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,,contents     ,,chapter                
,,page      ,i ,,the ,,appeal ,,to      
,,history                               
#a     ,,ii ,,the ,,patriotism ,,of     
,,peace                              #bb
    ,,iii ,,personal ,,responsibility   
,,in ,,politics                  #db    
,,iv ,,teaching ,,the ,,meaning ,,of    
,,democracy                    #fa      
,v ,,sacrificing ,,for ,,patriotism     
#gf     ,,vi ,,patriotism ,,and ,,health
                                #ic     
,,vii ,,work ,,as ,a ,,vital ,,part ,,of
 ,,patriotism                  #aaa     
,,viii ,a ,,patriot',s ,,manners ,,and  
,,morals                      #acj      
,,ix ,,the ,,patriot',s ,,religion ,,and
 ,,ideals                   #adg        
,,teaching ,,the ,,child ,,patriotism   
,illustration     ,,chapter ,i  ,,the   
,,appeal ,,to ,,history        ,let us  
suppose for a moment that any set of men
 could       succeed in sweeping away   
from them all the influences       of   

past ages4 ,suppose a race of men whose 
minds had       been suddenly deadened  
to every recollection--can we           
imagine a condition of such utter       
confusion and       misery8--,,frederic 
,,harrison4   ,,we have been lately told
 by one of our foremost educators that  
the best schools are expressly          
renouncing the questionable duty of     
teaching patriotism by means of history4
  ,to some of us who have brought up    
children1 this startling statement came 
like a bomb4 ,if history is to be used1 
as it certainly is used1 in many of our 
best schools1 in the teaching of        
political economy1 sociology1           
philosophy1 psychology1 biology1        
religion and nearly everything else1 why
 should we not use it also in teaching a
 child the value of his own country1 how
 dearly it has been bought1 and his duty
 to serve it8  ,when anybody undertakes 
to prove that a child who hears1 for    
instance the story of the six leading   
citizens of ,calais offering their lives

 for the redemption of their city1 does 
not feel a deeper sense of patriotism   
after it1 he must prove that the        
children whom most of us know are       
exceptional4  ,see the widening eyes and
 working features of children listening 
to a spirited reading of ,horatius at   
the ,bridge1 or ,herve ,riel1 or the    
story of ,nathan ,hale4  ,your educator 
may say that all this means merely an   
emotional spasm4 ,what is that but      
interest or enthusiasm8 ,and what is    
more potent in moving the will8  ,most  
of our intelligent mothers can testify  
that there seems to be nothing which    
more rouses a child's loving            
consciousness of his own land1 and more 
enkindles a desire to do something for  
it1--even to die for it--than listening 
to these fiery old tales of exalted     
patriotism4  ,in an eloquent panegyric  
upon the influence of a knowledge of    
history1 ,president ,woolley of ,mt4    
,holyoke ,college says3 ,it is a        
circumscribed life which has no vision  

into the past1 which is familiar only   
with present conditions and forms of    
government1 manners1 customs and        
beliefs4 ,such a life has no background1
 no material for comparisons1 no        
opportunity to learn from the mistakes  
of others1 nor from their achievements4 
,and1 in re-inforcement of the          
contention that much besides general    
culture and useful information is gained
 from the study of the past1 and        
especially from the study of the        
classics1 ,senator ,henry ,cabot ,lodge 
during a recent session of the ,new     
,york ,latin ,club uttered a strong plea
 for the study of ,latin and ,greek1 as 
an incentive to patriotism4  ,it is     
impossible1 he said1 in effect1 to read 
of 'the brave days of old1' of ,marathon
 and ,salamis1 of ,martius ,curtius1    
,lycurgus and a hundred others of the   
heroes of ,greece and ,rome1 without a  
sense of the glory of living and dying  
for one's country4 ,all children should 
be made familiar with them1 and         

especially with the ringing lines and   
sound patriotism of the ,iliad4 ,they   
not only teach patriotism1 but many of  
the other higher virtues1 and in such an
 interesting way that children want to  
hear the stories over and over4 ,thus   
their lessons become indelibly impressed
 upon young minds4  ,but one of the hard
 truths which should be taught in       
connection with these tales of heroism1 
is the fact that by far the greater     
number of splendid sacrifices for one's 
country are never heard of4             
,cincinnatus1 ,hector1 ,ajax1           
,pheidippides1 have come to fame1 which 
is generally considered reward enough   
for any hardship2 but most of the       
world's heroes are unknown or forgotten4
 ,every soldier can relate courageous   
deeds which he has witnessed but which  
live only in his memory or in those of  
his comrades4 ,in fact1 we are told that
 heroism is so common in the present war
 that almost every soldier deserves a   
medal4  ,an interesting instance of     

obscure heroism is quoted by ,miss      
,repplier from ,sir ,francis ,doyle3    
,dr4 ,keate1 the terrible head-master of
 ,eton1 encountered one morning a small 
boy crying miserably1 and asked him what
 was the matter4 ,the child replied that
 he was cold4 ',cold6' roared ,keate4   
',you must put up with cold1 sir6 ,you  
are not at a girls' school4'  ,the boy  
remembered the sharp appeal to manhood2 
for fifteen years later1 with the ,third
 ,dragoons1 he charged at the strongly  
intrenched ,sikhs 7thirty thousand of   
the best fighting men of the ,khalsa7 on
 the curving banks of the ,sutlej4 ,and1
 as the word was given1 he turned to his
 superior officer1 a fellow-,etonian1   
and chuckled1 ',as old ,keate would say1
 ,this is no girls' school1' and rode to
 his death on the battlefield of        
,sobraon1 which gave ,lahore to         
,england4  ,thus does the true hero lay 
down his life1 cheerfully and           
unrewarded1 for his country4  ,the      
anonymous hero1 so numerous and so      

grand1 is well typified also by         
,browning's ,echetlos1 ,the ,holder of  
the ,ploughshare4 ,this can be so read  
that even children of eight or ten can  
take it in4  ,one wishes that a real    
historical event were commemorated in   
,browning's ,how ,they ,brought the     
,good ,news from ,ghent to ,aix2 but it 
has the heroic ring1 and fires the young
 imagination as well1 perhaps1 as ,an   
,incident of the ,french ,camp1 which is
 said to be true1--another story of an  
unnamed hero4  ,it will interest those  
same children to hear ,browning's ballad
 of ,pheidippides1 who did              
--his part1 a man's1 with might         
,and main1 and not a faintest touch of  
fear4  ,the story should be told before 
the poem is read4  ,it is a pity that   
,napoleon ,,iii proved to be such a     
small man2 for ,mrs4 ,browning made some
 wonderful lines about him1 which might 
well be read to children for the        
promotion of patriotism4 ,in ,casa      
,guidi ,windows occur some of the finest

 lines for the awakening of true        
patriotism1 that can be found in our    
language1 yet they are seldom mentioned 
by writers on this subject4 ,the best   
should be read1 a few at a time1 often  
in the family circle4  ,from the history
 of the ,crimean ,war many striking     
tales of patriotism can be culled1 such 
as incidents in the life of ,lord       
,raglan and the careers of the wonderful
 ,napiers1 who were connected even more 
closely with the ,peninsular ,war4      
,girls will especially find joy and     
inspiration in the story of ,florence   
,nightingale4 ,boys and girls alike will
 revel in ,mrs4 ,laura ,e4 ,richards'   
charmingly written ,life of that        
heroine4  ,it is the fashion to speak   
rather slightingly of the patriotic     
poems which were thundered from the old 
lyceum-platforms by our forefathers1 but
 many of them naturally possess the     
spirit of the first patriots1 and thus  
are of especial value to our children4  
,it goes without saying that every child

 should early become familiar with the  
lives of ,george ,washington and        
,abraham ,lincoln4 ,show them that such 
men set the pace for ,america1 and      
taught us what true patriotism really   
is4  ,washington's ,farewell ,address   
should be read often in every ,american 
,family1 and portions of it should be   
known by heart to every ,american child4
 ,so should ,lincoln's ,gettysburg      
,address1 as well as portions of his    
other great speeches4 ,the stories      
should be often rehearsed to them of    
,joseph ,warren1 ,israel ,putnam1 ,john 
,paul ,jones1 ,decatur1 ,marcus         
,whitman1 ,grant1 ,sherman1 ,sheridan1  
,lee1 ,jackson and our other heroes of  
war and peace4 ,many of their           
achievements have been celebrated in    
worthy verse4 ,the great orations of    
,daniel ,webster1 ,edward ,everett1     
,wendell ,phillips1 ,william ,lloyd     
,garrison and others1 and the           
magnificent state papers of ,woodrow    
,wilson1 are well calculated to stir the

 spirit of true patriotism in the hearts
 of noble children1 and they should not 
be ignorant of those splendid           
compositions4  ,a year or more before   
the great war1 a young man was speaking 
lightly one evening of all this         
sentimental rot about 'love of country'2
 how it showed that a man hadn't        
traveled1 and is provincial4 ,he spoke  
in the tone affected by a certain class 
of blase1 hypersophisticated youths1 who
 might well be punished by the same     
means that were used for ,edward        
,everett ,hale's ,man ,without a        
,country1--another book which all older 
children should know4  ,the boy had     
recently returned from a long sojourn   
abroad4 ,his mother was horrified to    
hear his words1 though she had detected 
an unsoundness in his views ever since  
he had come back4 ,still1 she said      
nothing at the moment4 ,she wanted to   
think it over4  ,one evening shortly    
afterward the family were assembled on  
the broad porch4 ,several guests were   

present4 ,it was warm1 but a soft breeze
 blew in from the moonlighted ,hudson   
just below them4 ,some one suggested    
that it was just the time for poetry4   
,why should not every one recite his    
favorite poem8  ,they began4 ,one gave  
,rudyard ,kipling's stirring ,song of   
the ,english4 ,another followed with a  
portion of ,tennyson's ,ode on the      
,death of the ,duke of ,wellington1     
beginning with the familiar words1      
,not once nor twice in our rough island 
story1          ,the path of duty was   
the way to glory1  and ending with the  
fine repetition1          ,and keep the 
soldier firm1 the statesman pure2       
,till in all lands and through all human
 story1          ,the path of duty be   
the way to glory4  ,by this time1 the   
party of eight or ten cultivated people 
were all plainly affected4 ,the one who 
sat next said1 ,i was going to recite   
',the ,antiseptic ,baby1'--and1 of      
course1 that is always good1 but it     
doesn't seem to chime in with our mood  

to-night4 ,i used to know ,daniel       
,webster's great speech on the          
,constitution4 ,maybe ,i can recall it1 
and slowly he rolled forth the stately  
words4  ,when the mother's turn came1   
she begged them not to groan if she     
should give them a very well-worn       
selection1 and started out upon ,walter 
,scott's1 ,lives ,there a ,man with     
,soul so ,dead4  ,there was some        
derision in the laugh which greeted her 
first words1 but all were soon caught in
 the swirl of the great sentiment1 and  
when she came to the line ,unwept1      
unhonored and unsung1 there was long    
applause1 the blase youth joining in    
most heartily of all4  ,that's an old   
corker1 isn't it1 mother6 he cried4 ,i'd
 forgotten that it was so lively4       
,there's a lot in it4  ,she knew that   
his ideas were being cleared4  ,all of  
this heroism and love of country is     
represented by our flag4 ,its meaning   
should be explained to our children4    
,teaching them to salute it1 and to     

repeat the words which go with the      
salute1 becomes a mere form unless they 
understand its deeper significance4     
,henry ,ward ,beecher once gave a noble 
interpretation of it1 which has been    
amplified by ,secretary ,franklin ,k4   
,lane in an address to the employees of 
the ,department of the ,interior4 ,only 
a few words of it can be given here1 but
 your children should hear or read them 
all4  ,the ,flag seemed to say to him3  
,the work that we do is the making of   
the ,flag4 ,i am not the ,flag at all4  
,i am but its shadow4 ,i am all that you
 hope to be and have the courage to try 
for4  ,i am the day's work of the       
weakest man and the largest dream of the
 most daring4 ,i am the ,constitution   
and the courts1 statutes and            
statute-makers1 soldier and dreadnaught1
 drayman and street-sweep1 cook1        
counselor and clerk4 ,i swing before    
your eyes as a bright gleam of color1   
the pictured suggestion of that big     
thing which makes this nation4 ,my stars

 and stripes are your dream and your    
labors4 ,they are bright with cheer1    
brilliant with courage1 firm with faith1
 because you have made them so1--for you
 are the makers of the ,flag4  ,this is 
no mere sentimental fancy4  ,the thrill 
of the flag is best understood by those 
who have seen it on a foreign shore2 but
 the deepest thrill of all comes on     
beholding the flag which bears the marks
 of shot and shell4  ,a little boy of   
six1 who had been considered in his     
family as unemotional1 was one day      
riding with his mother past a public    
building1 gaily decorated with bunting4 
,among the unstained banners above the  
entrance hung a cluster of old          
battle-flags4 ,the child gazed at them  
with the greatest interest4 ,then he    
turned suddenly to his mother4  ,which  
do you like best1 mother8 he asked4 ,the
 bright new flags1 or the old1 ragged   
flags that have been in the battle8     
,which do you like best8 she said4  ,oh1
 he replied1 while his little lip       

quivered1 ,i like best the old1 ragged  
flags that have been in the             
battle1--don't you8  ,this child had    
been brought up from infancy upon the   
stories and poems of the patriots of the
 past1 but he had never shown before    
such a marked effect from them4 ,this   
effect grew with his years4  ,the most  
stolid and selfish child can be made    
into a fervid patriot1 ,i firmly        
believe1 by a proper use of the great   
patriotic literature4  ,until within a  
short time1 some of us have deprecated  
the idea of filling the minds of our    
children with visions of killing and of 
killers1 however brave and noble4 ,but  
we have learned that1 as long as there  
are barbarians in the world threatening 
to overwhelm civilization1 the arts of  
war must still be practiced4 ,history   
has described civilizations as good as  
ours1 perhaps better1 which were        
destroyed by barbarians1 physically     
stronger than the gentler races which   
they attacked4 ,so long as powerful     

tribes exist1 covetous of the wealth and
 the territory of their neighbors1 and  
willing to trample down everybody and   
everything else to get them1 what can we
 do but fight8          ',tis man's     
perdition to be safe1          ,when for
 the truth he ought to die4  ,that      
means1 in the terms of to-day1 that we  
must still sing to our children the     
glories of war4 ,americans properly hate
 war4 ,it is antiquated1 out of         
date1--utterly opposed to the spirit of 
the twentieth century4 ,we should bring 
up our children to see that it is just  
that1 and that we are fighting now      
simply because otherwise barbarism would
 overspread the world1--a barbarism     
which includes autocracy and militarism 
as its chief features1 two elements     
which are intolerable in a world of     
democracy4  ,and yet war is often a     
purifying fire4 ,it has its noble and   
uplifting side4 ,this is the side which 
is emphasized in the heroic tales which 
have been mentioned1 and which makes for

 the development of patriotism in the   
child and in the man4     ,,chapter ,,ii
  ,,the ,,patriotism ,,of ,,peace       
,the great mind knows the power of      
gentleness--         ,only tries force  
because persuasion fails4               
--,,robert ,,browning4   ,,the          
patriotism of war is far easier to teach
 than the patriotism of peace4 ,when    
bands are playing and the love of       
adventure is calling1 men find it easy  
to march away to battle for their       
country1 and boys and girls throb       
through all their young beings to do    
something for it4  ,but when men are    
staying at home1 with comfort beckoning2
 with the government jogging along and  
getting the main things done somehow or 
other1 under the guidance of            
professional politicians2 and with one's
 personal affairs requiring apparently  
the application of all one's mortal     
powers1--then patriotism needs a spur4  
,it was of such piping times of peace   
that ,goldsmith wrote3          ,ill    

fares the land1 to hastening ills a     
prey1          ,where wealth accumulates
 and men decay4  ,the task set forth    
before the conscientious citizen then is
 to keep alive in himself the clear     
torch of patriotism1--which simply means
 the duty to sacrifice as freely1 in    
proportion to the need1 in time of peace
 as in time of war4  ,it is the         
difficulty of this task1 seldom yet     
accomplished1 which has led to the many 
eloquent panegyrics1 in all languages1  
upon war as necessary to the very       
existence of a nation4 ,several entire  
books have been written to prove that   
sordidness and selfishness always       
possess and soon destroy a nation which 
does not have frequent wars4 ,the       
philosophy of ,nietzsche is largely     
founded upon this theory4 ,treitschke   
and ,bernhardi follow him closely4 ,even
 ,de ,quincey1 ,ruskin1 and others from 
among our best ,english writers1        
subscribe to this monstrous doctrine1   
and it is true that there is plenty of  

support for it in history4  ,but we     
,americans have always believed in      
brains rather than brawn for the        
settlement of international as well as  
personal controversies4 ,the duel has   
been banished from our country as an    
antiquated means of adjusting the       
quarrels of individual men1 and logic   
requires that a similar course be       
pursued toward quarrels on a larger     
scale4 ,because we have been obliged to 
lay aside temporarily our convictions in
 order to save ourselves and the right1 
from a mad dog of a nation1 which       
threatens to overthrow civilization1    
does not mean that we have given up our 
ideals4 ,if the ,american nation stands 
for anything1 it stands for peace1      
though we can and will fight if liberty 
and right are threatened4  ,in the study
 of the ,iliad which has been suggested1
 the words which ,agamemnon speaks to   
,hector should be especially commended  
to children3          ,cursed be the    
man1 and void of law and right1         

