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T orch
VOL. 2.
In a Hundred Years.
of
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU N E 1«, 1898,
NO. 26.
other through their leafy bowers, horses at biting and kicking, and taught as grammar, anu the fin-
and things of lower life that ulti- dogs at worrying. Turn a few old, gers and brains trained together,
mately become fixed in one spot, worn-out cab-borses to graze, and Play,work and book-learniug might
Th« world will be a b e tte r place,
Jn a hundred years.
such as sponges, pass through a at the end of a week or so they will be taught in turn, and schools be
\ \ , 11 have a b rig h ter, h a p p ier race,
period of play and free roving. The be tricky as colts, and flinging their made delightful and useful. As it
In a h u ndred years.
The isms of old, th e worn out lies,
most cruelly carnivorous are as rheumatic limbs in all directions, is, children attend them for years
The ancient wrongs, like m ist th a t flies,
' Will melt in th e rays of a new su n -rise , playful as those that live solely on Man is a many-sided animal, and and learn comparatively nothing,
In a hundred years.
herbs and fruits. Lions and tigers, requires recreation to a greater de- because they are pedantic prisons
hears and wolves, are sportive as gree than any other. His powers where they are immured without
All hum an rights will he understood,
In a hundred years.
lambs. In all, whatever time is of reflection induce despondency as interest or healthy excitement. If
The church will lie converted to good,
left after rest and food-procuring is well as hope. He is oppressed with we except cricket and football,
In a h u ndred years.
There’ll be m ore work and less of creed, devoted to play. For this is Na- cares, and often borne down by which do not suit every one, can
Be more of honor and less of greed,
ture s chief way of developing the much labor. His nerves are too only he played at certain times,
Be more justice and less of need,
In a hundred years.
faculties and bodies of all young freequently overstrung with work and are dangerous in themselves,
A better state will come to b irth ,
creatures, and of utilizing their and worry. Leisure, consequently, there is absolutely nothing to inter
In a hundred y e ars,—
pleasures for their interests.
is necessary to health, and recrea- est the majority of children.
A vast republic of all th e e a rth ,
In a hundred years.
As they grow older their sport is tion during it that he may restore Many of the rich schools, it is true,
The reign of kings will he no m ore,
The thieves anti priests q u it robbing th e modified by the dominant instinct his vigor. When these are not pos- have workshops, but the schools for
poor,
of their race or species. They be- sessed he becomes discontented, the middle classes and poor should
We'll know no longer th e curse of w ar,
gin to learn their life-work, hut sullen, morose, vicious; .and loses have them also. The power of ob
In a h u ndred years.
they do so playfully. Every ani elasticity of mind and body. Should servation is so rare because in the
We’ll have m ore substance and less of
mal is schooled in its own kinder he have no rational means of training of the young it is so sel
form,
In a hundred years.
garten, and learns to work through enjoyment, he flies from hard labor dom exercised. If schools included
More love will keep th e w orld’s h e a rt
games. Man is the only one who to reckless debauch. The over play and manual work as import
w arm ,
In a hundred years.
ihflicts upon his progeny hard and strained mind and body crave for ant parts of their curriculum, ob
The laws will aim a t th e com m on good;
dreary work, disassociated from wild excitement, and intemperance servation and intelligence would be
Religion will be a b ro th erh o o d ;
And toil will be honored, as it should,
enjoyment. Those who are not fa and immorality are the readiest at quickened all around, and the pu
In a hundred years.
miliar with the ways of animals, hand. This unnatural mode of pils would soon find what they
Our courts and rulers will be ju st,
sometimes think these pursue their life wrecks the individual and de were most fit for. All this should
In a hundred years ;
Our law -m akers honest—or so I tr u s t— various courses from instinct alone teriorates his offspring, for it is im apply to girls as well as boys. The
In a hundred years.
