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The Cow That Kicks Her
Weaned Calf Is All Heart
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Affection Is a Beautiful Thing, But Affection Is BORN in the
Brain and CONFINED to the Brain.
An estimable ami very intelligent lady criticises modem edu
cation, saving. “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 mini! mean
to speak of unreasoning sentiment as opposed to intellectual
strength.
The lady quoted and many others say that the woman and
mother should he all affection, and that development of the mind
. diminishes the affection.
We wish to lay down a few rules; we invite crith-ism.
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 BORN in the
brain and CONFIXED to the brain.
A voung woman looks at a splendid creature 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 bad news you feel the effect on your heart.;
sometimes you 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 over seen a cow follow the wagon that carries her
calf to the butcher 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. Every 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 until 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
all of that same love to another calf next year.
Bring back 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 -be all heart ami no head: she
does not need the higher education.
It is all right for the humble savage mother in the dark
African jungle to he 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.
But the civilized mother, the woman who must do her duty
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 the cradle to maturity, gradually substi
tuting for intense motherly physical care an equally intense and
loving intellectual companionship ami guidance.
It is important, of course, that mothers of all kinds, human
or animal, should he cheerful, ami above all healthy, able to feed
their babies themselves and feed them well.
But as the brain in a human being is above the stomgeh. 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 feed the child's brain.
The great men are great, and the.\ were lucky, because thev
had mothers who did not cease to feed them when they were
weaned, but kepi 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 tn her ca I out the ambition and intelligence in her hus
band.
Hers is the happx home that needs no divorce lawyer. Pink
cheeks, small ieet. 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 the green fields.
But intelligence nexer gets tiresome; no two brains are ever
at all alike if well developed A woman of intelligence always
develops new qualities; she can m ver be monotonous.
There is no such thing as too much education, although edu
cating us primitive men and women is apt to develop unexpected
littleness, and thus create prejudice
Note this important fact : Th. bigger the brain, the bigger
the heart, not only physically, but sentimentally and morallv. It
takes brain to feel real emotion, a w. II developed mind to de
velop real sentiment, real affectum
A foolish, ignorant young woman max In p . .asant enough t«*
look at, hut she is like a white, pink-eved rabbit ornamental,
but a poor companion.
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Ignore Scandalmongers
UTHAT would you do If some
f one told stories about you
stories that were not
true, stories that hurt you dread
fully- and what if that some one
were an elderly man whom you
had trusted and thought a sincere
friend? Would you make him re- ■
tract what he said, and how would
xou do it? How should a man like
Uvat 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!
what shall we do?” letter.
The World Isn’t Fooled.
I know what I’d do, my friends.
I wouldn't pay the slightest 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 fibber.
He thinks he's having a lovely time
startings trouble, and so he is. but
It's all for himself.
The whole world isn't fooled very
long in the character of any man,
or any woman, either, for that mat
ter Take a new stenographer Into
an office, and it isn't a week before
every wise boy in the place knows
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1912.
By WINIFRED BLACK.
whether she's what she tries to
make every one believe she is or
not.
When the elderly person told his
fine story about you and your
daughter, my friend, all those who
heard him simply smiled and
looked 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 care what
people say about you, anyway? The
important thing is not what they
say. but w hat is true.
Are you honest, well meaning, of
good report? Well, then, not all
the scandal mongers tn 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 1 should
do in this particular case ie to go
about my business and forget all
about the old man and his idiotic
stories.
Forget the Scadalmonger.
The poorest use y ou ian make of
your time is to take it up hating
some one or planning how t-> get
even Forget them and their works,
then you'll be even, and a little
ovei.
A woman 1 know said something
very malicious about me to one
whose good opinion I value very
highly not long ago. The next time
I met that woman I was so sweet
to her that J nearly frightened her
to death. She never sees me now
without w ondering if I’ve heard and
what I w ill do when I do hear.
She needn't worry. 1 shan't do a
thing. I don't have to. All I have
to do is to be.myself; the rest will
take care of itself.
Besides, maybe what the woman
said was partly true. I may not
see myself as she does. Perhaps
she really half believes what she
said. Why not? She has the tight
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
tor 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
sort of woman she'll see her mis
take and be sorry. What more do I
want than 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 forgetting will heal
all the wounds, if we’ll only let
them do it.
Why not try and Sei how it will
turn out ?
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the
Voter
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Check Each Party’s Promises
Keep a List of Their Promises and See if They Come
True—After Election.
THIS will be a land of wonder
ful promises until next No
vember. After that things
will rumble along, like echoing
thunder, until March 4, 1913. Then
we shall bg off for another four
years of something or other that
will get 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 gts 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 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 S 9 a Year.
It has been figured out that the
average family should save some
thing like Nine Dollars a year on
fiee 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-
Dollai suit of today, may cost you
only Eleven Dollars and Fifty Cents
when things are fixed up in a prop
er way. 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 Hie loudest slogans of
this campaign is the Square Deal.
Well, just watch your deals. See
if they are any squarer than they'
have been.
And so on. Puli all the promises
out of the party platform. Take
them home and spread them on the
kitchen table and look them over.
Then walk around the house and
Love’s Supremacy
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright 1912, by ilmerican-Journal-Examiner.
A S you great sun in his supreme condition
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
Ils 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
That are not linked with or enjoyed by thee.
And all the homage that the world may proffer
I take as perfumed oils or incense sweet,
And think of it as one thing more to offer,
And sacrifice to Love, at thy dear feet.
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I love myself because thou art my lover.
My name seems dear since uttered by thy voice;
Yet, argus-eyed, I watclyand would discover
Each blemish in the object of thy choice.
I coldly sit in judgment on each error;
To my soul’s gaze 1 hold each fault of me.
Until my pride is lost in abject terror
Lest 1 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 it flows.
The more 1 give, the more remains for giving;
1 he more receive, the more remains to win.
Ah I only in eternities of living
Will life be long enough to love thee in.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
see if you can discover what has
happened.
See If You Can Find
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 scores 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 which the de
partments are run on a sane, solid
basis, 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 the 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.