HOME AND EDUCATION
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT An Encouraging...
...Walker's address, Mrs...
...We met weekly at twilight and went out walking in a body, enjoying the out-of-doors and the exercise...
...He brought with him to illustrate the method of instruction at the School, Lucille Bowden of Milwaukee, a little girl of eight, who has never heard, and who, two years ago, could not speak a word...
...Those who can sing or play help to make the music which gives variety to the meetings...
...Tower Hill a beautiful, wooded spot near the Wisconsin River, is the summer home of Jenkin Lloyd Jones...
...Then there may be one whose learning capacity is limited, who has the essential, elementary knowledge, but who cannot master algebra, physics and Latin, who studies hard and with pathetic conscientiousness, but really makes no progress...
...those who can cook, make bread and pies and cakes, and bring them in for the noon-day meal, which is served on the lawn...
...The students in the school, and the family at the summer home almost fill the cottages that are scattered here and there through the woods about the assembly hall and central dining-room...
...To begin with there is little else here to bring us together...
...The paper by Zona Gale entitled "Civic Problems in the Small City and Village," which was published in our issue of August 7th, was read by Mrs...
...But a summer home does not mean to Dr...
...So the Morrisonville Library Club was formed...
...It is the custom each year, to have one of the State institutions represented at the meeting...
...If the charge does not awaken an appreciation of the advantages of an education, nothing will...
...In connection with Mr...
...Mary D. Bradford, who goes this year from the Stout Manual Traning School, in Menominee, to the Whitewater Normal School, read a most valuable paper on the "Backward Child...
...No theoretical argument has the value of a little story like yours, and I thank you for myself personally and for our readers...
...I would not be sentimental in any of these special instances...
...From time to time various socials were given to raise money to buy books for our library which, at the prosent time, numbers nearly 150 volumes...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT An Encouraging Response Morrisonville, Wisconsin...
...are they not all the seas of God...
...Dear Mrs...
...Olympia Brown of Racine...
...As members of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, we keep in touch with its aims and use what little influence we have to help in the movements for better laws, and conditions for child and women laborers, and in solving health and educational problems...
...Jones read "Mac Andrew's Hymn" by Kipling, and "Passage to India" by Walt Whitman...
...La Follette: WHEN it was suggested that I write up our club for LA Follette's Weekly, in response to your request that readers let you know of any progress made in small communities, it seemed to me there was so little to tell about...
...This year Superintendent Walker, of the school for the Deaf at Delavan, was present and talked about his work...
...Sometimes we appear to be slaves to the school, and lose sight of its purpose...
...Jones, as it does to many of us, a place to be idle in...
...IN CONNECTION with Mrs...
...Dear Mrs...
...But we should all be rational...
...At Tower Hill all do their best to make the meeting a success...
...Then there is the problem of those "tired and sick of school" —too many for some reason—bright perhaps, but unwilling...
...The summer meetings being with members whose homes are on farms a few miles out, the drives to and fro are an added pleasure...
...and those who are young and strong wait on table...
...Laura Brabant Ziebarth...
...One thing which we look forward to helping along is the movement for the consolidation of the district schools in our community...
...O farther farther sail...
...What you call "selfish" I should commend as wise self-protection against too great eagerness and strain, "preserving the spirit of living...
...Guests at this congress are limited to twenty-five, and the invitations to be present either as speakers or listeners, and the details of the program are in the hands of the committee of three women appointed from year to year by the Congress itself...
...About seven years ago, a little woman's club was formed here for the summer, purely for recreation...
...But it is just the response I had hoped for, because your plan and your growth have been so natural and wholesome, and quite within the reach of any group of women, and, at the same time the spirit of your work seems to me quite ideal...
...At first the books were kept in obscure corners, but last year a neat, substantial book-case was placed in the waiting room, which displays the titles of the books in tempting array behind glass doors...
...the work of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, by Mrs...
...Or if there is one of the older children not very strong constitutionally, with whom school does not agree, who improves during vacation, but grows pale and nervous as soon as school begins, I cannot help suggesting that it is dangerous to ignore Nature's warning that the health should be guarded as the basis of human life...
...indeed some are grandmothers, and we make our homes the first consideration, in spite of the baleful influence clubdom is supposed to exert over women...
...0 farther, farther, farther sail...
...As the chill of approaching winter threatened to put an end to these pleasant evening strolls, it occurred to us to organize a study or reading club to take its place, and at the same time to found a library...
...If our children do not measure up to its standard, we mistakenly think they must fail in life itself, and we sacrifice their physical health and best brain development to the one idea that they must get through school...
...The library was placed in the depot in charge of the agent, who kindly acts as a librarian...
...But if one of the children is still very young, just past the age of admission, perhaps, and is either a little backward in mind or body, or abnormally bright and precocious in any way, I should say: "Better be at home another year, out of doors, un-confined, gathering strength that will more than make up in after years for any school training...
...J. H. Rogers of Portage, with certain additions which Miss Gale had had been too modest to make...
