HOME AND EDUCATION

...It was certainly refreshing to see anyone as charming as the delegate from the P. N. E. A. and to hear about the "House of Education" founded for teachers by Miss Charlotte Mason, and about all the books that Miss Mason has written for and about the youth of the world...

...Logan W. Page, of the Department of Good Roads, gave us vivid pictures, in his lantern slides, of the morasses and "Sloughs of Despond" through which the children must wade, in some districts, often seven or eight miles, in order to get to school...

...It gives me great pleasure to see so many kind-hearted ladies and gentlemen at once...

...to make things...

...Mrs...

...If mother's apprenticeship has given her an advantage, it seemed to me as I looked her over, collectively, at the Congress, that it was something of the power to live with other people referred to by the reverend gentleman...

...R. E. PARK First Vice President of the Massachusetts Congress of Mothers NOW THAT the Mothers' Congress has come and gone in Washington, perhaps it may be interesting to know the impressions of one mother who attended it, and came away rejoicing...

...Lindsay-Wynecoop, of the Child Hygiene Committee of Illinois, is so sure that there is a much greater death-rate in institutions that she is devoting a large part of her life to getting children out of that life into the homes, believing that there are just as many grown people who need children, as there are children who need loving...

...Away down on Lonesome Creek, where the children have to walk to school, if there are schools, over the creek bottom, the Committee for Rural Child Welfare built a model road, connecting a model cottage, and a model school house,—at the State Fair, and of that model house they gave away 700 plans, of the model school house 15, and the model road started many miles of good country roads...

...No one is safe...

...In his talk on the Church and the Child, he said: "Some one has said that the witty thing is the thing that we would have said if we had only thought of it...

...Yet here I gained a new reason, from a man, a reverend gentleman, and a lecturer, who was very human and companionable...

...Madame Kahn, formerly Miss Breed, of Boston, looked lovely in a native Persian gown...

...of the tea at the Persian embassy, and all the kindnesses shown, it would be telling what might be expected to follow in the train of so many comfortable and jolly mothers...

...for I know they must be kind-hearted, else they would not be caring so much about the Child...

...replied briskly, "No, only your father and I are corporals...

...Only one man was ever known to object, and they did not want him...

...Lady Berry Hart was the delegate from the Parents' National Education Association, of which the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are presidents...

...They say that after the noise of the usual Convention in Washington, the sound of us was so quiet and peaceful as to attract attention...

...He assured the Congress that the Queen of Italy was deeply interested in the Congress, inasmuch as work for the welfare of the child benefited every year such great numbers of Italian children, living on our shores...

...Madame Ali Kuli Kahn, wife of the charge d'affaires of the Persian Legation, represented Persia, and invited the National President, Mrs...

...IT WAS the second night of the Congress and there was a great crowd in the ballroom of the Hotel Arlington, where the meetings were held...

...That he likes to go somewhere...

...The cheerful sounds we made, agreeing with each other on all those resolutions led one member of the Peace Congress who was present, openly to congratulate us...

...I could not get it all on my cuff, or what was much the same, on my scrubby little note-book...

...Every woman there was asked to promise to get one baby a home, during the year, so childless families had better look out...

...If we know what is under the surface we can suggest the right thing at the right time...

...I confess I have had occasionally to give myself a reason for child-study...

...He said that China needed a System which did not treat children like dolls, and that he was going to send a full report back to the educational officials in China, "For," he declared, "what is done in America today is done in China tomorrow...

...some have them for clothes-closets...

...But I prefer to tell, rather, the things I discovered there, about the work that we had been doing, and the possibilities for more, putting the emphasis on the conference rather than the formal addresses...

...few of us have the fine art of living with other people, for other people," he said...

...Child study helps us to think of things...

...IF ONE COULD tell about the various conferences, on the relation of the Child to the Home, the School, the State, the Church, and about Child Hygiene...

...if one could tell of the luncheon at Rauschers, where I, for one, discovered several people with a larger family than my own, which was a wonder...

...Do we always remember,"—he asked us, and we shivered for we did not...

...Madame Kahn's husband was in full sympathy with her views and accompanied her throughout the Congress...

...That he likes to be chums...

...But it is fine to have a father and a mother both presidents of the P. N. E. A. and Lady Berry says that when a mother joins the Association they always write the father's name down, too...

...For that reason, perhaps, Persia has need in its home life of the greatest possible inspiration, and should have the Mothers' Clubs...

...It rather makes one think of that proud Corporal's wife, who, when the children were all admiring father's uniform, and asked, "Are we all Corporals, now, mother...

...He pointed out the necessity for such an organization in Italy which, as he said, "annually supplied the United States with several hundred thousand Americans without decreasing its own population...

...When one remembers that there are old men and women in Lonesome who have never seen a printed page, it is possible to guess at the enthusiasm with which the Southern mountaineer attempts to cooperate in all attempts to better his condition...

...The beginning of events, to me, was the night when the six foreign delegates gave their reports...

...Help from the Queen, he said, both financial and moral would not be wanting, if we would come to Italy and organize the mothers of that country against infant mortality and other ills...

...We found out, by reports and figures, that it was cheaper and better for the State to help the fatherless children by aiding the mother, instead of caring for them in institutions...

...Chung Wen Pang, attache of the Chinese Legation, and the first of the foreign delegates to report, blinked at us kindly, as he stood up to make his rapid little speech: "Eminent ladies and gentlemen...

...Lieutenant Merrigio Serrati, of the Italian Navy, represented the Italian government...

...Some of us sacrifice the child to the lawn, some to the floors, and some to the Gods of Care...

...Schoff, to start a branch of the Mothers' Congress in Persia...

...The Committee for Rural Child Welfare has a sub-committee on Good Roads, backed by the government...

...In Persia there is no need of reformatories, probation officers and police supervision of children...

...It is so obvious that our parents got along without it...

...She spoke of the home life of Persia, telling us in what ways we could learn from them, as well as they from us...

...of the reception at the White House, where William Taft could scarcely conceal his wonder at the number of us who were not at home, minding our knitting...

...It is cheaper to save her, the backbone of the family, and the Congress of Mothers hopes to help her to be the kind of woman that the State should be proud to recognize, for her real service to the State, and give her the aid she needs in keeping the family together...

...On several occasions he took eloquent part in the discussions...

...At least, he said something like this...

...Some people have their homes for pantries...

...In that sense anticipation of the child's needs is the key to mother-wit...

...that a child likes to be physically active, to collect things...

...One way to be a successful leader, if you are a parent, is to remember what a child is like, and what a child likes...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Reminiscences of the Second National Congress on Child Welfare, and Fifteenth Annual Con-venti n of the Congress of Mothers By Mrs...

...If the Congress of Mothers finds that Children have no decent roads to the school-house or the church the government helps them to get up public sentiment about building good roads...

...Every room in that cottage was furnished, also by the handiwork of the boys and girls under sixteen years of age, who lived in Lonesome...

...Schoff was reelected as the national President, and under her kindly but strenuous lead, surely there will be more to tell, when we meet in Texas next year...

...be began...

...All that is attended to in the home...