FROM A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
Cast Iron Femininity.
The modern girl can do everything
a man can do and do it on less food
and with less sleep. No man could live
the life the ordinary society Wwo-
man leads and not be a wreck at the
end of the first season. Certainly no
man, could run the risks the average
woman runs in the mere matter of
health and not become a confirmed in-
valid on the spot.—Ladies’ Field.
Old Fogy Justice.
English women are declaring that
Justice Darling, who officiated in a
recent case known as the Kennel-Maid
case, is an old fogy. He solemnly pro-
nounced the two victims in that case
most remarkable women because they
could—and moreover did—keep a se-
cret. = This, his indignant coun-
trywomen, when it is women who ex-
cel in the art of smiling and being si-
lent. Woman is a natural opportunist,
says one writer, and opportuz
the most discreet of beings.—New
York Tribune.
say
What Jealcusy Does to Looks.
disfigure you, just as
The ofie turns a plain
be sauty, the other chang-
es a fairly gocd looking woman into
a hag. It will make an intelligent, at-
tractive girl a tiresome little fool with-
in a few weeks.
It makes a woman
bore.
She
attractiveness of
Jealousy will
love transfigur:
woman into a
an unmitigated
unconsciously exaggerates the
the man she loves to
a point that makes others laugh at her
in their sleeves. Even when she has
cause to feel neglected or deceived,
she exalts ond enthrones the injury
jnstead of showing whether it has rea-
gon or is merely a clot on the brain.
It should, like a poisonous weed in a
garden, be out and fought
against.
stamped
This important item, that jealousy
puts lines all its own on the face,
drags down the corners of the mouth
and sharpens the nose, should at once
kill the passion. ii the hearts of wo-
men.—Amy Van Worden Spencer.
Harriet Farley Donlevy Dead.
Mrs. Harriet Iarley Donlevy, the
- first woman editor of a woman’s maga-
zine in the United States, died at the
Home for Ineurables, One Hundred
and Eighty-second street and Third
avenue. Mrs, Donlevy, better known as
Miss Farley, was born at Claremont,
Sullivan county, N. H. She was a
daugliter of the Rev. Stephen Farley.
At the age of fourteen she began to
earn her own living. She succeeded
not only in supporting, herself, but in
assisting her brothers and sisters, and
spent her leisure time in reading and
writing. After the publication of The
New aa rland ‘Offering in 1841, she be-
came a contributor to its columns. La-
ter was the editor, and eventual
ly. the proprietor. Mrs. Donlevy also
wrote several books, including “Mind
Among the Spindles,” “Fancy Frolics:
or, Christmas Stories Told in a Hap-
py Home in New England.” Her
brother, the late Judge Massilon Ifar-
ley, was a friend of Sam Houston and
was identified with the early histor;
of Texas. Mrs. Donlevy was a friend
of Whittier, the poet.—New York
Evening Post.
she
The Passion for Jewelry,
A rich woman, Mrs. Leland Stan-
ford, died leaving a million dollar's
worth of jewelry! Think of that! And
here is the government report show-
ing how amazingly the demand for pre-
cious stones has increased in the last
decade, ang stating that we have ac-
tually imported over two million dol-
lars’ worth of diamonds a month, cut
and uncut, with the total for a year of
over 26 million dollars’ worth! To
which must be added the cost of cut-
ting, the cost of gold settings and the
profits of retailing, all borne by the
purchaser! Indeed, I am told that ev-
ery year we spend three times as much
on diamonds as on sewing machines
A pretty suliject for a sermon!
Of course, no one objects to women
having a reasonable amount of jewel-
ry, what they can wear without osten-
tation or any great concern for its
safety; such modest possessions are
sanctioned by universal custom, aud
from all time jeweled rings and trink-
ets have been symbols of love, and
should remain so. Besides, there is a
beauty in precious stones just as there
is in other stones not called precious
— witness the opal, the most beautiful
of them all!
