The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1904, Page 23

THE 'SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1904. MR. DOOLEY ON THE BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN BY F. PLDENNE COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. ID ye iver see a proud hing as Ho- gan is iv that kid said Mr. iv man Dooley. till he’s had iliven,” said Mr. " said Mr. Dooley, pt fr an amachoor | iooced me to a toothless ol’ gintle- | man, who was settin’ up in a cradle | atin’ his right foot. ‘Ain’t he fine? | says Hogan. ‘Wondherful, says L | ‘Did ye iver see such an expressyon? | says he. ‘Niver,” says I, ‘as Hiven lis me judge, niver’ ‘Look at his ‘hair,’ he says. ‘I will, says I. ‘Ain’t ! his eyes beautiful?” ‘They ar’re,’ I says. | ‘Ar-re they glass or on’y imitation?’ on'y wan offspring. | says I. ‘An’ thim cunning little feet, 1 ol' profissyonal parent like ye|says he. ‘On close inspiction,’ says I, practically done nawthin’ all| ‘yes, they ar-re. They ar-re feet. t be a father to helpless don’t understand th’ emotions th or iv a limited edition. But Hogan d care. So far as I am ble to judge fr'm what he says, his s th’ on'y perfect an’ complete child hat has been projooced this cinchry. Ye'er offspring don’t know it though. He thinks that wan is a doughnut.| |‘He’s not as old as he looks,’ says Hogan. ‘He cudden’t be,’ says I. ‘He looks old enough to be a Dimmycratic candydate fr Vice President. Why, he’s lost most iv his teeth’ I says. ie ks on you th’ way Hinnery ‘Go wan,’ says he. ‘he’s just gettin’ mes wud look on Mary Jane thim. He has two uppers an' four iolmes. lowers,” he says. ‘If he had a few “I wint around to see this here pro- iy th’ other day. Hogan met me at th’ dure. “Wipe off ye'er feet,” says more, he’d be a sleepin’ car,” says I. ‘Does he speak? says I. ‘Sure, Hogan. ‘Say poppa,’ he says. at that,” says Hogan, ‘he knows ye,’ he says. “Well, ye know, Hinnissy, wan iv th’ things that has made me popylar in th’ vard is that I make a bluff at adorin’ childher. Between you an’ me I'd as lave salute a dish rag as a recent infant, but I always do it. So I put on an allurin’ smile an’ says I, ‘Well, little ol’ goozy goo, will he i give his Dooleyums a kiss?’ At that minyit Hogan seized me be th’ collar an’ dhragged me away fr'm th’ cradle. ‘Wud ye kill me child?” says he. ‘How? says I. 'With a kiss,’ says he. ‘Am I that bad,’ says I. ‘Don’t ye know that there ar-re mickrobes that can be thransmitted to an infant in a kiss?' says he. ‘Well,’ says I with indignation, ‘I’'m not proud iv mesilf as an antiseptic American,” I says, ‘but in an encounter between me an’ | that there young cannibal,’ I says, ‘I'll |lave it to th’ boord iv health who takes th’ biggest chance,” I says, an’ we wint out followed be a howl fr'm | up half th’ childher in Archey road. ‘In the ol’' days,” says he, ‘childher was brought up catch as catch can,’ ‘But it's different now. They're carefully watched as a geeranyum in a consarvatory,’ he says. Th’ first thing that shud be done f'r a child is to deprive it iv its parents. Th' less th’ infant sees iv poppa an’ momina, th’ betther f'r him. If they ar-re so base as to want to look at th’ little darlin,’ they shud first be examined be a competent physician to see that there is nawthin’ wrong with thim thdt they cud give th’ baby. They will thin take a bath iv sulphuric acid, an’ havin’ carefully attired thimselves in a sturlized rub- ber suit, they will approach within eight feet iv th’ objeck iv their ig- noble affection an’ lave at wanst. In no case mus’ they kiss, hug or fondle their projeny. Many diseases, such as lumbago, pain in th' chist, pre- machoor baldness, senile decrepitude, he says. as ‘Here it is. which are ents may not be worthy iv th’ love iv a thurly sturlized child. An’ fant’s first jooty is to th’ doctor to an’ stayin. Childher ar-re imitative an’ if they see much iv their parents they may grow up to look like thim. That wud be a great misfortune. childher befure they enther Harvard, they ar-re f'rbidden to teach thim foolish like “poppa” an’ “momma.” At two a properly brought up child shud be able to articulate in- distinctly th’ wurruds “Docthor Bolt on th’ Care an’ Feedin’ iv Infants,” which is betther thin sayin’ “momma” more exact. in- whom it owes its bein’ If parents see their wurruds an’ “‘Gr-reat care shud be taken iv th’ infant’s food. Durin’ th’ first two years, it shud have nawthin’ but milk. At three a little canary bur-rd seed can be added. At five