HOME AND EDUCATION

...The child must see that his work is to accomplish an end, and that there is some time to be an end to his work...

...It is the viewpoint of a wise, progressive, and contented woman, and is altogether wholesome and refreshing.—B...

...So far' as its educational methods are concerned, this school will be looked to as a m o d el by the public schools as they spring up from time to time...

...I can hoe all day and still there will be weeds...

...The boy hoes, and as he hoes he thinks, and his train of thought runs in this wise: "Oh dear, what weeds...

...AND not the least among the good influences upon our children is the increased interest and improvement in agriculture, stimulated by the fanner's clubs, farmer's conventions and agricultural schools...

...But when the results are in sight, then the love of it follows...

...and tomorrow it is the same thing over again...

...Mary S. Wool-man, is doing...

...I would very much rather have my boy come home laden with lichens, a rare flower or berry, samples of wood, and anecdotes of bird and animal life than with a burden of dead rabbits and squirrels...

...One is the son of a man whose sole object in life is to accumulate the dollars and cents...

...So successful were her courses that when a few public-spirited citizens decided to start a trade school for girls, they selected her as Director and sent her abroad to study industrial training in Europe...

...If they are as easy as that to prepare, it would seem as if every hard working man and woman in the world ought to have access to a shower bath...

...and to be able to become so absorbed in mastering a piece of music as to forget for the time that cows need milking and dishes need washing...

...The materials necessary for constructing it are enough pipe to connect with the main pipe of the stock tank, a stopcock, a box supported on brackets and lined or not, as seems best, and a perforated pipe for the shower...

...I wish to say a few words about the influences that are coming into the lives of children in the rural districts...

...THE influence of the teacher cannot be overestimated...

...How happy the boy who can take a long stroll in the woods, armed with no weapon (unless it be a camera), and observe Hiawatha's Brothers without the desire to slay...

...WHILE we are discussing the cattle and chickens, the clover and the corn, let us not forget the most important crop of all—the children...

...We should be thankful that so many of our rural teachers are filled with an earnest desire to uplift the children...

...Another important influence which enters into the lives of our children is the intelligent study of Nature...

...I'll play that I am Sir Galahad, and that these weeds are King Arthur's enemies—see how they go down before my sharp sword...

...To use her own words, she is trying to improve the young girls who come under her charge "physically, mentally, morally and financially...

...IfThe State convention of the South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs has officially endorsed the Woman Suffrage Amendment, which is to be voted on next year in that state...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT CHILDREN: THE FARMER'S BEST CROP Some of the Good Influences that are Coming Into the Lives of Country Boys and Girls By MARTHA C. WICHERN Note.—This paper was read at a meeting of the Farmer's Club, at the town of Baraboo, Wisconsin...

...And, moreover, the country needs these same sons and daughters to help it in its upward growth...

...Among a list of questions recently sent out by the Orange Judd Farmer, and addressed to the women of the United States, is this one: "Would you be willing to have your daughter marry a farmer...

...Very few children, or grown-ups either, for that matter, love work simply for the sake of work...

...I know what I'll do...

...And blessed are the horny hands of toil...

...I should think it would be the source of lots of joy and comfort...

...Our answer is, "Yes, providing the farmer is intelligent, progressive and moral...

...Or do we think of them chiefly as a part of elaborate bathroom equipments, as things to be enjoyed in addition to bath tubs and stationary bowls by those who can afford them...

...And when it is too dark to hoe, I can do chores, and after chores, eat supper, and after supper, go to bed...

...What place on earth is better suited for a wholesome, healthful and happy life than the country with its modern conveniences...

...and our children are taught the reason for all these things, with the result that they are better fitted to care for their health, and, as Emerson says: "Health is the first Wealth...

...I have not yet heard that our doctors are in danger of being starved out of their profession, but it certainly is true that our children are better instructed in matters of hygiene, and as to the effects of stimulants and narcotics, and this instruction must bear fruit...

...I can think of no class of people that would be more refreshed by an occasional shower in hot weather than men doing hard manual labor...

...Our school and home libraries are of the greatest help in this direction...

...We do not expect all of our children to become musicians, but we wish our boys as well as our girls to have enough understanding of music to appreciate good music when they hear it, and enough love for it to enjoy furnishing their share of the family music...

...for most of them believe with Plato that, "The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the mind all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable...

...The weeds are growing, too, and if I don't hurry, they will crowd the corn...

...We should obtain more of these copies of masterpieces and surround the children with them, so that they may live in their atmosphere...

...Last summer I visited the country home of a great and good man who does a lot for the world and asks for very little in return in the way of being waited on and served...

...Reproductions of really good pictures, now so easily obtained, are found in nearly every rural schoolhouse and home...

...Woolman has insisted that she was carrying on an experiment station whose labors would "enable public instruction more readily to take up the work when the call from the people became too insistent to refuse...

...That is what the Manhattan Trade School for girls, under the wise direction of Mrs...

...But there is the other boy...

...This is taught not only by precept, but by example...