,unworthy property1 unworthy light1     
,unfit for public rule or private care1 
,the wretch1 the monster1 who delights  
in war1--          ,whose lust is       
murder1 and whose horrid joy1           
,to tear his country and his kind       
destroy4  ,but in the face of the almost
 universal testimony against it1 all of 
us should realize that extraordinary    
pains must be taken to inculcate the    
truth1 and live it1 that high patriotism
 can be kept alive in peace as well as  
in war4  ,precept alone goes not very   
far in any line1 and less1 perhaps1 in  
this1 than in any other4 ,the study of  
history and a little of the most modern 
literature1 helps4 ,classical           
literature1 in all languages1 preaches  
with frightful unanimity1 the necessity 
and the nobility of war4 ,in the        
religion of ,rome1 ,mars received ten   
times more homage than did ,jupiter4    
,the book and the precept must not be   
neglected1 but your chief weapon in     
teaching your child the patriotism of   

peace must be the deed4 ,you must set a 
strenuous example1 or else all your     
words will pass like the whistle of the 
wind4  ,in ,president ,hadley's         
inaugural1 he asserted that the main    
object of education is to make good     
citizens1--which is1 perhaps1 only      
another way of saying that the chief    
object of education is to make patriots4
  ,he was talking of the education of   
the schools2 but ,emerson somewhere     
says1 in effect1 that though we send our
 children to the schoolmaster1 it is1   
after all1 their environment which does 
most of the educating4  ,emerson speaks 
of the shop-windows along the child's   
way2 but it is his home which forms the 
most influential factor in his          
environment2 and the part of the home   
usually dearest to him is his mother4   
,it is a common saying1 especially in   
our cities1 that fathers see their      
children only when they are asleep1     
leaving them at breakfast-time1 and     
returning after they have gone to bed4  

,up to the age of twelve1 or thereabout1
 children should retire shortly after   
eight o'clock4 ,during the next few     
years1 even though they sit up later1   
they generally have to study4 ,thus1    
during their formative period1 it is    
upon the mother that the home training  
of the children chiefly devolves4  ,a   
distinguished clergyman in a public     
address once eulogized his mother4 ,he  
attributed to her every virtue and a    
wonderful mind4 ,he was a violent       
anti-suffragist1 and supposed that he   
was presenting a strong argument for his
 side when he said1 ,but though my      
incomparable mother counseled us upon   
almost every subject that could engage  
our attention1 she never mentioned to us
 the subject of politics4  ,had he not  
struck1 perhaps1 the main reason for the
 corruption of our politics8 ,the       
fathers have no chance to instruct their
 young children in the rudiments of     
politics1--yet those children ought to  
be so instructed by somebody4 ,they get 

little or nothing of it in school4 ,if  
their mother does not teach them        
something about it1 they will probably  
grow up ignorant of many of its snares  
and its opportunities4  ,to-day the     
anti-suffragists are wiser4 ,they say   
that women should understand civic      
duties and should canvass them          
thoroughly with their children4 ,the sin
 and the shame come only1 in their      
opinion1 when women actually vote for   
the best men and women to fill the      
offices4  ,the case is as if a woman    
should furnish a house1 supplying its   
kitchen with every facility for cooking 
and cleaning2 fitting its dining-room   
with the proper linen1 silver and china2
 arranging its bedrooms for comfortable 
sleep2 making its parlors beautiful for 
guests2 and then1 though she has known  
so well the needs of a household and how
 to provide for them1 she draws back    
from the responsibility of running her  
model house1 as if to say3 ,my sisters  
and ,i are not competent to manage this 

house4 ,you men are far abler4 ,please  
make and enforce all the rules to govern
 it4  ,let the men and the women work   
together1 dividing the responsibility   
according to the fitness of each        
individual4 ,there are stupid men and   
stupid women and there are bright men   
and bright women4 ,women are human      
beings before all else and all human    
interests are their interests4 ,there is
 among us too much of cowardice and     
laziness1 posing as hyper-refinement and
 modesty4 ,women as voters1 weavers of  
peace1 as the old ,saxons called them1  
are bound to be a helpful force in many 
departments1 and especially in this     
great work of establishing universal    
peace1 and teaching men how to use it4  
,they should begin with the child in its
 cradle4  ,for1 let us repeat1 it cannot
 be too strongly impressed that the     
underlying and fundamental principles of
 politics must be taught by the mother1 
if they are taught at all2 and like     
everything else that is good1 they can  

be and should be taught4 ,it does not   
seem to be generally understood1 but it 
is a fact1 that a training in politics  
is possible1 and if our great experiment
 in government is to succeed1 such a    
training should be given to every child1
 and the mother seems to be the natural1
 and often the only person to give it4  
,a mother was one day walking along the 
streets of the great city in which she  
lived1 when she saw that a new          
liquor-saloon had been opened within two
 blocks of her home4  ,oh1 dear6 she    
said to her little boy of eight1 who    
held her hand1 ,here is another         
saloon1--another place where men will   
spend their money foolishly and perhaps 
become drunkards1--and so near our own  
home6 ,we have never had one so near    
before4  ,as she spoke1 two men         
staggered out from the saloon-door and  
made their way unsteadily along the     
sidewalk4 ,the child had never seen a   
drunken man before4 ,his eyes widened   
with horror and an expression of utter  

disgust settled upon his eager little   
face4  ,why do they let 'em do it6 he   
burst forth4 ,aren't there any          
,christians in ,congress8  ,it was plain
 that ideas of law and restraint1 and of
 the difference between good government 
and bad government1 were struggling for 
form and coherence in the child's mind4 
,the mother seized her opportunity4 ,she
 explained briefly some of the evils of 
the saloon2 the meaning of high license 
and prohibition1 and something of the   
arguments on both sides2 how most good  
people agree that the saloon1 as at     
present conducted1 is a cancer on the   
body politic1 and how the chief         
disagreement is concerning the best ways
 of controlling or suppressing it2 how  
the liquor men are active in politics1  
while the temperance men are so busy    
with their own affairs1 and usually so  
contemptuous of legislatures that they  
do not look carefully after the laws2   
how voters are often bribed2 and as many
 more details as the boy seemed to want 

to hear4  ,he listened closely and asked
 many intelligent questions4 ,he had    
received a lesson in politics which he  
did not forget1 as his chance remarks   
showed for months afterward4 ,he talked 
the matter over with his younger        
brothers1 and they1 too1 began to ask   
questions4 ,during the next few years   
that mother gave her boys brief talks on
 arbitration1 the tariff1 public        
education and its bearing on democracy1 
street-cleaning1 road-making1 silver and
 gold money1 and many other topics of   
current politics4 ,she was careful never
 to force them1 for she knew that it is 
only when the mood is upon him that a   
boy likes to discuss serious subjects4  
,the terms she used were of the         
simplest2 and her husband1 who was      
deeply interested in her efforts1 and   
helped her whenever he could1 supplied  
her with many illustrations1 such as    
children could understand4 ,especially  
did she impress upon her children's     
minds the true and striking saying of a 

great ,frenchman1 that governments are  
always just as bad as the people will   
let them be2 and that1 as a part of the 
people1 it was their duty to see that   
the government was made and kept good4  
,by line upon line1 precept upon        
precept1 knowing that opinions are      
formed          ,as boys learn to       
spell1--          ,by reiteration       
chiefly4  this mother tried to impress  
upon those children the duties of good  
citizenship4 ,they are grown up now and 
show the effects of their training4     
,many of us feel that more upon the     
subject of politics1--again we should   
remind ourselves that politics and      
patriotism are very nearly the same     
thing1--might easily and properly be    
taught in our public schools2 for the   
foundation principles of politics are   
only those of ordinary ethics4 ,in this 
way1 morality1 which is far more        
necessary than book-learning for the    
perpetuity of our institutions1 would   
take that dominant place in our         

educational system1 so strongly         
advocated by that prince of educators1  
,horace ,mann4 ,among all my long list  
of acquaintances1 he says1 ,i find that 
for one man who has been ruined for want
 of intellectual attainments1 hundreds  
have perished for want of morals4 ,and  
yet we go on bestowing one hundred times
 more care and pains and cost on the    
education of the intellect than on the  
cultivation of the moral sentiments and 
the establishment of moral principles4  
,he insists that morals should be       
regularly taught1 and not left to casual
 and occasional mention4  ,thus broad   
and clear ideas of perfect honesty1 with
 ,abraham ,lincoln and other good and   
great men as examples1 form the         
foundation of clean politics1 and should
 be impressed upon the children in our  
schools4 ,the daily papers often        
describe shining instances of this      
cardinal virtue4  ,suppose that a       
theater is burned and many lives lost4  
,laws may have been passed for the      

safeguarding of theaters1 but the       
manager of this house disregarded them  
in order to save a few dollars4 ,there  
is a chance to impress regard for law   
and its enforcement4  ,or suppose that  
bribery is under discussion4 ,here is a 
true story of the way in which its      
devious methods were impressed upon the 
mind of a small boy3  ,he was stopping  
with his mother in a country town1 when 
the tailor of the place1 in speaking of 
the day's voting1 remarked3 ,i don't    
gen'ally vote1 but ,i did to-day1       
because they sent a carriage up from the
 ,center for me4 ,it takes time to vote 
and 'tain't much use4 ,what does one    
vote amount to anyway8 ,but when one of 
the bosses is anxious enough to come an'
 git me1 why1 then ,i'll vote1 or if    
they'll give me my fare on the cars4    
,why1 said the boy quickly1 isn't that  
bribery8  ,lord1 no6 said the man1      
shuffling about uneasily4 ,that jest    
pays me for my time an' trouble4 ,i     
don't git nothin' for my vote4          

,sophistries like this should be        
immediately made clear to the child4 ,it
 would probably be impossible to show   
them to that tailor4  ,our              
,revolutionary fathers1 said ,horace    
,mann again1 abandoned their homes1     
sacrificed their property1 encountered  
disease1 bore hunger and cold1 and stood
 on the fatal edge of battle1 to gain   
that liberty which their descendants    
will not even go to the polls to        
protect4 ,our ,pilgrim ,fathers         
expatriated themselves1 crossed the     
,atlantic1--then a greater enterprise   
than now to circumnavigate the          
globe1--and braved a savage foe1 that   
they might worship ,god                 
unmolested1--while many of us throw our 
votes in wantonness1 or for a bribe1 or 
to gratify revenge4  ,this is a terrible
 indictment4 ,it is not as true now as  
it was in the time of ,horace ,mann4    
,still1 the lesson contained in it      
should be impressed upon our children4  
,,chapter ,,iii  ,,personal             

,,responsibility ,,in ,,politics        
,let us have faith that right makes     
might1 and in that       faith let us to
 the end dare to do our duty as we      
understand it4--,,abraham ,,lincoln4    
,,during the last few years the         
magazines have published many helpful   
series upon politics and a number of    
these deserve especial credit for their 
work in this line4 ,in one of these     
articles the writer reminds us that     
though the sins of our time are the same
 old sins which were denounced by       
,jeremiah and ,ezekiel1 they are likely 
now to be enameled with fine new        
exteriors and called by new names4      
,especially1 the current methods of     
annexing the property of others are     
characterized by an indirectness and    
refinement very grateful to the natural 
feelings4  ,this is terribly true1 and  
the child should be made aware of it4 ,a
 dazzling outside may cover a black     
heart4 ,illustrate this fact to him by  
the story of those beautiful flowers    

whose sweet odor is laden with death4   
,tell him of ,william ,m4 ,tweed1 whose 
gigantic thefts almost bankrupted a     
great city1 yet who read a chapter in   
his ,bible every day1 and who possessed 
many kind and even noble qualities4     
,many other public men of ancient and   
modern times will afford equally        
striking examples of inconsistency4  ,a 
certain excellent country gentleman1 who
 did not realize the possible           
deceitfulness of the outside1 went down 
to the capital of his state to see about
 some bills which vitally affected his  
business4 ,he had written to the        
,senator from his section that he was   
coming and had asked for an appointment 
to meet him4 ,he had never met this man1
 but the papers had criticized him      
severely1 and our friend was prepared to
 encounter a mean and churlish creature4
  ,instead1 he reported upon his return 
to his home1 ,i found him a perfect     
gentleman4 ,he met me at the train and  
took me to my hotel in his own          

automobile1 and invited me to dine with 
him the next day4 ,he lives in a        
beautiful home4 ,i was surprised to see 
what kind of a man he really is4 ,you   
would think by the way the papers go on 
about him that he had horns and hoofs1  
but1 he repeated1 he was a perfect      
gentleman4  ,yet this man was one of the
 most dangerous practical politicians in
 the state--one of those who believe    
that the ,ten ,commandments have no     
place in politics1 and who scrupled at  
nothing which could benefit himself and 
his friends4 ,he simply could not       
understand a man who could swear to his 
own hurt and change not4  ,unlike the   
old-time villain1 says ,mr4 ,e4 ,a4     
,reed1 the latter-day malefactor does   
not wear a slouch-hat and a comforter1  
and breathe forth curses and an odor of 
gin4 ,fagin and ,bill ,sykes and ,simon 
,legree are vanishing types4 ,good1     
kindly men let the wheels of commerce   
and industry redden rather than pare    
their dividends1 and our railroads      

yearly injure one employee in           
twenty-six1 while we look in vain for   
that promised day of the ,lord1 which   
shall make 'a man more precious than    
fine gold4'  ,and1 again1 ,the tropical 
belt of sin into which we are now       
sweeping is largely impersonal4 ,the    
hurt passes into that vague mass1 'the  
public1' and is there lost to view4     
,hence it does not take a ,borgia to    
knead 'chalk and alum and plaster' into 
the loaf1 seeing that one cannot know   
just who will eat that loaf4 ,the       
purveyor of spurious life-preservers    
need not be a ,cain4 ,the owner of      
rotten tenements1 whose 'pull' enables  
him to ignore the orders of the ,health 
,department1 fore-dooms babies1 it is   
true1 but for all that1 he is no ,herod4
  ,often there are no victims4 ,if the  
crazy hulk sent out for 'just one more  
trip' meets with fair weather1 all is   
well4 ,briber and grafter are now 'good 
men1' and would have passed for virtuous
 in the ,american community of seventy  

years ago4 ,therefore1 people do not    
always see that boodling is treason2    
that blackmail is piracy1 that          
tax-dodging is larceny4 ,the cloven hoof
 hides in patent leather1 and to-day1 as
 in ,hosea's time1 the people are       
destroyed for lack of knowledge4  ,let  
us see to it that our children are not  
so destroyed4  ,in the old abolition    
days1 ,mr4 ,emerson wrote3 ,what an     
education in the public spirit of       
,massachusetts have been the speeches   
and reading of our public schools6      
,every district school has been an      
anti-slavery convention for these two or
 three years last past4  ,special       
policies cannot often be taught like    
this in the modern public school1 but   
the broad principles of pure politics   
can and should be4  ,for instance1 a    
lesson in ,civil ,service management may
 be given without once uttering those   
words1 simply by teaching the sentiment 
well uttered by ,ruskin3 ,the first     
necessity of social life is the         

clearness of the national conscience in 
enforcing the law1--that he should keep 
who has justly earned4  ,children can be
 taught the dangers1 not only to their  
principles1 but their worldly fortunes1 
of office-seeking and of making a       
profession of politics4 ,the child of   
wealth should be especially instructed  
in his duty to look after the affairs of
 his own town1 county1 state and nation4
 ,the man whose powers are strained to  
the utmost in order to support and      
educate his family1 can of necessity    
give little time to the searching out of
 civic wrongs and their remedies4 ,the  
well-to-do citizen must give all the    
more to make up for the limitations of  
his poorer neighbor4  ,children can be  
taught1 too1 something of the protean   
forms of bribery1 the schemes for       
trading votes2 the duty of every voter  
to vote and do jury-work2 the need of   
looking at every question from both     
sides2 of avoiding blind partisanship2  
and much of the rest of the elementary  

ethics of politics4  ,and1 again1 it is 
upon the mother that this patriotic duty
 must chiefly devolve4 ,as with all of  
her training1 she may often feel that   
the work is slow and uncertain1 but she 
may well take to heart the encouraging  
words of the poet3          ,thou canst 
not see grass grow1 how sharp soe'er    
thou be2          ,yet that the grass   
has grown1 thou presently shall see4    
,so1 though thou canst not see thy work 
now prospering1 know          ,the fruit
 of every work-time without fail shall  
show4  ,jacob ,riis used often to say   
that the apparent corruption of our     
politics was largely due to crass       
ignorance4 ,there are1 too1 many human  
beings who are born moral idiots1 who   
cannot be made to understand ethics1 any
 more than intellectual subnormals can  
be made to understand proportion and    
international law4 ,but we know that up 
to the ability of every being he should 
be taught4 ,we know that the appalling  
illiteracy of ,mexico1 ,russia and      