an egg ivry other Choosdah. At siven an orange. At twelve th’ child may ate a shredded biscuit. At forty th’ little tot may ‘how they-ve got it rayjooced to a science. They can almost make a short baby long or a blonde baby black be addin’ to or rayjoocin’ th’ amount of protides an’ caseens in th’ milk,’ “Haven't ye kissed ye'er youn says L. ‘Wanst in awhile,” he says, ‘whin I'm thurly he says. iver disinfected, I go up an’ blow a kiss at him through th’ window,” he says. “‘Well,” says I, ‘it may be all right,’ I says, ‘but if I cud have a son an’ heir without causin’ talk I bet ye I'd not apply f'r a permit fr'm th’ Health Board {'r him an’ me to come to- gether. Parents was made befure chiidher annyhow. an’ they- have a prire claim to be considhered. Sure, it may be a good thing to bring thim up on a sanitary plan, but it seems to me that they got along all right in th’ ol’ days whin number two had just larned to fall down stairs at th’ time number three enthered th’ wur- Maybe they were sthronger thin Th’ docthor niver ruld. He cudden’t very well. If there was more “Why,” says I. ‘Baby,’ says he.|says young Hogan. ‘Hear that? says|th’ projidy. ‘He’s singin’,’ says Ho- privalent among adults, | have stewed prunes. An’ so on. At|they ar-re now. krobes’ he says. He thin con-| Hogan; ‘that’s poppa’ ‘Say momma,’|gan. ‘He has lost his notes’ says I.|[can be communicated to a child fr'm{no time, howiver, shud th' child be | pratinded to see whether th* milk was ted me to a basin iv water an’|says he. ‘Gah,’ says th’ projidy.| “Whin we got down stairs, Hogan |th’ parent. Besides it is bad fr th’|stuffed with green gages, pork an'ipropr])' biled. insthructed me to wash me hands in | ‘That's momma,’ says Hogan. ‘See,|give me a lecture on th’ bringin’ up | moral nature iv th’ infant. Affection | beans, onions, Boston baked brown | Th’ childher was allowed to set up at a preparation iv carbolic acid. Whin | here’s Misther Dooley,’ says he.|iv childher. As though I needed it, | f'r its pareiits is wan iv th’ mos’ dan- | bread, saleratus biscuit or other food.|th’ table an’ have a good cup iv tay I was thurly perfumed, he inthra-|‘Blub,’ says th’ phenomynon. ‘Look|me that's been consulted on bringin’ | gerous symptoms iv rickets. Th' par-| “‘It's wondherful,’ says Hogan, |an’ a pickle at two. B HE problem of a great city’s water supply is two- fold. Unless nature has been bountiful in her pro- v the energy of the ilder is powerless to meet emand. Unless the system of mains nduits is thorough and generous gently preserved in its efficiency, s bounty is in vain. the strength of the n social fabric we must first of all The the prime factor in social ough each genera- so quickly that society s to be little affected yet the whole fabric rests upon tive and natural union of the which offspring is generated Consequently the more uni- marriage is, the r society becomes. A ends chiefly upon im- estimating fecundity of our race. normal zration for its increase of population ecoming extinct as if it being exterminated by an invad- Y. s really as are the benefits which civ- has conferred upon mankind, nevertheless shows that its progress has repeatedly been marred by degeneracy directly affecting cordance with the richest possiblities them into peaceable = and S: P., Rector St. Mary’s (Paulist) Church. industrious to great disasters. The decline of an- cient Israel dates from the close of the reign of “Sclomon in all his glory.” The splendor of the age of Pericles was short-lived, and the Augustan age was too brief for mankind to retain and perpetuate its benefits. Society to-day is as surely verging toward a collapse even more dreadful than it has ever suffered in the past unless there be a universal reversion to the principles and conduct enjoined upon mankind by the law of nature. Even should a civ- ilized people respect nature's laws and faithfully preserve the fecundity at which nature aims, this, however, it is universally conceded, is not enough for the welfare of society. Mere physical birth is not the birth of the whole man, an intelligent creature endowed with free will. His destiny is to work out In himself his likeness to God until he is united with the divine perfection, be- coming a “partaker of the nature of God.” God, says Holy Scripture, “made the nations of the earth for health, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.” (Wisdom, i:14.) Consequently we must include in our calculations a system directing and conserving the sources of society