The Detroit times., 1916-09-15

The trouble is you let the most
oil the moral training go 10 the school
teacher. | never aspired TO but one
office In my life and that was a men,
Der or the school board, and IL
ever were 10 become a member the
hrst thing | would do would be TO pay
teachers twelve months in the year
instead OF nine.
~ IL disgrace the miserable sal
aries we pay our school teachers in
lhls country. They go in the fall
win their cheeks looking like roses
ana they come out in the spring
looking like lilies. They spend their
llVes trying 10 make something out
name.
Inc average yearly wage OF the
school teacher in this country In $500.
20 day for the school year. and
.he average wage is $3.50 day for
The calendar year There are II
STATES In this union that pay teach
ers less than $500 year, two states
mat pay less than $3.50 a year.
children are all imitators. A
man gave a friend OF mine a water
spaniel and another fellow gave him
rat terrier. Later on the fellow
said. How are the dogs? NV friend
said they were getting along all right
The water spaniel was a better rat
dog than the terrier.
The water spaniel had watched
the rat dog and had initiated him
We are all imitators.
"Themistocles said, NV children
rule Greece How Is that? he was
asked. My children rule their moth
er and their mother rules me; ! rule
Athens, Athens rules Greece; my
children rule Greece.
They are uncontrolled when they
are six and are outlaws when they
are sixteen.
Il was in town in Minnesota anC
was being entertained in the home
of banker. He had two children
girl and big sort of Clydesdalt
kind of boy.
"One day the door blew open II
that home-a Minnesota blizzard wa.
raging. The father said. Donald
VIII YOU go and close the door, No
won't | want TO play with my
blocks If you don't papa will have
TO, and he is tired. working all day.
II don't care Donald said, No,
won't do it, and the fool father shu
that door.
Il wanted TO borrow that kid FOL
about 10 minutes. When GO
through with him he would be lik,
Buster Brown--he'd rather stand.
Lessons From Reformatory.
"Out in Jeffersonville. Ind, there
are 500 inmates in the reformatory
ESQ of them never attended Sunday
school. 400 had no trade. 252 Of them
were employed at the time they com
mitted the crime for which they
were punished, 3l2 used liquor, 374
smoked cigarettes, 325 had not
reached the fourth grade in the pub
lie schools, only 26 had ever been in
high school, none had ever gradual
ed from high school.
Judge Fawcet, down in Brooklyn
N. Y, In sentencing a boy not Ions
ago, said: In the five years | have
been on the bench / have sentenced
200 persons, and not one OF them
was a member OF Sunday-school.
IF you want TO crush the sources
of reformatories on the head, yo,
can do 1t with Christianity, but one
OF the worst sources OF juvenile
crime is the lack OF Christianity IL
the home.
For the last thing the devil robs
boy OF is what he learned at his
mothers knee.
II don't want 10 advocate that we
should lick the children all the time
but when il is needed There are
homes in which a switch should hang
on the wall and underneath IL the
motto: i need thee every hour
Il was down in Sharon, Pa, about
four years ago, and was going home
from one OF the afternoon meetings
and going across the Shenango rivel
| saw on the bridge a movers wager
loaded with goods, and going dowr
the street amidst the crowds an OLE
cow was following after.
"She came on and did not seem 4
mind the interurban from Youngs
town, o., or any Of the traffic, ant
said, That Is unusual; just look a
that old cow | looked up, and Their,
in R cage was little calf, and said
oh. l see. The mystery ia solves
now. That 10 her calf And sh,
didn't propose 20 let her eyes get OF
that calf.
Il looked across the street to
place where they sold high.price,
champagne, and there stood fou
young fellows, all under twenty, al
had cigarettes hanging from thei
mouths, caps that looked like frie
eggs. trousers turned up like cuffs
silk shirts, flowing neckties, and
said. That old cow has more sens
than the mothers OF those youn
men,
THAT cow is going 70 know ever
minute where her calf Is. while prol
ably the mothers OF those young boy
are off TO some bridge whist or win,
drinking affairs. probably discussin
me and leaving them go 10 the devil
I said, 4 take my hat of TO the oil
cow
Getting Hold Of Youthful Hearts.
Susanna Wesley was the mothe
Of 10 children, and she held them 70
God. When asked how she did
she replied, by getting hold OF thei
hearts in their youth, and never los
Ing my grip
I'm a conversation they were ask
ing when 10 begin to train children
A woman said. When they are 3,
and years old An old grandmoth
OF said rs years ago. Before the Chi
dren are born. Begin with the ances
tors
she was right. She was righ'
Like produces like Blood tells. w
see that in horses, hogs, birds. HI