,china renders a stable republic in any 
one of them almost impossible4          
,education is a slow business4          
,generations of it will be required to  
make those countries what they ought to 
be2 but it is the desideratum to        
successful republicanism4 ,therefore it 
is vital that we guard our public       
schools4  ,but again it must be         
emphasized that though school discipline
 should be of the best1 yet the real    
education of your child depends more    
upon his home than upon his school4     
,what newspapers are lying around there8
 ,what magazines8 ,do you patronize     
salacious plays8 ,do you exalt in your  
conversation the prize-fight and the    
automobile-race8 ,what sort of people   
visit your home8  ,what sort of         
conversation goes on at your table8 ,is 
wine or beer served there8 ,is the air  
in your parlor or study often thick with
 tobacco-smoke8  ,the father who wishes 
his children to become pure-minded and  
unselfish patriots1 must ask himself    

many questions like these4 ,remember    
that the boy is influenced by your words
 only to a certain degree4 ,our seer of 
,concord never uttered a more impressive
 truth than when he pictured a youth as 
demanding of his father1 ,how can ,i    
hear what you say1 when what you are is 
thundering so loud in my ears8  ,you can
 bring very near to your boy and your   
girl1 the responsibility of us all for  
good home government1 by mentioning     
often to them the burning issues in     
their home town4 ,in many of our towns  
and villages1 one part of the city or   
township is jealous of another part1    
will not vote for improvements there and
 is generally suspicious and contrary4  
,explain to your children how           
contemptible such an attitude is4 ,weigh
 for them the arguments on both sides1  
and make them help you to decide justly 
how you ought to vote4 ,make the girl1  
especially1 form an opinion4 ,on her may
 devolve the future political training  
of influential citizens4 ,in fact1 she  

may herself be a ,member of ,congress or
 a ,united ,states ,senator6  ,are the  
roads bad in your town8 ,are the taxes  
improperly collected8 ,are the schools  
inferior or managed by politicians8 ,is 
the town poorly policed8 ,are the back  
yards unsanitary8 ,are the town officers
 inefficient8  ,explain to your children
 how the taxes are laid1--how a town has
 to spend a good deal to keep itself up1
 so to speak2 and how important it is   
that its tax-money should be carefully  
spent4  ,particularly should we impress 
it upon our children that if a town is a
 slipshod1 ugly or unhealthy place1 it  
is not the fault of a vague1 formless   
thing1 called the town or the city1 or  
the state1 but of each and every one of 
us2 and especially of every separate    
voter who fails to be on hand at the    
town-meetings or caucuses1 and to try   
his best to get good men elected and    
good measures passed4  ,an ,american was
 riding in a cab through the streets of 
,vienna1 some years before the war1     

reading his mail4 ,as he finished with  
certain letters1 he tore them up and    
threw the fragments out of the          
cab-window4 ,the driver soon began to   
notice what was going on1 left his box  
and picked up the torn papers4 ,then he 
put his head in at the window1 and      
cried1 with a passion which seemed to   
the careless and untidy ,american quite 
uncalled-for1 ,what do you mean by      
littering up our beautiful streets in   
this way8 ,where do you come from8 ,have
 your people no pride in their country8 
,do they wish it to look all over like a
 slum8  ,he actually reported the matter
 to the police4 ,the man was thereupon  
haled to court and had to pay a         
considerable fine4  ,although some of   
our cities1 as well as foreign ones1    
carry civic pride to an almost          
ridiculous extent1 it is a good fault4  
,children should early be taught to     
regard the neatness and beauty of their 
town4  ,if they complain that these     
matters are hard to remember and to do1 

give them to understand that patriotism 
is not easy4 ,few virtues are easy to   
practice1 and perhaps unselfish         
patriotism is the hardest of all4  ,a   
young man graduated from that great     
,american university where it is said   
that citizenship is most strenuously    
taught1 and where he had certainly      
imbibed a lofty desire to do his duty by
 his country4 ,he lived in a great city 
and presented himself in due time after 
his graduation at the door of his ward  
political organization4 ,there he met   
with an experience something like this3 
,a gentleman1 plethoric and red-faced1  
welcomed him1 asked his name and        
address1 and gave him the glad hand4 ,at
 the same time1 he showed a spice of    
suspicion4  ,are you a ,republican8 he  
asked4  ,yes4  ,i suppose you have      
always voted the straight ticket8       
,well1--,i have been voting only a year 
or two4 ,i think ,i have voted the      
straight ticket so far4  ,and ,i suppose
 you intend to vote the straight ticket 

right along8  ,i may or ,i may not1 said
 the youth1 with some spirit4 ,i reserve
 for myself the right to vote for the   
best candidate1 especially in local     
affairs4  ,then1--ahem--perhaps you     
haven't got into just the right place4  
,this is a straight organization1 you   
know4 ,maybe you can find an            
'independent' 7pronounced with scorn7   
organization somewhere in the ward4 ,i  
rather think that is where you belong4  
,we have found these 'independents' a   
sort of obstruction to the transaction  
of business1--a kind of kickers1 you    
know1 though of course1 you might not   
turn out so4 ,still1--with              
decision1--you really don't belong here4
  ,i was mad clear through1 said the    
youth1 in relating the story later4 ,i  
was disgusted with the looks of the man 
and with those who were in there with   
him4 ,i just turned on my heel and left1
 and ,i haven't darkened that door      
again4  ,was that patriotic8 ,was not   
that boy deliberately turning over the  

government of his city to boodlers and  
grafters8  ,but1 you may say1 should he 
have stayed on where he was not wanted8 
,certainly he should4 ,he had a right   
there1 as any citizen had4 ,he should   
have taken time to find other voters    
like himself1 which he could no doubt   
have done1 and together they could have 
maintained themselves4 ,he saw that this
 man and his companions were not proper 
persons to have control of an           
organization of his party1 and he should
 have done his best1 even at the        
sacrifice of considerable time1 to oust 
them and get better men in4 ,he was no  
patriot4     ,,chapter ,,iv  ,,teaching 
,,the ,,meaning ,,of ,,democracy        
,in a country like ours1 there is a     
public opinion of       almost          
uncontrollable power4 ,the educated and 
the       intellectual may have a       
decisive voice in its       formation2  
or they may live in their own selfish   
enjoyments1 and suffer the ignorant and 
depraved to       form that public      

opinion4--,,horace ,,mann4   ,,one of   
the most irritating things in the world 
to a true patriot1 is the visitor at his
 table1 who exalts the superiority of   
other nations to our own4  ,not that    
nearly every other nation may not have  
some one or more points of superiority1 
which should be acknowledged and        
emulated2 but your worshiper of the     
foreign usually makes a blanket         
indictment of ,america4  ,one such man  
was a guest at a certain table just     
before the war4 ,he had recently        
returned from a long stay in ,europe1   
where his great wealth and important    
commercial and social connections gave  
him access to many of the circles which 
largely control the life over there4    
,how are the people abroad thinking of  
us nowadays8 inquired his hostess rather
 lightly4 ,do they despise us as much as
 ever8  ,yes1 indeed1 replied the great 
man emphatically4  ,but ,i hope you     
stood up for us8  ,i wish ,i could say  
that ,i did1 he had the effrontery to   

reply calmly2 but how could ,i8 ,they   
consider that the corruption of our     
government is so bad that it cannot     
possibly continue very long4 ,i couldn't
 deny it1 could ,i8 ,i agreed with them 
entirely that we were nearly at the end 
of our rope4  ,really8 gasped his       
hostess4 ,are you in earnest8  ,i never 
was more so in my life4 ,look at the    
condition of affairs in ,blank and      
,blank and ,blank1--naming several      
states in which legislative scandals had
 been lately unearthed1--,how long do   
you think that things can go on like    
that and a government survive8 ,i had to
 admit that a democratic form of        
government is a failure4 ,of course1 it 
was a great dream of the fathers1 but it
 has proved to be as impracticable as a 
good many other rainbow visions4        
,sometime the world may be ready for it1
 but it evidently is not now4  ,and what
 do you think will follow8 asked his    
hostess1 holding on to her temper with  
difficulty4 ,are you in favor of an     

autocracy like ,germany1 or of a limited
 monarchy like ,great ,britain8 ,or do  
you think an oligarchy a better form8   
,and if we decide on a monarchy1 where  
should we get our royal family8 ,should 
we elect one from candidates that       
present themselves8 ,or should we       
request ,europe to send us one8  ,now   
you are making fun of me1 he commented  
with some feeling4  ,oh1 no1 not        
exactly1 she laughed4 ,but really1 if   
,europe is unanimous in thinking our    
republic a failure1 there must be       
'something in it4' ,you have been in    
many countries and have met the leading 
people1 and you know what you are       
talking about4 ,if we are truly on the  
verge of a revolution1 it is to the men 
like you1 our foremost and ablest men1  
that we must turn to save us4 ,therefore
 you ought to be thinking of ways and   
means4 ,here is a nation of nearly a    
hundred million persons4 ,if its        
government is so rotten that it cannot  
last1 what should be done8  ,but he     

declined to continue the discussion4 ,he
 merely laughed rather weakly and some  
one just then introduced a new topic4   
,strange to say1 during the next few    
months several other men were           
encountered1 who also bemoaned the      
failure of our institutions4  ,our      
children must be taught how to meet such
 pessimists4 ,they would probably1 in   
the light of recent developments1 say   
that they repudiate the doctrines of    
,nietzsche1 but they are really         
endorsing one of his prime tenets1      
namely1 that democracy is bound always  
to be a failure2 that the masses should 
be kept down2 that all attempts to      
elevate the herd are folly2 that they   
should be made to observe that strict   
morality1 from whose shackles the       
supermen are free2 and should submit    
unquestioningly to authority4 ,women1   
even in the super class1 are made in    
,nietzsche's opinion1 simply1 as ,milton
 says1 to serve by standing and waiting4
  ,one would think that men who hold    

such views as this traveled guest1 had  
never studied democracy4 ,they surely do
 not understand its deep and splendid   
meaning4 ,they should be made to see1 as
 our children should be1 by every means 
that we can devise1 the tremendous      
advance which a democratic form of      
government shows beyond any other that  
the world has hitherto known4 ,they     
should have impressed upon them ,elihu  
,root's definition3 ,democracy is       
organized self-control4  ,especially    
should they be told that universal      
education and unselfishness of          
patriotism are the only conditions under
 which a democracy can be perfected2 and
 that no nation has ever yet been       
sufficiently educated and unselfish to  
arrive at perfection1 and probably will 
not be until the millennium4  ,we all   
realize that our government has many    
defects2 but most of our critics        
stupidly fail to recognize that our     
public officials1 instead of being our  
masters1 are regarded by us1 and in no  

,pickwickian sense1 as our servants4 ,we
 are all so criminally busy with our    
personal affairs that we allow our      
government to run along almost anyway1  
often knowing that grafters are in      
charge of it2 but feeling that it is    
cheaper to let matters go until they    
become unendurable1 than to take the    
trouble to keep close track of them4    
,after awhile1 we say to ourselves1 we  
will have a regular cleaning-up1 turn   
the rascals out1 and put in a new set of
 officials1 who1 we hope1 will do       
better4  ,our children must be taught   
that this is a wicked way to do4 ,they  
must devote some of their time to       
following public affairs4 ,they must    
understand also that1 while low salaries
 must usually be paid to public         
officials1 in order that offices may not
 be too eagerly sought1 yet that        
patriots must be willing1 when they can 
possibly afford it1 to accept these low 
salaries1 if their country is to be well
 and honestly served4 ,in this war1 we  

have seen many noble men resign large   
incomes in order to serve the nation4   
,we must learn to do that in peace as   
well as in war4  ,and we must all       
understand too1 that these officials do 
not really represent the governing power
 of our country1 which is undoubtedly   
that intangible thing called ,public    
,opinion4 ,it is as subtly invisible as 
electricity or gravity1 but in this     
nation as powerful4  ,in ,china1 in     
,india1 and in most of the other        
oriental countries2 in ,russia also1 as 
the recent upheavals there have proved1 
there is nothing which can properly be  
called organized ,public ,opinion4 ,in  
,france and in ,great ,britain1 there is
 much4 ,in our country1 it is           
everything4 ,it dominates our whole     
social and political system4 ,our press 
is sometimes said to create it4 ,oftener
 the press says that it follows ,public 
,opinion1--while a considerable section 
of our population declare that the press
 and ,public ,opinion are the same      

thing4  ,in any case1 the child should  
be made to understand that in a truly   
and nobly democratic form of government1
 no czar1 no kaiser1 no caste nor clique
 controls1 but the people themselves1   
who1 as ,lincoln said1 can be fooled by 
their leaders part of the time1 but     
whose sober second thought usually sets 
them ultimately on the right side4 ,the 
child should be made to feel that since 
he is one unit in this controlling mass1
 he should form his opinions with care4 
,one of the most frequent accusations   
against us among foreigners1 is that we 
are wholly and ineradicably sordid4 ,as 
outsiders often put it1  ,all that      
,americans care for is the dollar4      
,most of us1 when we hear this1 share   
the sentiment of a bright ,high ,school 
girl1 who took part in a debate in #aiac
 on the comparative excellence of       
foreign and domestic manners4  ,i have  
just come back from a summer in ,europe1
 she said1 and ,i found there1 on the   
whole1 much worse manners than we have  

here4 ,for instance1 in nearly every    
country where we went1 we had relatives 
and friends1 and they were constantly   
saying1 and very rudely1 ,i thought1    
',oh1 yes1 we understand your ,america4 
,all you care for over there is the     
dollar4' ,but ,i don't care for the     
dollar and my father and my mother1 and 
my uncles and my aunts1 and our         
friends1--hardly anybody ,i know1 in    
fact1--none of them care for the        
dollar1--not half so much as they do    
over there1--and ,i told them so6  ,her 
passionate plea brought forth equally   
passionate applause from her young      
hearers1--for it was true4 ,human nature
 is inherently selfish and grasping4 ,we
 have only to read the book of ,proverbs
 to see that it was so in ancient times 
and it will probably always retain      
something of that meanness2 but         
,americans are the most generous people 
in the world1 and1 as a whole1 are the  
freest from miserliness and avarice4    
,look over the marriage notices of a    

century or more ago in any ,english     
periodical1 and you will probably find  
mentioned there the amount of the       
bride's dowry4 ,we all know how         
invariably it has to be ascertained     
nowadays before a foreign nobleman takes
 an ,american bride4 ,among ourselves1  
there is almost nothing of this sort4   
,one reason1 perhaps the principal one1 
for this universal accusation1 is not   
far to seek4 ,all foreign nations have  
their leisure classes4 ,the great nobles
 and gentry often do not even manage    
their own estates4 ,some factor or agent
 does it for them4 ,as for working for  
money1 the very idea would shock them   
unspeakably4 ,a woman who works for     
money is especially scorned over there4 
,it is seldom that such a woman has any 
social standing whatever4  ,utterly     
different is the ,american estimation of
 merit4 ,here we have a leisure class1  
but it is so small as to be negligible1 
and it is commonly despised4 ,all of our
 men are expected to work for money1 or1

 as we put it1--to earn their living1   
though many of our rich men often       
contribute freely much time and labor to
 public affairs and to philanthropy4 ,a 
woman who earns her living over here is 
quite as likely as not to rank among our
 most respected citizens4  ,as a        
well-known snob once said1 ,even in our 
first circles1 you once in a while meet 
one of these writers or painters1 who   
expects to be treated as if he were one 
of us4  ,thus ,public ,opinion controls 
our social as well as our political     
life4     ,,chapter ,v  ,,sacrificing   
,,for ,,patriotism        ,look back    
upon ,washington and upon the           
,savior-like       martyrs1 who1 for our
 welfare1 in lonely dungeons and        
prison-ships1 breathed a noisome air2   
and when the       minions of power came
 around day after day and offered       
them life and liberty if they would     
desert their       country's cause1     
refused and died4 ,the great            
experiment of republicanism is being    