in ac- £ They R | THE REV. HENRY H. WYMAN. * of human development. Philosophy and history teach us that a social bond like that of the family has for its object not only the material welfare of the members of it, but alsc their moral improvement, and it fur- thermore establishes order in the vari- ous acts of men. Hence we conclude that religion is necessary for man's social well-being because it is the foundation of his moral conviction and conduct upon which the stability of human society depends. If the ideas of moral responsibility and obligation which religion has in- ~culcated in the minds and conscience of men were wholly obliterated society eould not be held together. The author of nature must therefore also be the author of society and religion, and the great social problem of this age, as it has been of every other, must be to es- tablish harmony between them. If the theories of such men as Pro- fessor Haeckel, author of “The Riddle of the Universe,” and of our own Pro- fessor Edgar L. Larkin, were univers- ally accepted, universities and observ- atories could not exist. If religion has been able, through the Gospel, to carry civilization to the most degraded savages, and has transformed " to-day. peoples, if it has abolished the curse of slavery left by the old corrupt civiliza- tion of paganism, and has given to us the accumulated wisdom of past ages which but for it would have been de- stroyed, mdy we not conclude that its mission is divine and that its laws fur- nish a safe rule of human conduct? Its wisdom inspired the establishment of the great universities and schools with which the civilized world is filled It has done more to promote the arts and sciences than all the civil institutions in the world. Furthermore, marriage, an integral component of the religious system, is not only the normal source of increas- ing the members in our population, but it determines essentially the char- acter and quality of the members of society. Its legitimate fruits, there- fore, are not produced unless it is a relation as enduring as the lives of the parties who enter it. To lessen its bond means to impai- the lives and fortunes of its people more exten- sively in the long r.un than the worst epidemics of disease ever known. Next to the marriage relation itself the ties of consanguinity are the most useful and strengthening cords by which society is held together. They are the greatest safeguards of that . FREE POPULAR LECTURES dIDS TO EDUC Have Met With Splendid Success in Eastern Cities. HY should not the city of San Fran- cisco establish free courses of popular lectures as a part of its educational system? This is the question now asked squander a leisure to which they bring in physics. The many phases of elec- predominate when electricity, pho-, problem. Some of the old schooi- at this age to overcome as much as I good health and high spirits and a so- cial heart.” The adoption of a sys- tem of free lectures to the people fur- nishes a partial answer to these ques- tions. Referring to the city of New York alone for information concerning what has been accomplished by free lectures it may be noted that they have been given in that city with increasing suc- cess for fifteen years. Beginning in 1589 with 186 lectures to audiences num- by the local council of women of San Francieco. Their committee appointed | last year in a late report have taken | strong ground that such a work should | be begun and maintained for the edu- | cation of the adult population of this city. As a distinct educational influence fres lectures have long since passed the experimental stage in New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities. These courses of lectures are an outgrowth of @ prevalent belief that our common schools in cities are accomplishing but part of their legitimate work. Instead | of being supported for the education of | dren exclusively it is held that they community- Stern necessity com- an early entrance by a large ma- of children into a life of toil after favoring opportunities to gain in knowiedge are few, except through the public library. Boys and Is enter manhood and womanhood »d those only who are readers make intellectual progress. How shall the host of non-readers be reached? In what way shall the increasing leisure of the laboring classes be used for their best advantage? “We are great cow- ards,” says an educational leader, “if we believe that the masses of the peo- ple kept in health by a wholesome amount of daily toil, and