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Duty of Parents Is Not to Themselves, but to Their Ciildren.
Give Them a Square Deal.
TEMPEST in a teapot can
A wreck things as complete
ly as a storm at sea. Tem
per and pride can blast lives as
utterly as the wickedest sin can.
Here's a story to prove it! A
young couple—both under 30—
have been married four years,
and have a little girl three years
old. Both husband and wife are
upright, honorable people, but
they are undisciplined, and lack
gelf-control, and so they quar
reled about all sorts of foolish
things and got upon each other
er's nerves, until last summer
they decided that they would be
better apart and separated.
The wife went to live with a
married sister. The husband went
his way and the child was given
over to the care of the maternal
grandmother who remained on
very friendly terms with her son
in-law, despite the separation be
tween him and his wife.
Both of the little girl's parents
visit her continually, and to both
of them she puts up the ceaseless
plaint, “Where is my papa? Where
is my mamma?’ as the case may
be, and “why don’t you both live
here, like my grandmamma and
my grandpapa do?
Even the Child Wonders.
“But you have your mamma,
dear,” the mother will soothe her
by saying. “Yes; but I want my
papa, too,” the child will, wail,
“I want you bof at the same time,
and 1 want my home.”
The child's cries have gone to
the father's heart. He realizes,
perhaps too late, that the first
duty of parents s not tos them
selves, but to their children, and
and that no child is getting a
square deal in life that isn’t
reared in its own home, and under
the watchful and loving care of
both its father and its mother.
In the light of this new knowl
edge, and wtih the pathos of his
baby's cries for her own ringing
in his ears, all of the petty squab
bles and spats over nothing seem
very small to the man, and he is
trying to get his wife to come
back and make a new start in a
new homre that will be built on a
securer foundation than the old
one,
Let us hope that the woman
has gotten her lesson, too, and
that she will accept the olive
branch her husband is holding out
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THE GTEORGTAN'S .NEWS BRIEFS
By DOROTHY DIX.
to her. In the heat of a quarrel
nothing on earth looks s¢ much
like a cool oasis in the arid desert
of matrimony as divorce does.
Just to be rid of the nagging,
of the fault-finding, of the per
petual espionage, of the gtinding
tyranny, of the never-ending
fights, how alluring the very
thought! Just to be free to live
one’s own life unhampered, what
bliss in the prospect!
But the divorced, and especially
the divoreced woman, finds out
that divorce is not the earthly
paradise she expected it to be.
She finds out that she has the
perquisites of neither the girl nor
the married woman; that people
who sympathize with her don't
want her to live with them, and
that even the privilege of free
dom carries with it the penalty of
loneliness,
The Wife Soon Changes.
Be sure that many a woman
who arrogantly shakes the dust
of her home off of her feet as she
leaves it would be glad enough to
creep humbly in at its back door,
if she could, after a few months
of separation from her husband.
The way is open to this one. May
Heaven send her wisdom enough
to go back, and retrieve the mis
take of her youth, and make a
success instead of a failure of
matrimony.
After all, what a sordidly piti
ful thing it is to think of a home
being wrecked, of a little child
being orphaned by temper!
What a confession of weakness it
is on the part of two grown-up
human beings not to be able to
control their tongues! How little
people must love their children
when, for the sake of saying a
few biting and unpleasant things,
they are willing to jeopardize that
child’s whole life!
In plain English, that's what
the whole sgituation amounts to.
Every man and woman in the
world who thinks at all knows
that it takes a mother and a fa
ther working together in harmony
to bring up a child properly.
Everybody knows that the most
pitiful thing in the world is a
little orphan child, and the next
most pitiful thing is a half or
phan child.
Yet, knowing this, simply for
the sake of indulging their tem
pers, husbands and wives will
quarrel until they can endure it
no longer, and then separate, thus
deliberately orphaning their chil
dren. ¥
Bverybody knows that next in
importance to parental influence
and affection comes environment,
and that only in a home does the
child really flourish, This is so
indisputably true that an effort is
continually made by all the chil
dren’s welfare socletles to take
children out of orphan asylums
and put them in private families,
in homes.
