The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 12

THE SUNDAY OALL. “WISH that I t raise my voice and train my pen that an avalanche of pleadings for this great lic schoel system. stitutions for the cultivation nd the diffusion of all sorts but when it comes to needs i add so much to the pléssures training as superfluous. slums to reform those unless they were too ie refining influence shower endow i at, char development, and delug “How to get thin.” are suicldal to e is far away ade to feel that it takes rawling mite it were not nelancholy fact that rop when compared 1. hav 1 have to Th so fastidious epsia poor man's and 1s not ble little mervous dys- spring having anything sprouting sprigs of humanity, tite with a stomach that these chil- red a moral influence over uid be a mat- the gnant bard enc ured to that they cult vident shouid dition a transforma- e will’accomplish larly social s of h NATURAL CHILD | - { | 1 It would the h trying cas of m the time of i when it cries ge of childhood it is most nat- 1ld_make this it could not properly d Therefore let parents think twice before exc! v you ever keep quiet? You will drive me craz: ) s would give all they possess to " ling to its r to the b nother’s breast, so it is quite natural.for »m of mother earth. Doing so is ¢ er of writers have explained ave you ever known a child to keep clean? If so ild’s history? 1f you have it is probable that y i and for the parents in later years. who was heid up by the mother of At t time he exp er the as performed o oted the blood his first question 3 clott ?" Later developments proved that the hild was even too deep to be reached by a surgeon’s knife it would have his child exchange places with such as the one just trouble made the child. self mani- When he re was, any jousness and d get on my the ch s digestion is good the active child will want to eat each q here will be frequent calls for a sor g else to satisfy the craving caused by ay plece of sugar-bread. cake, the demand for energy- + <& By William J.“Ghearer, A.M,Ph.D. ' WHY KING EDWARD VII IS SUDDENLY 4 TEACHEE WHO HEETS THE CHIL- ZEEL O I7ED 70 [IFE WITIH A FLEASANT Goov JT0ELG, FOSIEGS A FABIT TIHAT CHILZ WILL A NEVEE OUTGEOL producing, substances. Tt is as natural for the healthy child to be hungiy between meals as it is for the parent to desire food after having omitted one or two meals. While mu Larm may be done by parmitting chi'dren to eat ; ard sweetmeats betwesn meals, it is probabliy™well that children. who n playing haid, ghoutd have, some nutritious food at other than 1 times, provided they do not eat anything an hour before the next rea- ular meal child grows older there will be less reason foir permitting cating b als, 1t | al for a child to be very thoughtless and just as forget- ful ents have sometimes bien krown to forget. What can be ex_ pected of children? There is something radically wrong when a child of ten- cer y is as thoughtful as one much olde Thanks to an all-wise Provi- nce, no one has yet discovered an approved method of putting an old head on young shoulders. The natural child will be active continually. This is absolutely neces sary for the Lealth of every child. It can scarcely be suppressed. No won- Supt. of Schools, Newark, M. J. At The teacher could then proceed to instruct the child the whole school as to the proper use of tab.e appointments such lectures, which should be reptated at short intervais another phase could be descanted upon. Two ch#dren should be introduced and taught the conv extending and receiving an introduction, and then meeting other pairs, the series of introductions could be ir humor as would make it a pleasure to both teacher pup, An amiable teacher with a well developed vein of humor classes a pleasant relaxation, but she should cultivate the clear of both ridicule and sarcasm. A sensitive chiid, whe polish, would be deeply hurt by ridicule in the presence of a but this self same sensitive young one would be the quickest to lessons. In this splendid country of ours, Where fortunes are made the sons of Jaborers have an equal chance, through braing rising (o the very highest positions in the Zift of the peopl ters, through beauty of person or thg Indefinable c millionaires, the necessity of this species of training is obvious Many of these children know nothing of the graceful amenities of life, which they are so anxious to learn. They are ambitious and self-rellant, as all American children are, and yet are hampered by the total ignorance of the merest rudiments of social ethics. In Washington, which is supposed to be the segregation focus of the most brilliant men in the country, the lack