The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-29

were franticaly grasped from the
depths of shopping bags. Innocent
looking little notes but enough infor-
nation in them to have "passed" us
all if it could have been gotten to-
as our schools and churches are so
imperfect at the core. Let's take
little peep at the churches, just lit
tie gossipy peep and talk about the
pastors wives awhile and let the alb
stract questions rest.
Here is a pastors wife of whom
some jealous but tactless leader in
church work says, Eyes, she's very
nice, lady-like and perfectly manner
ed, but she keeps us at distance. We
want her to lead this or that meeting
but we are usually politely bowed out
with the excuse that this is the eve
ming | devote exclusively to Mary's
and Johns school work. or it is, this
is family evening when no one is at
home to anything but home and SO
on through the category of what
seems to be nothing but excuses"
She fails to see that the pastors wife
is just normal sensible woman, de-
termined to have her home and home
life the same as any other American
wife, even if she does happen to be a
preachers wife. Here is another
type. A pastors wife who has worked
early and late to help him be what he
is, has helped put son into the min
istry, has given several daughters to
gether at the right, place and at the
right time. But that was the trou-
BILE. Here comes the Professors foot
steps; more rustling and scrambling
as the notes were hastily put out of
sight, voices hushed to a whisper, all
quietness and perfect decorum as the
Superintendent takes his chair.
On the second day he tells US that
he found large package of examina-
ton paper furnished US free by the
county strewn and trampled on the
floor. In righteous wrath he said he
would not grant the person who did
| it, if he knew who it was, a certifi-
cate, by reason of their lack of good
moral character. He certainly should
be commended for taking such a
stand
If teachers will stoop to such
things as enumerated, will anyone
wonder that pupils under their charge
will grow up through the school
cheating their way through and take
the honors earned by some hard
working plodding pupil?
1t starts my visibles to twitching
when | hear Of a church racket be-
cause Of the incongruity of the sub
ject, but how many are caused by peo-
pie raised in homes and schools with
no greater aim than to "get there if
you can by fair means or foul 2"
Sometimes it is hard not to ask why
there are so many people working at
cross purposes in the world, some try
| ing to tear down what others build
up and it all ends in a regular melee
like the World War, and now we are
beginning all over again. but q don't
mean to be a pessimist) | can't have
much hopes of the outcome so long
share in making more American
homes, and as she now is in vigorous
middle life the church workers think
she can step right out of that home
life and lead their meetings in strict
parliamentary style, iusr as If she had
been practicing that and nothing else
all her life. Forgetting that she has
already done more than the average
woman and besides may nos have any
special talent for the work demanded
of her, in that forgetting what iG
taught in the Book they profess TO
follow, that spiritual gifts are diver2-
ly bestowed (Cor. 12:8-1). When
she tries she is snubbed if everything
doesn't move off like clock-work and
when she still reaches helping hand
to her scattered family she is snubbed
and abused because she isn't Fright
there" wien the church workers want
her. All this may be DEPRESSING
from my subject, but schools and
churches are so closely correlated, in
my mind, that it is hard to keep them
apart Because | have not been able
to stick strictly to my subject, | know
the masculine readers are wondering
what woman this is, so | will tell