tried anew4 ,in       ,greece and ,italy
 it failed through the incapacity of    
the people to enjoy liberty without     
abusing it4       ,millions of human    
beings may be happy through our         
wisdom1 but must be miserable through   
our folly4       ,religion1 the ark of  
,god1 is here thrown open to all1       
and yet is to be guarded from           
desecration and       sacrilege1 lest we
 perish with a deeper perdition than    
ever befell any other people4--,,horace 
,,mann4   ,a ,,little boy many years ago
 was marching down ,fourth ,avenue in   
,new ,york1 his face bright with        
interest and his whole air that of one  
who has important business on hand4 ,a  
gentleman who met him was curious to    
know what was in the child's mind and   
stopped him4  ,where are you going so   
fast1 my little man8 he asked4  ,i'm    
going to the ,bible ,house1 replied the 
boy promptly4 ,you see the ,morning     
,star1--that's the missionary ship1 has 
just got in1 and ,i paid a penny to get 

that ship1 and so it's part mine1 and   
,i'm going down to hear all about it4   
,the gentleman who told this story was  
old1 and the incident had occurred in   
his young manhood1 but he said he had   
never forgotten it1 for it illustrated  
better than anything he had ever seen   
the effect upon the mind of a personal  
share in any enterprise4  ,the child who
 has worked in a garden is likely to    
watch its growth and progress with an   
interest which he could not otherwise   
feel4 ,in the same way he can be made to
 appreciate his home better if he has   
daily light tasks to do in maintaining  
its order and comfort2 but these tasks  
should1 if possible1 be made regular    
ones1 and their performance should      
become a habit4 ,if they are done only  
now and then1 they are much more likely 
to be felt as a burden4  ,the           
maintenance of the ordinary home        
requires great labor and expense4       
,without unduly distressing them1       
children should be made to understand   

this1 and that it is only fair that each
 member of the family should do his part
 in keeping it up4 ,in the households of
 the rich1 such a course is hard to     
manage1 for servants do all the work2   
but in the average home where but one   
servant1 or none at all1 is kept1 a     
little ingenuity on the part of the     
parents will accomplish it1 without     
nagging or tiresome repetition4  ,in one
 family of five children1 where there   
was no servant1 but where the standards 
of the mother were high1 there was      
naturally an enormous amount of work to 
do4 ,the eldest child was a girl of     
twelve1 the next1 a girl of ten4 ,then  
came a boy of eight1 and so on down4    
,the older ones were in school1 but all 
helped cheerfully in the household work 
as far as they were able4  ,the boy of  
eight1 who may be called ,chester1 was a
 thoughtful little fellow1 and when he  
saw his mother rising at four or five   
o'clock every morning to wash or iron or
 cook2 then1 all day long cutting out   

little garments1 running the            
sewing-machine1 tending the teething    
baby1 or engaged in the never-ending    
task of cleaning the house1 his tender  
heart was deeply moved4  ,he was a great
 reader and the lady who superintended  
the village library came to know him    
well1 and often had long talks with him4
 ,from his extensive reading1 coupled   
with a naturally rather old-fashioned   
way of expressing himself1 his remarks  
were often of a nature to amuse her1 but
 she never laughed at him1 and so was   
able to keep his confidence4  ,one      
morning ,chester appeared with his      
weekly book1 and as the librarian was   
alone1 he sat down for a little talk4   
,his face was long1 and as he dropped   
into his chair1 he sighed heavily4      
,what is the matter1 ,chester8 she asked
 kindly4  ,my mother is sick1 he replied
 dejectedly4 ,she is sick in bed4 ,my   
father got the breakfast1 but he isn't  
much good1--and we children helped1 but 
we ain't much good either4 ,not anything

 goes right when my mother is sick4     
,but she will soon be well4 ,probably   
she has been working too hard4  ,yes1   
that's it1 agreed ,chester wearily4 ,my 
father says so4 ,he tells her to let    
things go more1 and she says she tries1 
but she wants the house to look so      
nice1--and see how well she mends my    
stockings1--rolling up one of his       
knickerbockers1 and it is work1 work1   
work for my mother from morning to      
night4 ,oh1 ,miss ,smith1 concluded     
,chester in a tone of anguish1 the lot  
of woman is very hard4  ,miss ,smith had
 never had such difficulty to control   
herself as when she heard this          
monumental sentiment from the lips of   
this diminutive urchin1 but she managed 
to utter steadily1 ,still1 it must be a 
comfort to your mother to have so many  
good children to help her1 to which     
,chester gravely assented4  ,there are  
not many children who so fully          
appreciate their mother's               
responsibilities2 but it is well that1  

without complaint or whining1 the mother
 should1 in such circumstances as those 
which have been described1 make her     
family understand that her lot needs all
 of the amelioration that they can      
supply2 and they will love and value    
their home all the more1 the more they  
do for it4  ,the same thing is true of  
the affairs of your town or city4 ,if   
you do nothing for it1 you are likely to
 care nothing for it4  ,in ,miss        
,mc,cracken's interesting book1         
,teaching ,through ,stories1 she tells  
of a little girl1 who1 from reading the 
story1 ,the ,microbe ,which ,comes ,into
 ,milk1 became convinced of the         
importance of pure milk4 ,in this tale1 
emphasis is laid upon the rapidity with 
which milk deteriorates1 if it is left  
standing in the sun1 and the harm which 
often comes to babies in consequence4   
,a little later1 a neighbor1 who had a  
small baby1 reported that this child    
rang her bell early one morning1 about  
ten minutes after the milk-man had      

brought the baby's milk1 and said       
anxiously1 ,your milk-bottle is standing
 out on the piazza in the sun4 ,aren't  
you afraid it will spoil if you don't   
put it in the ice-chest8  ,it is but a  
little way from an interest in the pure 
milk of an individual baby to an        
interest in pure milk for all babies4   
,this little girl will probably grow up 
to see that laws are enforced for pure  
milk1 and for the cleanliness of cows   
and stables4 ,even though she may never 
develop an enthusiasm for any other     
branch of politics1 it is a good thing  
to have one woman working hard for pure 
milk4  ,all children can be taught to   
see that good laws for such matters are 
a part of patriotism2 and that a man who
 does not try to help to get such laws1 
even though he may shout for political  
candidates and hang out flags in front  
of his house1 is not a true patriot4    
,it is not often that one person can    
work in many different directions2 but  
if each one will choose some reform in  

which he is particularly interested1 and
 hammer at that until it is             
accomplished1 he will have done         
something fine for his country4 ,he may 
meet with all kinds of discouragements1 
but let him hold on4 ,again1 he must be 
reminded that patriotism is seldom easy4
  ,even after you have succeeded in     
getting your ordinance passed1 you may  
have trouble in having it enforced4     
,worst of all1 the clever rascals on the
 other side may manage to get your      
hard-won law repealed1--and there is    
your long task all to do over again4    
,eternal vigilance is the price of      
liberty just as much now as ever4 ,look 
across the ocean1 and you see what it is
 costing the nations of to-day4 ,you    
think that our fathers gained it for us 
in the ,revolution1 and that1 however   
others may have to fight for it1 it is  
secure for us2 and all that we have to  
do is to sit back and enjoy it4 ,on the 
contrary1 some form of tyranny is always
 just around the corner1 waiting to     

devour us4 ,it is not impossible that a 
wrong issue of this war may force us to 
fight on our own soil again for it4  ,in
 any case1 there are plenty of social   
and commercial tyrants only waiting to  
lay hands on us4 ,sometimes it is a rich
 corporation1 stretching out shrewd     
tentacles to entrap us4 ,its managers   
may be philanthropic and courteous1 even
 religious1 tyrants1--but despots none  
the less4 ,it may be a company of       
racetrack gamblers1 defeated for a while
 by a fearless governor1 but stealing   
back to power as soon as his back is    
turned4 ,different states may have      
different tyrants1--or an arrogant party
 of socialists may tie up the whole     
country4 ,there is almost every minute  
some movement going on1 calculated1 if  
it succeeds1 to hamper or destroy our   
liberty4 ,mr4 ,d4 ,l4 ,moody once said1 
when he was commenting upon this phase  
of our national life3 ,anything that is 
going to hurt this nation we ought to   
fight4 ,anything that is going to       

undermine this grand republic or tear   
out its foundation1 you and ,i ought to 
guard against with our tears and our    
prayers and our efforts4  ,explain this 
often to your children4 ,it will        
strengthen their determination to defend
 their country4  ,one of our young      
reformers in a public address lately    
pleaded for a wider recognition among   
the people of the good work of honest   
officials4  ,there are enough among us  
to find fault when things are not done  
right1 he said1 but there are few who   
will take the trouble to commend the man
 who does well4 ,he keeps on with his   
efforts1 whether he gets any praise for 
it or not1 but he is often immensely    
cheered and refreshed by an appreciative
 word4 ,if his morality is not of the   
heroic kind1 he may fall away and cease 
to put forth any special effort to do   
his work well1 just for lack of         
encouragement4  ,he illustrated his     
point with the story of the small boy   
who was sweeping the sidewalk when some 

ladies appeared to call upon his mother4
 ,one of them asked pleasantly1 ,is your
 mother at home8  ,his rather rude reply
 was laden with significance4  ,do you  
suppose1 he growled1 while a slight     
twinkle broke through his scowling eye1 
that ,i would be sweeping here if she   
wasn't at home8  ,in spite of the fact  
that a well-fed1 well-clothed and       
well-educated people1 like the ,germans1
 for instance1 will bear an autocratic  
government1 which kindly does everything
 for them1 but gives little opportunity 
for individual initiative2 it cannot be 
compared1 in its salutary effect upon   
its citizens1 with one which calls forth
 the powers of judgment and decision in 
every one1 and feeds self-respect1      
discouraging toadyism and caste1 like a 
republic4 ,an autocracy1 if wisely      
administered1 undoubtedly means greater 
order and efficiency1 until the         
democracy has mastered its new problems 
and its people have become thoroughly   
educated4 ,rough working of new         

machinery is almost inevitable2 and the 
modern democratic idea has not1 even in 
our own country1 in the absence of the  
votes of half the people1 been allowed  
proper space for expansion1 though      
,england1 ,france and ,switzerland are  
hewing at it also4 ,a hundred years     
longer will show what it can do1 if     
demagogues do not overturn it4 ,if our  
republic fails1 another will arise upon 
its ashes1 for the noble principles upon
 which it was founded are the highest   
yet conceived by man1 and are immortal4 
,this truth cannot be too early or too  
strongly impressed upon our children4   
,there are enough men1 like our         
distinguished capitalist1 who do not    
believe in it4 ,their plausible         
arguments may undermine the convictions 
of our young people1 unless we furnish  
them with solid reasons for our higher  
belief4  ,as ,mr4 ,benjamin ,c4 ,r4 ,low
 has recently written in a fine poem1   
,america is so new6  ,we are new4 ,we   
realize that we are an experiment4      

,whether this experiment1 the greatest  
the world has ever seen1 is to succeed1 
depends upon the kind of patriotism that
 is instilled into our children4 ,they  
must be thoroughly inoculated with the  
truth that both peace and war make      
incessant1 expensive and personally     
sacrificial demands upon every citizen1 
and that these demands must be met by   
them1 or else ,america is lost4  ,there 
must be no slackers in this everlasting 
conflict4     ,,chapter ,,vi            
,,patriotism ,,and ,,health             
,entire abstinence from intoxicating    
drinks as a       beverage1 would1 with 
all its attendant blessings1 in         
the course of a single generation1 carry
 comfort1       competence and          
respectability1 with but few            
exceptions1 into all the dwellings in   
the land4 ,this       is not a matter of
 probability and conjecture4 ,it        
depends upon principles as fixed and    
certain in their       operation as the 
rising of the sun4--,,horace ,,mann4    

,,we are accused by our foreign visitors
 of being a sickly nation1 and the      
numerous exemptions from military       
service among our young men for physical
 defects1 have reinforced their         
contention4 ,our ice-water1 our         
ice-cream soda-water1 our custom of     
bolting our food1 and our over-heated   
houses1 make it impossible1 they say1   
that we should ever be a strong and     
healthy people4 ,and so1 of course1 we  
can never hope to be a world-power6     
,many other indictments are brought     
against us in this line1 most of which1 
if the ardent accusers would only think 
of it1 might be brought with equal      
justice against every other civilized   
nation4  ,thus1 excessive alcoholism1 in
 which we have been said to be second   
only to ,great ,britain1 evidently      
applies somewhat to other countries1 in 
which the new prohibitory laws are      
declared to have worked a social and    
industrial revolution4 ,drunkenness must
 have prevailed there to a considerable 

degree1 since the condition of the      
people has been so much improved by a   
prohibitory law4  ,we are all ready to  
concede1 even though prohibition has won
 to its support so many of our states1  
that there is still room for improvement
 in the public opinion of a large part  
of the country1 regarding the merits of 
wet and dry4  ,it is stoutly maintained 
in certain social circles that the daily
 presence of wine upon the family table 
is more likely than its absence to      
promote temperance there4 ,this theory  
does not commend itself to most of us1  
and our position is strengthened by the 
facts recently proclaimed by science1   
which go to prove that not only do      
drunkards abound among the families     
which serve wine upon their tables1 but 
that the use of any alcoholic beverage  
lowers efficiency and is distinctly     
injurious to health1 in spite of        
exceptions4 ,we always hear of these    
shining exceptions1 while of the vast   
army of those who have succumbed1 no    

records are available4  ,dr4 ,eugene    
,lyman ,fisk1 in one of his interesting 
articles1 states that recent scientific 
researches have proven that alcohol has 
been found to be a depressant and a     
narcotic1 often exerting1 even in small 
daily doses1 an unfavorable effect on   
the brain and nervous functions1 and on 
heart and circulation1 and lowering the 
resistance of the body to infection4    
,the testimony of the ,life ,insurance  
,companies and of the managers of       
athletic teams1 is also conclusive as to
 the deteriorating effects of alcohol2  
and the motive of patriotism will be    
found of great assistance in impressing 
the desirableness of total abstinence   
upon the young4  ,we should all like to 
have our country called the healthiest  
in the world4 ,to that end we drain our 
marshes1 protect our water-supply1 make 
innumerable laws for tenement-reform1   
street-cleaning1 pure food and so on4   
,but all these measures are bound to be 
more or less ineffective so long as we  

cram our systems with chemical poisons4 
,make this plain to your boy and your   
girl2 and that1 as the famous story has 
it1 as every deed was done by the early 
fathers1 ,in the name of the ,king2 so1 
in what might seem to be irrelevant1    
though really germane and vital1 we     
should all do the right thing in the    
name of ,america4  ,we all know well the
 absolute slavery of men to fashion4    
,the average man would rather be racked 
on the wheel of the ,inquisition than to
 appear out in a coat or a hat different
 from those that the other men are      
wearing4 ,boys1 large and small1 are    
quite as sensitive4 ,mothers encounter  
angriest protests and even floods of    
tears if they strive to impose on their 
young sons any detail of costume        
different from that worn by the other   
fellows4 ,women have long borne the     
imputation of being the chief sinners in
 this regard1 but they are not4 ,their  
brothers are even more tightly bound in 
the meshes of the merciless despot1     