...Nature study should be a part of the school program, but the parents have a still greater opportunity to encourage the children to study the soils, the plants, the birds and the animals with which they come in contact each day...

...I never saw calves grow like those two of mine, and father's hogs will soon be ready for the market...

...We wish our children to know how to work, yes, even to know how to sweat, but we want the sweat mixed with a healthy interest in the work and with pleasant thoughts...

...but the kind of men the country turns out...

...Woolman began her work as a teacher of sewing and domestic art in Teachers' College, New...

...How empty the lives of those who spend their days with eyes that see not and ears that hear not, as compared with those who observe and see beauty and meaning in each vein of a leaf and every motion of a rabbit...

...for we agree with Emerson that "The truest test of civilization is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops...

...Gravity carries off most of the water and the sun and air do the rest...

...Children who live among book heroes are unconsciously influenced by high ideals in the forming of their character...

...Educators and trade unionists agree that if the public is to allow boys and girls to leave school at the age of fourteen and go to work, it must offer them the opportunity to prepare for work...

...There was in the beginning no expense for a tub and there is now no call for labor to keep the place clean...

...Inexpensive Shower Baths IWONDER if we appreciate the possibilities of shower baths—if we think of them as the means by which the benefits and pleasures of-the bath can be brought within the reach of all people...

...There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will...

...Any boy would rather care for a fine herd of full-blood cattle than a herd of scrubs, and a flock of pure-bred chickens than a lot of mixed stock...

...By instruction in hygiene, wholesome lunches and physical training she has sought to send the girls out prepared to stand the strain of the long hours of work to which under present industrial conditions they are so often subjected...

...When the child has once become thoroughly interested in music the problem of his evening entertainment at home is at least half solved...

...I have read from time to time of temporary public bath-houses that have been maintained during the summer months in tents at very small expense...

...Its furnishings are a fawcet high up on one wall, a length of rubber tubing and a small wooden platform to keep the feet off from the cold cement...

...The belief prevails that we are now living up to a higher standard of health than ever before...

...I wonder if anyone ever thought to put up temporary shower baths near places where large numbers of men are employed in erecting big buildings or in making sewers, bridges or railways...

...What is the best way to bring this about...

...Wichern to let us publish it...

...and after a few years, when he has finished his course in the agricultural school, and takes the other branches in the University that will be most helpful to him, he is coming home to help father on the farm, and the vexatious problem of help will be solved...

...From the first Mrs...

...Where is the child that can look from day to day upon the Angelus, Pharaoh's Horses, Sir Galahad, The Sistine Madonna or upon Landseer's Dogs, and not have nobler thoughts...

...Why is this not a good place for one...

...It will be chore time pretty soon, and then I must help father with the chores...

...His bath-room is a lesson in simplicity...

...Women of the Hour Mary Schenck Woolman PUBLIC trade schools are the order of the day in educational circles and the American Federation of Labor has put the stamp of its approval upon them...

...That public trade schools are better than private ones and more likely in the long run to conserve the interests of workers as a class, most people agree, but before the sentiment in favor of the public schools can be aroused private institutions must go ahead and show the way...

...C. L. "No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him...

...This will be a dandy crop, and I shouldn't wonder but I may be able to pick out some fine ears for the fair next fall...

...Our schoolhouses and our homes are built on more hygienic principles, our drinking water looked after, our food prepared in a more sanitary manner...

...He is his father's helper, and it is our cattle and our corn...

...Can we not sympathize with this boy, longing as he does for some diversion...

...He has not even pleasant thoughts to fall back upon...

...The writer, Elmina T. Wilson, says: "A shower bath for summer use can be arranged in one corner of the wash room or for the use of the boys, in the barn...

...York, in 1893...

...When I learned how much pleasure it had given those who had heard it, I asked Mrs...

...A few days ago while my thoughts were on this subject I came across that inexhaustible supply of information, the farmers' bulletins, published by the Department of Agriculture and I found a suggestion for a shower bath in the barn...

...We want our children to have pure and pleasant thoughts to fill their minds so there will be no room for anything low or vicious...

...And so the boy's happy thoughts run on, and before he is aware that it is quitting time, he hears his father calling him...

...He, too, is thinking as he works: "Say, but this corn is growing...

...In this spirit she has tried to combine the practical with the ideal, training girls for existing trades and to meet the popular demand even though it be for inartistic things, but at the same time through art courses seeking to give them an insight into something better...

...After supper I'm going to practice that duet with sister, and I want to finish that book about King Arthur's Knights...

...The cooperation of this body is considered of much importance by the Suffrage Association...

...Here are two boys, each set to hoeing weeds in the corn...

...It is about five feet square and has a cement floor which slopes well off to one corner where there is a drain...

...Music is among the best of influences, and the opportunity for the study of music is becoming more and more available in the rural districts...

...And best of all, perhaps, by showing possibilities of advancement and increased pay as the result of thorough preparation, she is seeking to remove the temptations which come to those who earn barely enough to keep soul and body together...

...I believe all our readers will enjoy it...

...And he is anxious to learn about scientific feeding, and hygienic housing, and crop rotation, and fertility of soils and all those things...