The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1904, Page 12

na fide school egulation rules, rk and no play nd, ten to ¢ n anything else. it was, and it much as it kept street and »)ng breath keeping a corner and on ht bu or need a new chair seat,” and the question was settled d the jed t then 2 e. For if there was noney s were ready to spread the glad tidings to 4 rounded up his men with and when the rival bands Paaas s ou look back over the van- ned week how many things happened in it which you foresee last Sunday be that the entire our life has been altered by n event. Possibly you have gloom, or maybe vista of happiness has re you. Life is an altogeth- ir from what it was a »d into unexpected that is always and the sensible man gov- according!; Take the of catching a train. You t if all goes well you can do hour from your, front door. nded man leaves himself of time. A friend may m en route or there may be break in the highway or some biockade of the cars. Or look at the ject from the point of view of fam- or personal expenditures. You know come will suffice for the ies and now and then a luxury. how st the rainy day, which set in three months hence; or how t sending the children away to school Lefore long? Perhaps you will be in duty bound to assume the care of some dependent relative. At all events, some FRANCISCO DAY CALL. TEACHING YT S arned that Jim's “gang” were on tae being millionaires or the the Uni tates, they couldn't rest until they were initiated into the mysteries that the despised old use contained. of her teens them all with a smile and a y pat and then put them straight for pretty girls dressed in clothes and with bows in their hair completely nonplused the “gang,” and for once in their lives they were so angelic that there was immediate dan- ger of sprouting wings. The leaders were placed in separate rooms and given different work to do at stated hours. When one tinkered at sloyd, the other tore his hair over col- <, and when basketry was the order of the day cane weaving was almost if not quite as absorbing. In the meantime the feminine part of the family was busily engaged in turn- ing out beautiful gowns, Parisian cre- ations in the hat line and tailored coats and cloaks for their pet dolls, and inci- dentally learning how to handle a needle, and when to cut on the straight pretty won’t you be better prepared for emer- gencies if you plan to have a little lee- way between income and outgo, re- membering Mr. Micawber's famous adage, “Income £20, expenditures £19 10 shillings, result happiness; income £20, expenditures £20 10 shillings, re- sult misery."” It is well to make allowance, too, for contingenclies in the nature of tests of character. You may think you have your temper and your tongue pretty well under control for the ordinary strains, but who knows whether before this coming week is half over some especially irritating circumstance will arouse a slumbering demon within you, and before you know it you will have said or done something which you will regret the rest of your life? After all, the real test of a man’'s virtue is the way he will behave when he is taken unawares. Are you laying up some re- serves against that day, so that the un- expected trial or temptation shall not destroy or impalr your manhood? Old age is a contingency for which we ought to prepare, nay, look forward eagerly to as the period when our judgment may be ripest, our sympa- thies with our fellow men keenest, our influence in the world most potent and beneficial! One needs something be- when on the blas. Somehow or r it's lots more fun to learn how to do things if you're laboring under the ion that you're playing and “you don't have to do it, any- There really is a heap more ac- plished in this way, and this not holds good with children, but with own-up children as well, for there :r fails to be a peculiar fascination about the things that one is not abso- lutely obliged to do. I doll wardrobes these young of Jeisure ddbbled in water colors and painted the most marvelous pie- tures imaginablé. This, however, wasn’t done with the idea of turning finished artists or anything like that, but merely for the sake of teach- ing color and tone effects, for Third and Linden delights in vivid reds elabor- ately trimmed with magenta pinks, and with other combinations that are strikingly out of the ordinary. The first thing on the programme in the morning was singing. Any one of the teachers seated herself at the piano and waited patiently until the babbling for certain numbers had ceased, and % ¢ ALLOWING FOR CONTINGENCIES sides a good-sized bank account when he passes the seventieth milestone. And how about the thing to which at last old age itself yields? Is not the future life a contingency for which it is high time to begin preparation? “Ah,” you say, “it is all hazy with doubt.” Well, then, treat it as a con- tingency, but let the mere possibility of it