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Show ADDBE88E8 AT CHARLESTON, 8. 0. would be to her if that indefinite power should do for her what it was neresaary she sho~rldd o for hernelf if shr r a p ever ta gron wiser, stronger, ur Lerter rbxt~n hc then Was. I e v e often heard people say, "I keep such and such things to fall back npon, for the rls so often lose thar clothing, and I have, to put somethin in its place." ~ ~ u alnfy way more surely confirm the irrespons~bled ~spositionw %ich one of the first objects of any school should be to correct? Self-help the onlyreal help.-A child who has all its wants su plied without any eifort on its part, who may lose or destroy its portion and fee? no inconvenience thereby, is'being trained into a disposition which makes it always its own wont enemy. This kind of training is like burning a candle at both ends. After a few yeam of better food, better clothing, clean beds, etc., a boy or girl likes to be well drwed and live in better style than he or she is likely to find at home. This result is well and good provided the power of self-help has been cultivated at the same time and has developed proport~onally. What can be more pitiable than to have his or her tastes enlarged and refined and suddenly be turned back on what should he his own resources and find nothingupon which to depend? It seems so natural to stand in between a child and the consequences of his own acts; to turn aside from ita natural aim the effeot that the child himself has set in motion. The child escapes thepcnalty, and, alas, misses the lesson. He comes from the experience no wiser than before; not only no wiser, but with a false ides. of the nature of things. He thinks he can do with im unity what his impulses dictate and escape unpleasant results. Nature is silent, vigiyant, and inexorable. The child has only stored up trouble for the future. Roperty lost ahoold be replaced.-The amount of breakage and the destmction and defacement of property is something a palling if left unchecked. If, instead of mia-cellaneous exhortation and a dose $scolding and nagging, the careless party is required in aome measure to make goad the loss according to hls ability, the effect is very noticeable. No education that fails to impress upon the mind of the child the unfailingcertainty of consequences following actlon is worthy the name. This knowl-edge clearly and firmly grasped must influence conduct, and conduct is the great factor in the development of character. Useless to keep grinding st books.-Does the training the average Indian girl receives in the average Government school relate to the life she is to lead on leaving school? The exceptional girl should be provided for and fitted to dq the work in the world that her capacity makes her able to do, but we are nowthlnklng of the great number who are not exceptional. Is it wise to kee a girl grinding for yeam at her books, for which she has hut little taste and for wxich she will have less use when school days are over, and to rend her home with habita of daily life that are no help to her in meetin the daily pmb-lems of her existence? I hrwe known girls to be kept in the schm?mn> for Team, making slow progress in their books under the most faithful, conscientious teaching, to be sent home unable to do their own mending and with only the crudest ideas of ht , r to <.<r,Lu;,l akr, uend, or even ro kevp rllcir crwtl pcr-r,i ilr eleunlint,.~ RINI 1 . If tlw nhrr liie of such girls ie i.,llnard, i~ nil1 i,irr~r~ l t , ,wt laeu~1 0 I>:~VC returned to a ~l>i i t le~di$n!.. . irrc.non~illlt.. l~an~l . to-n~~ki,wt~i fohi c.xi~t<'ut:e. Tt, have eyes and see not khe <hings that to salvation from dependence, dirt, and poverty is pitiable. We see in la e measure the thin s we have been trained to see. A girl who has been trained to?eep her person an% clothing neat and clean, who can cook whole-some, dainty dishes, who can manage the machinery of even a small household with skill, and who does not despise the day of mall things, is fitted, when she must depend upon her own resources, to see the relation between soap, water, and clennli-ness. She will see the relation between good taste and a calico dress that is well and becomingly made. She will be able to crate from all that lies within her reach the things she wants. They will obey her intelligent will and serve her pur-pose. From limited means she will skillfully fashion her environment and make an atmosphere that e l l be worthy of the dearest name--& home. The home the aolation of the Indhn problem.-No individual or collection of indi-viduals can rise much above the high-water mark of home influence. The history of all people in all times shows this to be a. law. There is no power so potent to shape the character as the home power, and in this day of complex living the real home maker must be a trained worker. We now recognize the close connection between good bread and grace. We see how many virtues depend npon good diges-tion, and good digestion depends upon well-cooked food, and well-cooked food depends upon the intelligent mind and skillful hands that guide the household. |