El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-07
" HERE'S woman out in Denver
who wants to tell the children

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who wants to tell the children
all about everything the min
ute they are old enough to go to school
She has talked the school people into
her way OF thinking and a very logical,
sensible, practical matter of fact way
it seems to be when she tells about it.
and the new course is to begin this
fail, maybe. A protest against the new
course is going up already.
I don't want my little girl to learn
that sort OF thing in class" said an
indignant and protesting mother to the
president Of the board of education the
other day. When it is time for her
to know I'll tell her myself, thank you.
And, besides, don't believe in all this
study Of the body. what the body
needs, and what the body is and isn't
Why not get the mind to work awhile
and see what that will do"
And altogether there's quite an IN
teresting fight going on over this ques-
ton Of what child should know, and
who should tell him about it
It's queer thing about this body
business. The first time I heard some
one say that a certain man was to0
strong to work I thought 1t was
rather foolish JOKE
faddist then know several OF them
now, and every one that I know is
too strong to work. They'll run on
the track, play baskeI ball, wrestle,
chin themselves a dozen times q
day, but run on Al errand for any,
body, now the lawn. pat I'D a shelf in
the pantry when the perfidioUs car
penter has broken his rlisnted word
not they.
When I want any real work done I
n hFrz efz
a famous set of muscles to do it I
pick out some little delicate man who
has 10 make his tired body work when
it doesn't want to, and he'll do the job
and do it right
The strong man means well enough,
but he can't really work; his body
won't let him and his body is the ruler
OF the firm every day in the week.
Why not2 He has spent valuable
time teaching his body that it is the
most important thing on earth. Why
should it be bossed around by nothing
but will and mind all at once?
The great big, bossy, dominating
body has been the ruler too long to
give up without a struggle and the
poor well meaning little soul has to
sit in the corner and whine for g
chance to express itself at all
1 wonder If all this idea of concen-
trating so much attention on the body
Is going to turn out so well after all?
Early IN life I found out that the
way to keep from climbing the cherry
tree when the cherries were too green
TO be wholesome was to keep Just as
far away from that tree as 1 could
and to think about something else as
hard as I could. Ny new frock, the
heroine in my latest book the way
my mother looked when she was
pleased with something I had DONE
how the Cinnamon down at the bottom
of the well and a little beyond wore
their long hair-anything, anywhere,
but the tree.
Once when I was little girl I
started to carry some particularly nice
cherries to a neighbor who had been
very i'll They were oxhearts. the
only ones Of the kind in those parts.
I carried them in a pretty little green
basket made Of some kind of rushes or
sweet smelling grass can see every
cherry IN that basket to this very day 4
1t was hot day in June. The neigh
Dor lived a long mile away, through |
the pasture. down the wood road. over
the little bridge, past the willow
tree.
] started with a light heart. In the
pasture / thought: 7 wonder how
many cherries there are in this basket:
It IS pretty heavy, it seems to me-"
and looked and I tasted one-just 4
how sweet it was
It was hot in the pasture. the !
cherries were so juicy, just one more.
In the woods I looked again. Yes.
there they were. redder than ever