Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-04
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Our Schools.


Our Schools.
While the Tidings has always been
a warm friend to the schools of Ash
land, It intends to take a deeper in
terest IN them during the ensuing
year We believe it is the duty of
every citizen TO take a live interest
IN our schools. During the years
that are past, scores of diplomas have
oeen handed out as class after class
OF our young people have stepped out
OF schools life into life's school.
would that We could in this issue
of the Tidings place before lis read
ers the familiar face OF each and
every one. but such is among the
lmpossibilities, for Grim Death. on
MS white horse, has thinned the
ranks, and as Death loves a shining
mark, many of the most promising
fell before reaching the noon-day of
life, but We can assist in keeping
green their memories. Our school
nome. What words fall upon the
ear with so much music in their ca
dence as those which recall the
scenes of school days now numbered
among the memories of the past. In
tervenlng years have not dimmed the
vivid colorings with which memory
has adorned those joyous days.
While We all graduate in much the
same manner. now different has the
wheel of fortune turned Some with
plaintive tongues have had to walk
in lowly wales of life's weary way.
others in loftier hymns have sung
of nothing but JOY, as they have
trodden the mountain top; but no
matter how near the summit or base
of the mountain of fame you will
meet with a graduate from our
schools, you meet with one who is
credit TO society. AS the twis is
bent, so is the tree inclined i" and
habits were formed under the mould
ing power Of moral atmosphere
which seems 10 permeate the schools
of Ashland, which stay bv one
through life. Our school life is in
deed the golden link that binds youth
TO age, and he is still but q child.
however time may have furrowed his
cheek or silyered his brow who can
yet recall. with a softening heart,
the happy school days passed in this
city.
Fourth of July.
Let every reader of this column
plan for a jolly time on the Fourth.
We live too fast in America. We
have not enough holidays-not
enough resting places-not enough
intermission in our work-day world.
1t were better oftener to have laid
aside its tools-traffc and trade
stopped, now and then, and to con-
slider its aim and end.
There must be an oasis in every
desert. The black Sierras has its
sunlit valleys. There are smiling
hooks even among the Cordilleras.
Hating places they are, great rocks
and their shadows, even in the drear-
lest land. He who builds up a shell
ter for the storm-beaten and foot
weary pilgrim over the road traced
by the great caravan is a bene-
factor to his race and his memories
should be cherished while holidays
are observed
Holiday time! Who would care to
know why and whence came the Gus
tom? Enough to know that care per-
force must smooth his wrinkled
front, and fun and frolic for the time
rule the hour. 1t were folly not to
enjoy the glimpses of sunshine that
come through the cloud riffs, short
lived and evanescent though they be.
They prove that there is brightness
beyond-that no clouds are so dense
but stray beams may penetrate them.
Rosy faces, wreathed and joyous,
welcome the festive season. With
its admonitions, its reminders, it's
regrets and its hopes, comes the
happy holiday. 1t is well that the
ancient builders set up mile posts
on the highway of time, else it were
a dull and tiresome road.
Don'ts for Wives.
The leader Of Rockefeller's church
at Cleveland, Ohio, recently took the
above heading for his text, and he
asked his hearers to put the follow
ing ten don't up in their wives mir
rors:
l. Don't marry a man for a liv-
ing, but for love. Manhood without
money is better than money without
manhood.
2. Don't overdress nor under
dress; common sense is sometimes
better than style.
3. A wife with a hobble skirt and
a husband with patched trousers
make a poor pair. A woman can
throw more out of window with
spoon than a man can put into the
cellar with a shovel.
How Not to Run House.
4. Don't think that the way to
run house is to run away from it,
1t is wrong to go around lecturing
other women on how to bring up
children, while you are neglecting
your own.
5. Don't tell your troubles to your
neighbors. They have enough of
their own. Fight it out with your
oil