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THE KUKA L. NEVV-YUHK L. W 
September 26, 
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In Prison. 
A GOLDEN EAGLE. 
I saw him, nobly poised, imprisoned there, 
In a poor place, housed in a narrow 
cage; 
That royal spirit, lord of the upper air, 
With great wings folded, mute in sullen 
rage. 
And all the luster of the golden noons, 
And all the splendor of the scattered 
stars, 
And the fair glory of unclouded moons, 
Met in that lightning glance, behind the 
bars. 
Those untamed eyes that answered to the 
sun, 
Now glittering in the dimness, turned 
on me; 
I shall remember till my race is run 
The still, proud anguish of that voice¬ 
less plea. 
THE MONKEYS. 
I. who laughed at first at the little sol¬ 
emn sages, 
Quaint and smileless creatures, wrin¬ 
kled as with years, 
Felt the sudden weight of the sorrow of 
the ages— 
Saw the weird, small faces through a 
mist of tears. 
A BLACK PANTHER. 
Iu dumb, unwearied protest, to and fro, 
He paces, pausing but for food and 
sleep. 
Oh, for a song to voice the hidden woe 
Of those wild souls that cannot plead 
nor weep. 
—Marion Couthouy Smith in the 
Youth’s Companion. 
* 
A Little Parable. 
I made the cross myself whose weight 
Was later laid on me. 
This thought is torture as I toil 
Up life’s steep Calvary. 
To think mine own hands drove the nails! 
I sang a merry song, 
And chose the heaviest wood I had 
To build it firm and strong. 
If I had guessed—if I had dreamed 
Its weight was meant for me. 
I should have made a lighter cross 
To bear up Calvary. 
—Anne Reeve Aldrich. 
* 
“It Can’t Be Done.” 
The man who misses all the fun 
Is he who says, “It can’t be done!” 
In solemn pride he stands aloof 
And greets each venture with reproof, 
Had he the power, he’d efface 
The history of the human race; 
We’d have no steam nor trolley cars, 
No streets lit by electric stars; 
No telegraph nor telephone. 
We’d linger in the age of stone, 
Where when some keen barbaric brain 
Of life’s conditions dared complain, 
And planned a wheel on which to roll 
The load his arms could not control, 
Sneers rose from all the mighty crew 
That ever scoffs at what is new. 
The world would sleep if things were run 
By men who say, “It can’t be done!” 
—Washington Star. 
* 
Home Economics in New Jersey. 
NE thing you may say for New Jer¬ 
sey—when the State goes out to do 
a thing it is done solidly and well. In 
educational matters the State takes high 
rank—particularly in lines of agricul¬ 
tural education. Not showy but sound is 
the keynote of development in New Jer¬ 
sey. The N. J. Agricultural College is 
now to organize a department of home 
economics with Miss M. A. Hauser at 
the head. A picture of Miss Hauser is 
shown on this page. Miss Hauser’s pre¬ 
vious education, training and experience 
should insure her success in the work in 
New Jersey. She attended the York 
Collegiate Institute of York, Pa., and 
was later graduated from the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Normal School at Millers- 
ville, Pa. Previous to taking up work 
in college she taught in the rural schools 
for three years and for six years in the 
city of York. Subsequently she entered 
and graduated from the Pennsylvania 
State College in the course in home econ¬ 
omics. Following her junior year at col¬ 
lege, she taught home economics in the 
Summer teachers’ session at the institu¬ 
tion and was also engaged in this work 
during the Summer of 1914. 
The home economics extension work 
in New Jersey has not as yet been thor¬ 
oughly organized, but Miss Ilauser plans 
to cooperate iu canning demonstrations 
and other phases of her work with the 
women’s clubs and rural organizations ot 
the State, and is endeavoring to outline 
a definite line of action as the work opens 
up. Miss Hauser took charge September 
first. 
* 
S OME country girls are taking up the 
plan of spending their vacation in the 
city instead of going to some “resort.” 
City people go to the country for a rest 
and change. Why not the reverse of this 
plan for the country girl? We have re¬ 
ports from several who worked out this 
plan with satisfaction. Through the 
Y. W. C. A. or some similar organization 
they obtained rooms at a fair price, and 
took their meals where they pleased— 
living quietly and without fuss in the 
great city. 
