The Washington times., 1920-06-27

But the baby hears language;
early man had to create 1t.
Thought and desire came first;
gradually the words came. 1t was
q slow process with our ancient an
cestors; no nurse or mother TO
teach the language; each word had
to be invented.
After thinking and speaking, the
next step was to write. Unlike
tho animal, man wants to go on
after he dies. He wants life in
another world after this one, and
\ 90 write down his accomplishments
on this earth, that men may read
Yafter him.
When he has thought, spoken
and written, he wants to know
about others, so he reads.
More than a hundred thousand
years before they could write, men
made pictures on cave walls or
scratched them on bones Of ami
mails. They made these pictures
with a power Of accuracy that
amazes artists today.
Gradually they wrote.
The Egyptians tell US their story
OF civilization in hieroglyphics, a
picture writing, with eagles,
cranes, lions, sieves, hands, snakes,
tongs, bowls, ETC., expressing ideas.
Thinking. Speaking, Writing and
Reading are the really important
work that men do, for music and
art are q kind OF writing. All the
practical work Of the world. from
digging bitches to building sky
scrapers, is done that life may be
made safe and peaceful, to allow
: thinking and thought expression.
II you will read aloud to your
! family the quotations that follow,
your children will realize that
reading, the sound of the voice,
plus the thought in the written
word, stimulate thought and cre-
ate desire to- think, speak and
write.
HE ate and drank the previous
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days;
And this bequest of wings
Was but q book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings"
Emily Dickinson wrote those
lines. No need of adding anything
to them.
Teach your children that the
difference. between real man and
a monkey, picking at the straw. is
power to concentrate the mind
upon one subject.
1--WE can hold out lens and
focus the rays of the sun. but we
must necessarily steady the glass
lfor an instant or there will be no
sflame. So to concentrate the mind
and awaken an inner fire, we pause
and focus mental energy, and the
pause must be directly due to
thought"
Encourage imagination in your
self and in your children. Teach
them to travel in thought, beyond
their surroundings, to see in their
minds all of the round earth on
which they live-the cold Of the
north, the heat of the tropics. Let
them read aloud these lines. trans
lated from Heine. You will read
many pages without finding four
lines to equal them. The German
text beginning Elm Tannenbaum
Steht Erasam" has never been ade-
quately translated:
THE PINE AND THE PALM.
"In the far north stands pine
tree, lone, upon a wintry
height;
1t sleeps; around it SHOWS have
thrown a covering of white.
Il dreams forever of a palm that,
far in the morning-land,
! Stands silent in most sad calm
. midst heaps Of burning
) sand"
Teach children in speaking,
reading, writing, even in think
ing, to put emphasis where 1t
should be. Explain in four words
the Importance Of emphasis:
"SHAKESPEARE NE We r
SAID THAT"
Read It four ways, the SEN
tence has four meanings.
Shakespeare NEVE R said
that" means somebody else may
have said IL, not Shakespeare.
"Shakespsare NEVER said
that" means absolute denial az re-
CARDS Shakespeare. z
"Shakespesre never SAID that"
means that Shakespeare perhaps
wrote Il, or implied at, but never
SAID IL. -,
"Shakespeare never said THAT"
means that Shakespeare said many
other things, but never THAT
particular thing.
Teach children that the only
thing they can DO 10 show graft
tude to the power that rules us is
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