Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 201, 1 July 1913 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE Criticism of Unfair Criticism The Alien BY NELL BRINKLEY Wealth "Mocks Their Useful Toil Their Homely Joys- and Destiny Obscure. DR. C. H. PARKHURST. F there is any one thing proved by the differing and contrary comments called out by Governor Sulzer's veto of the McKee bills, it ia I

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the chaotic condition of mind generally prevailing touching the entire matter of school curricula and school administration. One class of intelligence, if it be called such, I s represented by the critic who avers that the Governor had so imper

fectly studied the contents of the bills as not to know what was his disapproval of them; another class finds its spokesman in a distinguished and experienced educator who compliments the Governor by saying that it must have been God Himself who put it into his heart to withhold from the bills his approval. We pass over as beneath the dignity of a serious situation certain ill-natured criticisms originating in personal antipathy to the Governor, such as that of a certain rather waspishly dis posed afternoon paper, which wove out of a series of pure hypotheses the declared conviction that Mr. Sulzer vetoed McKee's bills as a means of punishing McKee for his rumored refusal to support the State-wide Primaries bill. Unfair Criticism of Sulzer as Mlschevious as It Is Vicious. An example of a process not unusual with lame or prejudiced intelligence, that of starting with a conclusion and then accumulating or extemporizing material enough to give to the conclusions a show of respectability a process as mischievous as it is logically vicious. The most serious aspect of the matter is not the approval or the disapproval of the bills in question, but the diversity and contrariety of judgment passed upon the Governor's action, as already adverted to, and which is in Itself a guarantee of the wisdom of his proposal to appoint an educational 2ommission. Chaos is not improved by being stirred, but by having some constructive intelligence set to work upon it. If, as is charged, such a proposal is Inconsistent with the doctrine of home rule, so are the McKee bills inconsistent with the doctrine of home rule, a fact not dwelt upon, however, by those who impugn the same inconsistency when detected in the Governor. At that point there may be interpolated a single pertinent remark that there are certain questions which, while of local application, have a Bcope which in their fundamental features are not limited to locality. The matter of sanitary precautions Is one of such questions. The matter Df common school education is another of such questions. A State is an organized whole, not merely an accumulation of individualized and unrelated townships, and matters fundamental to the interests of the organized whole should receive juBt such treatment as the Governor's proposal for a commission will secure to it. Only such a commission should be composed of educational experts, men built on broad lines and personally experienced in matters of educational training. The mere fact of being an Assem blyman or even a Senator affords no guarantee of such qualifications. Instruction a Profession as Much as Is Law or Ministry. Assuming that the men gathered at the state house are fitted to enact in to statutes general principles of econ omics a fact which many are dispos to question it cannot be concluded, but rather the reverse, that they would be anything more than mere tinkerers when exercising such faculties as they may be credited with upon questions of school discipline. Instruction is as much a profession as law, medicine or the ministry. Even if a man can do one thing well, extraordinarily well, there is nothing In that fact going to show that he can do well, or do at all, another altogether different thing. I would not accept the opinion of the Senate or the Assembly upon matters of teaching any more than I would upon matters of preaching. It has been confidently asserted I do not know how accurately that the same holds as regards the Board of Education as at present constituted. Education is a science, and if, as is constantly asserted, we ire not getting nearly as much out of our schools in the way of training as we are putting into them in the way of money, it is in part because their methods are so lr-rgely determined by people who are amateurish and sophomoric in their appreciation of the principles involved. Governor Sulzer Should Be Commended and Supported. On all accounts, therefore, the Governor is to be cordially commended and warmly supported in his idea of an educational commission, constituted of men who are large, experienced and practical in their acquaintance with the principles involved; and in his plan of leaving the present school situation without further interference until some thorough and scientifically digested schemo of school management and school discipline shall have been arrived at.

