Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-08
Cause Of Unhappiness.

| SduoC VI " Lilo pplucSS.
| Il have known many who have
| achieved success. but none waited by
wide window with "jasamire leaves
| to frame her ANY one in this day and
generation who expects some one to
hunt her up and push her into great
| mass of happiness has not grown up.
The main trouble with unhappy women
| is that they refuse to grow up. They
are carrying UP into wonanhood the
sirlish dreams that belong with braid
of hair down the back. Their ideas
are memories. not hopes. They remain
back in the ages of ballads and fairy
tales.
Il do not mean the assumption of new
and strange functions concerned with
the political machinery of the state
Let me tell you 1t is no mean service
merely to continue being what you are
now-sweet and gentle and sensible
girls, with n abundance of good humor
and sufficient store of philosophy to
keep your temper from getting sour.
Happiness is not imported 1t is
home made. Happiness is not
an aim in itself. 1t is the state of
mind that goes along with the great
things that are aims in themselves.
such as service, devotion, assists nee
and utility. 1t is ones duty to gem
crate happiness and to radiate it. I
count this one of the real purposes of
schooling. For this world most urgent
ly needs 1t. During many genera
tions underlying purpose in sending
children to school has been personal
or family desire to get ahead. to ex-
eel. to make a living. We have had
education solely for prosperity. Its
fruitage is se1fshness and greed.
Hungers for Education.
We see it in the awful carnage,
cruelty and war which is deva stating
Europe. ravagins Gods fair fields. bat
tering down His temples. ohliterating
the monuments of mans love of beauty
and turning back the chariot of civil
! lization. Efficiency has transformed it
self into gigantic crime. The world
hungers for a better education. We
hear its pleading for education for serv-
| ice, education and democracy.
The educated woman is a debtor to
those who have devoted themselves to
her schooling. The teachers great re-
| ward is to see their pupils passing on
the torch of enlis htennent.
| Helping is the talent that demands
no great occasion for its exercise, no
Ella borate stage setting, no long pre-
| liminary practice This is a virtue that
! awaits no set occasion, queen whose
| rule requires no throne or diadem. She
| is builder who Laws quietly the foun-
dations of friendship. the sustaining
| walls of love The very structure OF
democracy is her handiwork Her serv-
| ice gives substance to religion. For
| help. for service, this institution which
graduates YOU today was orga nized and
| is maintained
| Every sane person carries with him
| the guide TO life of happy service
No intelligence exists without an ideal
| The failures are those who have neg
lected il II Is very easy for even an
educated girl to be dull. to give her
| second best to sit and wait, to be less
excellent than she might have been.
Lfe's Great Experiment.
| The instructive impulse of youth is
TO try Life means to you the great
experiment. But as you have learned
from what study of art And science you
| have made, experiment is trial guided
| by intelligence
| 1T is the purpose Of the church 70
| furnish a guide to life by the precepts
of inspired religion. 1t is an essential
| feature of our scheme Of education. I
| cannot conceive of an education for
| service. an education for democracy.
with world regeneration as its funda
| mental purpose, unless the principles
| of religion animate the educated man
| and woman.
| "Education runs fatal risk in APP
pealng too much to the head and too
| little to the heart The heart is the
| ultimate aim of all religious appeal.
We should never let the imparting of
technical knowledge become the chief
| purpose in training youth. II is praise
. worthy TO equip the mind for grasp
| Of the facts Of science, II il no mean
task to give the hand such skin to
surpass the craftsmen Of other nations
| and so bring wealth and prosperity to
| our own. accomplish illuminate
| life and make II in a measure less for
lorn But these purposes are small and
cheap beside the deep religious aim of
| such schools as this which is to train
| up women pure, strong and brave.
| Mr. Churchill concluded with a strong
| tribute to the high aims, talents, pur-
poses and conscientious zeal of the fac
uIty of Trinity College and the entire
teaching order of Sister of Notre Dame
de Namur He summed IT up in the one
sentence: They accept no smaller duty
| than that Of perfecting womanhood.
| They are agents Of Christian civiliza-