain so until
she died.
But now just often and often, the poor
husband has to get dinner for the hired
men himself. while his wife comes out
every month in her automobile and col
lects the alimony.
OF course. even under present condi-
pointed in a husband, selecting him, as
one does, entirely without experience in
that line. girl meets a young man
wearing perfectly sweet dress coat and
he smiles into her eyes and dances with
her seven times out of six. How is she to
know that he is constitutionally op-
posed to work and, besides that, speaks
rudely to his mother?
He appears at her home three times a
week at proper calling hours and makes
himself attractive as nature and his
limited intelligence will permit. She can't
tell just by her woman's intuition that
he borrowed car fare from his little
brother to get there on and has already
amassed a tailor's bill that his father
never hopes to be able to meet.
You take a case like that and by the
time her family has got ready to inves-
tigate that young mans capacity to take
care of wife he is buying diamond
on the installment plan and they are
planning to come home to live.
OF course. when the poor girl becomes
alive to the situation she is bound to be
disappointed and wants to make a
change. And matters being as they are,
she finds 1t perfectly easy and as natural
as can be to do SO.
Looking out upon the broad fields of
this fair land of ours and contemplating
the thousands and thousands OF young
couples who are this very moment stroll
ing hand in hand toward the altar and
then turning and gazing once more upon
the inclosed and otherwise ornamented
courthouse from which trail similar
streams who have just turned their backs
upon that same altar. I am moved some
times to think that perhaps the CONT
mental method is the best after all Be-
cause when father and mother began to
put away money for daughters marriage
portion the day she is born, and then
select the sutton who appears to them
to be eligible and desirable and marry
him to daughter politely, but none the
less firmly, you notice that 1t is a perma-
nent thing. 1t is an investment. and as
such sacred and not to be disturbed or
shaken loose.
And yet. lon the other hand. the way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02

night, Il mean the nead, tne Hooil en-
the hand First the intellect OF the chiid
must he developed. knowledge Is power.
The pupil must assimilate some broad
underlying facts that he will never forget
Next the heart-that is. the chiid must
be taught to feel TO sympatnlze anu 10
appreciate keenly the highest ideals IN
life And third. start should De ihdue
An training the childs hand. seen more
particularly in the work or the kinoer-
xartens. the carpenter shops and the man
uaI training schools
.~rhe three rs mean information. il
Elimination and inspiration. They apply
mainly to teachers. who should be encour-
aged to increase their store of knowledge
by reading study. attendance at lectures
and travel They should also study, as
far as possible. the mental capabilities OF
each pupil. SO that these qualities may be
developed And then these dry facts
should be illumined by word pictures and
other illustrations.
.Finaly, when the child has been in
Opired TO enthusiasm, so that he VIII hifn-
self put forth each day and each hour
real effort in the mastery OF his daily
tasks then, and not until then, is the
teachers task well done
Dr. Davidson also advocates the all
around development OF school chiidren,
including sane athletics.
Il played base ball myself in my school
days-in right field. 10 be exact" he said.
land I mixed up In foot ball, too l be-
lieve I'm all clean, wholesome sports. Girls
and boys should be given the opportunity
10 grow physically we'll as mentally
In fact, / president OF the Play
grounds Association of Omaha. l am
also heartily in favor of the High School
Cadet organization, not so much on ac-
count of its military value as because OF
the great benefits derived from discipline
and physical training"
DR. Davidson did not. however, use all
his spare time in school and college in
play He helped pay his way through by
hard work While at school in Kansas
he worked on his fathers farm during
vacations and paid his board at school
by doing chores for Gov. Eskridge Of
Kansas. who continued his friend for
life.
he was graduated from the Emporia
Ukan) Normal School in 1885. and from
the Kansas State University in 1902
While going through college he also
taught school, alternating one occupation
for the other until when he obtained his
A. b. degree in 1892. incidentally. he had
worked himself up in the profession of
teaching to the superintendency OF pub
lie schools at Topeka, Kan.
He is Of Scotch ancestry and was
born in Jamestown. Pa. May 3, 1863 He
and six brothers and sisters were moved
to Kansas when he was three years old.
At nineteen he began teaching In the ru-
raj schools of Lyon county, Kan. At
twenty-five he was city editor of a paper
in Emporia. Kan. but soon returned to
teaching. He was school principal at
twenty-three. and a superintendent OF
OhO0ls Topeka, kan) at twenty-nine.
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and-dried courses were made to fit all
children alike"
for DR. Davidson to meet that question
in Omaha, for the Nebraska legislature
had passed an anti-fraternity law, read
ing as follows:
It shall be unlawful for the pupils Of any pub
lie high schools other elementary schools OF
Nebraska to participate in or be members of any
secret fraternity secret organization whatso-
ever that is in any degree school organization.
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The fraternity question in Washington
will. of course. have to be studied by the
new superintendent in the light of the
conditions here.
Very likely DR.. Davidson will also take
an interest in the Washington Humane
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II !116S ~ rqE6>fsE2SYn
THE !
BY Her
The receper Of stolen goods guilty the tief The
snpao,er Of traitor despicabIe his hencIman
Le seeks Hkehe hound trail Nth the fox but
ua9ey him
7ad3c with bacguard the trader Toco-operate
with crinsfuai means to become
There degrees honesty. It has comparative
superIatiue Il l. absolute and incorporating.
Poison can't exist in any particular drop of blood
Il is in the usns it IL all through the system
When a co-operates with a crook he joins his class
The complacent citizen who deludes himself with
the his hands clean because his dirty work
formed by proxy eventually reckon with the community, with
his conscience, and with his God
His fingers all the stained because he places the
direct risk the shoulders Of Others and takes his profit without
mourning danger.
He is far oper his confederate. He just much
n,aLefactor- and a cosvazdy sneak, to boot.
Integrity stand hundred per cent test Like ohte,
It has s1ades-no tints.
All that is legal is by just fair honorable.
We have far many hypoctes whose moral code the cui
believe that they hold their citizenship, their
by and their decency intact just long they do nothing
that bring them to the dock.
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By Charlotte C. Rowett.

