People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Mothers’ Meetings. [ARTICLE]

Mothers’ Meetings.

We have had mothers’ meetings connected with church work for the promotion of the spiritual good of the family and mothers' meetings in connection with kindergartens in order to interest ill kinds of mothers in the best early education, bnt as yet the mothers’ meetings that shall call together and interest the patrons of each pnblio school for the welfare of their children have scarcely been attempted. In one or two instances where they have been they have been well attended and most helpful. An idea of their speoial value to the mother may be bad from the programmes that one energetio woman teacher has arranged for the winter, when at the weekly meetings authorities on the subject will talk to the mothers about amusements for children, and especially for those who are nervous, “Preventive Measures for Throat and Nasal Troubles” and “Home Training In Cultivating the Reading Habit.” Every other week the programmes will consist of a discussion of the lecture given the preceding week and of selections of good mnsio and literature. The work seems an excellent one for the educational chapters of women’s clubs to interest themselves in.—New York Post.