The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-31

they had telescope them persons
moral searchlight and magnify into mountains the small
est sim They forever seeing things" clam
morng for reform, eternally demanding law law law!
This woman is going wrong; this crooked:
tain people what they ought be- chill
dren should be taken away from their mothers and faith
ers because of improper religious moral environ
ment and taken without process They think God
Almighty has called them rebuke every sim
pose stolen kiss find every lovers meeting.
blast every bud of human love Joy. They would
curdle every smile with their fierce battleaxe faces kill
cry pleasure, pluck every romance dash
the bloom from every lyric Young Loves Dream expur-
gate Shakespeare the of nature and the worlds
teacher and Dickens through
because Sam Weller the cheering with his de-
ghful Old father, Tony They would suppress Thomas
Hardy the novelist village life consign The
let Letter. the greatest piece Of imaginative literature
ever written to eternal flames.
But dear brethren the old world like the old ocean,
still beats the shores OF time. Human has
its GIBBS and flows it's calms its biIows its dashing
waves its flashing the rocks its flotsam and etsam,
its wrecks and rescues, but it always seeks its level
Men and women become prominent in moral reforms,
benevolent assimilation church extension club
sion and social regeneration, the time
the pul appeal of some broken hearted Florence
Dombey" in the household Where is there a
ing picture than "Dorothea" Middle March," starving
for word touch human her husband
the Rev. Edward Casaubon who absorbed in reform
ing the church ritual that he felt
emOuOnS or love and tenderness! You the result
1t written that shall live by bread alone.
Why woman left out Of this scriptual admonton?
You may sound the praises some public woman
from Dan to Bersheba and in the streets of Gath and
Askalon, trumpet speeches ends earth
and yet she may not be doing as much good as some
poor obscure mother who is struggling keep lit
tie brood under her wing that the boys and girls may
grow up be self-supporting men and women. This
mother knows nothing of the Pchn" schools where the
rule is give children what they and make
them take what they don't want. They love and
they get It, they don't want the whip and they don't
it. No chassed this mbecile education better
than Dickens in his Blimber "Squeers
and Mrs. Pilchin"
We sing hymns susannah Wesley wrote, we
read she preached the influence of this
woman who reared and educated her large family by
hand as Joe Calgary said, and did it because it was
the duty lying nearest her, be measured.
Brass band and megaphone reformers doubt pro-
duce sensitive nerves, city noises founder than
they but they louder and disagree
able because of supersensitveness And up
reform stop church bells ringing, whistles
blowing and the cries of the costermonger
Max Nordau in his book Degeneration cites this
for the reform of noises the sign of degeneration
In Berlin the dogs is removed that
they not bark and rasp peoples He speaks
of man at a window who became so annoyed by the
whstling of merry butchersboy who frequently passed
that he finally got and shot the innocent youth
The TENSION of insane reform IDEAS modern be
lief that "knockng is virtue, acts directly upon the
nerves and destroys the calm equilibrium which made
pioneer fathers of patience forebearance fort
tude and manly strength In the breaking this
equilibrium, this mental moral and physical pose may
finally be found the of large proportion
ern suicides. perhaps the physician (not
quack docor could do greater work in his efforts
benefit humanity than by educating the public upon
these lines Mental worry is sin of the age. Perfect
health means control ones self Neither drugs
liquors help little bit 1t is the will out the
will forget the will to be cheerful that helps Only
those who have will truly happy.
Going heavenward upon the wings of high emotiona
reforms, flying pieces rasping sounds
control through worrying about other peoples affairs
imagining that you responsible for your neighbour
sins and that to pray without ceasing the
enemy who you some we'll merited back talk
these all degeneration YOURSELF misery to those
who have to live with and wish the YOU
companions that first class funeral might occur il
which you could play the role the chief mourner