—without having been taught. It possible that healthy children adults who shall have been brought
The power of M am m on will pass away
With the reign of gods—or th u s I p ray — is true that some of those low in the should he produced by those who up under this course of compound
While the world moves on to a g ran d er
scale of being may do so, hut when lead an unwholesome existence. It instruction will know how to make
day,
we get to the birds and mammals is idle to preach morality to those the best use of such leisure as they
In a h u ndred y e ars.
we shall find that they have been who are thus overwrought. They may he able to command. In the
There’ll be less m isery and less wrong,
In a h u ndred years.
carefully trained by their parents, want leisure, time for thought and time for work they wiil be more
There’ll be m ore gladness, th e r e ’ll lie
and by inoek contests with each enjoyment. And above all, they contented and more intelligent
more song,
I n a hundred years.
other. Birds teach their young to want instruction in the best modes workers, and in play-time will en
Baptized in a new h u m an ity ,
know their natural enemies, how to of recreation. Leisure, to those joy more real and rational pleas
Each man to m an will a helper be;
And the toiling slaves will all go free,
avoid danger, how to fly. and how who are not used to it, and who do ures.
In a h u n d red years.
to procure their food. If we take not know what to do with it, is a
We know all this will not he
Have I p ain ted th e w orld’s face over-
domestic poultry, with which we very doubtful privilege, and likely just yet, hut it will come. Our
bright,
are, perhaps, most familiar, we find to be put to evil uses.
In a h u ndred years?
sanitary improvements during the
Well, b e tter so th a n to picture b light,
the
mother
hen
encouraging
her
It
is
necessary,
then,
that
our
last few years have increased im-
In a h u ndred years.
We may as well in o u r d ream s be b le jt, little ones to romp over her, show- natural love of play should have mensely. Others must soon follow,
For we none of us will knew , a t liest;
itig them how to peck up by plac fuller and wiser development in It would be absurd to suppose that
We all of us will tie long a t rest
ing small particles of food before youth, and that schools should he the present irrational and high-
In a h u ndred years.
them, and taking them into all as composite as the pupils. The pressure system of education can
I ■ r tiu.- T« rch of Reason.
sorts of out of the way places in word school originally meant a continue forever. Weak chests,
search of seeds, worms and insects. state of ease, a place of leisure and ophthalmia, and growing insanity
Play.
She instructs them in the art of retirement from work, and not a will speak for themselves and com
BY LADY COOK.
cleansing themselves by dry earth workshop for forcing young brains pel us to better our methods. For,
(Nee T ennessee C. C laflin.)
baths, and of securing themselves to their utmost powers. Our youth assuredly, education, to be com-
The first conscious act of a hu hy roosting high up when their lit- have so much to learn in a brief plete, must recognize the wants of
man being is to play. No sooner tie limbs are strong enough. In period that they have no time to a progressive humanity,
does the babe observe and recognize the meantime those of the same think. Bote and cramming take
than it begins to he mirthful. As brood learn to use beak and spur the place of reflection. Competi-
its grows it developes this innate by sparring with each other, at first tive examinations are destroying Modern Christianity, through its
proclivity by all sorts of merry playfully, and later with savage individuality, and reducing all to authorized priests, persists in send-
tricks and gambols.
And its delight. Those who have noticed a the same dead level. No more u n -: ing the soldiers of the Maine, the
healthiness of mind and body de cat romping with her kittens, know philosophic mode was ever devised reconcentradoes and the Spaniards
pends as much upon its exercise of how the feline family make the by educational quackery, and in to the same place. How dare they
playfulness as upon its daily food. games of their young instrumental time we may rival the Chinese, doit? Don’t they know there will
Nor is this peculiar to children in learning the right methods of who by long ages of competitive be war in heaven when such ene-
alone. All animals are more or less catching their prey. With all, play examinations have become mental- mies meet around the throne?
gifted with the same instinct. The is a means of instruction in the fu- ly and morally stunted and stereo- Christianity has caused all the
typed to the same dull pattern.
trouble in Europe and America for
newly-born gnat sports at once in ture duties of their lives.
When they become adults, they
The school should he a place for hundreds of years,and we affirm also
the sunlight. The young whale
plays with its mother. The fry of indulge in it as a recreation and as play, and for mental and manual j that it has caused all the trouble
fishes hunt and frolic in shoals. training for possible combats. Sheep work combined. Bodily exercises there is in heaven.— [Flam ing
The Hedged bird lings chase each play at butting, oxen at goring, and games should he as carefully Sword.
Revised for th e T orch of R eason.]