HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home la the real seat of government, and the Wise Men or ail Nations Bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Page...
...What good sense it showed...
...Combine with these gifts a keen executive ability, a marvelous tact in dealing with all kinds of people, an unswerving belief in doing what is best for the child or school no matter what the precedent or personal interest involved and you have Miss Field...
...The Women's Trade Union League is on the firing line in the shirt waist strike and also in the fight for the Ten Hour Law for Women in Illinois...
...Miss Morris has a private studio where she is giving her time to pattern making, to embroidering, and to the designing and making of jewelry...
...In exactly what manner was it brought about...
...This year ciphering contests were held in the same manner with the grand finale at the Shenandoah Chautauqua, where, as at Clarinda, it drew one of the largest crowds of the season...
...In this way art, manual training, music and literature are often developed...
...On the Firing Line AFEW weeks ago we asked "Are you a member of The Women's Trade Union League...
...the farmers also furnished the automobiles for the trip...
...this the message which his daughter, his only apprentice, is giving to Americans through her lectures and through exhibitions of her own beautiful work...
...These were the questions which the southerners found satisfactorily answered...
...If the one in charge is Hot capable of becoming that sort of a, teacher after a proper trial, Mfr*| Field finds one who can, and in a heart-to-heart talk with the director convinces him to employ that teach...
...The wonderful poise of the pupils through this ordeal was probably due to the number of times they have been before the public in the contests aforementioned...
...A young woman still under thirty, born and reared on a Page County farm, she is that marvel "a prophet in her own country...
...This club is called "The Page County Progressives...
...discovered the wisdom of this cftlBlinH and m m\ strong teachers are attracted fi >m city work, or frou|hh tant lor ilities by wages of fifty dollars, hfi\ live dollars and in one in* stance even sixty-five dollars a m^B, School house improvements brought about in much the same way...
...Last year it was on spelling...
...What have they there that is different...
...He was asked, "Does your course prepare for college...
...We are fortunate in having been able to secure a photograph of Miss Morris taken by Mrs...
...Members receive the supplement to the Union Labor Advocate, announcements, and any leaflets we publish...
...The girls are also organized for domestic science and agriculture and this fall the girls and boys will have a com show and industrial exposition at two points in the county, for which...
...Those who have watched her work intimately during the past four years, however, realize that her "genius" is merely a large belief in country boys and girls, a sisterly love and care and understanding of her teachers, and a masterful capacity for hard work...
...Members of the League, as it was expressed at the Convention, are given the very great opportunity of a systematized avenue through which to work for the living wage of all women, the eight-hour day, an opportunity to abolish the child from the factories, and the disgrace of sweat shops from our land...
...THE results of all this organization were what the southern educators saw...
...This was the educational ideal of William Morris...
...A course of study hangs in every school room and the teacher : is advised to follow it closely and then specialize in anything in which she is especially strong...
...Spirited and well-attended meetings are frequently held in all parts of the county for discussions and study...
...The farmers offered their beautiful homes for country banquets for their guests, but since the time was limited the only refreshments accepted were "handouts...
...The Altruism of Children "F EED THE BIRDS" was the message sent by Superintendent Young to the school children of Chicago during the recent intensely cold weather...
...The dues are $1 a year...
...During the two years' existence of this club no member of it has broken her teachers' contract...
...Winship's Report of "Ideal Rural School Work" done in Page County, Iowat I have wanted to give our readers something in regard to the remarkable young woman superintendent who has brought about these large results...
...In some instances directors were present and they were also interrogated...
...Class in farm arithmetic...
...Women of the Hour Mav Morris IT WAS ELLEN GATES STARR of Hull House, the binder of beautiful books, who said of May Morris that, as a child, working with her father, William Morris, she had learned to design and to embroider as naturally as she had learned to read...
...Realizing that the quality of the schools depends largely upon the teacher, the superintendent carefuj|||t studies every school that is below ujjjf* and decides what sort of a teacher 1£ needs...
...Schuetze of Chicago, a friend who shares her ideals and her love of beauty...
...Classes in com judging...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The Page County Plan SINCE reading in the Journal of Education Dr...
...There all kinds of beautiful art work are taught—book binding, printing, embroidery, cabinet making, metal work...
...W every case t|e children came off calm and victorious, much totfe laughing discomfiture of their guests...
...the champions of each school met for township contest and township winners had a grand spelling match at the Clarinda Chautauqua which had offered a large sum of money in prizes in order to obtain it as an attraction...
...The stately southern school fathers soon learned to know and to appreciate the Jonathan and grimes Golden and filled their pockets from roadside orchards as well as from the baskets at the schools...
...That is the way our Springfield, 111., league was formed...