SO are there strays in this wide world they who have strayed away from their heart's desire; those homely folks whose feet have been always nimble, who like best to work with their own hands, who cling to old surroundings, who have pet chairs and little ways of affection that do not change through years, who take deep root and suffer when they are torn out and replanted into alien soil of these is the little, faded, but still spry, lady whose hands lie idle under protest, whose eyes are a bit weary, as they never were under the woes and worries of her first simpler home. She gazes with awe at the newly dug-up-up family 'scutcheon, dusted with jewels rampant on the door of the shopping limousine, broidered In silvery white on the napery. The vast expanses of mirror-like floors sometimes scare her for they are mighty lonely, and then anyway she is, as she says, "heavy on her feet." She wishes wistfully that the ceilings were lower as the ceilings hovered lovingly above her head in the pretty cottage that held her, her babies, and her poverty in the first years of her love.

The Manicure Lady "i SEE where a suffragist named Inez somebody was up to Sing Sing the other day investigating the conditions in the pris on, said tne Head Barber. "I suppose so many of them ladies has been guests in the English jails that she wanted to pick her out a nice apartment." "I was reading about it too," said the Manicure Lady. "I seen where she asked to have herself chained to a convict, or handcuffed to him, to see how the things worked. I suppose she thought that would be something funny for her to tell her girl friends after she got back home, but I wonder if she had any regard for the poor convict's feelings. I think it is kind of bum comedy for a free girl to go around getting handcuffed to an unfree criminal. The poor fellow must have felt like a awful Joe when she was standing there grinning. She could go out and ride away in her auto, and he had to go back and keep on being a convict." Not Pleasant. "I do not suppose prison conditions are ever very pleasing," said the Head Barber. "Prisons ain't built to be pleasant homes. If they was. a lot of city folks could break their leases and move there. But I think that there is a lot of good fellows in charge of some of the prisons, that tries to make it as easy as a hard life can be. And them jail investigations don't do much good anybow. The investigators go away, and if the warden is a devil he will be a devil again the minute their backs is turned, only worse. It's too much of a problem for girls to solve, anyhow." "Brother "Wilfred was in jail once," said the Manicure Lady. "The poor boy was arrested by mistake when he was coming over from Jersey on a ferryboat, and he had to spend a day and a night in jail before he could get to us. I guess it was awful for one of his proud spirit to be sticking around a little cell in the cooler, trying to explain that he wasn't the real pickpocket. I know when we got him home he was nearly prostrated, and got so luny

in the night that he raved about the horrors of a prison until Pa had to get up and get him a shot of high-proof stuff off the sideboard, to prove to him that he was at home and among friends." "Did they treat him mean when he was in there?" asked the Head Barber. "No," said the Manicure Lady, "I guess they didn't pay no attention to him at all. He said when he got home that the worst thing about a jail was the environments one is placed in. Wilfred was always kind of particular about his surroundings, and even if a prison cell is nice and clean you must admit, George, that the surroundings is kind of minor league, A Poem. "When Wilfred got rested up from his awful experience, he wrote a poem called 'My Prison,' and sent it to the Flour and Feed Courier up on Washington Heights. He was so tickled when they printed it that he has always said since that in a way, he was glad he had the experience. This is how it went: "My prison cell was small and dingy, With here a flea and there a jigger, The architect must have been quite stingy Or I think he would have planned it bigger. Xow roam I free beneath the stars, And with pure joy my heart does swell, Because I hate them prison bars That kept me in that awful cell!!" "Ain't that the limit?" exclaimed the Head Barber. "When that came out in the paper they ought to have sent him right back." WILLIAM F. KIRK.