once more erect with self-respect, are going to . R R s A 1 iy e S o A o - STUDY OF OLD SHOES RESULTS IN NEW SCIENCE KNOWN AS SCARPOLOGY N the authority of the French papers, a new science of “scarpol- ogy” has been invented by Dr. Garre of Basel, a Swiss scidntist. The d aid in the education of the en- | bering in the aggregate 22,000 persons, they have expanded in 1904 to 4665 lec- tures, given by 453 speakers in 143 dif- ferent places or lecture centers. The total attendance has risen to the enor- mous figure of 1,134,000 persons. The definite purpose of these lectures |is to stimulate study; to co-operate with public libraries and museums; to encourage discussion; to bring the best methods of the best teachers to bear | upon the great problem of the diffu- | sion of culture among all the citizens of a great city. The themes developing the strong- est interest have been, first, facts concerning the body and its care; then natural science and its wonders: how steam has been harnessed; how elec- tricity is made to serve mankind; how the stars move in their courses. Every country on the globe has been de- scribed by travelers. Speaking more in detail, no less than eighteen courses of lectures were given on “First Aid to the Injured,” besides others on health topics. The engrossing subject of nature study received the rapt at- tention of these city dwellers in thir- ty lectures. Sixteen were given in as- tronomy, sixteen in biology and ferty trical energy were shown to intensely interested audiences in forty-four lec- tures. Chemistry, metallurgy and do- mestic science were each treated six times. Textile fabrics, mining, pho- tography, lithography, the making of a newspaper, the building of a ship and navigation claimed twenty lec- tures. A large number of discourses were given on history, ancient, modern and American. More than sixty were delivered on sociology, twenty-two on education and 134 on literature. Devotees of music and art were re- galed respectively by eighty-five and sixty-five lectures. In this great work of blending instruction and entertainment the topic which ap- pealed most powerfully to the large number without specialized tastes or definite cultural aims was descriptive geography. Fully 250 lectures were given by men and women travelers illustrative of their travels in North. Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. For this purpose the stereopticon was an invariable and invaluable assist- ant. All scientific lectures are abund- antly illustrated by experiments. One of the immediate effects of these addresses is the great stimulus to calls for books bearing upon the varjous subjects presented. To meet this demand the public library and its numerous branches provide a large number of books, which are loaned at the close of the meeting. At the end of a certain electrical talk 200 copies of a standard electrical work were loaned or sold at cost. Who are the attendants at these places of instruction? Young men tography or other practical topics are discussed; women when historical or litera subjects are presented; matrons when the care of children is taught; all classes are present when the lecturer appeals to the human ele- ment of sympathy in life and its thrill- ing experiences. Who are the lecturers? Largely professors and teachers but also in- cluding professional men, journalists, inventors and travelers. Those who possess specialized knowledge, who have the ability to clearly present it to others and whe also have the deli- cate charm of sympathetic touch with subject and audience. None others are invited to speak twice. One lecturer delivered his address in French; fourteen others gave theirs in Yiddish, and sixteen more spoke in Italian. The fees paid the lecturers are moderate. Probably $10 is the average sum. The administration of this system requires consummate wisdom and tact. In Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, su- pervisor in charge, New York has found such a masterful leader, who since assuming care of the system in 1890 has made the -vork an unquali- fied success. Deputy supervisors, who are usually local teachers, are present and have the responsibility of every lecture occasion. Ordinarily the lec- ture term begins in October and ends in April. The lecture work is now recognized in the charter as an integral part of the educational system of New York. To find desirable places for these assemblies that are easily accessible, capacious and convenient has been a houses have