But when women value jewelry
neither for its beauty nor its associa-
tions but merely for its costliness,
when they wear as much of it as they
can, simply to show that they have
been able to buy that much or-make
men buy it for them, when their pleas-
ure in having it lies chiefly in the
knowledge that others envy them, then
I say the love of jewels is an evil
thing, based on arrogance and
fishness. And I cannot see what
tification any woman who knows of the
misery about her can find for spend-
ing half a million dollars, or anything
like it. on jewelry!
it should be noted, furthermore, that
the chief harm of this passion for
jewels is not in the waste of the mil-
lions involved, although that is bad
enough, but in the stirring of envy, in
the prompting of extravagance in the
urging to dishonesty. If we could
know what crimes have been commit-
ted for the sake of diamonds we should
sel-
jus-
“ty more
‘commanding
see that there is some devil's hypno-
tism in the glittering stones and would
have them all cast into the sea for gen-
eral safety.
Certain it is that no house where
precious stones abound is free from
evil desires, Servants are tempted,
guests are tempted, strangers are
tempted, even intimate friends are
tempted. Who has forgotten the story
of those stolen Newport jewels? And
so the unfortunate owners of these
wonderful necklaces, tiaras, plastrons,
rivieres, etc., must hire men to guard
them when they wear these unseen
and unused behind stupid iron doors.—
Pittsburg Press.
The Jealous Girl.
The girl who is gealous has a thorny
road to travel from the very beginning
of her life's journey. “Envy, hatred,
malice and all uncharitableness” are
her boon companions, and they cer-
tainly fill her career with exciting in-
cidents, if not exactly with joy.
The jealous -girl thinks all her
friends are mean, hateful, horrid crea-
tures, and she thanks her lucky stars
that she is in nowise like them. At
school they take the prizes she is
rightfully entitled to—if people ever
obtained their rights in this world—
and, of course, they are favorites with
the teachers, because they
be so nice and sweet with everybody.
As she struggles to make her beau-
impress
recognition
ve,
secure of her charm, she
does her
in dress and accomplishments.
rather a pitiful sight, from the stand-
point of the mere lcoker-on, but the
girl who is. jealous is not conscious
of that. She only wonders, unhappily,
why those other girls attain the social
popularity that seems to elude her in
spite of her efforts. She does not
know that she fails because she has
not learned nature’s secret of being
charming by simple sincerity, sweet-
ness and kindness of heart.
But when love comes into her life
she loses sight, for a time, of those
other girls. In the first rosy glow of
the little zod’s sweet presence she real-
ly assumes a loveliness that was lack-
ing before. Every girl is beautiful
who loves and is loved, and this girl
is no exception to the rule.
But alas! the jealous girl does not
often realize that this is the turning of
the tide in her life. Usually she is
unable to see that she has ever been
at fault, and so, when the first sweet-
ness of her love has, worn away, she
drifts back into her old habit of hunt-
ing mares’
If the man is sufficiently-in love he
may ignore the frequent unpleasant-
nesses that ensue and marriage will
probably result, and the jealous girl
becomes the jealous wife.
She makes happiness impossible to
herself as well as to her husband. She
banishes peace from her household
and finds at last that love and trust
and honor have gone with it. A wo-
man's fond belief may transform a bad
man into a good one, but it is a hun-
dred times oftener that distrustful
surveillance transforms a good hus-
band into a bad one.
As for the jealous woman in busi-
ness and professional life—from her
may we -all be spared; she is not a
figure; but without creat-
much of a furore herself, she is
capable of making things distinctly un-
pleasant for those who have the mis-
fortune to work with her. *As to ad-
vancing another woman’s interests,
would=not lift a finger to do it,
because she fears that, should the oth-
cr succeed in attaining a position of
influence, she would inevitably make
use of it to injure her benefactress.—
New York Journal.
nests.
ing
she
Fashion Notes.
A new touch on the white tailored
linen blouse is the metal button.
Salmon pink silk is used to line a
dinner gown of pale-yellow marquis-
ette.
One of the newest ideas is a belt of |
i ful.
tan-colored. suede, with one of the
ends cut out as fringe.
Some exceedingly alluring dresses
are offered in yellow tones and are
greatly favored by the brunette debu-
tontes. :
Mandarins’ jackets: and Chinese
sleeve embroideries, cleverly adapted,
add to the richness of opera coats or
dinner frocks.
The ‘“‘flatiron” shoe is affected by
tourists and mountain climbers, hav-
ing an irregular outline like a penin-
sula and a thick sole.
“bugles,”
chenille
spangles,
forms one
with
beads,
Combined
or colored
pretend to | ;
{arily.: Tt
| this
{lavman
she endeavors to
| trust
best to outdistance the rest |
It is |
Iwas divine ere
of the newest and most approved dec- |
orations of Paris Gowns.
