The Washington times., 1920-06-27

lyle and q dozen other Great
Ones" to make the world think.
Professor Curry, In the book
that we recommend to you. teaches
the art Of expression and makes
you understand .as he teaches. He
says. for instance:
Attempt to speak upon home
subjects with indifference and OBJ,
serve the tendency to stand upon
both feet. Increase the earnest
ness or desire to persuade, and
note the tendency of the animation
to expand and lift the body. caus-
ing you to stand on one foot
Try the experiment of reading
aloud the following lines and OBJ
serve how differently careless
reading and earnest reading affect
the body:
Il slept and dreamed that life was
beauty;
l woke and found that life was
duty.
Was then thy dream a shadowy lie?
Toll on, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A MONDAY light and truth to thee"
Your sentimental daughter
might do better with these lines:
1.-THE night has q thousand eyes,
and the day but one.
Yet the light Of the bright world
dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has q thousand eyes,
and the heart but one,
Yet the light of a whole life
dies
When love is done.
He who reads a noble pasasge
without emotion, without feeling
q curious sensation in the heart,
and even in the scalp, where brain
activity affects the tiny nerves, is
lacking. Reading, writing and
thinking were not meant for him.
Take, for instance, eight more
lines by that noble woman, Emily
Dickinson. You cannot read in
differently this sufficient reply to
atheism that stupidity denies.
81 never saw q moor,
! never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
/ never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven,
Yet certain am I Of the spot,
As II the chart were given"
First, let your little girl see how
well she can read Emily Dickin-
sons eight lines, then let your boy
try the eight that follow, by an
author unknown:
"If some grand thing for tomor-
You are dreaming, do it now;
From the future do not borrow,
Frost soon gathers on the brow.
Days for deeds are few, my
brother;
Then today fulfill thy vow;
If you mean to help another,
Do not dream it-Do it now"
And finally, to keep this within
reasonable length for Sunday read
ing, as an antidote to discourage
ment caused by graft, boss rule,
ETC., read aloud this extract from
Macaulay. which now applies to
tormented Russia, also to highly
prosperous America:
"A fairy, by some mysterious
law Of her nature; was condemned
to appear at certain seasons in the
form Of a foul and poisonous
snake. Those who injured her dur
ing the period Of her disguise were
forever excluded from participa-
tion in the blessings which she be-
slowed. But to those who, in spite
of her loathsome aspect, pitied and
protected her, she afterward re-
vealed herself in the beautiful and
celestial form which was natural
to her, accompanied their steps,
granted all their wishes, filled their
houses with wealth, made them
happy in love and victorious in
war.
Such a spirit is Liberty. At
times she takes the form OF hate
full reptile. She grovels, she
Kisses, she stings, but woe to those
who, In disgust, shall venture to
crush her. and happy are those
who, having dared to receive her in
her degraded and frightful shape,
shall at length be rewarded by her
in the time Of her beauty and her
glory"
Keep this column for your chill
dren because of the quotations II
contains. Let each child old
enough occasionally read over
aloud the quotations, striving to
put earnestnessy feeling and intel
ligent expression into the reading.
Direct your children's thinking.
That should be done at home. And
IL you say to yourself. II will do
that" do 1t, beginning now, bear
ing in mind that
"One OF the illusions is that the
present hour is not the critical, de-
cisive hour. Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day In
the year. No man has learned any
thing rightly until he knows that