* 
I SAW an article where some one, L. S., 
was pestered -with bats in the attic. I 
once lived in a place which was the 
same, and this is what I did and got rid 
of them by using twice. I fumigated 
with sulphur and gave a good cleaning 
afterward. If the opening is small, make 
PROF. M. ANNA HAUSER. 
it large enough for them to get out, even 
if you take out a small window. This 
is what we did and went outside and the 
bats were glad to get out; they came out 
as fast as they could. If they come 
back give them another dose, this is what 
we did and were never bothered any 
more. mrs. j. c. 
* 
I N both France and Germany and also 
in Belgium, practically all men capable 
of carrying arms have joined the army. 
The work at home, and particularly on 
the farms, is being done by women who 
are making most remarkable sacrifices for 
their country. During our Civil War 
both in New England and in parts of the 
South, practically every strong man in 
entire townships went to the front, while 
the farming and much of the town busi¬ 
ness was carried on by women. It has 
ever been both the penalty and the priv¬ 
ilege of woman to endure the hardships 
of war without glory or proper credit. 
* 
W E probably all know people who are 
guided in their daily conduct very 
largely by their emotions. It may be joy, 
affection, grief or hate, but in any event 
the emotions are not guided by reason or 
experience but simply turned loose. Leav¬ 
ing action to be guided by the emotions 
is much like giving the l’eins to a spirited 
team and letting them take the road as 
they will. Many of the sad human fail¬ 
ures which come to manhood and woman¬ 
hood unprepared to take any serious part 
in the work of life are just the result of 
leaving the emotions unrestrained in 
training children. Without restraint and 
self-denial men and women do far more 
harm through mistaken kindness than 
through fair severity. 
* 
T HE pupils at a Brooklyn school got 
out a program to announce their 
field day events, and hired an agent to 
obtain local advertising for them. When 
the program appeared they found the ad¬ 
vertisement of a liquor dealer, and a 
great commotion ensued. Parents, teach¬ 
ers, and all made universal protests 
against any such advertising in a child’s 
program. This shows the way public 
sentiment is developing on the liquor 
questions. Liquor advertising is being 
steadily driven out of the columns of all 
reputable newspapers. No worse thing 
could be done for children than to admit 
for an instant that the liquor business 
has any legitimate right in a church or 
educational program. 
* 
T HE young women students of the Kan¬ 
sas Agricultural College are to have 
a new course of study this Fall. This is 
a course in costume designing. The teach¬ 
er will be Miss Nellie Hunt, who'has been 
trained at a fine art school in New York. 
The object of this study will be to develop 
what is called a “spirit of individuality 
in selecting costumes.” At the present 
time a great majority of young women 
apparently imitate some one they see on 
the street, or something they see in a 
shop window when they select a dress. 
They would often appear to far better 
advantage if they could show some origin¬ 
ality in the selection of hats or dresses, 
or general costumes, rather than to fol¬ 
low some ordinary style. We think this 
is the first attempt to teach such things 
in an agricultural college. If these young 
women can be taught something of art 
and good sense in designing their cloth¬ 
ing, it would be a good thing. 
* 
T HIS is the season when our boys and 
girls leave us for school or college. 
It makes a large hole in the home when 
they go, and we all have the feeling that 
John and Mary can never be quite the 
same again. It is something of a specu¬ 
lation, too, for this thing we call “educa¬ 
tion” may turn our children into master¬ 
ful men and women, or make them the 
slaves of habit or what is known as 
“canned thought.” After all, it is the 
way the child has been brought up that 
counts and the hold the home has upon 
him, which will steer him right through 
college. You can hardly expect to begin 
the college education now. It should 
have been started at the cradle. We hope 
you will read and study the article by 
Dr. E. H. Jenkins which begins in this 
issue. It is for you as well as for your 
children. 
The Christmas custom of shopping 
and gift giving is rapidly gaining ground 
in India. It is not a Christian country, 
and there is a very small minority of 
Europeans, yet the Christmas spirit 
seems to pervade all classes of people. 
What is known as the “Purdah” system 
has excluded all high-class Hindoo wom¬ 
en from appearing in public. They are 
not supposed to be viewed by any man 
except their husbands or their own rela¬ 
tives. This system is now fast breaking 
down, and such women are visiting the 
stores either in person or purchasing 
through their husbands. This Christmas 
spirit of buying and presenting gifts has 
its commercial side, for it has greatly 
increased the demand for a large num¬ 
ber of goods. Here is human nature too, 
for it is the desire to follow the world’s 
prevailing style which has induced these 
Hindoo women to break out of their 
“Purdah” system and go shopping. 
