THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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AQASSIZ ASSOCIATION' 



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Established 1n7 



irpoi'iiti'il, MiissacliUwetts, ISItL' 



lMfc>i(MM-al.><l, CoMiiecttcut, 1910 



Stop, Look, Listen 



Young man, young woman, there are 

 two roads of life. Over one you may 

 travel in peace and calm, over the other 

 you may rush forward with a speed that 

 will finally crush 3'ou to pieces. Take 

 the quiet road of mental rather than that 

 of material things. For a time you may 

 seem to have a grand good time in rush- 

 ing from tango to bridge whist and the 

 cabaret. There is hilarity in speeding 

 up to seventy miles an hour. Nobody can 

 dispute that. But the best things in life 

 are not obtained at any such reckless 

 speed. There is an advantage in a crowd ; 

 one can there forget for a time every- 

 thing but the joy of life ; but reaction 

 must come. One cannot be continu- 

 ously in a crowd. Our isolation be- 

 comes more and more complete as the 

 years go by. Long ago a great w^riter 

 said God has set the solitary in families, 

 and He has set the lonely in communities, 

 which are just larger families. Learn to 

 have resources in yourself, depend less 

 and less upon fellow beings. The re- 

 sources of nature and of books are more 

 permanent and ever more readily avail- 

 able than are the sources of hilarity. 

 Mental things are more enduring and 

 satisfying than material. Happiness after 

 all is only a state of mind. It is easier 

 and pleasanter to keep a quiet mind than 

 to be in a perpetual ferment. 



This may sound like preaching. Per- 

 haps it is a sermon, but the advice is 

 good. Acquire the habit of being pleased 

 by small things and by home friends. Not 

 many friends are required to make life 

 happy, but they must be true, congenial 

 and sympathetic. One may have a feel- 

 ing of friendship and a kindly feeling 

 for a number of people, but happiness 

 does not depend upon the cultivation of 

 hilarious joys amid the multitude. Learn 

 to love the trees, the birds, but learn 

 more thoroughly than all else to be on 

 friendly terms with yourself in your 

 quiet moments. 



An Ideal for Girlhood. 



Our whole idea of woman's charm 

 and woman's place was conceived by 

 men. The Englishman, well, we will 

 say up to the nineteenth century, was 

 a gallant where woman's "charm" was 

 concerned and a brute where her 

 "place" was concerned. Under their 

 training, woman herself uses the same 

 terms in describing herself. It does not 

 seem to occur to her that the concep- 

 tion was man-made, though she may 

 have, as a girl, wept bitter tears over 

 the freckles which she believed robbed 

 her of her charm. We are beginning 

 to resent the implication, and to insist 

 that woman's charm is the same thing 

 as man's charm. It does not depend 

 upon a woman's hair and eyes and 

 complexion and willowy figure any 

 more than it depends upon a man's 

 drooping moustache and melancholy 

 eyes, or that "genteel figure" which 

 Kate Hardcastle so much admired. Her 

 real attraction is not that subtle thing 

 which makes her desirable to men, but 

 that nobility which makes her attrac- 

 tive to God and to mankind. It is the 

 way in which she uses her faculties, her 

 opportunities, her perceptions that 

 makes her a force in the world. — Alice 

 B. Macdonald in "The Educational 

 Review." 



A Work of Great Value. 



I see a high work in turning the eyes 

 and faculties of the youth to Nature as 

 a means of laying a moral, intellectual 

 and spiritual foundation that will be 

 wholesome, sane and safe. I believe our 

 Infinite Father had this in mind as well 

 as the practical and material when He 

 formed our environment. In many in- 

 stances I have been able to trace an ex- 

 traordinarilv sweet, mild and gentle dis- 

 position back to a foundation laid in Na- 

 ture communion. — Will Webb Tuttle, 

 ^luncie. Indiana. 



