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The board which regulates 'he liter
ature used iu the Philadelphia schools
wished to place “Les Miserables” un
der the ban of immorality, recently,
ami by this action won more notoriety
for itself, than it ever would have a
chieved otherwise, perhaps, cither col
lectively or individually. The board
is no doubv painfully surprised by the
outcry occasioned; it is entirely con
scientious and modest enough so far as
motives and convictions go. And that
is the pitiful part of it. One wonders
what M. Hugo would think if he could
see this eminent board in conclave
over his book, the book that has been
almost universally ranked with the
greatest pieces of fiction. It would
appear that almost any mind could
grasp the gieat moral purpose running
through the book, and certainly it is
only the most unimaginative persons
who are not impressed with the gran
deur of conception it displays. There
arc bad characters in the book; it
would not be true to human life with
out them. And the good and noble
types in it are liner than most people
we know. Judging from its action
this board is composed of men of staid
mediocrity whose conventional propri
ety admits of little hope of intellectual
expansion. No doubt these same men
read the sensational metropolitan jour
nals and allow their children to do so.
Nothing could be more demoralizing
than those. To be brief, the young
intellect that finds only evil in such
books as “Les Miserables,” and gets
none of the good which greatly exceeds
the evil, is hopelessly degenerate and
will find evil everywhere. One agrees
with that eminent writer of books who
said that a young girl could be safely
left to her own devices in a library
composed of standard and classical lit
erature She easily finds that which
is good for her instinctively. This, of
course, applies to the normal, healthy
young minds.
Speaking of books, there is a truly
glaring increase of them. Dozens of
new books are puofished every month.
One wonders who reads them, and if
they do read them how they find time
to read any of the old ones. It is a
musing to consider Solomon writing
ages ago that of the making of books
there was no end, and knowledge was
a weariness. Think of his astonish
ment if he could have been confronted
with the present monthly lists of new
books. And the trouble about them
is that the majority of them are inter
esting enough to be read, and are read.
1 think it is Ruskin who says that a
book should be left severely alone for
a time until it has proven its right to
stand with the elect. And truly we
could well afford to occupy our minds
with the great books that have surviv
ed to us through the past and leave !
he present growth to future genera
tions. when perhaps it will be some
what thinned out. But of the making
of books there is no end. Think of
the ever increasing horde of books.
But there a:e two or three sides to
this, as to most questions. Think, on
the other hand, of the geniuses who
lived, wrought and died in obscurity
never dreaming that their visions of
enduring fame would really come true.
The popular authors of today have
fame and shekels and perhaps they
prefer this material certainty to a
doubtful future fame. They will die
and their works may speedily follow
theia into the dim land of the forgot
ten but they live while they live.
“Omar Klayyan, the Persian poet
of roses and wine, life and death”
could not be classed in the category of
popular newspaper podts. It is use
less to announce tbis fact for most
people recognize that his name would
debar him. His atmosphere is not
that of American newspapers, anyway.
Most of all will he seem out of place in
a north Georgia weekly, side by side
with “A Constant Reader,” “Vox
L’opuli,” and the others. And one
can imagine Omar’s feelings at being
“written up,” in a “woman’s depart
ment” of such a paper. But his Orien
tal mind would hardly appreciate the
delicate humor of the situation. He
did not know woman in the capacity
of newspaper editor at all and he
wouldn’t have enjoyed it if he had.
I find this bit of verse from Le Gal
lien’s recent translatian of the “Ru
baiyat,” in the October “Bookman:”
“Oh friends, forget not, as you laugh
and play,
Some that were laughing withyouyes
terday.
Spare from your rose some petals for
their graves,
Sprinkle some wiue upou their parch
ing clay.
For even this dust that blows along
the street,
Once whispered to its love that life
was sweet.
Ruddy with wine it was, with roses
crowned,
And now you spurn it with your
feet.”
I copy this first for its mystical beat‘-
t y and then to show that human heart;*,
roses and dust are the same in ti e
West as in the East. A Persian w-'-
rnan may read this amid the beautif il
and strange settings of Oriental lisp,
and may look out through her latticed
window into her rose garden and t! e
Eastern street beyond, and muse up< u
it. A Western woman, who wea’’»
very fashionable, and sometimes imA
tistic gowns, and who gives in some
of her substance to the missionary sc
ciety for the civilizing of some Persian
woman, (who wdl be vastly surprised
when she hears of it and sees her Wes
tern sister,) may read these versus
with much the same feeling. It does
not make much difference whether t
is Zoraaida and Omar or Sallle atd
John, roses and life are the same. But
no, that must be modified, somewhat-
There is a difference. The difference
which exists between Omar Klayyan
aud Samuel Minturn Peck.