Hats trimmed with large crushed
rosettes of different colored chiffon,
silk velvet or crepe are very pretty.
Boas are thick, full and long.
A half inch band of velvet border-
ing the blouse where it lays against
the fancy vest is a favorite touch of
contrast upon many new bodices.
The perennial favorite, the dash-
ing Cainsborough hat, to which the
fashionable world gives its fickle al-
legiance, has again made its appear-
ance.
Changeable motor veils, in violet-
and-blue, gray-and-pink, gray-and-ye)
low, and other fascinating combina-
tions, are necessary as a part of the
automobiling costume.
| test has
A SERMON”
$Y THE RE
(RA WZ HEN DERSON
Theme: The Bible.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street,
on the above theme, the Rev. Ira
Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as
his text Is.40:¢ “The Word of our
God shail stand forever.” He said:
This has been an age of criticism
of the Scriptures. There has never
been a time in the history of Chris-
tianity when the Bible was more
searchingly examined and the truth-
fulness of its facts as presented more
questioned than in the days through
which we have passed and are pass-
ing. The written truth of the divine
revelation has been put to severe
tests. Its foundations have been an-
alyzed. Its superstructure has been
sounded. Its conclusions have been
negatived and its very fabric has
seemingly been destroyed. Some of
us have feared that its permanence
has been threatened, its influence cur-
tailed, its contents in some measure
expunged. Criticism has been stren-
uous in its handling of the Bible.
Far more strenuous than some of us
have thought advisable. = Far more
strenuous than many of us have
thought justifiable, necessary or wise.
Under the combined influence of a
new science, a larger view of history,
a more comprehensive geography, the
ests of the validity and value of the
Scriptures have been changed and the
content of the Word of God has heen woman with a broken heart, wherever
considered than custom-
has shocked many a soul,
process. It has brought many a
and many a minister to the
of the ocean of doubt and dis-
and of spiritual uncertainty.
But it has been done. Whether we
have liked it no the light has bce
turned on. It has incidentally been
turned on much that was the foolish-
ness of immature scholarship mas-
querading under the guise of wisdom.
The criticism of the Scriptures has
created a widespread distrust of the
whole Book of Gag. It has upset
th&logy. It has removed many of
the old fon ad nas for our belief
in the iration of the Word and
of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Sadly
in many quarters it has undermined
faith. But that has been rather be-
cause men have lacked the power to
differentiate and because they have
mistaken facts for human statement
and interpretation of the same, than
because the Seriptures have been
scientifically studied and the light of
the gpirit honestly and helpfully
turned on.
Actually tl
differently
tide
or
in
rere has been little cause
for alarm. ‘Because we test the water
is no. guarantee that :it is countam-
inated. Because we put acid to our
silver is no surety that it is only
plated. Because we take the invi-
tation of the Almighty 2nd try Him
and His. Word is no .cason why we
should fear that either Hr both are
frauds. Because we study the Word
carefully invites ns presumption that
it will not be able fully to meet all
our questions © afd successfully to
elucidate all our vnerplexities and tc
justify itself. The Bible is noi =
book for dummies. Tt is the mechan-
ally preserved V/ord of a living God
who through the long ages has spoken
to living men and who vet speaks. It |
men of intelligence who
alive. And it invites the
live and intelligent men.
There is and has been
for alarm.
are -not the same thing.
ligious man may have a vervairocious
theology. And while it is always
best to express our religicus knowl-
edge and exper iences in L the bes t theo-
logical formul av be able
to devige, it is rs §
manity being what it is, that we may
not he able to express in words the
exact consciousness of our minds’ and
souls. A man’s theolegy will change,
if he be a live intelligent man,
with the ul magnifying
of his religious expel And if
our theology is incffe relate
our spiritual and ar experiences,
if our creeds do not correcily reveal
our thoughts, there is no reason in
the world why we should not do as
our fathers before us have done and
change our creeds, our formulated
theologic Creceds are necessary
an expressionof areligiousconscious
ness. It were folly to scoff them.
But they should be plastic. They
should grow with our growth and ex-
pand with our expansion.