...The skin and eyes can then be very quickly cut off with a pair of scissors...
...We began by buying a few books with our membership fees...
...0 daring joy, but safe...
...I am glad to have the opportunity to vouch for the success of the little village library, and also for the unselfish service Miss Connor is ready to give at any time to any project that will do good...
...I am jealous of the school because it takes so much of this time— the time when I feel my children belong to me—and so I may be a bit prejudiced in the advice I am about to give...
...it means rather a place in which to work as one cannot work in the cities during the hot weather...
...The work of the Anti-saloon League was presented by its attorney, John F. Baker, of Madison...
...This year's meeting was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 20, 21, and 22...
...They think the pain and dread is all their own and little suspect the wrench it gives their mothers to have them gathered in from their out-of-door freedom and play, and confined to their desks and books...
...Mary Connor came to help us organize, and has come time and again to talk to us, and give us new inspiration...
...She is now able to read the lips and to talk, and her handwriting puts to shame the average young person of twice her age...
...Certainly no club could have a better basis than out-door recreation, good reading, helping the community to a library, taking an interest in the schools, and, best of all, closer personal friendship and wider human sympathy...
...We have taken up American authors and current events, but must admit we do not go into our studies very deeply nor extensively, for we are all housekeepers, with but little help, and nearly all are mothers...
...Is it not better for such children to take up some line of work for which they have aptitude, music, domestic science, agriculture, rather than to dull and discourage them by a fruitless effort to complete a prescribed course of study...
...The Chairman of this Commitee has for several years been Miss L. E. Stearns of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission...
...0, the joy of the days with our growing children, when we can watch them, and hug them, and feel that they still belong to the home and to us...
...Ziebarth: You can hardly realize how pleased I am to have the write-up of your little club for the Magazine...
...In spite of the fact that the late Grover Cleveland, Edward Bok, and other noted men, have ridiculed and opposed women's clubs, we have felt it to be of great benefit to us, indeed almost indispensable...
...We meet monthly at the homes of our members, and so enjoyable are these afternoon meetings, that we are loath to give them up, even for the summer months, and have met continuously throughout the year, these last two years...
...We took turns at leading, and had a different walk each time...
...We feel that it has developed in us greater possibilities of human sympathy and closer friendships and a broader outlook on life...
...we really have done nothing interesting, nor to gain the "plaudits of the crowd," but what you said of Mary Connor in a recent issue overcame the hesitation I felt...
...Is it not better to let such as these go to work for a year at something that has interest and value for them...
...There is always room for a few guests, however, and at the close of the summer school, through the courtesy of Dr...
...Jones, there is held what is known as a Woman's Congress...
...We have a good state graded school, and the building is suited to one of still larger growth...
...It is well patronized by persons of all ages in the village, and also by those living on the farms about us...
...There is something in the size of the meetings, and also in the quiet and restfulness of the place in which they are held, which seems to give the Congress a character of its own, and makes it seem as if it would be desirable to have, in addition to the large meetings, which are held at the Chautauquas all over the country, more of these little gatherings, whose conditions favor reflection, deliberation, and, best of all, perhaps, the spirit of cooperation...
...Do not let these go to School IT IS the time of the year when we suddenly realize that summer is nearly over, and the children are startled to find the vacation is gone and school is about to begin...
...It was also decided to take advantage of the state free traveling libraries, and to give the public free access to all the books...
...HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS The work of cutting up a pine-apple may be very much reduced if it is cut into very thin slices before being pared...
...It may have seemed to you there was little to tell...
...Ziebarth's contribution, I give the letter I wrote her as it probably expresses better than any formal statement my appreciation of its value...
...Aside from this, we are perhaps a selfish little club—(we number but seventeen)—enjoying the recreation it furnishes us and the social opportunities...
...WOMAN'S CONGRESS AT TOWER HILL THERE is a little meeting held every year at Tower Hilll, Wisconsin, which might well serve as a model for gatherings all over the country...
...more cosmopolitan, if I may use the term...
...As there has always been a diversity of nationality and religious belief in its membership, our association has made us more American...
...R. H. Edwards of Oshkosh, and the work of the University Extension Department of the University of Wisconsin, by Professor W. H. Lighty...
...It seems just like one big family in which every one is seeking an opportunity to do something for others...
...They have been coaxed and hired and compelled, and every resource has been exhausted, but they will not take an interest in school...
...And because the members of the Congress felt that in going to Tower Hill they had simply stepped aside from their labors for a time to gain courage and inspiration for further work, and further consideration of social needs, it was gccd to leave with the closing words of "Passage to India" still ringing in their ears: "O my brave soul...
...The final session was on Sunday evening, when Dr...
...And so he has established a school, to which people come from all over the country to study the history of religions...
...It was very much like "stump the leader...
...A paper entitled "The Adventures of a Western Free Lance," setting forth the difficulties and opportunities of a traveling representative of the Library Commission was read by Miss Stearns, and a rousing speech on Equal Suffrage was given by the Rev...
Vol. 1 • September 1909 • No. 35