purify and ennoble your daily living. Suppose that some day you wake up and find yourself in a strange new environment, in the midst of op- portunities for ampler, richer life than you have ever enjoyed here upon the earth. Suppose that you find yourself in the presence of a great searcher of human hearts to whom you will have to render strict account of what you have done with your time and your talents. Would you endure the tender yet searching scrutiny of such a judge? Would you take your place with the upright and valiant of all the ages? Would you go on into the vast reaches of the future ever learning more about yourself, the universe and God? The only way to be ready for such a contingency is to heed the sol- emn admonition of the master of men who, when on earth, bade each of his followers to lay up for !\imn’el,tlgreu- ures in heaven. i SIAINING, EXPERIENCE then the entire school sang lustily for half an hour and as much longer as the principal deemed wise, for ‘just one more” seemed to be one of their favor- ite tunes. And the school, if you please, is run on a very businesslike, methodical plan. The principal, Miss Martha Rice, was cH®sen by the club, and of all the girls N SEATING crales that wrestled with these imps of satan she alone was paid a salary, and it is very much to be doubted whether she could make a trip to Burope on the strength of it or not. Besides this, one member of the club was always on hand to see that things ran smoothly and to settle any perplexing questions that might arise, and five mornings out v+ e seven any one calling at home of Mrs. Francis Gray was du Informed “that she is at school.” First one and then another helper dropped out, went to the country or had a con- venient houseful of company. Every- thing and in fact, that sound- d like mate excus was proffered, until Mrs. Gray found her- self monarch of all she surveyed and in a most enviable position. And the teachers themselves. They were another difficult nut to crack, but, like all other difficulties, a way was soon found out of it. It chances the Oakland Club devotees are m members of the Ebell Club, ma; lifferen one is social and the other philan- thropic. ach active member was to spread the tidfngs that teachers were in demand. They were to come for a certain day a week, or even part of a day, and they were to come for a va- riety of purposes : result was in- stantaneous. Half th clety girls of the and the e between the two is that town who were not adding their mite of friv y use parties responded to the ¢ he fun of the thing. The 1 Sybil Jones went on certa one and ‘while to be most glo- ht and flam- rio th a song until the pa- tyr would have been somewhat tried. Miss Elma Farnham instructed in the mysteries of weaving and Miss Remillard pricked her fingers and had frequent snips taken out of her frock, all in the same good cause. And in this way variety was added. It might have become a little irksome after weeks passed by with the same teacher, but where every day, and fre- quently every half-day, brought a new face and new mannerisms, the fun was kept at the highest pitch, for the same pranks could be played any number of times and with varying results. One branch of the summer session was always crowded to its utmost ca- pacity and its workers were always filled to bubbling over with enthu- slasm. Whenever the principal said “cooking school” the youngsters couldn’t get their hats on fast enough, for of all the classes this one alone was outside the Tompkins Schgol. Amung other schemes that the club dabbles in ell the time is. this selfsame kitchen department, and they keep an excel- lently equipped school running through- out the year and a teacher who in- structs in all culinary mysteries. First, apple jelly is made, then a meat pie with dumplings, and so on, varying day after day and always getting more dainty and complex, until the graduate should be able to go home and wrestle with the pots and pans and do it in a skillful, scientific fashion, too. Saturday was the heydey and was looked forward to throughout the length and breadth of the week, for as regular- ly as it came around Mrs. Gray took her life in her hands and some fifty or more children under her wing and sal- lied forth into the country. She lined up her regiment and counted to see how many she had and every time she moved from the spot that was marked with the cross she counted all over again to see that some of them had not been lost in the shuffle. “I'll confess 1 did not anticipate any great amount of pleasure, but no one else seems to care about taking them and I don't like promises broken. So I went religiously and was duly thank- ful when I got them all home safe and sound.” Fancy wrestling with fifty lively youngsters! Imagine herding that lot on train or car and seeing that their thousand and one wants were cared for during the day. 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