The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-08-06

Chinese life hideous prac-
tices kept in the guise of morals religion.
Once it was very unladylike for a write
book The housekeeping god still the woman
who has literary aspirations goddess
can still be invoked and the home preserved No doubt
Minerva could make omelet perfection and
pancake with deft fingers. Hundreds of like Har
riet Beeeher Stowe and Lydia Maria Child demonstrated
it, Mrs Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin" her lap
while she watched the dinner cooking on the stove.
The English church proclaimed slavery to be divine
institution 1t is still upholdng forms of social
slavery. wife cannot get divorce though her hus
band keeps dozen mstresses while he divorce her
upon small delnquencies.
To break with these castron customs to bring down
upon brave and the opposition of organized
business, religion the SNUG
and sefsatisfied citizens who think whatever is
lis right
Much of the history scholarship is a record of
ardce 1t is seldom that of learning fearless
as Charles Sumner Theodore Parker Wendell Phillips
Too often fat and lazy scholarship has lent its splendid
weapons and brilliant gifts to existing social wrongs
1t has been like Johnson's lawyer, whose soul
in his fee" and who would plead against his maker
for price" For more than fifty years American scholar
ship kne to the religious and social leveled at the
ant-savery cause, and dumb. The scholar New
England Congress stood up and defended
slavery by quoting from the original Greek of the New
and offered to shoulder musket in its defense
Scholarship loves the chimneyconer the and slip
pers, great been
Crusoe," "Ptgrims Progress" Hamlet" Etc These
writer's natures school The sky the fields the
woods the nodding flowers the singing birds their
teachers and their work professorshps have been
founded.
Social ostacsm is only copmoste sneer often arising
from business interests, the dollar above the So
not death for his reigous teaching but
his doctrines nterfered with the meat markets
connected with the sacrifice animals upon the Athenan
sacerdoal affairs. He is brave soul who unfurs his
banner nd
on" The timeserving pulpit will fling Bibles at him. The
law will snatch him. Society will spew him out 1t will
be considered improper to mention his in polite
society He will for time live lonely Promeheus
on the Tarpan rocks Vultures whose illgotten gains
endangered will his vitals The gods
of earth and sky will mock and taunt him. and
the chorus the universe will appear sing nothing
but funeral drges But the brave in heart should take
from the fact that the great and loved in history
passed through such fiery furnaces un-
scahed by the deadly shams of life Woolman, Garrison
Phillips, Parker, Lincoln, They sleep
The timeservers the sneerers the slanderers
grafters the punderers of their time all forgotten
Mournful writer's filling the magazines with their
lamentations what they call the lmanners Of Ameri
youth On the other hand that pleasant book called
How to Be Happy Though CIVIL the complaint
by saying that the social behavior of the poor
class has improved in astonishing during the last
fifty years. while the upper class" has entirely
manners
Be that it may it is plain to be that
and brutal manners among the getrichquck people The
theory is that every boy girl fight
and push to the melight get lots Of money eat, drink
and be merry for when you dead you a long
time dead 1t don't matter if you crush and utterly
initiate the feeble and get
you nobody This is the heborn gospel
everywhere 1t is the brutal side of civilization.
But uncivity the part others is trouble-we
find plenty of it if looking for it, it is
often self-importance that magines and exag,
gerates insult that has existence.
persons corners of their mouths
and whine They don't raise boys and girls like they did
when young" Let us be thankful that they
1t is sign of approaching seniy when continually
harp the degeneracy of modern boys and girls
mpute all virtue to ourselves. Chewing the
days and failing to assimilae the good of the present
kind mental and moral gasritis a
doctor.
There time when moralists did COM
plain of bad boys and discourse upon good old
times" of their youth. The trouble with morasts
is that they make their complaints they have left
their youth and counting days far behind
ed where life has fallen into the the yellow
Plutarch in his Morals" tells refreshing story The
Seven Wise Men Of Thebes meet for the
reason and flow of soul One of them heard horse
race in town and and gave up banquet
whereby Plutarch calls him the wsest of ALL for
sometimes pleasure is the highest wisdom
/ Seneca, the stole fake of his advised people
pretend to believe in the current if they totally dis
believed it. Writing upon a gold table and enjoying a
income from usury praised blessings or
and condemned the bad manners of the youth
day His morals" were but veil to his avarce.
said that carrying dogs sign of the gradual
downfall of the Roman Republic Nothing under
the sun
/ The ilmannered boys of the Old Testament laughed
at bears running right out
and up the boys What had the domeheads been say
ing to those boys? Knocking them doubt. The
bears dome-heads. Anyhow it is
an story.
Pestalozzi right In saying that children natural
lily love the lovable then understand why
them don't adore their ncorrgibe parents Imagine
father mounting the family altar donnng thirty cent
halo monopozing the whole wisdom virtue