auditoriums, though usu- ally they are located at the top of the building. The new schoolhouses are all provided with assembly halls, generally being placed on the ground floor. Churches are glad to give the u-a2 of their halls and chapels to fur- ther such educational efforts. Better evidence of the value of these lectures to uplift and inspire their- attendants can hardly be given than by culling a few extracts from thou- sands of letters received by Dr. Leip- ziger: “The lectures are a boon to us mothers. They keep us in touch with our sons and daughters at high gchool.” “I work hard all day and the look- ing forward to this entertainment once or more times a week proves a sweetener of labor.” A teacher writes: “I do not think I can show my appreciation more fully than by the fact that in spite of being tired out when Friday night comes, and notwithstanding other engage- ments, I simply could not stay away from one of the lectures. My only re- gret is that they end so soon.” “I am a busy housewife and the lectures have created for me a dif- ferent atmosphere and have afforded about the only amusement that has come into my life. The knowledge there received so freely has broadened my range of thought and enables me to answer more fully the many ques- tions of my children.” “I haven't had any education to speak of excent that which I manage to pick up here and there. I am 31 years 'old, and appreciate now very much any form in which I gather it. I am trying can my colossal ignorance, and I have attended all the lectures I could find time for in the last three months.” “I have joined a library since hear- ing these lectures and have read up the subjects well. A man who elevates his fellow men to a higher plane is, indeed, | a benefactor of men, and such a man is he who instituted these lectures for the people.” “My mother and I attended the lec- ture on ‘The Ministry of Birds,” which was very good, like all others, and since then we have a wooden box on our fire- escape, always containing crumbs for the birds and a glass of water.” “The benefit I derive from the lec- tures thousands of others who have no other opportunity derive also. To work all day, and at night when all tired out to sit down at a book and study is no easy thing, but to hear a lecture from which you gain twice as much as you would from the book, to say noth- ing of its interest, is something many take advantage of, and thus many would be sadly disappointed were the lectures discontinued.” “1 have attended the lectures given by the Board of Education for the past ten years, and feel as if I had taken a college course, I have learned so much. It has created in me a desire for read- ing which I never possessed, and the faculty of grasping things more read- ily. These lectures are a godsend to the ignorant and those of neglected educa- tion.” . In the repart of the Mosely Commis- sion these popular lectures are referred to in the strongest terms of commenda- tion. It the San Francisco Council of that it is as “exact” as phrenology or chiromancy. Broadly stated, the fun- damental principles of the art are as follows: If the soles and heels are worn evenly and there is no undue tendency to thinness in any part Dr. Garre is able to assert that the wearer was a steady, respectable, methodical business man of regular habits, a man stirred by passion. If the shoe belongs to a woman and is thus evenly, worn the wearer was chaste, unexpressive, of simple tastes and & constant mind; one who is content never to wander from her own fireside. So far the sci- ence has taught nothing that an ordi- narily observant person could not have found out for himself without ex- more frequent that the sole on one side is worn like a wafer, while on the other side it is of normal thickness, and the heel is sliced on to a wedge, A person having bow legs will nat- urally walk on the outside edge of the shoe. Such persons, says the learned doctor, are obstinate and bitious and Garre scheme where Heink Bovta by Rallecting & pair.from sxch i1y, those that were, worn o the 0uler there is profit. In fact if the soles and heels are worn along their en- tire length the wearer is, no doubt, an adventurer. relative, male and female. To this collection he added well worn shoes belonging to various prominent person- This is hard on saflors, |ages. In most cases some character- who are often bow legged. The wom- |istic of the owner was known to him en who tread on the outside of the and ticketed upon the shoes. When the shelves were