Show 1 Suicide of Children Prevails in G Germany ermany t BY LIY J. XIt SO ft 4 e I London Sept epi Will J. It- It Itin in Eng Eng- ng- ng laud we Wc iii are o wrangling over o the re te ie- ie uI education of oC J a R great reat roat object com comes to us UA from tom German Ger Ger- man many as 8 to what wIit It mean to 10 withhold with- with holt hold that oni fl-oni om u child chillI which Rives giyei 4 to It It side by side asIde with Instructions on oil visible and motel things t the tae e development U o of It Its mind toward the t real an and the spiritual Tho The problem of or child ehll suicide has ha g gr grown wn In Germany German dur during the tho past pt I If year roh to an Rn extent that Is la causing concern in the country and the T pi 1 i occupying Lh the minds of oC who are engaged in the tho study ud children of-children in th the report has hat lQ boon boti m drawn drown up b by an expert It In is stilted that the tiit reason ma may be found I III In tho till fact there comes to the I child mind th the disillusionment of or life I Tho o young OU mind when first brought into o touch with stern realities n ar suffer u woeful Girls and hu buys alike cherish quixotic and romantic Ideas The school chool girl thinks think she will meet 0 t her hero the ft Lo boy Imagines the tho world IH is at 4 III hI feet At t tho the first tint contact with the routine of or lift life th they recoil and i In this thin recoil occurs as OM a n usual Y 1 rut rul rule between the ages age of lw twelve ho and sixteen their theil minds mind which tu are in a a. delicate half formed Impressionable Mage C may be he easily e deranged Common Com Corn mon mOil ha has hB not iut yet come to 10 o their aid and the small mall r rebuffs of oC life sink fink deeply into Now o t lil II being Interpreted means man that the UI tun 1111 ideal of or Jiff ure has hall been 1 with withheld he h from children that Instead of oC being Ing trained to see ace that life on this planet is I. but lUt a part port of a great whole which is II their inheritance they Ule are allowed allowe to believe e that tho the in incident In- In of tails world are of oC such su supreme su- su preme Importance that failure of ot BUCce success suc suc- ce cess here according to the standards landard of th the day O Is la the end-all end and arni be all beanor of or existence If It wa va allow a childs child's mind to lo follow tollow its own bent we utah shall ah 8 always find that I Us thoughts wander awa away into the unseen which In childhood childhood child child- I hood hoo J is I. as an real as u the seen but destroy de de- de- de stroy that stunt It It Dip 1111 It blight it it I I throw th the chi child chiki hi back upon the tho material ma ma- and you ou U oa the result that the delicately formed mind can bear beal the pressure no more aVid nd d the soul which cannot c. expand into its native natho air ar parishes eH because hope an and Ideals have been lot lost The problem which has become so 80 acute acut in Germany German Is reaching us too too and we e shall as a nation do well to pause and und think thin whether in our foolIsh foolish fool fool- SI ish narrow minded quarrels as aM to what exact form of 01 religious teaching shall take lake we C are not robbing the child of or that which is the best possession of oC child life lICe London has lia been much excited over the tilt fa fact fat t that the non Lion Miss Herbert herbertha ha hns hc dedicated her house and estate In inthe j i the to 10 th the thi foundation of a n I school which Mrs Irs Katharine Kath arine A A. A proposes to establish I J urn inn amused In reading rending the theof of m I i a a t in III which the principles a I nf I r i It I lit If taught there thele are arc set tt out nut as though they f nere vere re a new ItC moral I discovery made b by this lad lady Kath Kath- oth- oth orIn Tingley ha has simply Imp I tak taken 11 th the Sermon on the Mount and nud appropriated I Us its teaching She says that In training the young Qun the HIt Theosophist t recognizes that the body being brinK be br- br ing inK the human temple needs to be bp cared for tor as well velI UK as the mind Our thoughts travel back to tn the tho saying Sl of one who told us that we wc were the temple temple tem tern pIe of oC the Hol Holy Ghost Again she she- h he tells us that brotherly love lo Is the foundation foundation foun foun- dation atlon of ot th the T lon and not simple se sentiment It I Ii Is perhaps true that Christian countries have fur for gotten that the basic principle of oC Cit Christianity Is 15 I love 10 brotherly owe There I 1 Iq nothing wanting however er In ChristIan Christian Christian Christ Christ- ian teaching it is s trie of 01 Christianity that haw I been at fault fult and anti we wc ne need d not open Th oso- oso schools In lr order cr to understand the importance of training the young or Oh the foundation principles of loving lo one ane another nor nOI do we need a a. Purple Lotus Mother to Lo show us what has en bi-en taught us b by th the earliest saints down to the lime tune that the highest calling of ot man and woman I h Is to ti love lo all In or order or to give gho all to huam hu- hu I I am Miss Herbert who has line Identified I herself with the tho t ment meat in In education Is the daughter of j the lIon Hon Herbert Helbert who on this very property some seme thirty years yeah ago sa gave ga c shelter to Mrs hR Girling Girting and I her r congregation of Shakers who be be- Uc that hat the they were Immortal and could IU never PI die lc The strange Illiterate body of or men and women created a 1 sensation fur for a u lime little when they u used J to pa jass s in and out of ur lh the fOIl forest foit l clad cinch In lii white but when wh death di laid laii hl his hand hanl on omi of fir I the lie community their thell faith was hat shat tt and aitI the n ct soon Uto up In Inne I of tin ll dc- dc I p JIl NI or of f that I A ful rii J forest Mr Herbert lies burled There is 18 no h headstone but the simple Is IM marked with flowers rs He lie was waa as one of the first men of oC education to adopt socialistic principles principle and I I. I well remember a er very punctilious relation re- re atlon lation being leing m much uch shocked b by the tho fact that when she nho sent her hr carriage e If to meet Inet h him 1111 at fil t the he station In order to bring bi him to te her home before beCore he en- en I. I red i-red rd he Ii climbed the the- on Oil box to shake I ha hands with the thc coachman a small net Itch of or which in tho those c da days s I w wu s considered lm d a u L perfect outrage on 1 d VI I t k ii |