,fashion4  ,this fact must be taken into
 consideration in all efforts at social 
reform among men1 as a class4 ,the      
independence which can defy a hurtful   
social custom is very rare among them4  
,many a man who would go over the top   
without quailing1 lacks the courage to  
oppose a popular social movement1 though
 he may know that it is of dubious      
benefit to the race4  ,but true         
patriotism1 to say nothing of other     
motives1 bids us discard every habit and
 stamp out every malady which lowers the
 morale or impairs the efficiency of the
 people4  ,one of the most subtle foes  
of our national health1 and only lately 
dragged out of its secret lair for the  
open contumely and united attack of all 
good men and women1 is the most terrible
 of sex-diseases1 which is said to be   
frightfully prevalent4  ,mr4 ,cleveland 
,moffett1 in ,mc,clure's ,magazine1     
pleads for specific sex-instruction in  
our educational institutions4 ,he says3 
,the youth of ,america are taught       

everything1 with the exception of the   
most essential of all1 the great secret 
of life4 ,one result of this inexcusable
 neglect is seen in alarming high school
 conditions reported in various cities4 
,he advises home instruction in these   
important and delicate matters1 but     
admits1 what we all know1 that few      
parents are qualified to give it4 ,those
 few should do so2 but if the most      
terrible disease known to civilization1 
and probably1 in a more or less virulent
 form1 the most common1 is to be        
successfully combated1 such instruction 
should be imparted4 ,under the          
circumstances1 it must be done1         
apparently1 by regular teachers1 who    
should be high-minded1 tactful and      
thoroughly trained4  ,this instruction  
should be given to each pupil separately
 and when alone with his teacher4 ,two  
or three interviews1 of perhaps twenty  
minutes each1 ought to be sufficient    
each year4 ,it should be possible to    
arrange that number in every school in  

the land4  ,there is another great curse
 which operates especially against the  
health of our girls4  ,a well-known     
woman is in the habit of saying1 ,i have
 scarcely a woman-friend who either has 
not just had an operation1 or is not    
having one now1 or is not going to have 
one soon4  ,this statement always raises
 a laugh1 but is no joke2 it is a       
solemn1 awful fact4  ,now why are so    
many of our splendid women1 well-fed1   
living largely in the open air1 busy1   
educated1 passionately devoted to the   
study of hygiene and sanitation1        
inevitably destined to be cut up on the 
operating-tables of our hospitals8      
,why1--it is so commonly expected1 that 
we hear of these operations now without 
a quiver1 even though we know they are  
likely to be fatal4 ,we accept them as  
though they were decreed by an          
inescapable ,fate1 and there was no     
remedy4  ,is it reasonable that the     
,creator should have made woman to be a 
natural invalid1--to have powers and    

faculties which she could never fully   
employ and enjoy8 ,of what use are our  
hard-won educational advantages1 if they
 are going simply to a band of sickly1  
half-dead girls and women8 ,it is a     
monstrous and blasphemous thought that  
our ,maker designed women for such a    
destiny4  ,huxley says that nine-tenths 
of the impediments to women's health are
 not inherent1 but are due to her mode  
of life4  ,she was made to be strong and
 helpful4 ,her body is wonderfully      
wrought and fashioned for motherhood1   
and for the accomplishment of the high  
spiritual mission to which the          
woman-soul aspires4 ,one is driven to   
the conclusion that at the root of her  
physical enfeeblement is the costume    
which has been imposed upon her by the  
false ideals and hyper-refined standards
 of past centuries1 and of nations which
 have admired most the class of women   
who do not prepare themselves for       
motherhood4  ,the costume which women   
wear is intended chiefly to give an     

impression of slenderness4 ,it is not   
suited to the hard work of the busy     
housewife1 nor to that of the cramped   
and confined office- or shop-worker1 nor
 to the life of the schoolgirl4 ,a      
hard-working man1 dressed in the modern 
corset and in the usually closely-belted
 blouse of the girl and woman of to-day1
 would fail physically and resort to the
 operating-table as universally as do   
his wife and sisters4 ,that so many of  
them survive the ordeal and are able to 
perform some useful work in the world   
is1 says one prominent physician1 one of
 the wonders of our time4 ,pauline      
,furlong1 in a recent issue of a widely 
circulated journal1 begs that the corset
 and the closely fitting costume of the 
present be discarded1 and replaced by   
something light1 loose and hung entirely
 from the shoulders4  ,the recent       
remarks of ,mr4 ,edison upon this       
subject are sound4 ,he says1 ,there     
should be no pressure upon any part of  
the body1 if the organs within1 which   

require perfect freedom in order to do  
their work efficiently1 are to perform  
their functions4  ,we shall never have a
 strong and healthy nation1 though we   
may make volumes of sanitary laws1 until
 there is a radical change in the dress 
of women4 ,that1 just as a girl is      
approaching the age when she is likely  
to marry and bear children1 the organs  
of motherhood should be subjected to    
strong pressure and largely deprived of 
activity1 so that the delicate          
milk-ducts are often atrophied1 and the 
muscles most needed to support the child
 are weakened2 while the chief organ of 
all is frequently displaced1 leading to 
painful and sometimes fatal             
complications2--all this is so          
discreditable to the intelligence of our
 people1 that future ages will doubtless
 look back upon our period as one of    
densest ignorance regarding eugenics4   
,you may ask1 ,what do you advise to    
take the place of the present mode of   
dress8  ,only the experts in such       

matters can answer this question4 ,it   
seems likely that some combination of   
the best points of the oriental costumes
 offers the best solution4 ,the new     
dress should be perfectly loose2 light  
in weight2 should depend entirely from  
the shoulders1 like a man's1 thus       
bringing no pressure to bear upon the   
important but loosely hung organs of the
 abdomen2 and the legs should be allowed
 the utmost freedom4  ,women who have   
long depended upon a corset for support 
will doubtless find it uncomfortable1 or
 even dangerous1 to lay upon their      
enfeebled muscles alone the task of     
upholding their bodies4 ,girls who do   
not wear corsets will not look well     
7according to our modern distorted      
ideas7 in any but the prevailing        
costume4 ,the dancers say that if a     
truly hygienic mode of dress is         
introduced1 the modern dance will have  
to be reformed1--which may not be the   
least of the benefits of such a mode6   
,these are some of the objections raised

 to radical changes in women's attire4  
,but the health of our girls1 and       
especially of our mothers1 is a vital   
matter1 and must be made paramount4     
,there will always be causes enough for 
illness2 but it must be emphasized that 
we shall never have a strong and healthy
 nation1 in which but a small           
percentage1 instead of the enormous one 
of the present draft1 is rejected for   
physical defects1 until the motherhood  
of the nation is properly equipped for  
motherhood4 ,neither will our girls be  
ready to fulfill nobly their new        
political duties4  ,nature is strong1   
and she manages to circumvent1 to a     
certain extent1 the obstructive devices 
of man4 ,there are apparently many      
healthy children born of tightly        
corseted mothers4 ,the outer flesh and  
blood of the child are made in the      
obscure laboratories of the body more   
easily than the later and highly refined
 fabrications of brain and nerve4 ,are  
the low average brain-power and the weak

 nerves of our people1 leading in so    
many pitiable cases to moral and mental 
degeneracy1 largely due to our criminal 
neglect of the conditions of free and   
splendid motherhood8  ,but1 if we want  
to become a healthy and powerful people1
 what is more necessary for us than     
strong and healthy mothers8  ,the child 
should be taught that any tampering with
 health is immoral4 ,the most           
conscientious observance of its laws    
should be impressed upon every boy and  
girl4 ,especially must we guard the     
health of our girls1 for their function 
in the state is just now of vital       
moment1 and yet it is not so much       
regarded apparently as that of their    
brothers4     ,,chapter ,,vii  ,,work   
,,as ,a ,,vital ,,part ,,of ,,patriotism
        ,gurowski asked1 ,where is the  
bog8 ,i wish to earn       money4 ,i    
wish to dig peat4 ,oh1 no1 sir1 you     
cannot       do such degrading work4 ,i 
cannot be degraded4 ,i am               
,gurowski4--,,emerson',s ,,journals4    

,,something has been said of the        
estimation in which work and working for
 a living1 are held in our country4  ,in
 an illuminating sermon1 ,dr4 ,lyman    
,abbott once treated of this subject4   
,it was on the ,fourth of ,july1 and he 
began by saying that the most important 
result of the ,civil ,war1 as he viewed 
it1 was one that he had never heard     
mentioned4 ,having thus enlisted the    
keenest attention of his hearers1 he    
continued in nearly these words3        
,before the ,civil ,war1 the man who    
worked with his hands was despised by   
the leading element in the ,south4      
,supplied with an army of slaves to wait
 upon him1 the average planter was      
spared the necessity of exertion4 ,he   
hunted in the season1 raced sometimes   
and sometimes played an athletic game2  
but he held the theory1 broadly         
speaking1 that no man could be a        
gentleman 7as most foreigners believe   
also7 who engages in trade or pursues   
any mechanical occupation4  ,the war    

changed all that4 ,many of the richest  
planters had to go to work4 ,some of    
them had even to enter menial servitude 
in order to earn bread for their        
families4 ,then they found out that it  
was possible to preserve their          
scholarship1 their refinement and their 
gentle manners1 though they worked hard 
every day4 ,it was an epochal discovery4
  ,from that time1 the dignity of labor 
was established in the ,south1 as the   
,pilgrim ,fathers had long before       
established it in ,new ,england1 and as 
it must eventually be established       
throughout the world1 if the world is   
ever to rise to the full glory of the   
democratic ideal4  ,the chief1 and      
almost the only argument of the         
advocates of ,child ,labor in our fields
 and factories1 is that the children    
thus become early used to work1--a habit
 which is productive of the best results
 in later life4  ,carlyle's great essays
 upon work have inspired thousands2 and 
in ,professor ,carl ,hilty's wonderful  

volume called ,happiness1 there is an   
essay on ,work1 which every parent      
should read4 ,he shows how              
laziness1--the inherent aversion to     
work1--has been a chief obstacle to     
progress in all ages2 how hard labor was
 so universally relegated to slaves     
during early times that even to         
philosophers like ,plato and ,aristotle1
 any social system was unthinkable1     
which did not include a slave class4    
,one of ,professor's ,hilty's incidental
 remarks is worth mentioning4 ,he speaks
 of the many excellent women who observe
 scrupulously the injunction in the     
,fourth ,commandment to keep the        
,sabbath ,day holy2 but who seem to fail
 to observe the opening sentence of the 
commandment1 ,six days shalt thou labor2
 often apparently thinking that one day 
out of the seven1 or even none at all1  
is enough for that purpose4 ,he feels   
that the progress of the world depends  
upon the combined and strenuous labor of
 every living man and woman for six days

 out of the seven1--with only occasional
 vacations6  ,we are all probably agreed
 that every citizen should know how to  
support himself4  ,one of our truant    
officers went to a poor home to find out
 why a boy who lived there had been     
absent from school for several days4    
,the mother reported that the father was
 in the hospital1 and that her only     
support was the small pay which this boy
 received for holding horses1 doing     
errands for the corner grocer1 and so   
on4  ,the teapot stood on the stove1 and
 the officer said1 ,but your boy will   
grow up ignorant if you keep him out of 
school like this4 ,don't you want him to
 know about tea1--where it grows and how
 it is prepared for the market8  ,oh1   
responded the poor woman1 with a        
practical common sense which            
disconcerted her hearer1 ,i'd a dale    
rather he should know how to airn a     
pound of it4  ,and in her desperate     
circumstances1 it was far more necessary
 that he should4  ,but in well-to-do    

households1 where there is not much work
 that a child can do1 especially in the 
city1 how can he be trained up in habits
 of industry8  ,this is a problem which1
 as we have said1 confronts thousands of
 conscientious mothers1 who believe     
profoundly in ,mrs4 ,browning's pregnant
 lines3          ,get work6 ,get work6  
,be sure          ,that it is better    
than anything you work to get4  ,country
 children can gather the eggs1 cut feed 
for the animals1 often have a pet lamb1 
chickens1 heifers or colts of their own 
to care for4 ,there is little difficulty
 in finding chores for them to do4 ,but 
the city boy and girl are not so        
fortunately situated4  ,all that can be 
done for them is to devise errands1 and 
to place upon them as much              
responsibility for small duties about   
the house1 as you think they can bear4  
,they should spend as much time as      
possible in the open air1 playing in    
their own yard or1 under close watch1 in
 the street1--the playground of most    

city children4  ,every means that can be
 thought of should be used to make them 
despise the idea of idleness1 and to    
love work4  ,a distinguished professor  
in one of our great universities taught 
his classes that work was one of the    
cardinal evils1 and that a prime        
endeavor of life should be to get along 
with as little work as possible4  ,a    
mother of one of his pupils1 who had    
brought her son up to believe that work 
was noble and honorable1 and that it    
ranked with the four gospels as a means 
of salvation from sin1 has never        
forgiven that professor4 ,he overturned 
in the mind of her son the ideal of the 
glory of work1 which she had so         
painstakingly erected there1 and it has 
never been fully re-established4 ,no    
such man as that teacher should ever be 
given a position upon a college faculty4
  ,when one reads of the childhood of   
the vast majority of our distinguished  
men it seems chimerical to hope that    
children brought up in comfort1 with    

plenty to eat and to wear1 should ever  
attain to high positions4 ,most of our  
great men appear to have struggled      
through seas of adversity1 in order to  
get an education and a foothold in the  
world of literature or art or politics  
or finance4 ,we recognize that it was   
the self-reliance and the capacity for  
hard work thus developed1 which brought 
them success4 ,we know that it is a     
truism that poverty is the mother of    
muscle and of invention4 ,many wealthy  
parents have tried to supply this great 
motive by depriving their children of   
luxuries1 and making them work their way
 through college1 or begin at the bottom
 of some business4 ,this has sometimes1 
but not often1 resulted well2 for1 after
 all1 artificial poverty is only a      
blind1 and the child has ever the       
underlying consciousness that it is1 and
 that there is no real need that he     
should much exert himself4  ,a lady who 
conducted a subscription class of       
society women in their own beautiful    

parlors1 testified that their mental    
inertia was lamentable1 and that the    
only two in her class of fifty1 who     
really seemed to have any capacity for  
keen thought1 were women who worked for 
a living4 ,they had to make their minds 
nimble and bright in order to keep      
themselves afloat4  ,in ,professor      
,drummond's remarkable book1 ,natural   
,law in the ,spiritual ,world1 there is 
a striking illustration of the          
deteriorating effect of disuse upon     
organs1 in the highly organized crab1   
which1 when it finds a rich             
feeding-ground1 attaches itself to some 
convenient rock1 loses one by one its   
feelers and tentacles and soon becomes a
 simple sac1 fit only to suck up        
nourishment4  ,many of the absurd       
opinions and nearly all of the sins of  
the so-called society people can be laid
 to idleness4 ,the mind1 seldom used to 
its capacity1 becomes dull and unable to
 reason1 and the moral nature loses its 
strength of conviction4 ,nothing is     

worse for our country than the increase 
of our idle classes4 ,its salvation is  
the slogan that every man and woman     
should work and earn at least a living4 
,our leisure women are realizing their  
plight1 and most of them are entering   
actively into our great philanthropic   
and civic organizations4 ,the war has   
given them a splendid opportunity and it
 is a good sign for our nation that so  
many of them have seized it4 ,the idle  
woman1 whom ,george ,meredith calls1    
that baggage which has so hindered the  
march of civilization1 is coming to     
realize her responsibility as a citizen 
of a great democratic nation4 ,the      
leisure man among us is so rare that he 
is an almost negligible quantity1 for   
which we may well be thankful4 ,if we   
can get the child of ,america started   
well in the ways of industry1 the man is
 safe2 for one who has experienced the  
transporting pleasure of achievement1   
can scarcely help wanting more of it4   
,the phrase1 'economy of effort1' so    

dear to ,froebel's followers1 had little
 meaning for ,dr4 ,william ,james1 says 
,agnes ,repplier4 ,he asserts that      
effort is oxygen to the lungs of youth1 
and that a noble1 generous rivalry is   
the spur of action and the impelling    
force of civilization4  ,it is certainly
 the cue of every patriot who loves his 
country4  ,the joy of work is well      
described by ,cleveland ,moffett in the 
article which has been mentioned4 ,he   
says3 ,however disagreeable work may be1
 life without work is even more         
disagreeable4 ,all who have tried it1 no
 matter how rich they are1 agree that   
enforced idleness ranks among the most  
cruel of tortures4 ,men easily die of   
it1 as doctors know1 who every day order
 broken-down neurasthenics in their     
middle fifties1 back into the business  
or professional harness they have       
foolishly retired from4  ,the field of  
work for those women who are obliged or 
prefer to support themselves1 is        
broadening hopefully4 ,president        

