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Show Being- Beady for an Emergency. Somebody with a genius for reformation reforma-tion ought to come along and establish a training school with a course In getting get-ting ready not for any particular thing, but just for the emergencies that will crop out. Every now and then you happen on some one self-taught In that way some one who Is always ready, no matter what comes up. Back In our history stand out vividly the figures of "minute men." We need more of them In present day life to be ready for the great emergencies that so often find them wanting. Emergency girls aro as rare, and as valuable girls who know how to do things, who can bring the training of an education to bear upon a suddenly presented problem and solve It. Education ought to be the means of developing powers of doing if it isn't it's practically worthless. Algebra Is useless, as considered by itself; yet a clever woman asserts that she trained her mind to grasp tho methods of managing man-aging a home by tho training of algebra. alge-bra. Tho trouble with most of us Is that we learn our lessons like parrots, without with-out learning their application. The few exceptions, who take each lesson as a step toward wider knowledge, are tho men and women who aro always ready when emergencies arise. Washington Times. |