of polish is often deplorable, and those having the interests of the rising generation at heart cannot fail to appreciate the value of a course of ‘Polite lessons” in the schools. From the rules of etiquette, the subject of “Cleanline: should pro- gress and be insisted upon. The hands and nails should be examined each day, and scon the child would learn to take pride in being considered neat. I confess I have more confidence in & good old-fashioned lathering than in the inexhaustible subject of hygiene. The latter sounds more entific and grandiloquent, but a real strenyous scrubbing with plenty of old-fashioned F a large percentage of elbow grease and muscle will fiil the bill as far as young ones ar® concerned. An abiding faith in this enforcement would seem to accomplish much absolute good as lessons in the Bible, &8 we can certainly serve the Lord with a much cleaner spirit when physically clean. Mental and physical cleanliness areé very closely allled and the child who 1s taught to be clean mentally and physically is apt to Dbe clean morally. At any rate, haps a little less science and understood by little people. Home training is undoubtedly the best. but where the mother ia igno ant and knows nothing save of hard, unflagging labor and multip cares she has little time to teach the brood, even did ghe know herself, as many .of them do not. In fact, she can better learn from them. That children would be immensely improved by the introduction of such classes cannot be denled, and that the teacher also would be benefited goes without saying. it might come a little hard in the beginning to tone down a crowd of young savages, but the teacher who set the example of good breeding herself and who spoke courteously at all times would be repald by the influence of her own personality. There are few children who cannot be infiluenced by example In this regard, and it seems a pity that so man , ambitious and attractive little ones should grow up totally iz norant of the very principles of court the mannerisms so graceful in a woman. The children of the public schools go through an awful system of cr ming that is often both foolish and useless as far as future may be c cerned, and it would seem a wise provision to substitute practical lessons on woliteness for some of the extraneous matters that will amount to nothing n the long run. Let some of the women so devoted to club life, who are al of everything under the sun that had lessons in cleanliness will never do any harm, and per- a little more common sense might be better ays canting about the betterm better be let alone, do some practical good by agitating this idea. Tf they have the time to fizure in women's conclaves the time so devo- ted might be better spent in visiting various schools once or twice a we end instead of poking their noses into all the cupboards in search of wate buzs or littie specks of dust and overturning lunch baskets to see if the food were nourishing, thus mortifying and humiliating Httle people, as is often done—if these ladies with hearts so full of morality and meddlesomeness would take this time and do the real good that would better fit these amt hildren for a higher social environment meore good would & acc And there are precious few children, P icularly those in e who have received just enough edu tion to enable them to renlize its advartages, who would pot gladly welcome the chance to learn h little etiquette as would give them confi ‘m amid other and better surroundin Let women who are always in an agitation panic and who have the time tn =tir things up generally do a little ation act on this score, and @er- hana where they are now reaping anathemas the tide will turn and blessin will_ come in thelr stead. Ry a!l means let us try to have politéness c! should chance th..v S b public schools TENTH Talk to PARENTS | der that the tired, nervous mother cries ou uing around. But let her strive it i® neceseary for the building up of stron s battles for himself, and, if need be, for the ti nspring of action in every healthy child is s ssible to comply with the request to I A time and place should be p ded animal spirits flow unchecked. cept at dom at school. yme teachers would e all the more nees f such periods out of A nuniber of other pecullarities may chiid who i nd natural. Wi bodies with which to ed parents as well. strong that it is almost 1s can let their e but little free- recess. There is se belonging to th pear in all children, they w1 Most children are impatient. They generally have strong imaginations. They are affecticriate. Until taught differently tiey ate animals. They find much pleasure in small things. They feel kee