"HE natural tendency for w
women to get married remains
about normal: but the proba-
bility of our remaining married
after becoming SO seems to be
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things are over there you really have
very little chance to know how daughter
felt about IL in the first place. or how
she continues to feel about Ii as the years
roll on: because, things being as they are
she couldn't get away even if she wanted
to.
But. coming back to facts as they are
here with us among our own happy
homes, it seems to me that one of the
greatest disadvantages connected with our
tendency to a temporary form OF connu-
bal bliss is that it leads TO what one
may in general terms call Another"
The great trouble with Another is that
he seems to appear almost too soon If he
waited about two years and then went
and got an introduction and began to
make himself agreeable Ii might be all
right. But as rule you will notice that
ne is what one might call trifie too
timely
l know lots and lots of us go and dis
pense with our husbands with the firm
conviction that there isn't Another on the
race or the earth, that we are done for
ever with men and their aggravating
ways, and all We ask is to be let alone to
live our own lives But how often it
happens that. entirely to our amazement.
another was only waiting around the
corner till he thought the lawyers bill
was paid!
know one remarkable case like that
IliS was q very nice girl and she was
married to a plutocrat. He was rather a
nice plutocrat and not a bit like those
you read about in the stories. being
neither bald nor fat nor having any of
those forceful peculiarities of a manner
which as mirrored in the periodicals of
the day make one marvel why the pluto
cratic class is not oftener decimated by
murder
But this was a nice plutocrat, young,
square shouldered and with a bright nat
ural smile.
Yet things went as Gladys did not
think they should have gone, and her
plutocrat, though well hammered and ex-
oessively good to look at. began to show
a tendency to prefer his own way rather
than hers. Other matters also came up
and the result was that she got d.
vorce.
She acted against the advice OF all her
friends, who pointed out to her how
foolish she was to exchange all the COM
forts OF a home for the uncertainties of
mere alimony. And even there she
startled her family almost out of their
senses because she declined alimony, pre-
ferring to take a lump sum and go into
business for herself.
Well, you would have thought that was
all right and as safe as a thing could
possibly be. And yet, just over the edge
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contve Legislative system guard society against its
Ito protect the state against traitors and traders.
And long of technicalites p-hod with
and vulnerable trickery, can't its intended
purpose
All the statutes in library of auo books can't show way
blasted serespect except through
Courts designate rights oftener than right
The individual is the judge of his real character
There broader, mghtier code than that of jmpru-
code abooe pickering and exquisite interpretation
code By its light every knows his n,otiues
He lie the pord large but when he lies in his bed
night and cross-exanines him, he can't dodge the
truth
Accident and impulse may offenses-ten,per
and ignorance often present paag circumstances but there
mitigating element the actions of the acal who has DELHI
erately organized his outlawry
He can't plead monentay alteration. He guilty through
and through cold bIoodedly purposely crooked.
He maintain his liberty enjoy the privileges Of the up
right and walk high places but in the secrecy of his soul he
knous himself in all his rottenness
Prison walls do not separate all the honest from the
ieue The deed and the discovery makes the feLon
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-14
CLIMBED UP
TO The SUMMIT
OF MAUNA kEA

HILO, January 12.-In view of the
present movement which is on foot,
under the auspices of the Trail and
Mountain Club, to make the trails and
places of interest in Hawaii better
known and more accessible, the trip of
a party of Hilo young men to the top
of Mauna Kea is of some interest. On
Monday following Christmas Mr. Will
lard of the Engineers staff on the
breakwater, Edward Maby, Mr.. Cloves
and a party of four boarding school
boys started from Hilo on a walking
trip up the mountain. They left the
boarding school about eight in the
morning, and stopped for lunch at the
end of the Kaumana road. After lunch
they followed the trail to Shipman's
ranch. They camped for the night by
a cave that is about two or three hours
walk from the end of the Kaumana
road. The next morning they got as
far as Hale Aloha, and by night they
reached Pun 90. The following morn
ing they started unguided for the sum-
nit, They found the route easy fol-
lowing brief directions given them at
the ranch. They reached the snow af-
ter about five hours climbing and an
hour more brought them to the top of
a peak that is about a mile and a half
from the summit. At this point five
of the party started back to the ranch,
but two went on to the summit. These
two had to stay out on the mountain