The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-18

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can tell you.
Day before yesterday I got onto
the old mare and rode TO town. They
helped me of and set on the steps
Of the store for about two hours,
and then they lifted me on again
and ] came home. The doctor met
me when was coming over Hard
Scrabble Mountain, and allowed I
was an idiot or a mighty rich man
one. This trip may cost you anoth-
er doctors BILL" says he. We'll, IL
was worth it," says I, "for what is
life without companyY
When I got home and told your
mother, she says, says she, How do
you suppose we women folks live
when we cant go to town more
than twice year, and don't have
anything TO think of but just what
is inside our palings?' Well have
been thinking Of that myself since
;his ankle has made a woman of me
for a spell. Then ! set down and
told her what heard in town.
They were having the Teachers
Institute, which did not amount to
much. Some city Teller was con-
Quoting IL, and they said he did not
appear to know enough about COM
mon things TO build fire or saddle
a horse-critter. He spent his time
showing of and telling things him
self, but nary thing that could
help a new teacher in the noun
tains. And the teachers they set
and listened, or slipped out the win
dow and went to visiting in the
courthouse yard. But Wednesday
night they had a lecture from some
professor from Berea. They said
he made them all sit up and pay at
tention. He told them that educa-
ton did not just mean keeping
school, and teaching our pupils so
that THEY can teach school, and
then they teaching somebody else
He allowed that teaching ought to
make good men and women and that
learning ought to make better farms
and housekeepers. And so he took
up the moral and industrial educa-
ton that Berea first introduced into
Kentucky. The moral education
don't mean the things preachers
quarrel about, but it means the
things they all agree about but can't
get the people to do. He showed
that children were mismanaged
when they were young or they
might be better when they we're
older and said that teaching was c
trade to be learned as carefully as
doctoring or having.
But what they said he said about
industrial education took me. He
said there was right way and
wrong way TO do everything. and
that when people tried TO find the
right way work grew interesting
Well | knew that, myself, but you,
Jake, never tried IL enough 10 find
out. Then he said fathers and
mothers must begin this education
at home and saw how | had sort
Of neglected you, Jake, letting you
have your own way. He showed
too. what little more skill and in
dustrial education would do for
kentucky-how we sold our logs to
go TO Ohio to be made into furniture,
because We were not trained en-
ough in that to make them into
furniture ourselves. (Berea, ! I'M
derstand is actually teaching that
very thing in one of the biggest
buildings in the State), and there
was a lot more about what a little
science could do for our mountain
farm. In fact, by proper education
he proposed to get shut Of poverty
and misery generally. and make the
poorest part OF the mountains bet
ter than Texas is even in a dream.
| asked them why they did not
have that fellow run the institute
next year and set all our young
teachers TO preaching this new gos-
pei and they said they wished il
could be done. The next best thing.
and, in fact, a better thing is %
send a lot Of our brightest boys and
girls TO Berea, where they can get
filled up with this doctrine at the
fountain head.
Then the Judge, he came along
and passed the time Of day and sat
a few minutes and we went over the
names OF the men in our county
who had been students in Berea,
There was not black sheep among
them, sure enough. And the judge
finally, as he named one and another,
he said, "these are the folks that
uphold the honor and promote the
progress of this county. They keep
the law, they pay their debts, they
stand for good things. They have
comfortable homes. The only fault
you can find" said the judge, rs
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