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EDITORIAL PAGE The Cow That Kicks Her Weaned Call Is All Heart » « « Affection Is a Beautiful Thing, But Affection Is BORN in the Brain and CONFINED to the Brain. An estimable and very intelligent lady criticises modern edu cation, saying. “So much brain is forced into the girl nowadays that it crowds out her heart. At the risk of shattering the foundations of romance and poetry it must be said here once and for all that the heart has nothing whatever to do with the emotions. It is simply a pump, and a large part of its work consists in pumping blood to the brain. The greater the brain, the greater and more active the heart must be. A serpent, with little or no brain and a cold dis position all around, gets along very nicely with little or no heart. Those who speak of the heart as opposed to the mind mean to speak of unreasoning sentiment as opposed to intellectual strength. The lady quoted and many others say that the woman and mother should be all affection, and that development of the mind diminishes the affection. We wish to lay down a few rules; we invite criticism. The best thing, the only important thing about a woman, a man. a baby, or any other human being, is the intellect. Affection is a beautiful thing, but affection is BOILS in the brain and CONFINED to the brain. A young woman looks at a splendid creaturi* in a soldier’s uniform. Her heart beats fast, and she imagines, as all antiquity has imagined, that the heart is the seat of the • emotions. Non sense ! The emotion is in the BRAIN, which has just received, through the optic nerve, a conception of the lovely vision in brass buttons. The heart is ordered to pump more blood to the head of the young lady, to supply mental activity and the becoming blush. If you hear had news you feel the effect on your heart ; sometimes yon fall unconscious. That is because the brain sen sation is so strong as to interfere with the heart's action. You feel the shock that the brain sends to the heart. The idea that cultivation of the mind interferes with a wom an’s moral, sentimental or motherly qualities is foolish twaddle. The idea that mere sentiment, ignorant, vague affection are sufficient without education to make a first-class human mother is false and feeble. Have you ever seen a cow follow the wagon that carries her ca-ls to the hirtcher shop? It is a very sad sight, the plaintive lowing of the poor mother as she follows behind begging for her child to be restored. Even’ farmer knows that there is no neces sity for hitching the cow to the wagon when her calf is inside. She will follow that calf nntil she drops. There is your loving, devoted mother without education. The cow's heart, to use the old expression, is all right. Iler mental equipment is perfectly suited to a cow. Nature and society re quire that she give the utmost love to her calf this year, and give al) of that same love to another calf next year. Bring hack in three months that calf that she follows now with such pitiful appeals. If the weaned calf tries to re-estab lish the old relationship its mother, “all heart and no head.’’ will kick it in the ribs and then butt it across the lot. It's all right for the COW to he all heart and no head; she does not need the higher education. It is all right for the humble savage mother in the dark African jungle to be built on the same lines. Like the cow, all that she has to do is to take care of the baby until it is able to run around and forage for itself. Rut the civilized mother, the woman who must do her diitv in the present and in the future as well, requires a good mind, love based upon knowledge and a sense of justice, affection that follows the child from ihc cradle to maturity, gradually substi tuting for intense motherly physical care an equally intense and loving intellectual companionship and guidance. It is important, of course, that mothers of all kinds, human or animal, should be cheerful, and above all healthy, able to feed their babies themselves and feed them well. Bui as the brain in a human being is above the stomach, so the intellect in a mother is above the mere maternal affection in spired by babyhood. The great mothers are those who, when they cease feeding the child's body, can begin to fo«d the child's brain. The great men are great, and they were lucky, because they had mothers who did not cease to feed them when thev were weaned, but kept on feeding them mentally into their manhood. The woman with a big brain is the best IN EVERY WAY. She is better before she is married, for she attracts the man of intelligence, and establishes a family of intelligent beings. She is better as a young wife, because the ambition and in telligence in her call out the ambition and intelligence in her hus band. Hers is the happy home that needs no divorce lawyer. Pink cheeks, .small feet, squeezed waists, curly hair and such things dis appear or get tiresome. And all pink cheeks are very much alike, as Dr. Johnson said of ihe green fields. But intelligence never gets tiresome; no two brains are ever at all alike if well developed. A woman of intelligence always develops new qualities she can n.