Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1910 — Papers BY THE PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Papers BY THE PEOPLE

INDUSTRIALISM NEEDED AS TEACHER.

By C. Edward Fuller.

Industrial education promises better living, and improved chances of earning a living, through employment in manufacturing industries mostly, for, although the land turns out raw materials from mine, farm and forest, and transportation and commerce relate to both finished and unfinished products, yet complete industrial activity is dependent upon factories in operation, so that it is

read* c U e factory which opens or closes the circuit of modern business. Small, exchangeable traveling exhibits, with simple descriptive matter, are the elements of a system proposed, such as can be fitted up at light expense by specific industries, as required, to show what each kind of factory needs, and to direct teachers and students alike into locally profitable channels, in accord with fashion, demand, expediency. Permanent museums and libraries do much for the Intellectual life, but the contention herein is that little exhibits of industrial crude and finished products, which could be passed around from school to school, would do more to fit boys for wage-earning, an this is what industrial education proposes to do for boys. No amount of argument can disprove the facts of evolution which show the dependence of a sound mind upon a sound body, and we have accumulated statistics enough during fifty years past to prove that healthful, continuous occupation is a means of salvation for young and old, poor or rich. “The world is always tormented with difficulties waiting to be solved," and a list of small improvements and inventions, to say nothing of the greater ones, needed in American factories would serve to humble the jingo patriot some. KIND AS AN AGENT OF HEALING.

By Robert M. Gault.

Everybody is interested in the idea that the mind is an agent of healing. Some embrace it, other laugh it to scorn. It has inspired the practice of shameful quackery upon credulous subjects so that the history of the application of mental influence to healing would be a good account of the credulity of men's minds throughout many centuries. It is easy enough for a physician to admin-

ister medicine in a spoon, or a stimulant through a hypodermic needle. But how can he dispense the mental influence of which we are thinking? He must put his confidence in some fundamental laws which govern the action of the human mind. The law which I want to mention first is that which Is expressed in the tendency of every idea, thought, emo-

tion, etc., to express itself in some form of movement. Do you know that you cannot think of a word without starting to say it? A great many people cannot hear a vocal solo without themselves incipiently singing with the actual performer. That is why so many people have a tired feeling in the throat after listening for several hourt? to a chorus. Then again many a person on the bleachers finds himself preparing to strike the ball when he is especially eager for a three bagger. When we have a pleasurable feeling it is not our toes but the corners of our mouths that turn up. At the thought of food it is not tears but saliva that begins to flow; it is not perspiration but gastric juice that is formed in increased quantities. This is a principle that can be absolutely depended upon; every thought and feeling is expressed by some kind of movment, and appropriate movement at that. - -- THE NEW ERA IN ANCIENT CHINA.

By Eleanor F. Egan.

The power of the prince regent of China, Tsai Feng, is almost, if not quite, as aboslute as was that of the great empress dowager. In a set of laws governing the regency, issued by the grand secretariat, appears the following: “The ordinances and ceremonies of the regent are of the most august character, an«\ an imperial edict should be requested setting a time and designating officials to

make the announcement at the temple of ancestors. The prince regent, also, should reverently receive his commission and seal before the sacrificial table of the great empress dowager. • * * The government of the nation, military and civil, the dismissal and appointment of officials and their promotion and degradation are all left to the determination and decision of the prince regent” * The power of the new empress dowager of China, widow of Kuang Hsu, will probably prove to be a neg-* llgible quantity. She is not an empress mother, and could therefore never hope to take the place left vacant by her predecessor, even if she had the personal strength and mentality of that great woman. The only mention that has been made of her since the death of the emperor was in one of the laws governing the regency, in which the regent is given permission to consult with her if he should ever have occasion to do so. But it i 3 added: “Others shall not' arrogate this privilege to themselves and ask Instructions of the empress dowager, nor shall they presume to* transmit the same on their own authority.” This effectually annuls any power she might have hoped to wield and makes of her a mere relict living out her useless life in the narrow confines of the palace and awaiting her turn to" “take the fairy ride and asoend to the far country.”—Everybody’s Magazine.