And so if investigation of the
Scripture has relaid the ground for
our belief in the inspiration of the
Word of God we should not be fear-
For it has made the foundation
but more intelligible and truthful to
the minds of men of to-day. It has
not destroy
It has cnanged
ground of belief therein.
is as inspired as it ever was.
logical statement, however learned or
carefully worded, can alter the fact.
If the examination of the Scripture
has restated the grounds for our be-
lief in the divinity of Christ, it has
been simply to intensify our intellec-
tual acceptance of the fact of His
divineness. For He who was the full-
ness of grace and truth depends not
on any theological formula for dem-
onstration or justification. For He
men began to prove
is for are
no causes
aati
our major
The Word
No theo-
Him so.
We ought to be thankful that the
come. For out of the fire
has emerged a stronger faith in the
inspired Word of God, a clearer com-
prehension of the reasons for our
faith. And it were worth while to
go through fire and through flood to
i secure that.
has eliminated many a
perplexity. It has clarified much of
the obscurity of the "Scripture rec-
ords. It has brought the testimony
of the four ends of the earth to the
substantiation of the accuracy in
every essential part of God’s most
Holy Word. It has given us a larger
knowledge. It has given us a surer
knowledge. Except for those who
were nearest to the events that are
chronicled in Scripture there has been
none more accurately informed, so
far as we have light, concerning the
facts of Scripture than are we to-day.
Criticism
The more I read of the researches’
{in torment,
inquiry of |
| rise
For theology and religion |
A very re- |
i be a
organization
the fact of inspiration.’
and ‘results achieved by: critical stu-
dents of ‘the Bible and of the lands
with which it intimately associates
iteelf the more am I convinced that
the investigation is worth whatever it
may cost and that it is providendial.
And I am also convinced that we
would do well to go slow about dis-
counting the opinions concerning the
Scripture and the facts therein re-
cited that have been held true in day
long past. It is a good thing that we
should remember that the sum of
human wisdom is not resident in us
and that our forefathers were not
fools. This is an intensely critical
and scientific age. It demands proof
and evidence that heretofore was not
deemed necessary or reverent. Sut
the more we read and hear the more
we are led to believe that the fathers,
in not so informed and scientific an
age, were not so dzluded when they
accepted on faith that for which we
demand proof. For we get the proof
when we ask for it, so it would seem,
and it is very largely confirmatory
of the past.
The gates of hell cannot prevail
against the Bible. For it is the truth-
ful record of the largest longings, the
wickedest sins, the most delightful
religious exaltations of individuals
and a people. Its human interest is
superb. It meets our lives at every
point. It has comfort for the sorrow-
ing, peace for the afflicted, inspiration
for the heavy-hearted, enthusiasm for.
the discouraged, admonition for the
wicked, galvation for the penitent.
The farmer feels its vitality, the
shepherd acknowledge its appeal,
the rich man learns its lessons, the
poor man thanks God for its democ-
racy. It is the book of the people,
for it is redolent with the life of the
people. And wherever there is a soul
wherever there is a man
who mourns, wherever there is a
there is a mind in gloom, or a body
that is racked with pain, there will
the Bible be and be enjoyed. For it
radiates good cheer, it speaks to us
honestly of the deepest things of life,
it warns us of the consequences of
evil and the satisfactions of right-
eousness. The Bible Is as intelligible
to youth as to old age. It has a mes-
sage for all. It can charm a boy with
its heroes as a man with its profound
philosophy. It can animate a girl as
it can inspire and intensify a woman’s
love for God. And it does these
things.
And because it does it will never
grow stale or profitless or valueless.
It will ever stand. * *The Word of our
God shall stand forever.” It is eter-
nal. It is not:-the creature of time.
It is the child of eternity.
And it would stand forever if for
no other reason than that it unfolds
the earthly history of the incarnate
od. So long as the Bible speaks of
Christ it will live. For He is its in-
spiration. The revelation of Him is
its mission. And so long as men shall
sin and need salvation, so. long as
souls shall turn to God in Christ for
aid, so long will men love the Scrip-
ture and magnify its force.
Shallow thinkers may enlarge the
difficulties that inhere within the
Scripture. Bad men may quote it
for their evil ends. Foolish men may
twist its meanings and assure us of
its fallibility. But the Bible will
stand. It will stand forever. And
when we are gone and the countless
generations that shall follow us have
come and gone the long way in our
5.eps the Bible will be here. For it is
re: Word of the Lord. Let us never
orget it! And it shall endlessly per-
dure.