for a time, disappointments. They e not naturally fearful, though quite ear The activily ¢ ced by the food he has eaten. d the child less. It y may be taught to be afraid of many things. a child is nothing more than the reappearance of forces If you want a child to sit still you is possible to stop him entirely by starving ess suggestion, but it is more sensible than 1ain inactive. If such a child should ipelled te remain still for a considerable length of time it would great- re the child. Criminals in solitary confinement are not fed as others e allowed to be more active. It has been found that If this is not he forces produced by food so disorganize their vital organs that nd death result. ould we rnot give the Innocent child as much ion as is given to the convicted felon? m what has been said it will bs seen that we are ing that children are active merely for the purp something. The child's activity is generally necessary for the expenditure of the forces which have been stored up. The child loves to play ball, not so much because he likes the play, but because he enjoys the action required to play it. For this reason a child will often prefer to take the longest road home. Yet how often they are criticised by those of us who are ignorant of the reasons for such actions. generally mistaken se of accomplishing ROM the year 1172, when Henry II of England assumed sovercignty over Ireland, down to the present year of grace, 1903, not half a dozen Kings, wearing the crown of Great Britain and Ireland, have visited the latter coun- try. Of the three kingdoms, England, Bcotland and Ire- land, the last is second In area, end, up te the last cen- sus, in population. : It is remarkable that the lord of an estate would fourth of it without taking the trouble of giving even a passing s condition and prospects. Crossing St. Georges Channel, . from to Kingstown, 18 & journey only of a few hours, and yet no onarch for all these centuries ever set foot on Irish soil except ly business” when he came to “let loose the dogs of war,” like am, or appeal for aid, like King James, when fighting for his first visit of ceremony. or making a friendly call, was when V, in 1521, passed rather an agreeable time, feasting, wining and « .. He was especially pleased with Irish whisky, which i npers to the health of his Majesty, so that when he « il of Ireland, after a stay of a few days, there could be seen t ion in his eyes. It may be the “one bumper at parting” was ! g and affected his lachrynal gland. It is not recorded that 1 £, whom Thackeray has immortalized as a “simulacrum,” a “royal r r said or did anything in behalf of Ireland. No wonder that 1 in his poem called the “Avatar,” lashed with whips of & contempt the crouching and crawling of the “loyal” sycophants . period, some of them. sorry to say, well-known patriots. Far dif- 1 was the advent of his grandnephew, King Edward VIL. He needed r ntroduction to the Irish people, for they had known him long and favorably as Prince of Wales. It was in Ireland, on the Curragh of Kil- e [ t 1 \ 1 ¥ i are, that he received his first training in military matters. The impres- on gene prevails that he is more in touch with the aspirations of Irish people than was his royal mother or any of her family. Toward close of her life and at the time of her last visit to Ireland, Queen oria was exuberant in her expressions of love and admiration for her ¢h subjects, but, during her long reign, her favorite Ministers were men find no better remedy than coercion for the ills of Ireind. King when Prince of Wales. was very friendly to men of democratic many of whom were Jrishmen who advocated home rule for Ireland. is not surprising then that King Edward VII is looked upon by most Remarkable Development of His Majes- ty’s Last Visit to the EmeraldIsle. Iri Britain and Ireland. IR S = — g - . — BECOME SO IMMENSELY POPULAR IN IRELAND himen as the most popular monarch that ever wore the crown of Great through the streets of Dublin dressed in a cutaway coat and & a The proof of this is the enthusiastic reception he ‘ Derby hat. He mounted flights of stairs in old tenement houses talked met with in &4l the four provinces of Ireland during his late extended visit. with the poor reomers about their condition, and sometimes gave them A few days prior to his departure from England the leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, John Redmond, issued a “pronunciamento” advising municipal, and civic bodies generally, not to present loyal addresses to t Eing, but to receive him respectfully. Outside of the Dublin City Coun- cil this injunction had but little If any effect. Bishop, priest and layman