-ver be monotonous. There is no such thing as too much education, although edu cating us primitive men and wone n is apt to develop iiiie.xpech'd littleness, and thus create prejudice. Note this important fact; The bigger the brain, the bigger the heart, not only physically, but sent nientalli ami morally. It takes brain to feel real emotion, a wel|-dev>|oped miml to de velop real sentiment, real affectum A foolish, ignorant young woman ma be p|. a»ant enough t» look at. but she is like a white, pink eyed rabbit ornamental, but a poor companion. The Atlanta Georgian Bathing Scenes at Foreign Resorts English and French Fathers Snapshotted i i id' i 5 Ik* ■ else/ <1 Ar . v t "mb ♦ -1 JWfe. // <1 // / ' V z ' // ■ v S \ y ft W'Ssw ■' -%-w \\ W / ,d* JBr-4 7 \\ ' v •/ / J :: ' < X/ ’k . . ** '->■»*** ' ■— - > -'d. - ;i W;< "■ " f “ k*'' ■ ' ... » VtCWrpe ... . ■ Aroty SSXHL. -t’ V3r he top picture shows an English bathing group en oy.ng a picnic on the sands. Note the comfortable and roomy bathing houses behind them. The middle picture is a typical bathing scene, while the view on the bottom is a picturesque trio caught by the camera at Ostend. By WINIFRED BLACK. \ 1 THAT would you do if some V V onP fold stories about you stories that wore not true, stories that hurt you dread fully—and u hat it that some on# were an elderly man whom you had trusted and thought a sincere friend? Would you make him re tract w hat he said, and how would you do it? How should a man like that be punished? That’s what a woman and her daughter want to know. They have written me a letter about it—such a troubled, excited, hysterical, frightened •what shall we do; oh! w hat shall w e do?” letter The World Isn't Fooled. I know what I’d do, tny friends. I wouldn't pay the slighteM atten tion in the world to the tales the, elderly person told about me. for the very good reason that nobody else will pay any attention to them, either. That isn’t the first lie the elderly person has told, depend upon. that. People don't begin to lie wantonly after 40 They get the habit early in life and what you know about him everybody else knows, and that makes the matter perfectly simple, don’t you see” That's the beauty of a flbber. He thinks he’s having a lovely time starting trouble and so he is. but It’s ail for himself. The whole world isn’t fooled very long in the character of any man, . or any woman, either, for that mat ter Taken new etenogt <phei into an office, and I' isn’t a »wli before j every wi-. boy in the |• ■ knows WEDNESDAY. ARGUST 21. 1912. I gnore Scandalmongers whether she's what she tries to make every one believe he is or not. When the elderly person told his tine story about you and your daughter, my friend, all those who heard him simply smiled and lookeel at each other and changed the subject. After he'd gone they smiled again. "Same old sixpence, isn’t he?" they said, and that's all the affair amounted to, or ever will amount to. And. then, what do you eate wjiat people say about y ou. any way? The important thing is not what they , say. but what is true. Are you honest, well meaning, of good report? Well, then, not al! the scandal mongers In the world can hurt your standing with any one in the long run. and the long run is the only thing that counts. It isn't what people say that mat ters; it is what we do. That's im portant. and the thing that I should do in this particular case is to go about my business and forget all about the old man and bis idiotic stories Forget the Scadalnionger. The poorest use you can make of your time is to take it up hating some on< or planning how to get even. I’orget tin in and thi-ii works, then you'll be even, and a little i ovei •A woman I know -aid something very main loti* about im io on* w iio-< g.HHi opinion I v a e, v< i v j highly not long ago Tie m\i tlm< 1 met that woman I was so sweet to her that I nearly frightened her to death. She never sees me now w ithout wondering if I've heard and what I will do when 1 do hear. She needn’t worry. I shan't do a thing. I don't have to. All 1 have to do is so be myself; the rest will take care of itseff. Resides, maybe what the woman said was partly true. I may not sec myself as she does. Perhaps she really half believes what she said. Why not? She has the right to dislike me if she wants to. Who am I to inherit the earth and the kingdom thereof? Maybe She’s Only Mistaken. Perhaps she understands me bet ter than I understand myself, and dislikes me for what she sees be neath the cloak with which I may have deceived my own soul. Well, what of that? More power to her discernment, say I. and more sense to my own heart to see my self as others see me. Maybe she wasn't mischievous after all—only mistaken. Well, if 1 go on being the right -ort of woman site’ll see her mis take and be sorry What more do I want ihan that? Time, time time what a great healer of feuds and mistakes and misunderstandings the old fellow With the scythe is! Time and a little healthy forg, fling will heal all the wound- if we’ll only let them do It. Why not try and set bow p »||| | I urn out ? THE HOME PAPER The Education of the V oter —l -rrp-”?TT— Check Each Party’s Promises Keep a List of Their Promises and See if ’l’hey Come True—After Election. THIS will be a land of wonder ful promises until next No vember. After that things will rumble aion?, like echoing thunder, until March 4. 