The following paper was read at th**
last meeting of the Sesame Club ard
attempts to explain in some degree the
significance of the club name recent y
adopted. A great many people see n
to regard the name, Sesame, as M
rather obscure derivation and this wB
perhaps afford some light upon tl e
question of its fitness in this connection-
“U hat is in a name? A rose by ar j y
other name would smell as sweet ”
and perhaps a liteiary club would
as effectual work under one name as
another. It is true, however, that a
name becomes indelibly associated in
our minds with the particular object
or body it designates. In the worlu
of nature names are as old apparently
as the things they stand for, and.
while a rose might smell as sweet by
any other name one does not wish it
to do so. Indeed, another name
would be hard to find for it. The bit
of loveliness and perfume which we
have known all of our lives in gardens
and poems as a rose would still be
rose to us.
With social organizations a name
may, and should mean a great deal. It
should have dignity and significance
in accord with the nature and purpose
of the organization. Hence instead
of calling the body here assembled the
Summerville Literary club, a commit
tee was appointed to select a name ex
pressive of club individuality. Origi
nality is a quality to be prized in clubs
as well as elsewhere, and the commit
tee seems to have realized this fact ad
mirably in selecting the name “Ses
ame,” for the club. Originality, how
ever, is frequently slurred and doubted,
aud perhaps justly so. It would be
quite original, for instance, to call a
social club “The Spice Club,” because
it afforded variety, and sometimes,
perhaps, unhealthy frothiness to life,
but most people would agree that it
was rather far-fetched, no matter how
appropriate. When the name “Ses
ame” was first suggested for the lit
erary club the committee made a rush
for the dictionary and found that the
word literally meant a small grain
commonly grown in Arabia. A man
member said he thought the name very
nice—exceedingly nice—if ours were
only an agricultural instead of a litera
ry club. The person who had furnish
ed the suggestion, murmured some
thing about “dictionaries being sodis
agreebly practical.” The committee
however, investigated the claims of
this unusual “Sesame” to recognition
as a fit cognomen for a literary club,
and with most satisfactory results. To
begin with, the club is not supposed
to be practical in the sense that dic
tionaries are. These are useful as
means to literary ends but they are
uot literature. Therefore the name,
“Sesame.” is not to be taken with a
grain of salt, as one is naturally dis
posed to do after learning its origin.
Che world of readers, the very youn.r
students of literature find this worq
first in one'of the Arabian Nighty
Tales where it is used as a watchword
to open the door behind which tlufe
thieves’ treasures lie concealed. I’ (J
those early years of childhood thesL
and kindred tales open up uew workKj
to our swimming vision and we begik
to fancy ourselves in the midst qf
brave adventurers. We stood ijj
dreams at the door of the wondcrfij]
treasure cave and thought eagerly upop
what we should do when at the magi •.
word, “Open Sesame,” the door shoub ]
tiy open and the treasure should bi>
within our grasp. And we looker•
upou the world not with the backward
glance of a conquering hero who hal
tried every force in the battle of lifl
and knows the cost of every b' |j
with the air of a coming conqueror s
whom by right, the earth must yielq
her fulness. Later in life we realize
that there are other treasures than th/
robber's gold, the treasures that rob
bers cannot steal, and that these an.
to be desired above gold. The treas
ures of the ancient cave are but a typ .
of higher things, so we still seek earn*
estly all through life for tae Ope if
Sesame that shall admit us to the storL
of knowledge ever just before us. Tlf
use of the word of Sesame in th|.
higher imaginative sense is beautiful?
exemplified by Rusk.n who has a
belief in the symbolism of commo* j
things. He calls one of bis books
“Sesame and Lilies” and the “Sesame”
part is altogether about books and the
attainment of knowledge. The “Lil
ies” part of the book deals with the
use of knowledge and h'eraturc. A
quotation from the “Lilies” is uot
amiss in this connection. “I want
you to feel with me that whatever ad
vantages we possss in the present day
in the diffusion of education and liter
ature, can only be rightly used by any
of us when we have clearly appre
hended what education is to lead to,
aud literature to teach. I wish you to
see that both well directed moral train
ing and well chosen reading lead to a
power over the ill-guided and illiterate
which is, according to the measure of
it, in the truest sense kingly.”