A Rise be se Jie Sacrifice,
Encugh has been said of the fall
by self-will to show us that man must
by self-sacrifice To grow this
passion within him were all the sac-
rific
weary history. More and more near-
ly did God reveal Himself unto man,
until in the seli-sacrifice of Calvary
the heart of man was taken and God's
self-sacrifice began the life of self-
sacrifrce in humanity. “The glory of
God and of ihe Lamb is light there-
of.
Encugh has been said of the city—
its divine socialism-—to show that to
reach it each man must begin to live
for others, that his whole life must
life of meekness and burden-
bearing. © God through the ages re-
vealed Himself as the bearer of man’s
burdens and by this revelation lifted
men slowly to a life of mutual help-
fulness, until “at = last in the sin-
bearer He disclosed Himself as the
victim of Calvary. The future social
aiter that could have
no other light but that of ibe glory
of God in the slain Lamb.
Enough has been said of holiness
in man—of sainthood-—to show that
the city of God will be inhabited —if
it is the Holy City—by those who
have met with foes and vanquished
them, by those who have known the
cross before they saw the crown. 1
look into John's vision and hear the
unuttered philosophy of spiritual
power, as the redeemed come
earth. Vision, then action. Men
are like colonists who have now and
then granted unto them a vision of
how things ought to be in the land
ideal, in the land of which they hear
from beyond. By and by they get
thereto the reality comes out of them
to meet the reality which ever hath
been there. So by His spirit we put
into our hearts the idea of the broth-
erhood of man, under God, in Christ
Jesus.— Dr. ¥. A. Gunsaulus.
“Poor, Yet Making Many Rich.”
The Church Times gives an in-
teresting little account of a pecor girl,
blind and deaf, an inmate of a North
Devon workhouse, who “lives a life
of prayer in her darkness and soli-
tude.” To this afflicted one the in-
itiative of the organization of the
Missionary Candidates’ Fund of the
S. P. G. may be traced. That fund
now has reached the sum of over
£3000, subscribed in a comparatively
short time, the first item being the
three shillings saved by the blind
girl. The writer of the notice says:
“She was in a little bare ward in
the workhouse when I saw her, look-
ing very sad because her Braille copy
of the Mission Field had been torn.
* * She asked me to pray for
Tor and then told us not only to pray
for missions, but also for the parish,
for Sunday-schools and Bands of
Hope, etc.; and one felt rebuked as
one thought of her life of prayer, al-
ways thinking of and interceding for
others in her darkness and silence.”
—London Christian.
‘es to which God led him in his y
home. |
Kirst, the new heavens, then the new |
Advice to a
<2 Man
By Kate Thorn.
Young
7 IS)
EE have just received a letter from a young man in one of our
southern cities, and give it verbatim:
“Madam: I am a young man of twenty-seven; I am well
well educated, and of a good family, but I have no business.
How can I earn money? I do not wish to work hard. 1
want something nice and easy—work for a gentleman. i
have thought of authorship—poetry, I pretfer—but a friend
tells me that publishers, as a class, are very stony-hearted,
and find their chief delight in crushing aspiring genius. 1
want an easy chance, remember. Will you please advise me?
“Yours, cte.,
“ ”»
We are delight-
by
Certainly, young man, we will advise you, with pleasure.
ed to make your acquaintance, though you are not an original character,
any means. We know a good many like you.
That is what most people are after—an easy chance.
But having lived some time in this state of existence, we are enabled to
remark, from positive knowledge, that this is a hard world to get an easy liv-
ing in.
Still, our advice is yours, and welcome,
Don't think; don’t work; don’t try to; don’t be a mechanic—all trades are
overstocked. Machinery will very soon do away with all necessity for men.
Don’t be a clergyman; don’t be a lawyer; don’t be a doctor; it is too hard for
a young man of your cloth to get up nights and go tramping ten miles over
the country to attend to boils on old women, and rheumatic tantrums in the
joints of old men, and internal revolutions in the howels of collicky babies.
Don’t be.a mason; you might fall from the top of a chimney, and be lost
to your native land.
Don’t be a soldier;
the old legend, “It is. }
Don’t paint—it
it is sometimes dangerous, and comfort yourself with
etter to be a live dog than a dead lion.” .
the fingers; don’t be a sculptor—using the chisel
would make you sweat. Don’t be a drummer—you would have a bag to carry.