,woolley of ,mount ,holyoke tells of    
seven of her recent graduates who took  
part lately in a symposium at the       
college1 all of whom were engaged in    
paying work1 but no one of whom was     
teaching1 though that has hitherto been 
the main dependence of the wage-earning 
girl4  ,one of these young women was a  
physician2 the others were respectively3
 a lawyer2 an interior decorator2 an    
editor of the children's department of a
 well-known periodical2 a county agent  
in ,new ,york ,state2 a member of the   
staff of the ,children's ,bureau at     
,washington2 and the ,secretary of the  
,american ,nurses' ,association4  ,such 
incidents make us confident that the    
varied talents of our bright girls will 
soon find as wide a scope as that       
enjoyed by our boys4  ,and it cannot be 
too strongly emphasized that regular    
daily work in early life is invaluable  
in establishing habits of industry4  ,a 
common expression used to be3 ,he has   
good habits1 or ,he has bad habits4 ,we 

do not hear it so often nowadays1 but   
the words are full of meaning4 ,as a    
man's habits are1 so is he4  ,could the 
young but realize1 says ,mr4 ,moffett1  
how soon they will become mere walking  
bundles of habits1 they would give more 
heed to their conduct while in the      
plastic state4  ,it is then that we     
mothers must mold them into the workers 
that we want them to be1 and we must use
 the patriotic motive to quicken their  
love of industry4 ,in certain states    
this motive is strengthened by laws     
compelling idle men to work4  ,robert   
,gair is the founder of what is now the 
greatest paper-products business in this
 country1 and probably in the world4 ,it
 is located in the ,borough of          
,brooklyn1 ,new ,york ,city4 ,there ,mr4
 ,gair1 on the occasion of his          
seventy-fifth birthday1 made an address 
to his employees1 a portion of which1 as
 reported in the ,brooklyn ,eagle1 was  
as follows3  ,no permanent achievement1 
whatever its form may be1 appears to be 

possible without stress of labor4       
,nothing has come to me without         
persistent effort of the head and of the
 hand4 ,hard labor will win what we     
want1 if the laws of nature are obeyed4 
,self-coddling and the fear of living   
strenuously1 enfeeble character and     
result in half-successes4 ,hard labor   
has no penalties4 ,it is the loss of    
hardihood through careless living that  
brings penalties4 ,do the one thing     
before you with your whole heart and    
soul4 ,do not worry about what has gone 
by1 nor what lies ahead1 but rivet your 
mind and energies on the thing to be    
done now4 ,self-indulgence and late     
hours produce leaden hands and a        
listless brain1 robbing your work of    
'punch4'  ,mr4 ,gair cast his first vote
 for ,abraham ,lincoln4 ,he enlisted    
early in the ,civil ,war and saw hard   
service4 ,less than two hundred of the  
original #a1jhg of his regiment remained
 to be mustered out at the close of the 
war4  ,surely his wise and              

uncompromising words indicate one of the
 most necessary ways in which our young 
people1 who desire to show how much they
 love their country and wish to promote 
her glory1 can contribute to it4        
,,chapter ,,viii  ,a ,,patriot',s       
,,manners ,,and ,,morals        ,manners
 are the happy way of doing things4 4 4 
4 ,give       a boy address and         
accomplishments1 and you give him the   
mastery of palaces and fortunes4 4 4 4  
,the moral       equalizes all2         
enriches1 empowers all4--,,emerson4   ,a
 ,,thoughtful writer upon ,american     
customs recently remarked1 ,the morals  
of ,america are better than those of any
 other nation1 but their manners are the
 worst4  ,a certain mother once said1 ,i
 was always so fearful that my children 
would become bad men and women that ,i  
devoted all my attention to making them 
good4 ,then ,i was shocked to find1 when
 they had grown up1 that though their   
morals were satisfactory their manners  
were not4  ,perhaps most ,american      

mothers are like her4 ,and that may be  
the reason why we have the reputation of
 being the worst-mannered of all the    
so-called civilized peoples4  ,still1   
the outlook is encouraging4 ,observing  
critics have been heard to say that the 
children now growing up1 in spite of    
many exceptions1 have better manners    
than those who have preceded them4 ,the 
public schools are more careful         
regarding such matters than they used to
 be1 and so are parents4 ,in fact1 if it
 were not for our numerous importations 
from the countries which most severely  
criticize us1 our ,american manners1 on 
the whole1 might be called pretty good4 
,have you not noticed how many laboring 
men remove their hats when apologizing  
to you1 or offering a seat in a         
street-car8 ,or say1 ,excuse me8 when it
 is proper4 ,instead of staring at a    
cripple or a deformed person1 as people 
used almost invariably to do1 in very   
many cases lately it has been remarked  
that eyes have been politely turned away

 and an effort apparently made to appear
 unconscious of the misfortune4 ,parents
 are teaching their children to eat more
 gracefully4 ,more hands are neatly     
manicured4 ,in fact1 perhaps we are     
going almost too far in this direction4 
,in one of the ,country ,contributor's  
interesting articles in the ,ladies'    
,home ,journal1 she says1 ,don't let    
anybody tell you that a lady or         
gentleman must have nice hands4 ,it     
isn't true4 ,she means1 of course1 that 
useful work1 which often spoils the     
beauty of the hands1 must be considered 
far more important than the keeping of  
them immaculate4  ,quarrelsome and      
ill-bred children are still to be found 
among us1 even in pretty good families2 
but in spite of the large class always  
present1 who are chronic complainers of 
the decadence of the times1--a sure sign
 of approaching senility1--it must be   
acknowledged that the manners of the    
children one meets nowadays are better  
than those of the last generation4  ,it 

would be a confession of the impotence  
of effort if this were not so4          
,thousands of women's clubs and scores  
of women's periodicals have been        
hammering at the bringing up of         
children1 for1 lo1 these many years4    
,add to these1 the thunderings of the   
pulpit and of the lecture-platform1 and 
we must admit that the best ways that we
 know of imparting information and      
inspiration are useless1 unless there   
has been within the last quarter-century
 an improvement in the behavior of our  
children4 ,we must remember that        
civilization is a slow process1 and one 
cannot readily believe that1 even in the
 millennium1 there will not be some     
silly mothers and some naughty children4
  ,it is said that we behave better1 so 
far as outward signs go1 when we wear   
our best clothes4 ,without fostering the
 love of dress1 which is likely to be   
fully developed without help1 especially
 among our girls1 it cannot be too      
strongly impressed upon our children    

that they must never appear before      
others without being neatly and properly
 dressed4 ,a principal of a famous      
,normal ,school used to instruct his    
students that they must always dress as 
well as they could afford4  ,it will    
have a good effect upon your pupils1 he 
said1 and it will help to establish the 
dignity of your profession4  ,one of the
 few compliments which foreign visitors 
generally paid us 7before the war7 was  
that we were a well-dressed people4     
,perhaps this has had more effect upon  
their estimation of us as a nation than 
have some of our more solid virtues4    
,perhaps it is really a sign of the     
possession of solid virtues4  ,but1     
again1 it is example which counts more  
than precept in the case of manners1 as 
in everything else4 ,if you wish your   
children to treat your wife with        
respect1 you must treat her so yourself4
 ,if you rise when she enters the room2 
if you hasten to place a footstool for  
her2 if you apologize for passing in    

front of her2 if you hasten to help her 
up and down the rough places2 then your 
children will do it4 ,otherwise1 all of 
her and your injunctions will have small
 influence4 ,there are good citizens and
 good soldiers who are uncouth and      
awkward in their manners1 but a graceful
 courtesy clothing the more substantial 
qualities will give them far more weight
 in the community4  ,one impatient boy  
complained to his fastidious mother1 who
 was bound to make him a gentleman in   
manners1 no matter what else he might   
become1 ,oh1 mother1 it is nothing but  
',thank you1' and ',i beg your pardon1' 
and jumping up to give people your seat1
 from morning to night--and ,i get so   
sick of it6 ,when ,i grow up1 ,i'm never
 going to say them or do them any more6 
,courtly and polished manners are said  
to be impossible among the mass of the  
people in a republic4 ,let us try to    
show the world that this is false4      
,distinction of manner is not one of the
 great qualities of a nation1 but if we 

wish to impress upon a somewhat         
incredulous world the glory and beauty  
of our institutions1 we shall find the  
cultivation of beautiful manners a great
 help4  ,dr4 ,lyman ,beecher once said1 
,what a pity that so many of our finest 
and most self-sacrificing ,christians   
have had rough manners6 ,they have      
robbed their example of half its force4 
,the current ambition that our nation   
should be courteous as well as brave1 is
 shown plainly in the questions which   
come by the hundred to the household    
departments of our periodicals1         
especially from mothers and young       
people4 ,points of good behavior and    
etiquette are expounded there so fully  
and so often that there would seem to be
 no excuse for any ignorance among us of
 the proper conduct in any situation4   
,the printed answers to these questions 
do not always commend themselves to the 
judgment of the judicious2 but1 on the  
whole1 they are satisfactory1 especially
 when we consider that opinions of just 

what constitutes a lady or a gentleman  
have differed even among the best       
authorities4  ,thus1 the old ,english   
social doctrine was that a gentleman is 
born1 not made1 and that no amount of   
training could graft the gentleman on   
one of humble lineage4  ,our own        
,admiral ,sampson used to say that      
certain specific advantages of training 
and education were needed to make a     
gentleman1--implying that               
gentlemanliness is an acquired art2 and 
so the famous1 but profoundly immoral   
,chesterfield1 would have defined it1   
though he considered good blood         
essential also4  ,steele1 in the        
,tatler1 observed that the appellation  
of gentleman is never to be affixed to a
 man's circumstances1 but to his        
behavior in them4 ,old ,chaucer puts the
 matter thus3 ,he is gentil that doth   
gentil dedes4  ,the outside likeness to 
a gentleman or lady amounts to little1  
unless there is a kind heart behind it1 
for affectation and insincerity are in  

themselves bad manners4 ,huxley         
expressed it well when he said3         
,thoughtfulness for others1 generosity1 
modesty and self-respect are the        
qualities which make a real gentleman or
 lady1 as distinguished from the        
veneered article which commonly goes by 
that name4  ,thackeray gives the best   
definition of all1 though his own       
manners were harshly criticized by some 
of his contemporaries4 ,it was1 to be a 
gentleman is to be brave1 to be honest1 
to be gentle1 to be generous1 to be     
wise1 and1 possessing all these         
qualities1 to exercise them in the most 
graceful manner4  ,there are laws which 
forbid us to teach in our schools any   
particular religion1 but there are no   
laws1 as has already been said in this  
book1 against the teaching of morals4   
,let us quote again ,horace ,mann's     
strong words3 ,morals should be         
systematically taught in our schools1   
and not left for merely casual and      
occasional mention4  ,few text-books in 

morals are as yet supplied in our public
 schools1 and little time is provided in
 the daily schedules for lectures upon  
them2 but one great avenue to their     
understanding and attainment is still   
open4 ,in many schools there is a       
story-telling hour at intervals1 and1 as
 ,miss ,mc,cracken and her co-laborers  
have proved1 patriotism and every other 
virtue can be deeply impressed upon the 
youthful mind by stories4  ,for         
instance1 one of the most necessary     
qualities for the development of a      
strong and noble personality is courage4
 ,now courage is not merely not being   
afraid1 as ,miss ,mc,cracken shows1 and 
as many of the anecdotes of the present 
war prove4 ,it is going ahead and doing 
your duty1 even when you are afraid1--as
 almost every human being is1 when      
exposed to danger4 ,every one must have 
noticed1 in reading the innumerable     
war-stories in our books and            
periodicals1 how many times the soldier 
confesses1 ,my whole frame trembled and 

my heart was like water1 but ,i kept    
right on1--and in several such cases we 
are told that some deed of extraordinary
 bravery was done by the faltering but  
determined man1 which earned for him    
some medal or cross of merit4  ,to go   
forward1 no matter how the body may     
rebel1 is the great test of courage4    
,this advice is especially needed by our
 girls4 ,upon women and girls have      
fallen many of the men's tasks in these 
days1 and great moral and physical      
courage is needed to meet them4 ,among  
the other inspiring words of ,robert    
,gair are some to fit these new         
circumstances4  ,most of you have more  
quality than you know1 he said4 ,do not 
fear to put your ability to the test4   
,governor ,whitman of ,new ,york1 in a  
recent address at ,mount ,holyoke       
,college1 quoted these beautiful words  
of ,phillips ,brooks1 ,do not pray for  
easy lives4 ,pray to be stronger4 ,do   
not pray for tasks equal to your powers4
 ,pray for powers equal to your tasks4  

,our great task is to preserve this     
nation and its splendid ideals1 so      
sacredly handed down to us by           
martyr-heroes4 ,our children must be    
taught that the task is great1 whether  
peace or war befall us1 but that ,god   
can impart the wisdom and courage to    
perform it1 and hand it down unimpaired 
to their descendants4  ,frederick the   
,great was brought up to be courageous1 
but his was chiefly the courage of      
battle4  ,frederick the ,great1 said    
,mr4 ,james ,w4 ,gerard1 our late       
,ambassador to ,germany1 in a recent    
address1 is the hero and model of       
,germany4 ,his example1 coupled with the
 teaching of ,germany's leading         
philosophers1 has built up that ideal of
 force and dominion which has been the  
undoing of that great nation4 ,this     
ideal must be entirely demolished before
 they can ever resume that place in the 
brotherhood of nations1 to which their  
gifts and attainments entitle them4  ,as
 a model1 ,frederick the ,great is      

repugnant to the soul of ,america4 ,we  
may not all be ,christians1 but the     
claim that we are a ,christian nation is
 justified by the fact that our ideals  
are the ideals of ,christianity1--of    
justice toward all1 of the love of      
mercy1 of equality of opportunity for   
all1 and of fraternity among men1 of all
 races and creeds4 ,peace is one of the 
grandest things on earth2 but1 as ,dean 
,howard ,robbins reminds us1 it is only 
a means to an end1--namely1 this end3   
the coming of the kingdom of ,god4 ,if  
war is required for this end1 then we   
must for a time sacrifice peace4        
,,chapter ,,ix  ,,the ,,patriot',s      
,,religion ,,and ,,ideals          ,who 
seeks and loves the company of great    
,ideals1 and moves among them1 soon or  
late         ,will learn their ways and 
language1 unaware         ,take on their
 likeness4                              
--,,president ,,samuel ,v4 ,,cole4      
,,the ,venerable ,bede wrote of a king  
of ,northumberland and his counselors as

 debating whether the emissaries of     
,pope ,gregory should be allowed to     
present to their people the ,christian  
faith4 ,a gray-haired ,chief told of a  
little bird1 which on a stormy night    
flew into his warm1 bright dining-hall4 
,it was a sweet moment for the bird1 but
 his surroundings were unnatural4 ,he   
was frightened1 and presently out he    
flew into the storm again4  ,he came out
 of the dark1 and into the dark he      
returned1 said the old ,chief4 ,thus it 
is with human life4 ,we come we know not
 whence4 ,we depart we know not whither4
 ,if anybody can tell us anything about 
it1 in ,god's name1 let us hear him4    
,and thus came the missionaries into    
,britain and made it a so-called        
religious nation4  ,our religious       
journals have discussed from many       
standpoints the possibility of making   
our own a religious nation4 ,a formally 
established religion is especially      
forbidden us4 ,we all admit this to be  
wise1 and that ,church and ,state should

 be separate4 ,yet there are few        
thoughtful people who do not realize    
that each individual has his spiritual  
part1 which must be fed and nourished1  
and that this cannot be done by culture 
alone4 ,when a series of sex-films was  
on display in ,new ,york1 and good      
people were wondering whether more of   
good than bad would result to the young 
who flocked to see them1 one            
distinguished man said to another1      
,knowledge alone will never make men    
virtuous1--and no truer word was ever   
spoken1 as the spectacle of highly      
educated ,germany amply proves4  ,we are
 told that there are other forces than  
the love of ,god and the desire to serve
 ,him1 which may elevate and redeem     
mankind4 ,that old ,gospel1 we are told1
 is outgrown4 ,by other means1          
character1 the banishment of injustice  
and crime and the establishment of      
universal brotherhood can be just as    
well secured4  ,first1 ,science was to  
do it4 ,from ,huxley's ',lay ,sermons'  

of #ahgj1 says the ,christian ,work1 to 
the latest fulmination of ,professor    
,haeckel1 we have been hearing that     
,science was the true ,messiah1 the     
eliminator of all evil4 ,science was to 
be taught to our children in the place  
of the outworn fables of the ,bible4    
,then came the prophets of ,education4  
,herbert ,spencer and his followers     
informed us that education was the      
panacea for all ills4 ,educate the      
people as to what is best and they will 
choose the best4  ,the prophets of      
,culture came next4 ,all that was       
necessary to bring in the millennium was
 the diffusion of art1 literature1      
music1 philosophy4 ,the mastery of the  
world by supermen was to be the religion
 that should create a strong and        
virtuous nation4 ,not meek men1 not     
suffering ,christs1 but giant men1 by   
force summoning perfect character and   
perfect efficiency out of erring        
humanity4  ,economic ,reform was the    
idol of the next decade or two4 ,if we  

could get an eight-hour day1 one day's  
rest in seven1 a good wage1 plenty to   
eat and model tenements1 then religion1 
as the ,church views it1 would be       
superfluous4  ,during the last forty or 
fifty years1 all of these gospels have  
been given a fair trial4 ,science1 says 
,dr4 ,frederick ,lynch1 has driven the  
classics out of our colleges1 and has   
almost become the text-book of our      
,sunday ,schools1--and yet it has worked
 little improvement in our national     
morals1 and is just now devoted chiefly 
to the inventing of machines and        
chemicals for the slaughter of mankind4 
,even airships have apparently been used
 mostly for dropping bombs on           
playgrounds and nurseries4 ,education   
was never more general4 ,education has  
stood next to the army in the           
consideration of ,germany4 ,many of our 
principal cheap politicians and grafters
 are educated men4  ,culture1 too1 is   
almost universal4 ,every town has its   
library and its women's clubs2 and      

