So much time is wasted on superflui
ties that children who need to get a
practical education in the shortest
time are literally robbed. The ma
jority of our boys and girls must
early assume responsibilities. They
get enough manual training at home
without playing at it during the time
that they should learn to read,
write and figure. It seems a grave
educational mistake to give the child,
who must work with his hands in
later life, music, basket weaving,
drawing, painting, etc., while his
mind is being starved. After years
may give him no time for reading,
and perhaps all he will ever get of
general information or knowledge of
literature is during the few years at
school. Industrial schools are all
right in their place, but the admix
ture of so-called manual training and
time wasting superfluities with im
portant studies, for which, at best,
there is too little time, is a wrong
against the child of poverty.
* * *
Senator McCurry desires greater
privacy in the matter of legal execu
tions. Until capital punishment can
be abolished, by all means let the
harrowing spectacle be concealed as
much as possible. The same Senator
a manner almost with
out a precedent. It is
impossible to give
more than a brief out
line of the pending and
is the author of a bill which has
passed, making it a penal offense to
utter any false and defamatory re
marks about women. Heretofore the
slanderer was guilty of a civil tort,
and a suit for damages was all that
the sufferer might institute, usually
with no hope whatever of recover
ing, as usually the scandalmonger is
so busy making mischief he or she
has no chance to accumulate any
property upon which a levy could be
made.