MYSTERIES OF NATURE
Science Has Not P‘u]ly;;rkl:‘;p—o; the Question of the
Origin of Metallic Ores.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
OU have read of that legen-
Y dary Indian, who, while
chasing game on a Boliv
jian mountainside, seized a bush
to prevent himself from falling,
and, the bush being pulled loose
from its scanty hold on the rocks,
he saw its crooked roots grasping
masses of gleaming white ore, and
thus became the discoverer of the
famous silver mines of Potosl.
You have also read, perhaps
with itching fingers, of prospec
tors picking up nuggets of gold
worth a thousand dollars each, or
opening veins of quartz all shot
through with heavy threads ef the
vellow metal, y
You know that ores of gold and
silver or of any other precious or
useful metal are not to be found
in everybody's back yard, but
must be gought for in certain fa
vored parts of the earth.
But has your intelligent curiosi
ty ever led you to inquire how
those ores came to be where they
are and nowhere else? Have you
ever wondered what makes a gold
nugget?
Posgibly you think that gold and
other metals grow somewhat as
fruits do, in soils and climates
that are specially suited to them,
Well, there is considerable truth
in that idea, and the word “grow”
is, in one sense, surprisingly ap
plicable to such deposits.
But there is a great deal more
in the matter than you would
imagine, and on no subject has
science fought more battles royal
than on this of the origin of me
tallic ores. I think that there are
some geologists who would rather
find ot this secret, to the very
bottom, than discover the richest
lode that the ribs of the earth
contain. If they could do both,
that would be perfection, and we
must not forget that knowledge
is power.
. Leaking Water the Base.
1 find the subject again under
discussion in scientific journals,
and Dr. Hatch, the president of
the British Institution of Mining
and Metallurgy, has been setting
forth some of the ancient and
modern views about it, They are
interesting even to persons who
never expect to get a dollar out of
the ground except with the aid of
a hoe,
Until about 400 years ago every
body who thought about it at all
believed that veing of precious ore
were digtributed under the influ
ence of the planets, At that time
astrology held the place of sci
ence,
Finally George Agricola, a Ger
man mineralogist, who lived
about the time when the gold and
#ilver of Mexico and Peru were
making Spain the temporary mis
tress of the wotd, hit upon a the
ory which came, in substance,
very near the truth. He taught
that water, penetrating into the
earth and becoraine Jheatkd, took
up scattered minerals in solution,
and afterward deposited them aa
ores in cavities in the rocks, The
mineral solutions he called the
earth’'s “juices.”
A couple of hundred years later
the German geologist Werner set
forth a view that became very fa
mous under the name of the
“Neptunist theory,” from Nep
tune. the god of the sea. Wer
ner’'s idea was that as the ,eanh
cooled down from the primeval
nebula out of which it was formed
it was enveloped in a universal
hot ocean.
Depends on One’s Nature,
Holding in solution all kinds of
minerals, and that when the
rocky crust was formed, the wa
ter leaking down into it depos
ited its metallic contents by
chemical precipitation in veins
and lodes wherever the circum
stances were favorable,
But a hundred years ago the
Neptunist theory, which had
swept everything before it in the
minds of men of science, met its
Waterloo at the hands of Hutton,
the Scottish geologist, with his
“Plutonic theory” (from Pluto, the
god of the infernal regions). Hut
ton’s idea was that the materials
which fill the metallic veins were
melted by heat and forcibly In
jected into the clefts and fissures
of the strata from below.
The “Neptunists” and “Pluton
ists” had a hard fight, with the
latter holding the upper hand,
until their theory had assumed a
kind of compromise form, with
water again playing the principal
role. The American geologist Van
Hise is the author of one of the
latest theories, according to
which meteoric water (condensed
atmospheric vapor) penetrates
deep into the earth’s crust, and,
with steadily increasing tempera
ture, takes up mineral matter
into solution., Spreading, as It
fet.a deeper, the water reaches
arger openings in the rocky
crust, in which it ascends, with
decreasing temperature and pres
sure.
There 1t deposits the ores,
whose materials it has collected
in its wanderings and carried
along in solution.
But this is not the last word,
and Dr, Hatch mlmu out that In
recent years there has been a
partial reaction toward the Plu
tonist theory. Besides, a great
deal seems to depend upon the
nature of the ore whose origin Is
in question.
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