,chautauquas in summer and courses of   
lectures and concerts in winter1 are    
provided in our smallest villages4      
,germany has boasted of her culture1 and
 we are proud of ours1--but it seems to 
have done little more than to veneer the
 barbarian in them and in us4  ,all of  
the high-sounding promises of ,economic 
,reform have failed as utterly4         
,germany's fine insurance plans1        
,england's old-age pensions1 the higher 
wages1 shorter hours and better homes of
 the working people1 have proven but    
vanity4 ,be happy and you will be good  
is not the great slogan of redemption1  
after all4  ,sects are vanishing1 and   
that is well4 ,but the great ideals of  
the ,bible1 the great ,pattern of the   
life of ,jesus ,christ1 these are and   
ever must be the inspiration of the     
passion for righteousness which we long 
to instill into our children4 ,science1 
,education1 ,culture1 ,economic         
,reform--these are good and necessary   
things1--but they are1 each and all1    

only parts of the greater ,gospel1 and  
that is what we must teach our children1
 if we are to make them good citizens2  
for1 as a community without a church    
goes to pieces1 so does character       
without religion4  ,familiarity with the
 ,bible is one of the essentials to this
 teaching4 ,besides its ethical and     
spiritual power1 its stories1 its poetry
 and its great essays furnish so much   
literary culture that a man thoroughly  
conversant with them is essentially a   
cultured being4  ,one of our            
distinguished statesmen wandered into a 
backwoods church1 where he heard a      
well-expressed1 logical and highly      
spiritual discourse from a man who bore 
every mark in his outward appearance of 
having always lived in the locality4    
,upon inquiring where this remarkable   
preacher gained his knowledge1 he found 
that he had always lived in an obscure  
hamlet and that his library consisted   
simply of his ,bible and his hymn-book4 
,abraham ,lincoln obtained his wonderful

 literary style largely from his study  
of the ,king ,james ,bible4 ,webster    
recommended it as a model of condensed1 
dignified and vivid expression4         
,thousands of our best writers and      
orators are indebted to it for the high 
quality of their style1 and many have so
 testified4  ,the work of these writers1
 such as ,shakespeare1 ,browning1 ,mrs4 
,browning1 ,tennyson1 ,matthew ,arnold1 
,lowell1 ,longfellow1 ,bryant1          
,whittier1 ,sidney ,lanier1 are full of 
allusions and figures which cannot be   
understood by our young people unless   
they are familiar with the ,bible4 ,all 
of our greatest modern literature is    
permeated with its language and its     
spirit4 ,every child should know its    
stories1 should be made to learn some of
 its grand poetry1 and should have its  
ethics and its spiritual lessons deeply 
graven upon their hearts4 ,we can truly 
say of it3          ,thou art the ,voice
 to kingly boys                     ,to 
lift them through the fight4  ,the      

child1 says ,president ,butler of       
,columbia ,university1 is entitled to   
his religious as well as to his         
scientific1 literary and aesthetic      
inheritance4 ,without any one of them he
 cannot become a truly cultivated man4 4
 4 4 ,if it is true that reason and     
spirit rule the universe1 then the      
highest and most enduring knowledge is  
of the things of the spirit4 ,that      
subtle sense of the beautiful and       
sublime which accompanies spiritual     
insight and is a part of it1--this is   
the highest achievement of which        
humanity is capable4 ,it is typified in 
the verse of ,dante1 in the prose of    
,thomas a ,kempis1 in the ,sistine      
,madonna of ,raphael and in ,mozart's   
,requiem4 ,to develop this sense in     
education is the task of art and        
literature2 to interpret it is the work 
of philosophy2 to nourish it is the     
function of religion4 ,it is man's      
highest possession1 and those studies   
which most directly appeal to it are    

beyond compare most valuable4  ,theodore
 ,roosevelt has recently given us a fair
 definition of religion4 ,the ,new ,york
 ,bible ,society asked him to write a   
special message to be printed in the    
copies of the ,new ,testament designed  
for soldiers and sailors4 ,he sent the  
following3  ,the teachings of the ,new  
,testament are foreshadowed in ,micah's 
verse3 ',what more doth the ,lord       
require of thee than to do justice and  
to love mercy1 and to walk humbly with  
thy ,god8'  ,do justice3 and therefore  
fight valiantly against the armies of   
,germany and ,turkey1 for these nations 
in this crisis stand for the reign of   
,moloch and ,beelzebub upon this earth4 
,love mercy2 treat prisoners well2      
succor the wounded2 treat every woman as
 if she were your sister2 care for      
little children2 be tender with the old 
and helpless4  ,walk humbly2 you will do
 so if you study the life and teachings 
of the ,savior4  ,may the ,god of       
,justice and mercy have you in ,his     

keeping6  ,mr4 ,roosevelt had evidently 
in mind the great prayer of ,george     
,washington for ,america1 well-known to 
most ,episcopalians1 but not so familiar
 to members of other sects4 ,in fact1 it
 is rather shameful that so few know it4
 ,here it is3  ,almighty ,god1 we make  
our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep  
the ,united ,states in thy holy         
protection2 that thou wilt incline the  
hearts of the citizens to cultivate a   
spirit of subordination and obedience to
 government2 to entertain a brotherly   
affection and love for one another and  
for their fellow citizens of the ,united
 ,states at large4 ,and1 finally1 that  
thou wilt most graciously be pleased to 
dispose us all to do justice1 to love   
mercy1 and to demean ourselves with that
 charity1 humility and pacific temper of
 mind1 which were the characteristics of
 the ,divine ,author of our blessed     
religion1 and without an humble         
imitation of whose example in these     
things we can never hope to be a happy  

nation4 ,grant our supplication1 we     
beseech thee1 through ,jesus ,christ our
 ,lord1 ,amen4  ,this prayer may well be
 taught to every one of our boys and    
girls1 and be used by them in their     
daily devotions4  ,the ,sunday ,school  
should be a nesting-place for patriotism
 as well as for religion4 ,it is        
occasionally felt by some among us1 some
 even who are truly religious1 that the 
,sunday ,school accomplishes little     
good4 ,powerful evidence to the         
contrary1 in spite of its negative form1
 was afforded by ,judge ,fawcett of     
,brooklyn1 when he testified that of the
 twenty-seven hundred men and women     
brought before his court during the last
 five years1 not one had ever seen the  
inside of a ,sunday ,school4 ,the       
,sunday ,school has never been developed
 to its right capacity4 ,it can be made 
a tremendous engine for the manufacture 
of religious men and women1 and         
enthusiastic patriots4  ,for that is    
what we greatly need in this            

country1--enthusiastic patriots4 ,dr4   
,jowett dwells especially upon the value
 of enthusiasm4  ,no virtue is safe1 he 
says1 until it becomes enthusiastic4 ,it
 is safe only when it becomes the home  
of fire4 ,in the high realms of the     
spirit1 it is only the passionate that  
is secure4 ,the seraphim1 those pure    
spirits who are in the immediate service
 of the ,lord1 are the 'burning ones1'  
and it is their noble privilege to carry
 fire from off the altar and touch with 
purifying flame the lips of the unclean4
  ,nothing will more certainly enkindle 
this life-giving flame than the study of
 the lives of great heroes1--first1     
those of sacred writ1 the patriarchs1   
prophets and apostles1 of whom the world
 was not worthy2 then the noble army of 
the martyrs and the brave men of the    
great ,middle ,age2 then ,john ,wesley1 
,john ,fox1 ,roger ,williams1           
,whitefield1 ,john ,knox1 ,john ,huss1  
,john ,calvin1--how ignorant our        
children are of the thrilling heroisms  

of the past6  ,agnes ,repplier1 in one  
of her brilliant essays1 illustrates    
this disgraceful fact with this         
anecdote3  ,american children go to     
school six1 eight or ten years1 and     
emerge with a misunderstanding of their 
own country and a comprehensive         
ignorance of all others4 ,they say1 ',i 
don't know any history1' as casually as 
they might say1 ',i don't know any      
chemistry4' ,a smiling young freshman   
told me recently that she had been      
conditioned because she knew nothing    
about the ,reformation4  ',you mean--'  
,i began questioningly4  ',i mean just  
what ,i say1' she interrupted4 ',i      
didn't know what it was or where it was1
 or who had anything to do with it4'  ,i
 said ,i didn't wonder she had come to  
grief4 ,the ,reformation was something  
of an episode4 ,when ,i was a           
schoolgirl1 ,i was never done studying  
about the ,reformation4 4 4 4 ,we cannot
 leave ,john ,wesley any more than we   
can leave ,marlborough or ,pitt out of  

the canvas4 4 4 4 ,history is philosophy
 teaching by example1 and we are wise to
 admit the old historians into our      
counsel4  ,walter ,savage ,landor       
devoted one of his most eloquent        
paragraphs to this subject3 ,show me how
 great projects were executed1 great    
advantages gained and great calamities  
averted4 ,show me the generals and the  
statesmen who stood foremost that ,i may
 honor them4 ,tell me their names that  
,i may repeat them to my children4 ,show
 me whence laws were introduced1 upon   
what foundation laid1 by what custody   
guarded1 in what inner keep preserved4  
,place ,history on her rightful throne4 
,it is true that most of the great      
forward steps of civilization have been 
made by war4 ,our brave soldiers of     
#aggf1 of #ahab1 of #ahdg1 of #ahfa1 and
 of #ahih1 are rightly our most revered 
heroes4 ,our children should know the   
stories of their lives4  ,but the heroes
 of duty should be even more            
emphatically impressed upon their minds4

 ,it is true that warriors are soldiers 
of conscience no less than others1 but  
our children will1 we hope1 need chiefly
 the heroism of civil life1 which1 being
 less showy1 requires more of           
resolution4 ,here is a tale of a soldier
 who kept his courage in another place  
than the battlefield3  ,colonel         
,higginson was once asked what was the  
bravest deed that he ever saw done in   
the ,civil ,war4 ,he replied that the   
bravest deed he ever witnessed was not  
done in battle4 ,it was at a banquet1   
where several officers had related      
salacious stories1 and the turn came of 
a young lieutenant4 ,he rose and said1  
,i cannot tell a story1 but ,i will give
 you a toast1 to be drunk in            
water1--,our ,mothers4  ,there was a    
hush of guilty silence1 and soon the    
party broke up4  ,may our sons never be 
placed in similar circumstances1 but if 
they are1 may they show a similar       
bravery6  ,it may be remembered that a  
story almost identical with this was    

told of ,general ,grant4  ,the lives of 
,livingston1 of ,stanley1 of ,paton1 of 
,elizabeth ,fry1 of ,florence           
,nightingale1 of ,julia ,ward ,howe1 of 
,alice ,freeman ,palmer1 of ,anna ,h4   
,shaw1--of ,wilberforce1 of ,judson1 and
 of men like the late ,joseph ,h4       
,choate should be made familiar to our  
young people and a desire awakened to   
emulate their example4  ,unfortunately  
the path of duty is not often at present
 the way of glory1--but it is a part of 
religion that the glory of an approving 
conscience and of the final smile of    
,god should rank far above fleeting     
earthly fame4 ,the ,boy ,scouts1 in     
their excellent creed1 embody this idea1
 and so do the ,camp-,fire ,girls4 ,both
 set up the right ideals1 which is the  
main object of true education4  ,the    
,country ,contributor to the ,ladies'   
,home ,journal1 feels that our nation is
 suffering from a falling-away in this  
respect1 and that our ideals and our    
strength to follow them are going to be 

improved by the great war4  ,we shall   
have heroes to mourn for1 she says1 not 
moral degenerates1 not financial        
failures1 not self-satisfied good       
citizens1 dying of slow spiritual decay4
 ,maybe our men will wake up4 ,perhaps  
new-born men may flash upon our vision  
as ,custer did at the ,grand ,review4   
,during that three-days' march of the   
,grand ,review1 somebody flung a wreath 
of flowers from a window1 and it dropped
 upon the beautiful head of ,general    
,custer1 with his leonine mane of yellow
 hair falling on his shoulders4 ,his    
horse was frightened and ran2 so ,custer
 rode1 a wild1 beautiful figure of young
 ,victory1 down the length of           
,pennsylvania ,avenue4 ,or like ,phil   
,kearney at ,seven ,pines1 with his one 
arm still left and the reins in his     
teeth4  ,alfred ,noyes1 in the ,bookman1
 has pointed out to a scoffing man who  
has belittled our heroes and our        
history1 and says1 ,there are no ghosts 
in ,america1 the fact that we have      

abundant romance and heroism within our 
annals1 and names some of the men and   
events which stand for them1 adding3    
,must all those dead lie still8         
,must not the night disgorge            
,the ghosts of ,bunker ,hill1           
,the ghosts of ,valley ,forge1          
,or ,england's mightier son             
,the ghost of ,washington8          ,no 
ghost where ,lincoln fell8              
,no ghosts for seeing eyes8          ,i 
know an old cracked bell                
,shall make ten million rise1           
,when his immortal ghost          ,calls
 to the slumbering host4  ,but the chief
 element in the child's ideal should be 
democracy4 ,his idea of classes and of  
masses should be that a democracy has   
none4  ,imagine6 cried a gaily dressed  
young woman one day1 that shop-girl is  
actually trying to be a lady6--yet that 
shop-girl was gentle and refined and far
 more of a lady than the silly rich girl
 who so vulgarly criticized her4  ,i    
wish we had more clearly defined classes

 here in ,america1 remarked an          
apparently loyal ,american woman 7she   
was wearing conspicuously an ,american  
flag brooch74 ,it is a much more        
comfortable way4  ,she represents a     
considerable section among us1 who would
 like a return to titles and class      
decorations in our social system4 ,you  
have doubtless observed that such people
 always expect themselves to be included
 in the gentry-and-nobility class4 ,our 
forefathers1 with a vision and a valor  
far in advance of their time1 fought and
 died on purpose to abolish such        
distinctions1 and may they never return6
 ,some undiscerning ones insist that we 
are as truly classified as is any       
,european monarchy2 but they do not seem
 to realize that with us caste and class
 change with almost every generation4   
,the great name and estate are not      
handed down by primogeniture from father
 to son4  ,the only 'lower orders1' said
 ,horace ,mann1 are those who do nothing
 for the good of mankind4 ,the word     

'classes' is not a good ,american word4 
,in a republic there should be but two  
classes1--the educated and the          
uneducated2 and the one should gradually
 merge into the other until all are     
educated4  ,he summed up the whole      
matter thus3 ,the law of caste includes 
within itself every iniquity1 because it
 lives by the practical denial of human 
brotherhood4  ,teach your children this 
lesson thoroughly4  ,pasteur defined    
democracy as that form of government    
which permits every individual citizen  
to develop himself to do his best for   
the common good4 ,we must come to       
recognize that common good means not    
only the good of our own nation but that
 of the world4 ,may not ,pasteur's      
definition be used as a basis for the   
great democratic principle to which we  
look forward as the security for the    
peace of the world8  ,the ,athenian's   
patriotism was for ,athens4 ,the        
,spartan's was for ,sparta1 the ,roman's
 was far more for the city of ,rome than

 for the empire4 ,ours should be1 first1
 for our own land1 but then for the     
world4 ,it would be a traitor and a     
craven who would in a shipwreck save    
another man's wife before his own1 if he
 could help it4 ,so patriotism1 like    
charity1 begins at home4 ,but equally   
true is what ,lowell wrote3    ,he's    
true to ,god who's true to man2 wherever
 wrong is done1    ,to the humblest and 
the weakest1 'neath the all-beholding   
sun1    ,that wrong is done to us2 and  
they are slaves most base1    ,whose    
love of right is for themselves1 and not
 for all their race4  ,de ,tocqueville1 
years ago1 reproached his own nation    
with being willing to fight only for its
 own liberty1 while to the ,anglo-,saxon
 the liberty of his neighbor was also   
dear4 ,since then1 ,france has          
developed4 ,to her1 also1 is the liberty
 of her neighbor dear4 ,may it ever be  
so to us6  ,perhaps the whole content of
 this little volume is gathered up in   
,edwin ,markham's splendid lines3       

,what do we need to keep the nation     
whole1--          ,to guard the pillars 
of the state8 ,we need          ,the    
fine audacities of honest deed2         
,the homely old integrities of soul2    
,the swift temerities that take the part
          ,of outcast right--the wisdom 
of the heart2          ,brave hopes that
 ,mammon never can detain1          ,nor
 sully with his gainless clutch for     
gain4          ,we need the ,cromwell   
fire to make us feel          ,the      
common burden and the public trust      
,to be a thing as sacred and august     
,as the white vigil where the angels    
kneel4          ,we need the faith to go
 a path untrod1          ,the power to  
be alone and vote with ,god4   ,,the    
,,end     ,,go1 ,,get ',,em6            
,illustration  ,by ,william ,a4 ,wellman
  ,marechal des ,logis of ,escadrille   
,n4 #hg      ,,the ,,true ,,adventures  
,,of ,,an ,,american ,,aviator ,,of     
,,the       ,,lafayette ,,flying ,,corps
 ,,who ,,was ,,the ,,only ,,yankee      