full the doctor set to work to classify his acquisitions. He sorted out those that were worn even- thin enough to go around, they got what nobody else wanted. They got plinty iv fresh air playin’ in allays an’ vacant lots an’ ivry wanst in awhile they were allowed to go down an’ fall into th’ river. paid to their dite. Th' prisint race iv hayroes who are startlin” th’ wurruld in fi-nance, polytics, th’ arts an’ sciences, burglary an’ lithrachoor was brought up on wathermillen rinds, No attintion was now speckled apples, raw onions, stolen fr'm th’ grocer, an’ cocoanut pie. Their nursery was th" back yard. They larned to walk as soon as they were able an’ if they got bow-legged ivrybody said they wud be sthrong men. As fr annybody previntin® a fond parent fr'm comin” home Satur- dah night an’ wallowin’ in his beau- cheous child, th’ docthor that sug- gisted it wud have to move. ‘No, sir,’ says I, ‘get as much amusement as ye can out iv' ye'er infant,’ says I ‘Teach him to love ye now,’ I says, ‘before he knows. Afther awhile he’ll get onto ye an’ it'll be too late.”” “Ye know a lot about it,” said Mr. Hennessy. “I do,” said Mr. Dooley. “Not bein’ an author, I'm a gr-reat critic.” SOURCE AND STABILITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE | By the REV. HENRY H. WYMAN, C. the birth rate, which has gradually led mutual co-operation by which prop- erty is justly distributed. Industry is promoted under the strongest incen- tives in the efforts of parents to pro- vide for their children, and the safest insurance of a competence in old age is secured by having a large family of dutiful children. For the poorer classes early and prolific marriages are the greatest boon; they sweeten toil by causing it to yield its meost beneficent fruits. The numerous beneficiary societies which flourish to- day are only an artificlal substitute for the mutual help which marriage and consanguinity naturally and much more efficaciously provide. Would that this beneficent author- ity had never been set aside, for then the civil power would never have lost the respect of the people, nor would 50 many wars have been fomented to blight the earth with desolation and death. Nor, again, would multitudes have become so demoralized by dis- obedience to law and idleness that in these days of plenty the land is filled with homeless vagabonds not willing to labor and not ashamed to beg. Pov- erty then would not be assoclated, as it often is, with our boasted progress, which, if it be a blessing, should make the conditions of all men more happy and prosperous. ATION Women decide to adopt the report of their committee and to endeavor to secure the establishment of popular lecture courses in this city the ques- tion arises whether such a project can be made successful. Possibly it will be contended in opposition that such a system will be costly, that climatic features indispose the people from seeking such methods of recreation and enlightenment and, finally, that there are but few suitable places which are available for lecture audiences of this type. This last objection is at present a valid one, but it will be recalled there is an old adage that “Where there - a will there is a way.” Instant success must not be expected, but difficulties melt away before determined persons and this hindrance can certainly be overcome. The same obstacles have been encountered in New York and have been surmounted. It is a fortu- nate thing for San Francisco that dis- cussion of such an innovation comes up before the adoption of the plans for the new school bulldings. In the light of the long experience of Dr. Leipziger in this fleld his recent words are emphatic: “No problem to- day is more important than that of the continuous education of the great body of men and women who must earn their livelihood. All these need to have their drudgery beautified. their routine dig- rifled, and taught to believe that noth- ing is menial or low, and this can be done only by idealizing service through knowledge, and thus it may be hoped that the schoolhouse of the future may become not only the prace of instrue- tion for children, but a place of intel- ligent resort for men and women.™ edge and those that were worn dewn at the heel. By arguing from the known to the unknown, by comparing, deducing and contrasting, he was at last able to lay down the broad line of the science. He passed long hours among his old boots, amplifying and extending the rules he had inventing fresh ones and for contradictions. i