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Sometimes when there is the empty house her boys and girls who are taking daring wing into the social skies are out, and there is no one but the servants so see, she dresses In a plain black gown with the real "Val." lace that her husband bought her from a slender wallet long ago at the wrists and throat, and raps at the door of her "Long Ago." But she has not dared to go back so far as to make a pie again I She is really interested in the welfare of the cook which is a shocking thing! In a hard, marvelously carven, Jacobean chair she sits (her beautiful, big, broad mind that has not much to love nowadays remembering a certain comfy rocker with a Turkey-red cushion that stood in the kitchen, the rocker that waited with open arms for her to shell peas and peel potatoes), she sits the buckled and braided footman at her elbow. She smiles at him for it has been thi3 busy, big-hearted woman's habit to smile often and much. But his stiff and rigid face refuses

What Every Girl Should Know BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX. T HAT the man who isn't attentive to his mother will make a neglectful husband. That the man whose ambition it is to shine in society will never shine in business. That the man who is out of work at least one-third of his time has himself more than the people of the times to blame. That no man may be trusted to speak respectfully of a girl who has shown she hasn't a great deal of respect for herself. That no man dreams of marrying every woman he tells he loves. Selfishness. That selfishness is the predominating element in every man's love, and unless she is prepared to accept the selfishness uncomplainingly, she should not accept his love. That the girl who marries a man to reform him breaks her own heart instead. That the ecstatic excitement of the preparations for the wedding are as brief, compared with the dull monotony of what comes after, as the ride down hill on a sled is compared with the long pull up the hill when the ride is ended. The only difference is that the burden the married woman pulls grows heavier much more rapidly than the 6led. That when she compares the criticism of her father with the praise of her lover she does an injustice to the man in whose love for her there is no element of selfishness. That the man who is incapable of self-denial will expect his wife to do all the self-denying that is attendant on matrimony. The Man Who Drinks. That the man who drinks, be it ever so little, wastes hia time, his money and his prospects, and some day will

be as prodigal with his wife's happiness. That the girl who steals another girl's lover more often becomes an object of pity than of envy. The lover who can be stolen will not bring joyto any woman. That some men's attentions are truly said to be marked, because they leave a mark that is never rubbed off. That for a girl to oppose the conventions is like getting out in deep water with a strong undercurrent and no lifeguard in sight.

THE SERVANT QUESTION. How Friction Between Mistress and Maid May Be Avoided. Women spoil their servants because they do not trust them, and the fault is more with the mistress than with the maid, for women who are educated and mature should be clearer and wiser in their dealings than women -who are not educated and who, because of their antecedents and limited experience, are so immature that in many ways they are very like children. If the maid suspects her mistress of trying to get every bit of work out of her that is possible and of paying her the smallest wages that she can persuade her to take, if the mistress is sure that the maid will do as little work as she can and will "strike" for the maximum wages, what else can they be but enemies, how else can they look at each other but askance? Fancy having in your house not only a per feet stranger, but one who considers you to be her enemy, with the certain knowledge also that she is unfriendly to you. And yet that is the kind of discord which exists every day and all day in the best regulated families." A practical knowledge of the work to be done, an ability to convey that knowledge to servants, to observe without appearing to observe, to correct without nagging and to show i friendliness without familiarity all these will enable us to give to a maid a sense of personal freedom and responsibility and a practical knowledge of the details of her work which will tend to dissipate the hostility engendered by years of misunderstanding. Century. Hadley's Grocery ! , ! Try Our Coffee Roasted Today It Will Please You 4. at 1 1 ui a icajc auu .

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the smile on hers. And she remembers that it isn't at all what he approves of. In his stiff hands he carries her tea and the tiny cakes someone else has made. And before her brooding eyes, in the centre of the great drawing-room, rises a picture of what four-o'clock in the evening-time had been. In it she sees herself, singing low, the summer breeze stirring the muslin curtain.", and a sleepy robin hammering metallically in the weed-lot, a fresh chocolate cake and a delectable apple pie cooling on the sill, the beginnings of dinner ("surper," she whispers to herself.) singing joyfully on the stove, on Ifer hip a yellow bowl, while round and round her capable hand stirs a spoon in the dark sweet batter of ginger-bread. But the dream fades, and the little woman who does not find wealth and the gilt that goes with it a comfortable thing, looks at her idle hands in her lap, and if such a "plum sweet" little woman could sniff or snort, she would do that same thing when she glimpses the little cakes on the footman's tray J

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