Don’t be a street car conductor—you would be obliged to swear at your no-
torman. Don’t be a farmer—the mosquitoes would eat you up while you lay
under the shade of an umbrageous maple waiting for the hay to make.
Don’t marry a rich woman for her money, for if she has a grain of com-
mon sense you will never see the color of a cent it, ten to one she'll
make you get up .in the morning and make the fire, while lies abed and
reads a popular novel.
soils
and
she
and
ort.
Don’t be a poet. The demand for poetry has died out, besides, there
are no poets nowadays, and ‘spring’ is a theme well worn Poetry worth
reading is so scarce now that the public would not recognize the genuine ar-
ticle if they should see it—Ilike June butter, it is out of fashion,
Don’t be an author—for, vou have been: fishtly informed,
stony-hearted; adamant and the legendary millstone are down com-
pared to them. They would let you write six months, and spend the best
blood of your life on the sorrows of some soulful Evangelina and her dark-
browed Frederick Augustus. and they would fling the MS. into the waste bas-
ket with no more feeling in the operation than they would evince toward a
dead friction match
publishers are
been horn, it would have
vet discovered. :
laudanum, swallow it,
and quite as
Young man, it is a hard world. If you had never
been money in your pocket. There are no easy places
We would advise you to get a quarter's worth of
and, go to sleep. It would be as easy as anything you could do,
satisfactory to the community.
No: we don’t charge anything for York Weekly.
advice.—New
“Things Go Wrong
Oftener
FROM EXCESS OF PARTY SPIRIT
THAN ERROR OF JUDGMENT.”
By James Bryce, British Ambassador.
WRI; mane f\red eAYrmprain
O one seeing the faults that belong
and the difficulties of bringing it up
theory of democracy sets up need be disheartened, :
A J
to popular government
to the ideal which the
not even
hy repeated failures. History shows that other forms of
governmel—autoceracy andoligarchy—have their fagltgfalso,
nd graver faulty. You may find now and then a wise and
high-souled despot who will do his best for his subjects, but
there is no security, there is not even a probability that he
will be succeeded by other despots of like virtue. You may
have a prudent and skilful oligarcie government which will extend the power
of the nation in the world, but it is certain to govern in the own class inter-
ests, not in those of the people at large. This was the fallacy that led even
so eminent a writer as the late Sir Henry Maine to do injustice to democracy.
He pointed out its faults. He omitted to point out the faults of other goveri-
ments. All governments have their defects.
Alhough the best institutions and the best adminis:
worth playing for and striving for, there {gs another thing even more important.
That thing is the participation in the work of government by the whole body
Leaders, honest, capable, courageous men are just as neces-
sary in a democracy as in other forms of government. The people must seek
them out, must honor them, must give them, if their honesty is proved, its
confidence. But the whole people must continue to watch everything they do,
and never surrender its judgment or its votes into their hands.
When things go wrong it is not so often from errors of judgment on the
part of the people as it is from an excess of party spirit which has led them
to follow blindly an unscrupulous leader, or from an indifference and negli-
gence which has enabled unscrupulous and selfish men to pursnue their
advantage at the expense of the public good.
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By Charles F. Warner.
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ORE than twenty million children attended the
schools of the United States during the school year ending
in June, 1907. From this vast army there will be at least
five million deserters before the roll is called at-the begin-
ning of a new school year. Why do so many children leavs
the public schools before they have completed the elemen-
tary stages of the curriculum? Chiefly, believe, because
the schools, generally speaking, do not offer enough of the
kind of training which has an evident practical value. Dr.
Kingsbury found in her inquiry into the relations of children to the industries
for the special report on the subject issued by the Massachusetts Commis-
sion on Industrial and Technical Education, in 1906, that many parents, when
their children reach the end of the compulsory school period, would gladly
make great sacrifices to keep their children in school if they were able to
see any direct practical advantage in further school training.
There is something decidedly wrong in a social system which permits
large numbers of children to leave school and waste from two to four years
of adolescence in unskilled labor for a wage so small that it can claim no
consideration in comparison with the loss of opportunity that such children
experience, not to speak of the physical, mental, and moral damage that they
may suffer—From “The Charities and the Commons.”