Part 88 (1/2)
”Where were you thinking of going?” asked Mrs. Weatherstone.
”To Santa Ulrica.”
”Exactly! Well, you shall have your cottage and our girls and give them part time. Or--how many have you arranged with?”
”Only six have made definite engagements yet.”
”What kind?”
”Two laundresses, a cook and three second maids; all good ones.”
”Excellent! Now, I tell you what to do. I will engage all those girls.
I'm making a change at the house, for various reasons. You bring them to me as soon as you like; but you I want at once. I wish you'd come home with me to-night! Why don't you?”
Diantha's scanty baggage was all in sight. She looked around for an excuse. Mrs. Weatherstone stood up laughing.
”Put the new address in the letter,” she said, mischievously, ”and come along!”
And the purple chauffeur, his disapproving back ineffectual in the darkness, rolled them home.
THE ROOM AT THE TOP
There is room at the top?
Ah yes! Were you ever there?
Do you know what they bear Whose struggle does not stop Till they reach the room at the top?
Think you first of the way, How long from the bottom round,-- From the safe, warm, common ground In the light of the common day-- 'Tis a long way. A dark way.
And think of the fight.
It is not so hard to stand And strive off the broad free land; But to climb in the wind and night, And fight,--and climb,--and fight!
And the top when you enter in!
Ah! the fog! The frost! The dark!
And the hateful voices--hark!
O the comfort that you win!
Yes, there's room at the top. Come in!
OUR ANDROCENTRIC CULTURE; or, THE MAN-MADE WORLD
VIII.
EDUCATION.
The origin of education is maternal. The mother animal is seen to teach her young what she knows of life, its gains and losses; and, whether consciously done or not, this is education. In our human life, education, even in its present state, is the most important process.