In the matter of teachers for character-building schools, it is as
easy to recruit an army for this purpose as it is to recruit men for
war. Training such an army, however, is much easier and less
expensive, for the cause is a more directly profitable one and the
mother instinct in women is a more potential patriotic sentiment or
incentive than is the heroism to face hardship and death in men.
There are hundreds of young, noble women on the present _waiting
lists_ of training schools, and thousands who are deterred from
taking the course of training owing to the lack of schools to give
them occupation.
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It was creditable to wage war against the Spaniard until the last
weapon defending cruelty was surrendered, but it is even more
mandatory to plant crèches and kindergartens and parental farms and
manual-training schools in every quarter of present neglect, until
_not one waif can escape the loving influence of these blessed
institutions_.