TRAIN, ARTHUR. True Stories of Crime. WADE, MARY H. The Light-Bringers, pp. 63-111. 3. Imaginative Literature: Novel, Short Story, Poetry, Drama BRONTË, CHARLOTTE. Jane Eyre. COLLINS, WILKIE. Hide and Seek. *DICKENS, CHARLES. Little Dorrit. *DICKENS, CHARLES. Oliver Twist. HARRISON, HENRY S. Queed. *HUGO, VICTOR. Les Misérables. KIPLING, RUDYARD. The Light that Failed. LYTTON, SIR E. BULWER. The Last Days of Pompeii. READINGS FOR TEACHERS BEST, HARRY. The Blind. BEST, HARRY. The Deaf. ELLIS, HAVELOCK. The Criminal. GODDARD, H. H. Feeble-Mindedness. LOMBROSO, C. Crime, its Causes and Remedies. MONTAGUE, MARGARET P. Closed Doors: Studies of Deaf Children. Publications of the Children's Bureau. SMITH, S. G. Social Pathology, pp. 131-197. United States Census, "The Blind in the United States"; "The Insane and Feeble-Minded." WINES, F. H. Punishment and Reformation. WOLFE, ALBERT B. Readings in Social Problems, pp. 173-193. WOODS, ARTHUR. Crime Prevention. WRIGHT, JOHN D. What the Mother of a Deaf Child ought to know. CHAPTER XIII WORK AND THE WORKER Let me but do my work from day to day, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; This work can best be done in the right way."1 HENRY VAN DYKE SECTION I. WHY PEOPLE WORK The Virginia gentlemen and work. Many of the Englishmen who first came to Virginia were members of the gentry. As gentlemen they had never been accustomed to work. All their lives they had been waited on by servants. They knew little or nothing about the tasks which faced them in the American wilderness, but, ambitious for wealth, they accepted, in some instances at least, even such fantastic descriptions of the New World as that of the dramatist Marston. Golde is more plentifull there than copper is with us. . . . All their dripping pans . . . are pure gould; and all the chains with which they chaine up their streets are massie gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds they goe forth on holydayes and gather 'em by the seashore to hang on their childrens coates, and sticke in their children's caps. The little vessel which brought these adventurers to Virginia had small cargo space and could leave food for only a few months; yet, eager to secure the riches of which they 1 From the poems of Henry van Dyke, published and copyrighted by Charles Scribner's Sons. dreamed, the men spent their time foolishly searching for gold, silver, and precious stones, while their stock of provisions grew lower and lower. It was not long before the thoughtful ones saw with concern the coming of a day when, SOME OF THE THINGS PEOPLE WANT The articles seen in the picture were made by human labor. Nature does not provide all we want. their supplies being exhausted, starvation would follow. For a time some relief was gained by buying corn from the Indians. But the stores of the red men were scant, and, as the weeks passed, conditions grew steadily worse. In the crisis doughty Captain John Smith persuaded many of the men to drop their hunt for gold and to turn their efforts to the getting of food. The stubborn or lazy ones who hesitated or refused were quickly brought to terms by Smith's order that "he who will not work shall not eat." Work necessary to satisfy human wants. Captain Smith's rule is a simple answer to the question why men work. If the Jamestown gentlemen had found corn and potatoes as free and abundant as they found air and sunlight, it would not have been necessary for them to drop their fascinating hunt for riches and give their time and energy to tilling the soil. But corn, unlike air, is scarce-nature does not furnish it in quantities to be had for the taking; it comes only |