vied with one another in doing honor to the monarch whom they belleved had always been in sympathy with those lines of policy tending to pro- mo’'e a m're {ri=ndly fce ing let vee1 England and Ireland. Many Liberal statesmen, ijke Lords Rosebery and Aberdeen, supporters of home rule have been among the inner circle of the King's personal friends. Of course, he has carefully abstalned, as in duty bound, from tak- ing sides on party questions, but Irish leaders have had reason to know he was friendly to their cause. King Bdward has many qualities which endear him to the sport-loving Irishman. Hs s a good sportsman, a patron of the turf, likes to play cards and is what is called a free-liver. In some respects he resembles his rollicking ancestor, Charles II. When Prince of Wales, be- fore the heyday in his blood got to be “tame and walit upon the judgment,” he gave considerable trouble to her gracious Majesty and her God-fearing Ministers. Queen Victoria, during her long reign, always manifested great partiality for Scotland and everything Scottish. Her favorite residence was at Balmoral. her favorite servant the Scotchman, John Brown. Her daughter and granddaughtar married Scotch nobles and she was best pieased to see her children and grandchildren dressed up in the Highland etyles so dear to the heart of a Scot. Poor Ireland, on the contrary, was always made to feel {hat she was the Claderella when compared with hef sisters on the other side of St. Georges Channel. Although Ireland is famed for the beauty of its scenery, there is no royal residence there for King or Prince. Dublin Castle is the official headquarters for the King’s representative, the Lord Lieutenant, but an Irish Nationalist hates the very name in about the same degree that a Frenchman does th» Bastile. During King Edward's tour in Ireland the Catholic hierarchy and clergy were received by him with spe- cial cordiality. What captured the masses was his democratle ways. We usually pic- ture royalty as surrounded by all the pomp and display which go to inspire awe and dazzle the multitude. King BEdward not only dispensed with the military, but absolutely refused even police or detective escort. 1ie walked New Light Upon the New Policy of Greater Unity for Great Britain, By I. 3. Tobin. ———— e financial assistance. That sterling Irish patriot, Archbishop Walsh of Dub- 1in, did not stand aloof when his Majesty held receptions. Ma lege, one of the greatest institutions for the education of ecclesias world, was visited by King Edward, who, responding to an addr " very kindly of Pope Leo XIII, then in his last iliness. The Catholics of land could not forget that King Edward, a few weeks D visit to the Vatican and had a long audience with the Pope in s monstrances of many of his ultra-Protestant subjects in the dom. When, as Prince of Wales, he visited Canada in 1860 he pass under triumphal arches erected in Kingston and Toronto unless insignia placed there by Orangemen were removed. He would not then, as he would not to-day, any display likely to cause feligious ur politica offense or disturbance. King Edward and his Queen traveled through the congested distrie the west of Ireland on their automobile in order to see for themseives of the evil effects of landlord rule. On several oceasions, in reply : dresses, he referred to the great benefits likely to be derived from the Wy ham land act, which he had strongly favored. He also spoke of the nece sity of aiding and developing Irish fisherles, which would employment to thousands. Scotland had received large Governme dies in aid of her fisheries, while Ireland had been neglected. He mended the efforts notw being made to promote the social and econ ditions of the country through Sir Horace Plunkett and his <o Where King Edward’s work in behalf of Ireland will be particu his influence with men of wealth, so that what Ireland now most ne>ds capital—will be forthcoming for the prometion of her industries. One of th men, Hon. W. J. Pirrie, haad of the Belfast firm of Harland & Wo'ff (one of the greatest shipbuilding concerns of the world), is now in th: thick of developing a new Irish transport scheme. ness porter firm, has put £500,000 into the scheme. meeting last month, Pirrie said: “Ireland is ripe for commerce, 5 I should be very sorry to advise one of her young men to try his abroad while such glorious prospects remain at his doorstep.” yus mertat to'erate w0 ad chances It King BEd- ward will find a few more Pirries and Guinnesses his visit to Ireland will be productive of results which will bring prosperity and peace to a country which has suffered so much in the long dreary past. 4. J. TCBIN.