* 
L AST month a New England woman 
wrote about boarding elderly people 
or invalids. The plan seemed sensible, 
and it is probable that there are a num¬ 
ber of people who would pay a reasonable 
sum to be cared for. Something like a 
dozen letters have already come in re¬ 
gard to this plan. One woman wants to 
obtain some elderly people to board, who 
will pay her a lump sum at first. She 
naively says that she needs this money 
at once, and expects to get it in this 
way. Just consider the situation a mo* 
ment. No one would think of sending 
their relatives or friends to board un¬ 
less they were entirely satisfied with the 
conditions. People who solicit such busi¬ 
ness must expect to give the best of ref¬ 
erences, and prove their character and 
capability. Taking the aged or the sick 
to board is no holiday programme if you 
do your full duty to the boarders. Un¬ 
less you are willing to do that it is far 
better not to try such work. It will be 
no sinecure or easy job at best, and the 
friends of your boarder have the right to 
make the most careful investigation be¬ 
fore they make a bargain. 
The other side is to be considered too. 
We have a case where a lawyer and a 
minister put their old mother out to board 
with a farmer making a contract to pay 
him $2 per week! The woman became 
nearly helpless and her sons repudiated 
the contract—leaving the farmer with a 
loss of nearly $100. Thus there are two 
sides to such a business—for it is a 
business and not a philanthropic plan. 
* 
T HERE is one thing quite sure in New 
York politics. The question of votes 
for women is to be submitted to the peo¬ 
ple. All the political parties have de¬ 
clared in favor of such submission. As 
things are now the men will decide it. 
Unquestionably the cause has been gain¬ 
ing ground of late, particularly in the 
cities. Here in New York City it is now 
a common thing to see crowds of people 
gathered at street corners listening to 
talks by women. These meetings ap¬ 
pear to grow larger, and the cause is un¬ 
doubtedly making converts. Women now 
have the right to vote in Kansas. We 
wrote a number of our women readers in 
Kansas asking for a fair statement. The 
first reply—typical of others—follows : 
My acquaintance is not large, but as 
far as it goes am sorry to say the women 
are not much interested in voting, regard¬ 
ing it as a joke. However, I think they 
will now become more and more inter¬ 
ested as time passes. As it is, perhaps 
they are about as fit to vote as their 
husbands, as the average man knows lit¬ 
tle and seems to care less what he is 
voting for. You must remember this is 
the most unprogressive part of the State, 
the southeastern mining district. 
The most encouraging feature of pro¬ 
gress in the country today, is the rights 
of the child. This is the century of the 
child, and the study of its needs and re¬ 
quirements, so as to safeguard it phy¬ 
sically, mentally and morally, has become 
a science. We are hearing and reading 
daily of labor and pure food laws, sani¬ 
tary conditions are demanded where the 
youth are employed, and all for the bet¬ 
terment of the child in its formative per¬ 
iod. It is well for future generations 
that this is so, for statistics tell us three 
million children are born every year in 
the United States, and the trained teach¬ 
ers which are employed annually for the 
education of the youth exceeds all other 
professions. Every child is joint heir to 
all the vast sums of money which is 
spent, the scientific research constantly 
going on, the moral safeguarding in city 
and town which means so much to the 
youth. 
The question in The R. N.-Y. is, why 
do employers say: “No children wanted?” 
We might ask, why should they be want¬ 
ed? The employee has children of his 
own to do the little jobs a child can do 
and as it has been proven many times, 
two sets of children do not agree very 
well at all times. The average child is 
something of an explorer; if not well 
curbed, he wants to prowl through the 
barn and test the disposition of the set¬ 
ting hen, and if there is an animal which 
he is told to leave alone as dangerous, 
that is the one, like Mother Eve, he 
wants to get acquainted with, and at a 
distance to insure his own safety, he 
likes to prod and throw stones at. Of 
course cherries, plums and apples are 
free plunder; they just grow on trees 
without any labor to anyone, and if there 
is a reserved garret in the house sacred 
to relics of by-gone days, why that is 
just “rubbish” for children to play with 
and to destroy. That is the dark side of 
the question, for there are many children 
who come with the hired man to childless 
homes and who are well brought up and 
taught to respect the property of others, 
and are obedient and industrious, and 
they are welcomed and thought much of, 
and grow up to become citizens of the 
place. The solution of the problem is 
this: If the homo cooperates with the 
school, church, and the laws, looks as 
carefully after the company the child 
keeps, the books they read, sees they are 
in school every day they are sent, gets 
in close touch with the growing boy and 
girl, and spends as much time that way 
as in feeding and dressing them, they 
will grow up self-respecting men and 
women whom the country needs. A. f. 
