•P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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beeu rubbed in. We had a big parade in 
our town during one of the Liberty loan 
drives, and there was one division of 
women who carried service flags. I stood 
in the window of my club watching the 
parade, and as it happened within six feet 
of me on the sidewalk stood John, my fore¬ 
man. I did not laugh this time, nor was 
he shamed into silence for what he thought 
of his wife. 
“Oh, how that war did stir up and level 
the elements of American society ! There 
passed before us in parade, side by side, 
my wife with a service flag of one star, 
and John’s wife with two stars in her 
flag! And as they passed they turned and 
looked at us. My wife told me later that 
they had been talking as they marched. 
My wife had asked her comrade if she did 
not feel dreadfully to think of her two 
great boys far away in France. And the 
woman with the flat, homely face had an¬ 
swered : 
“ ‘No. I feel glorified to think that T, 
the poor immigrant woman, can offer my 
boys in part payment for what America 
has done for me and my people.’ 
“And it was just then that T saw her 
face. I give you my word that at that 
moment it was the most beautiful face I 
ever saw. There was a calm beauty and 
dignity, a light of joy upon it which made 
me forget the flat nose, the narrow fore¬ 
head and the great mouth. They passed 
on. and John, the foreman, looked up at 
me. We were both thinking the same 
thing, master and man though we were. 
I couldn’t reach him with my hand, but I 
did say : 
“ ‘John, she has had her life wish. She 
has come to look like the Goddess of lib¬ 
erty. It was a miracle.’ 
“And John answered in his slow, 
thoughtful way: 
“ ‘No. not a miracle—-always she has 
had that great spirit in her heart; always 
that great love in her soul. She has kept 
that love and spirit pure all through these 
hard years, and now at ” great sacrifice 
it shone out through her face. Said I not 
right that my wife would come to be the 
most beautiful woman on earth?’ ” 
My friend told the story in a matter- 
of-fact way, and then fell into a silence. 
I did not ask him how he reconciled this 
experience with his statement that beauty 
is rubbed in from the outside. It wasn’t 
worth while; we both knew better. The 
face of mature years is a mask. It is the 
candle behind it that gives it character 
and beauty. H. w. c. 
The Sanitary Toilet Rule 
__ I have noted some account in The R. 
N.-T. recently of the new law of the Ed¬ 
ucation Depai’tment of the State of New 
York in regard to compulsory sanitary 
toilets in all rural and village school- 
houses. I happen to be chairman of our 
village school board, and I believe I voice 
the sentiment of our community in stat¬ 
ing that there is no local support for such 
a law. We have looked the matter up 
pretty carefully, have written Albany and 
got permission to delay till annual school 
meeting of May 1. 1920; have had our 
district superintendent here to look over 
the ground, have talked with two agents 
for companies manufacturing such toilet I 
systems, and estimated costs of enlarging 
building and completely installing outfit. 
Our reasons for opposing this law are 
briefly as follows: 
1. There are practically no homes in 
our community that have other than out¬ 
side toilets. Why should children in 
school be compelled to use what they al¬ 
most never find in their homes? 
2. In practically all rural and village 
schools there is no running water: usually 
a well or even a cistern is the source of 
supply. How are the toilets, especially 
those for boys, to be kept sanitary with¬ 
out hot and cold running water? 
3. Our village school is of brick, and 
the installation of the necessary toilets 
requires additional construction, which 
comprises far the larger part of the in¬ 
stallation expense. 
4. This installation complete will cost 
approximately .$1.000 to $1,200, perhaps 
more. With less than t>0 pupils and an 
annual •budget of but $3,000, it seems 
rather expensive to compel an outlay 
amounting to close one-half the annual 
cost of our school for a so-called “improve¬ 
ment" which is not wanted by the people 
of our locality; and, further, which the 
people doubt as to its actually being 
“sanitary” iti every-day operation. 
We feel that this “sanitary-toilet" leg¬ 
islation is in the same class with the re¬ 
cent “township school law,” and that this 
Winter every effort should be made to 
have it repealed, jar. rok stf.vkxson. 
We do not understand that there is any 
definite law compelling the district to in¬ 
stall these toilets. An old law states 
that all such school arrangements must bP 
“sanitary.” and it is left apparently to 
the Hoard of Education to decide what 
“sanitary” means. They have decided 
that these chemical toilets are sanitary, 
and. therefore, have issued the order. It 
may be called a ruling rather than a law. 
There are some good lawyers who hold 
that the department cannot legally make 
this arbitrary ruling. That would have 
to be settled by bringing a test case into 
court. Unless that is done the rule of 
the department will probably be enforced. 
Several districts where the voters oppose 
this rule should combine to test it out in 
court. Let them vote against it in school 
meetiugs and then combine to share the 
cost of a knit. There will he no defiute 
answer possible until that is done. 
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