- rance in the physical realm, how can he
walk in the spiritual. Let him humble himself, if he would really understand. Let him obey, that he may know.
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Dog as a Detective—See Animal Intelligence. DOGMATISM, MISTAKEN I had heard that nothing had been observed in ancient times which could be called by the name of glass—that there had been merely attempts to imitate it. I thought they had proved the proposition. They certainly had elaborated it. In Pompeii, a dozen miles south of Naples, which was covered with ashes by Vesuvius eighteen hundred years ago, they broke into a room full of glass; there was ground-glass, window-glass, cut-glass, and colored-glass of every variety. It was undoubtedly a glass-maker's factory. So the lie and refutation came face to face. It was like a pamphlet printed in London, in 1836, by Dr. Lardner, which proved that a steamboat could not cross the ocean; and the book came to this country in the first steamboat that came across the Atlantic.—Wendell Phillips.
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Doing—See Feeding, Too Much; Service. DOING AS AN INCENTIVE A woman once came to me and asked if it were not possible to give her husband something to do in the church. "He evinces but little interest; just give him something to do, and I think he will attend." In support of her belief she recounted how her husband, lacking interest in a lodge to which he belonged, was made a very regular attendant. "He was elected," she said, "the high and mighty potentate of the eastern door. Now he attends the lodge regularly every Thursday night." Think of it—a sensible man walking up and down in a closet-like room, and challenging all who would enter. All this because he was given something to do. There is much philosophy in this. Young people need direction in the line of that in which they are interested, and in which they particularly are best capable of doing. There should be enough specific work to go around.—Charles Luther Kloss, "Proceedings of the Religious Education Association," 1904.
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Doing Things for Themselves—See Adaptability. Doing Without Learning—See Automatic Learning. DOLL, PLACE OF THE, IN THE CHILD'S LIFE The delight which a little girl sometimes experiences in getting hold of a doll that belonged to her mother when she was a little girl—a quaint, china-headed and china-haired little creature, with low neck and short sleeves and very full ruffled skirt—is a tame thing when compared with the feelings that any girl must experience over a doll now in the British Museum. This doll is almost three thousand years old. When some archeologists were exploring an ancient Egyptian royal tomb they came upon a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a little princess seven years old. She was drest and interred in a manner befitting her rank, and in her arms was found a little wooden doll. The inscription gave the name, rank and age of the little girl and the date of her death, but it said nothing about the quaint little wooden Egyptian doll. This, however, told its own story. It was so tightly clasped in the arms of the mummy that it was evident that the child had died with her beloved doll in her arms. The simple pathos of this story has touched many hearts after thousands of years. The doll occupies a place in a glass case in the British Museum, and there a great many children have gone to look at it.—Youth's Companion.
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Dollar, His First—See Money, Earning.
DOMESTIC HEROISM
There are all sorts of heroes and the domestic life knows them as well as some other more conspicuous fields of action. The little things of life afford a field for the exercise of the heroic as well as the larger. A news item, with a touch of the humorous, tells the following:
Some women were discussing over their
afternoon tea the statement that a man is
no more a hero to his wife than to his valet.
There seemed to be no opposition to the
idea that a man's servant did not appreciate
him, but all stoutly maintained that their
husbands were heroic—in one way or
another.