,,flyer       ,,fighting ,,over         
,,general ,,pershing',s ,,boys ,,of     
,,the ,,rainbow       ,,division ,,in   
,,lorraine ,,when ,,they ,,first ,,went 
,,over ,,the       ,,top4  ,cloth       
decorative1 #abmo1 illustrated1 #a4ej   
,when a young ,yankee athlete makes up  
his mind to play a part in the most     
thrilling game which the world has ever 
witnessed--war in mid air--the result is
 certain to produce a heart-thrilling   
story4  ,many such tales are being told 
to-day1 but few1 if any1 can hope to    
approach that lived and now written by  
,sergeant ,billy ,wellman1 for he       
engaged in some of the most amazing air 
battles imaginable1 during the course of
 which he sent tumbling to destruction  
seven ,boche machines--achievements     
which won for him the coveted ,croix de 
,guerre with two palms4  ,marechal      
,wellman was the only ,american in the  
air over ,general ,pershing's famous    
,rainbow ,division when the ,yankee     
troops made their historic first        

over-the-top attack on the ,hun1 and    
during that battle he was in command of 
the lowest platoon of ,french fighting  
planes and personally disposed of two of
 the enemy's attacking aircraft4  ,his  
experience included far more than       
fighting above the firmament4 ,he was in
 ,paris and ,nancy during four distinct 
night bombing raids by the ,boche and   
participated in rescues made necessary  
thereby2 he1 with a comrade1 chased two 
hostile machines far into ,germany and  
shot up their aviation field2 he was    
lost in a blizzard on ,christmas ,day2  
he was in intimate touch with the men   
and officers of the ,rainbow ,division1 
and was finally shot down by            
anti-aircraft guns from a height of     
#ecjj metres1 escaping death by a       
miracle1 but so seriously wounded that  
his honorable discharge followed        
immediately4  ,sergeant ,wellman's story
 is unquestionably the most unusual and 
illuminating yet told in print4         
,,the ,,strange ,,adventures ,,of       

,,bromley ,,barnes  ,illustration  ,by  
,george ,barton        ,author of ,the  
,mystery of the ,red ,flame1 ,the       
,world's ,greatest ,military ,spies and 
,secret ,service       ,agents1 etc4    
,cloth decorative1 #abmo1 illustrated1  
#a4ej   ,mr4 ,barton first broke into   
print1 as the saying goes1 with a       
mystery story entitled ,the ,scoop of   
the ,session1 which was published in    
,collier's a number of years ago1 and   
has the reputation of having written    
more short detective stories than any   
other writer in the ,united ,states4    
,in this new book ,mr4 ,barton sets     
forth in absorbing fashion the ,strange 
,adventures of ,bromley ,barnes1 retired
 detective1 but whose interest in the   
solution of baffling cases in public and
 private life is just as keen as in his 
days of active ,government service4     
,worried and harassed ,government       
officials1 also perplexed and anxious   
private individuals1 seek the services  
of the astute detective in national     

problems and personal matters1 and just 
how the suave and diplomatic ,barnes    
clears away mysteries makes a story that
 is mighty good reading4     ,,dawson   
,,black1 ,,retail ,,merchant            
,illustration  ,by ,harold ,whitehead   
,assistant ,professor of ,business      
,method1 ,the ,college       of         
,business ,administration1 ,boston      
,university1 author       of ,the       
,business ,career of ,peter ,flint1     
,principles       of ,salesmanship1 etc4
  ,illustrated by ,john ,goss1 cloth1   
#abmo1 #a4ej   ,as ,assistant ,professor
 of ,business ,method in ,boston        
,university's famous ,college of        
,business ,administration1 the author's 
lectures have attracted widespread      
attention1 and the popularity of his    
stories of business life1 which have    
appeared serially in important trade    
magazines and newspapers all over the   
country1 has created an insistent demand
 for their book publication4  ,,dawson  
,,black is the story of a young man's   

first year in business as a store       
owner--a hardware store1 but the        
principles illustrated apply equally to 
any other kind of retail store4 ,in     
bright1 pithy style the author narrates 
the triumphs and disasters1 the joys and
 sorrows1 the problems and their        
solutions with which a young employer1  
just commencing his career1 is          
confronted4 ,relations with employees1  
means of fighting competition1 and trade
 psychology in advertising are some of  
the important subjects treated4  ,the   
hero's domestic career lends the human  
interest touch1 so that the book        
skilfully combines fact with fiction1 or
 business with pleasure1 and is both    
fascinating and informative4     ,,the  
,,man ,,who ,,won  ,,or1 ,,the ,,career 
,,and ,,adventures ,,of ,,the ,,younger 
,,mr4 ,,harrison  ,illustration  ,by    
,leon ,d4 ,hirsch  ,cloth decorative1   
#abmo1 illustrated by ,william ,van     
,dresser1 #a4ej   ,mr4 ,hirsch has given
 the public a novel decidedly out of the

 ordinary--a stirring story of political
 life combined with a romance of        
absorbing interest4         99       99 
99       99       99  ,in compelling    
fashion the author tells how ,edward    
,harrison1 recognized political boss1   
who had long controlled the affairs of a
 prosperous city1 was forced to admit   
that his unprincipled political methods 
must give way to clean government1 an   
exponent of which he sees in his son4   
99       99       99       99       99  
,cleverly the author depicts ,edward    
,harrison1 the unscrupulous political   
boss2 ,jack ,harrison1 his son1 who     
differs quite a bit from his father2    
,mrs4 ,harrison1 the indefatigable      
social climber2 and ,alice ,lane1 a     
bright1 lovable girl2 and around these  
widely different characters ,mr4 ,hirsch
 has written a vivid story of politics1 
ambition1 love1 hate and--best of       
all--of real life that grips the reader4
     ,a new ,blossom ,shop story  ,,the 
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,by ,isla ,may ,mullins        ,a sequel
 to ,the ,blossom ,shop1 ,anne of the   
,blossom       ,shop and ,anne's        
,wedding          ,illustrated1 cloth1  
#abmo1 decorative jacket1 #a4ej  ,in    
this fourth and last volume of ,the     
,blossom ,shop stories ,may ,carter and 
,gene ,grey1 who have won countless     
friends among readers of the series1    
come before them now as the center of   
interest4 ,university graduates1 the two
 girls come forth enamoured of the      
settlement idea1 and proceed to carry it
 out at the mining and iron ore plant of
 their father in the mountains of       
,alabama1 with the added interest of    
effort among the quaint mountaineers of 
the region4 ,things move at a lively    
pace from the moment of their           
arrival--things unexpected and gay and  
tragic1 which put them on their mettle1 
but do not find them wanting4 ,the girls
 are much imbued with the new           
independence of woman as well as with   
thought of her broadened sphere1 and    

,cupid1 who lingers near1 is beset by   
various unyielding obstacles1 but       
conquers in the end4 ,the book has for  
an underlying thread ideals of the same 
high type which have characterized the  
former volumes4     ,,the ,,mystery ,,of
 ,,the ,,red ,,flame  ,illustration  ,by
 ,george ,barton  ,author of ,the       
,world's ,greatest ,military ,spies and 
,secret ,service ,agents1 etc4          
,cloth1 #abmo1 illustrated1 #a4ej  ,take
 the glorious red flame diamond from the
 museum at ,rio de ,janeiro1 a wily     
,brazilian rascal1 as conceited as he is
 clever1 romantic as well as a rogue1 a 
little-talking but much-doing ,american 
,secret ,service man1 a diamond merchant
 whose activities won't bear a customs  
inspector's searchlight1 and of course a
 beautiful girl6 ,imagine them all      
interested intensely in the diamond and 
most of them in the girl4 ,it is evident
 that these ingredients are ideal for   
the thrilling mystery tale1 especially  
when the author is a newspaper man whose

 hobby is the study of crime and        
criminals4  ,,the ,,mystery ,,of ,,the  
,,red ,,flame is the story par          
excellence to be read in conjunction    
with the shaded lamp1 the arm chair and 
the open fire6     ,selections from ,the
 ,page ,company's ,list of ,fiction     
,,works ,,of ,,eleanor ,h4 ,,porter     
,each1 one volume1 cloth decorative1    
#abmo1 illustrated1 #a4ej               
,,pollyanna3 ,the ,,glad ,book          
7#djj1jjj7           ,trade ,mark       
,trade  ,mark  ,mr4 ,leigh ,mitchell    
,hodges1 ,the ,optimist1 in an editorial
 for the ,philadelphia ,north ,american1
 says3 ,and when1 after ,pollyanna has  
gone away1 you get her letter saying she
 is going to take 'eight steps'         
tomorrow--well1 ,i don't know just what 
you may do1 but ,i know of one person   
who buried his face in his hands and    
shook with the gladdest sort of sadness 
and got down on his knees and thanked   
the ,giver of all gladness for          
,pollyanna4           ,,pollyanna       

,,grows ,,up3 ,the ,second ,,glad ,book 
,trade ,mark    7#bjj1jjj7    ,trade    
,mark  ,when the story of ,,pollyanna   
told in ,the ,glad ,book was ended1 a   
great cry of regret for the vanishing   
,glad ,girl went up all over the        
country--and other countries1 too4 ,now 
,,pollyanna appears again1 just as sweet
 and joyous-hearted1 more grown up and  
more lovable4  ,take away frowns6 ,put  
down the worries6 ,stop fidgeting and   
disagreeing and grumbling6 ,cheer up1   
everybody6 ,,pollyanna has come         
back6--,christian ,herald4         99   
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,the ,,glad ,book ,calendar             
,trade   ,mark           ,,the          
,,pollyanna ,,calendar                  
,trade ,mark  7,this calendar is issued 
annually2 the calendar for the new year 
being ready about ,sept4 #ast of the    
preceding year4 ,note3 in ordering      
please specify what year you desire47   
,decorated and printed in colors4       
#a4ej  ,there is a message of cheer on  

every page1 and the calendar is         
beautifully illustrated4--,kansas ,city 
,star4   ,,miss ,,billy 7#aith printing7
        ,cloth decorative1 with a       
frontispiece in full color       from a 
painting by ,g4 ,tyng  #a4ej  ,there is 
something altogether fascinating about  
',miss ,billy1' some inexplicable       
feminine characteristic that seems to   
demand the individual attention of the  
reader from the moment we open the book 
until we reluctantly turn the last      
page4--,boston ,transcript4   ,,miss    
,,billy',s ,,decision 7#abth printing7  
,cloth decorative1 with a frontispiece  
in full color       from a painting by  
,henry ,w4 ,moore4   #a4ej  ,the story  
is written in bright1 clever style and  
has plenty of action and humor4 ,miss   
,billy is nice to know and so are her   
friends4--,new ,haven ,times ,leader4   
,,miss ,,billy--,,married 7#ajth        
printing7        ,cloth decorative1 with
 a frontispiece in full color       from
 a painting by ,w4 ,haskell ,coffin4    

#a4ej  ,although ,pollyanna is the only 
copyrighted glad girl1 ,miss ,billy is  
just as glad as the younger figure and  
radiates just as much gladness4 ,she    
disseminates joy so naturally that we   
wonder way all girls are not like       
her4--,boston ,transcript4   ,,six      
,,star ,,ranch 7#bjth ,printing7        
,cloth decorative1 #abmo1 illustrated by
 ,r4 ,farrington ,elwell4   #a4ej  ',six
 ,star ,ranch' bears all the charm of   
the author's genius and is about a      
little girl down in ,texas who practices
 the ',pollyanna ,philosophy' with      
irresistible success4 ,the book is one  
of the kindliest things1 if not the     
best1 that the author of the ,pollyanna 
books has done4 ,it is a welcome        
addition to the fast-growing family of  
,glad ,books4--,howard ,russell ,bangs  
in the ,boston ,post4   ,,cross         
,,currents    ,cloth decorative1        
illustrated4      #a4be   ,to one who   
enjoys a story of life as it is to-day1 
with its sorrows as well as its         

triumphs1 this volume is sure to        
appeal4--,book ,news ,monthly4   ,,the  
,,turn ,,of ,,the ,,tide    ,cloth      
decorative1 illustrated4       #a4ce  ,a
 very beautiful book showing the        
influence that went to the developing of
 the life of a dear little girl into a  
true and good woman4--,herald and       
,presbyter1 ,cincinnati1 ,ohio4         
,,works ,,of ,l4 ,m4 ,,montgomery  ,,the
 ,,four ,,anne ,,books  ,each1 one      
volume1 cloth decorative1 #abmo1        
illustrated1 #a4ej   ,,anne ,,of ,,green
 ,,gables 7#dcrd printing7  ,in ',anne  
of ,green ,gables' you will find the    
dearest and most moving and delightful  
child since the immortal ,alice4--,mark 
,twain in a letter to ,francis ,wilson4 
,,anne ,,of ,,avonlea 7#bhth printing7  
,a book to lift the spirit and send the 
pessimist into bankruptcy6--,meredith   
,nicholson4   ,,chronicles ,,of         
,,avonlea 7#gth printing7  ,a story of  
decidedly unusual conception and        
interest4--,baltimore ,sun4   ,,anne    

,,of ,,the ,,island 7#abth printing7    
,it has been well worth while to watch  
the growing up of ,anne1 and the        
privilege of being on intimate terms    
with her throughout the process has been
 properly valued4--,new ,york ,herald4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,each1 one volume1 cloth decorative1    
#abmo1 illustrated1 #a4ej   ,,the       
,,story ,,girl 7#ajth printing7  ,a book
 that holds one's interest and keeps a  
kindly smile upon one's lips and in     
one's heart4--,chicago ,inter-,ocean4   
,,kilmeny ,,of ,,the ,,orchard 7#aath   
printing7  ,a story born in the heart of
 ,arcadia and brimful of the sweet life 
of the primitive environment4--,boston  
,herald4   ,,the ,,golden ,,road 7#fth  
printing7  ,it is a simple1 tender tale1
 touched to higher notes1 now and then1 
by delicate hints of romance1 tragedy   
and pathos4--,chicago ,record-,herald4  
,,novels ,,by ,,isla ,,may ,,mullins    
,,the ,,blossom ,,shop3 ,a ,story of the
 ,south          ,cloth decorative1     

illustrated by ,john ,goss4    #a4ej    
,frankly and wholly romance is this     
book1 and lovable--as is a fairy tale   
properly told4 ,and the book's author   
has a style that's all her own1 that    
strikes one as praiseworthily original  
throughout4--,chicago ,inter-,ocean4    
,,anne ,,of ,,the ,,blossom ,,shop3 ,or1
 the ,growing ,up of ,anne ,carter      
,cloth decorative1 with a frontispiece  
in full color from a  painting by ,z4   
,p4 ,nikolaki                           
#a4ej  ,a charming portrayal of the     
attractive life of the ,south1          
refreshing as a breeze that blows       
through a pine forest4--,albany         
,times-,union4   ,,anne',s ,,wedding    
,cloth decorative1 with a frontispiece  
in full color from a painting   by ,gene
 ,pressler                              
#a4ej   ,the story is most beautifully  
told4 ,it brings in most charming       
people1 and presents a picture of home  
life that is most appealing in love and 
affection4 ,it is a delightful tale1    

highly refreshing and most              
entertaining4--,every ,evening1         
,wilmington1 ,del4   ,,novels ,,by      
,,daisy ,,rhodes ,,campbell   ,,the     
,,fiddling ,,girl          ,cloth       
decorative1 illustrated     #a4ej  ,a   
thoroughly enjoyable tale1 written in a 
delightful vein of sympathetic          
comprehension4--,boston ,herald4   ,,the
 ,,proving ,,of ,,virginia              
,cloth decorative1 illustrated     #a4ej
  ,a book which contributes so much of  
freshness1 enthusiasm1 and healthy life 
to offset the usual offerings of modern 
fiction1 deserves all the praise which  
can be showered upon it4--,kindergarten 
,review4   ,,the ,,violin ,,lady        
,cloth decorative1 illustrated          
#a4ej  ,the author's style remains      
simple and direct1 as in her preceding  
books1 and her frank affection for her  
attractive heroine will be shared by    
many others4--,boston ,transcript4      
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,transcriber's ,notes3  ,page #g1       

battlefied changed to battlefield       
7battlefield of ,sobraon7  ,page #agf1  
,marechal changed to ,marechal          
7,marechal des ,logis of ,escadrille7