We will call ourselves the “Sesame
Club,” therefore, hop.ng that we shall
know in some sense, however small
the meaning of king’s treasuries; and
also, of queen’s gardens where the lil
ies blow. E. C.
A Word for Mothers.
Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickenson utters a
wise word to mothers in a recent arti
cle in The Pittsburg Dispatch.
“Unfortunately,” she says, “mother
hood is not always of a type that under
stands the innermost nature of the boy.
Too much mother love is tinctured with
self-indulgence. Too many mothers
please themselves by indulging and
gratifying their children. The higher
love sometimes accepts, for the good
of the child, the pain of restraint and
denial; but, good or ill, the measure of
influence and control is the measure of
mutual of love.
“A widowed mother found her 6-year
old boy mounted on a chair before a
mirror laboriously severing ringlet after
ringlet of his curls. Distressed and
shocked, yet she did not chide him,
but sought for the reason, and found
it in the little lad’s belief that if he cut
off his curls he would grow faster to be
a ‘great big man,’ and that then he
could take care of mamma, and she
would not cry any more because his
papa died. Fortunately she was wise
enough to understand the manly heart
in this childish breast, and she made
no moan for the missing curls, but let
him keep his belief that he could com
fort and take care of her ‘as papa did.’
A less wise mother would have left the
lonely little soul to feel how helpless
and of little account it was in her great
grief. That boy long since grew lobe
a man, and both in boyhood aud iu
manhood has been his mother’s most
intimate friend.
“We knew another instance of a
child whose violent outbreak of temper
was followed by such a tenderness of
contrition as overcame his pride,
which did not like to say that he ‘was
sorry,’ he had been wrong. Neverthe
less the love for his mother and the dis.'
tress at having grieved her overswept
all other feeling.
“He watched his chance when she
was alone to creep to her side and say
aloud to her the words that for three
nights he had been saying over to him
self in bed, though the daylight tooka
way bis courage to speak out. Aud
the mistaken mother, instead of gath
ering her boy up to her heart, as no
doubt she longed to do, felt that this
was a God-given opportunity to labor
with him over the sinfulness of his
evil temper, with the result that never
iu all his after life, though he went
wrong many times, did he turn to the
heart of his mother for pardon and
pity and love. She, alas! did not know
the harm she did, and he, poor child,
did npt know what it was that drove
the flood of his sorrowful penitence
back into his own heart and sent him
away angry and sore, and sorry that
he had spoken at all.
“We could multiply instances and
show how truly the boy of older
growth is influenced by the love or the
lack of love that is around him in these
childish days. This love is the one es
sential. Let the little man go with
few toys, without luxurious food, even
without dainty clothing, if you must;
but give him love, let him feel that, no
matter what happens to him, he may
tell you all the best and all the worst
of it, and be perfectly sure that you
will love him through the worst as
through the best.
“If we were to put in two lines the
one thing in the mother that most helps
the small boy we would say: ‘Love
him, good or bad,’ and add the para
doxical suggestion, ‘Know how to be a
boy yourself.’ ” ■
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“dome Unto Me.”
Heartbroken and weary, whor'er thou
may st be,
There are uo words like these words
for comforting thee;
When sorrows come round thee like
waves of the sea,
The Savior says cheerfully, “Come un
to Me.’’
There arc no words like these words;
come hither and rest;
Afflicted, forsaken, the thdrn in my
breast,
AU lonely and helpless, He thought
upon thee,
And He said in His tenderness, “Come
unto Me.”
O, Savior, my spirit would fain be al
rest;
There are passions which rage like a
storm in my breast.
O show me the road along which I
must flee,
And strengthen me, Savior to come
unto Thee*
There are no words like these words—
how blessed they be!
How calming when Jesus says, “Come
unto Me.”
() hear, my heart, they were spoken
to thee;
And still they are calling thee, “Come
unto Me.”
A Timely Friend.
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In New York tho municipal cam
paign orators are speaking in En
glish, German, French/ Spanish,
Italian and Scandinavin languages,
and one night recently there was
even a speech in Arabic. There
are about 1,000 Assyrian voters in
Now York Verily, that is a cosmo
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