...We are indebted to an intimate friend of Miss Page for this statement of her ideals and methods...
...The question brought several inquiries as to conditions of membership in the organization...
...But in reality Miss Starr in thus speaking of Miss Morris expressed an ideal in education and training beyond which we are as yet unable to reach even in our brightest dreams—the child working side by side with an older person who having high conceptions of the dignity, the joy and the power for development which lie in labor is able to convey his thoughts not only with his lips but also with his hands...
...Perhaps Iowa school legislation may finally be achieved through this organization with the great band of farmers behind it...
...In her effort to solve the rural school problem, Miss Page appears to have gone to the bottom of the educational problem itself, and to those who read between the lines there is as much suggestion, for the improvement of city as of country education.— B. C. L. SINCE the visit of the twelve State Superintendents of the South and their party to Page County, as the best place in the north to study a progressive rural school system, the limelight of public interest and curiosity has been focused on that wealthy corn county...
...Her answer contained the following: "I would advise people to join the national rather than the local leagues...
...Dinner served by domestic science class...
...School after school b...
...Vocal music class...
...Another epigram was given by the superintendent of a village high school whose course boasted agriculture, domestic science and Sloyd...
...They then form a nucleus for the formation of local leagues...
...Or perhaps she was thinking how fortunate it is for the rest of us that the daughter, having received a great message from the father, is able to pass it on in the language not only of words but also of beautiful handiwork...
...Ciphering contest...
...Miss Starr had in mind, no doubt, in saying this merely to put into words the great advantage which Miss Morris had over the rest of us in early life...
...With seed corn donated by the best corn breeders in the county the boys each raise a plot of corn on their father's farm each year...
...Miss Morris reports that particularly in the cabinet making industry the effect of the instruction given by the city has been to raise the standards of work and of design...
...He answered, "It prepares for life, the colleges may prepare for us...
...v|1 There have also been coun1>-map-drawing contests and essay writing contests...
...This is especially devoted to the study of agriculture...
...Every fall there is a corn judging contest in charge of some member of the college faculty at Ames, assisted by the best local corn men...
...He answered epigrammatically "a farmer will never own that there is a better way than his, but if he sees it through the fence he will sneak home and try it on the back forty...
...at any cost...
...During these classes the pupils were subjected to a constant fire of qtt»r tions from the visitors who seemed to want to make mire-jfcnj| none of the unusual exhibitions were prepared "stunts...
...The three boys who stand best in this contest are sent to the short course at Ames with all expenses paid...
...These programs served as souvenirs, their covers being a design of corn done in water colors by school children...
...In short, are given a practical and a not too startingly revolutionary way of working for the betterment of their day and generation and that is what so many good people are anxious to do in these days but don't just know how to set about it...
...As often as good lectures can be obtained a meeting is called and corn culture is studied...
...She believes that results are obtained only by organization and so has first of all organized her teachers into round tables...
...Regular classes in reading...
...citizens have contributed premiums to the amount of three • hundred dollars...
...Its constitution upholds the sacredness of the teacher's contract, the importance of rural schools, and the advancement of their conditions in all ways...
...The apples were especially appreciated...
...In order to be absolutely sure of the facts we wrote to the secretary, Miss S. M. Franklin, Room 503, 275 La Salle St., Chicago...
...One was asked if the farmers were anxious to have their sons trained to agricultural methods more scientific than their own...
...How has thg public been aroused to finance and push the system...
...She has a few pupils and is besides actively interested in the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, a municipal institution founded for the purpose of furthering the art education of Londoners, particularly of apprentices...
...For two years Miss Field has conducted scholarship contests which include every pupil in every country school...
...Page County has had strong men at the head of its schools for years, but many regard Miss Jessie Field, the present superintendent, as a genius...
...the Farmers' Institute offered the prizes for the latter, making the subject "Why I like to Live on the Farm...
...Page County certainly has the right idea and the leaven promises soon to leaven the lump, for the organization of rural teachers recently made in Des Moines, has one of page County's finest teachers for its president...
...THE "Boys Club" is also very active...
...Miss Field personally conducted all township contests and this wilh ! the fact that she visits each school at least twice every year explains tkm fact that she knows by name every one i of the more than four thousand pupils in the county...
...How much better to encourage a child to give of his labor, which is his very own, for the purpose of relieving distress, than it is to encourage him to give to "poor little children" money which is not his but his parents' (and may of course not rightfully belong to his parents...
...How much less likely to make a little hypocrite of him...
...Manual training class...
...Different schools were chosen to illustrate, different phases of it and a printed prog;am contained heading* such as: Soil test by advanced class in agriculture...
...Babcock milk test...
Vol. 2 • February 1910 • No. 6