11113. Theft we shall be off for another- four years of something or other that/ will Ret into school histories later on. Meanwhile, if you want to be convinced who makes prosperity for you—whether the government makes it or whether you make It yourself—all you need to do is to keep a list of party promises that will be made until the next inaugu ration. Then, as the days go by for the next four years, check them off as they come true. This may be a little trouble, but you need to do it only once in a lifetime. This will not be hard to do. for each party will make its promises, each will give assurance to you as a voter what a benefit it will be to you to help elect one man or the other. And you will, of course, help as you think best. But watch the results. It is inevitable that one candidate will be elected; that one party will have a majority over the other in congress. Then watch, as a matter of interest and education, what they all do*with the party prom ises, and watch particularly how you are affected. Sugar may be cheaper. You Ought To Be Able To Save $9 a Year. It has been figured out that the average family should save some thing like Nine Dollars a year on free sugar. Well, just note, on the anniversary of free sugar WHETHER YOU HAVE THE NINE DOLLARS ON HAND. Tariff revision may cut down the price of clothing, and your Pifteen- Dollar suit of today may cost you 4>nly Eleven Dollars and Fifty Cents when things are fixed up in a prop er wax. Just note if you can real ly find the Three Dollars and Fifty Cents in the pockets of the new' suit a few months after you have begun to wear it. One of the loudest slogans of this campaign is the Square Deal. ell. just watch your deals. See if they are any squarer than they have been. And so on. Pull all the promises out of the party platform. Take them home and spread them on the kitchen table and look them over. I hen walk around the house and Love’s Supremacy By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright 1912, by American-Joyrnal-Exatniner. A S yon great, sun in his supreme condition Y Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my love absorb each vain ambition, Each outside purpose which my life has known. Stars can not shine so near that vast orbed splendor; They are content to feed his flames of fire; And so my heart is satisfied to render Its strength, its all, to meet thy strong desire. As in a forest when dead leaves are falling From all save some perennial green tree. So one by one I find all pleasure palling 1 hat are not linked with or enjoyed by thee. An# all the homage that the world may proffer 1 take as perfumed oils or incense sweet, And think of it as one thing more to offer. And sacrifice to Love, at thv dear feet 1 love myself because thou art my lover, Aly name seems dear since uttered by thy voice; Yet. argus-eyed, I watch and would discover Each blemish in the object of thy choice. I coldly sit in judgment on each error; To my soul's gaze I hold each fault of me. I’util my’pride is lost in abject terror Lest I become inadequate to thee. Like some swift-rushing and sea-seeking river, Which gathers force the farther on it goes. So does the current of my love forever Find added strength and beauty as ii flows. The more I give, the more remains for giving; I’he more receive, the more remains to win. Ah ' only in eternities of living £ \ Will life lie long enough tn love thee in. Bv THOMAS TAPPER. see if you can discover what has happened. See If You Can Find 1 Trace of the Two Items. But do not let the checkup stop here. If there are Nine Dollars to your credit on the sugar schedule and Three Dollars and Fifty Cents on the suit, see if you can find a trace of the Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents anywhere around..the house. The government has been prom ising you, through its political par ties, that things will be easier. Now', there are stores of men in public office who make promises that are as sacred to them as the most solemn oath they could take. They mean all they promise, and they try with all their strength to make good. And still you do not locate that Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents. Why ? Your treasury department is out of order. Not the United States treasury department, but your own. The finest set of statesmen that were ever born can neither fill your pocketbook nor control it. The ' voter who expects it virtually be lieves that a handful of lawmakers can put one hundred millions of citizens on Easy street. The best they can do is to pave . Easy street, but they can not put your feet on it. Government is a great and wonderful thing, but the fortune and the maker of it are not at Washington, D. C. They are at your fireside. Look around and see what you control: A family, a job. a reputation, the qualities of industry, honor, perseverance and self-denial. Perhaps You and Your Wife Can Find That $12.50. Let you and your wife be rulers over a kingdom in w r hich the de partments are run on a sane, solid ba'sis, and you will be able to lo cate that Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents. In fact, you may be able to find it even if sugar and clothing remain at their present prices. Don't spend your days in singing "My Country. 'Tis of Thee,’’ and at the same time expecting ihc offi cers of the government will take you for an animated slot machine and keep dropping coins into your pockets. If you want to chant the national anthem, do it with a perspiration_ of your ow n making.