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Show It Is Wrong Witt Society jffottAL SYMPTOMS. By Dr. William Barry. , lf(2th file ar lrL-e commend a mi,,! na "nst the so-nrt so-nrt "cense Indulged WUM2! rcmc'nbor a cer-WEpodM" cer-WEpodM" f Horace, fc rural sketch that mrTQ 0,1 "hnself. Al-flcr. Al-flcr. luxuriating In Ig a"d Balae, fond of fcta Vif Lucrl oys-UTcrradl oys-UTcrradl Ivoro. , a llfc hi B&l in ??' Bui Home for a Im8' matters mil w"d-bn.r hunt. IKSM Tht Coming. K'hlcht lhoi,c un-te un-te b?. thc c"y man K I'M L at lhc BiUe TrhnMnr, Anl0'-Piiem"0" Anl0'-Piiem"0" Always rhll 'Jvcr-re- KM bcinV Q.ucv i)lay KC W a 'Pl'lierdef s: f me gamo except M a dellcato foppery and make-believe? O. inalson d'Arlstlppe, o, Jardln d'EpIcure. exclaims Voltaire, as If he would havo delighted to feed on crusts, or set up nls tent insldo a hawthorn hedge. But he kept a Hrm grasp on his sixteen thousand per yenr, entertained princes at Fcrnoy. r-nd was only a- finished actor There Is no simplicity ponslble for men and women wo-men of the world except on tho old. hateful. hate-ful. Christian plan of giving up what Uioy have got, one good time. This they will never do till thoy learn a fresh table of vnlues-tlll the cry of the starving hushes their music, and every sweet morsel tncj put to their lips tastes of the blood on which they feed at this hour with an cas conscience. Living for Self. That wo are like a crew cast away upon a raft, doomed to eat one another, so long as the present scheme of mo,1.v;ninl'L,,Y; has force of law. Is tho simple truth. But it Is a truth hidden from thu eyes of most. Rich living Is the other side of social so-cial mlserv. or vlco versa. On both hands It Is the same idea. "Get. spend, on Jos-Thorn Jos-Thorn Is our creed. In every rank a row govern their ways by larger tl P1"-old-Chrlstlan or new-humunltar -Ian. But the aim which justllles and r q J course of discipline, shaping od a mind. Is uncommon. WV haw sports enough, yet hardly any training for nubj He service, among our . newspapers, written by wm f n f"r men. tell n curious tn of trlvlalltj. sclf-InhuJgcnop. sclf-InhuJgcnop. show anil scernlng, lnl ness, untutored spirits. Mud f m.? llud that l gracefu . more h at ft"t Tho want of a steady and liitclllKlD e view of llfo Is what strikes me. lime thC30 crowds any plan at all that Includes an eternal meaning? What is It that would satisfy them? Poor Mario Antoinette! Antoi-nette! She acted her littlo play In white muslin and straw hat; petted her tiny cows, laughed with her ladles and In tho distance were already gathering thoso clouds that brought thunder. Will nothing noth-ing like this ever happen again? Means Are Not thc End. L,lfe is made simple by knowing that tho means arc not the end. and what the end h But to preach Is not to train. Our public ' schools, universities, messrooms. clubs, all exact such high entranco fees or have so luxurious a standard that a rol.nl Is out of the question, and to reform re-form would mean throwing down thc barriers bar-riers of thin social freemasonry by which England, for on. country. Is governed. Younir men cannot afford to be poor. Young women will not marry except on the understanding that they are to spend h.vUnlv what their husbands earn. Thoso to s vmptoms do not astontah readers of history; they belong to an ago when the nation must be converted If It can llnd a rel Lion to believe In. or Hare up and wit like Rome under Nero, set on lire by Us own extra vaganc.'. Thero are forces I. rin'lsllanlty. In patriotism. In noble art in hone" t buslncis. In manly nd wo-"an wo-"an " education, in the possibilities of n iversal military training, not yet exhausted. ex-hausted. Will they be used before It Is too late" Who shall say? At nil events theo vearnlngs after the annihilation of the riotous living aro signs that dry rot has oaten deep Into a people And when Rousseau had painted hlo Idylls the rovo-Kn rovo-Kn was at tho doors That Is the fact; wc may. construe it as wo please. Moral Courage Needed. ti aonears to me that a potent prlnclplo hould be to have the couniRO of ones SininnK: and to enrrv out what one's own Sood h tost ami conscience suggests in- inri of riirlvlng to Imitate others, whose hv?p mnv be surrounded by such dllTor- ..u clrcumstnnc.es. and whoso censure and oriiipUTriR are not worth attending to. If S present sunsvlcu love of lion, found In all clasocs of eocloty. wero that of something higher. It might bo well but it shows neither good tasto nor Intolllgcnco, and tho aim Is genernlly to bo "smart," "genteel," "tho thing." or "up to date." Among tho working class It Is very obvious, for their aspirations aro to a llfo for which thoy aro often most unsulted; hence good honest service is shunned for tho commonest shop-life. In order that they mav attain that vulgar so-called freedom that they aro incapable of using to "the best advantage; or thoy strive to take somo lazy appointment that gives them ample opportunities for gossip, which Is the bane of country as well as of town life. Little Help in Schools. Tho present system of oducntlon does Utile to Inspire them with higher Ideals, or fit them for a more practical life. Thc middle clashes err In Iho same do-sire do-sire for this Imitation. In entertainment no less than in dress It seems to occupy most of their thoughts, and 1 am sure is largely the reason for tho abandonment of those smallor social gatherings of some llfleen years ago, so popular among young people. But this Is a blase age. for most of the young people havo scon and dono so much when children that there is little simplicity simpli-city left to them, for It Is considered "bourgeois" to display any real show of. enjovment or roal feeling of sympathy. Again, tho great desire for popularity, which relgna.ln all classes. Is another deterrent de-terrent to a slmnlo life: for to gain It nowadays Is to fairly echo the thoughts, naylngs and doings of others who, to them, appear In a more Influential sphere, without daring to use their own Intelligence; Intelli-gence; and so. Instead of simplicity, wc have absolute stupidity. . Responsibility of Teacher. Tho responsibility of a rccosnlzod tcach-ir tcach-ir is obvious. Ho can lend by the mero plausibility of his rhetoric either in tho right or wrong way. If a man really sets a truth, lie sees it outsldo himself. Tho sun of Carlyle's activity wus an clephuh-' tile effort to articulate half truths. His mentality revealed nothing new In tho way of truth. He dealt in records; not in human flesh. Philosophies havo never produced a workable echemo of life, nor Mveu taught the first principles of subsistence, subsist-ence, but as a deduction from logic. TjUx-ury TjUx-ury exists after nil the centuries of ex-porlencr. ex-porlencr. and philosophy, In splto of tho lives wasted In propounding It, Is no-wre. no-wre. The one thing to bo regretted throughout is tho amount of latent possibility possi-bility for good that has been destroyed by arllllclal codco of social morality. There is a higher destiny in kingship than in the obligations of ofllco. Christianity nourishes, but Is not practiced. Tho opportunities op-portunities for kind acts offered to us are not recognized us tho highest gifts of heaven, but aro put aside, nnd charities with proper balance sheets are arranged Instead, whereby citizen dutlru. Including advertising, are correctly honorably, they say discharged. Who or what Is at fault In the present age? It cannot bo human nature. Copyright. 10CG. by Central Xcws & P rcss Exchange. |