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EDITORIAL PAGE The Cow That Kicks Her Weaned Calf Is All Heart •> R »> 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. The Atlanta Georgian Bathing Scenes at Foreign Resorts English and French Fathers Snapshotted SR ■ ? IRMr - i iO 'r - • • iw ■R < k OM : 18. I k" \/ / ll J > //. jgjg BA wU. »&' // A ..jKV - W Jr Ob- W . w* ■ \\ f " ju o Mil - // \\ 1 - ' // \\ ■ ■// ~ —"" H “A A VW wWIxiF) L < A. 7 / :. z , • “ - Y, • f :•<' ■"7; 7 * The top picture shows an English bathing group enjoying a picnic cn 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. 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 _ T — T - r r —————————— £ 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. • » 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.