Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 218, 22 July 1913 — Page 8

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Correct School Training For Children

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THE following list of questions was sent out by a prominent institution of learning to various individuals for replies. There is great hope for the future of our nation when the school authorii t ies ask the co-op eration of the public in pointing out the errors of the I educational system. Are our grade and hifch schools, in your opinion, doing all they can do under existing con ditions in furnishing the best prepa ration possible for home, for society and for business? They are not. Parents and Teachers Fail to Fit Studies to the Children. Can you suggest any changes in the present school curriculum, or the present methods of teaching, which would tend to remove the disinclination' which many children, especially of the ages of twelve to fifteen years, have toward attending school, e. g., is the work too easy, too difficult, unsuited to the minds 01 the pupils, hours too short, too long, work too confining, too abstract, too much unlike home life, etc.? The work is too varied, and there is not time enough given to the proper understanding of any one study. There is not enough common sense used by parents, or teachers, in fitting the studies to the children all are put through a routine with no consideration of different tastes, needs and capacities. Some system should be established making an analysis of a child's mind and a study of its especial needs a part of the preparation for entering school, and then the children should be classified. Are the public schools developing in the most effective way the pupil's power of self-control? If not, wherein lies the failure? Where the remedy? No a thousand times no! There should be two-minute talks on self-control given every day to the pupils. Every Pupil Should Be Made to Understand Self-Control. Each pupil should be made to understand what self-control is. To the majority of mature people in the world today the word has little meaning. Do you think that explicit teaching of morals and religion is practicable or desirable? No creeds should be taught in schools. But reverence for the Creator of this mighty universe should be imparted with such lessons as botany, natural history and astronomy. Remind the children that with all man's vast learning and power he cannot make a single seed, or star, or animal, and that the intelligence which conceived the worlds about and above us 6hould be thought of with reverence. In morals there is no greater factor than the self-control already mentioned. Many people think self-control means self-repression. Children should be taught that it means controlling the unworthy impulses only, and that each time anger, indolence, greediness or selfishness is controlled it is one step toward a higher education and toward success in Ufa. Married Life Still the Most By Mabel Herbert Urner. THE sheerest nainsooks, cambrics, silk flannels, and laces! Most of Helen's days were nowspent in the buying and making up of these things. Over each dainty bit of material she thrilled with the joy and wonder which only a young wife knows. "The Infants Department!" With what secret pride she would enter a large department store, and ask to be directed to the "Infants Department!" And the shop woman who waited on hei" how charmingly she would be taken Into her confidence. And the poor-wearied, back-gowned woman who spent her life behind the counter bow interested and eager to help she would be! "I want these just for litUe morning

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To study when you feel like loafing, j to persevere with a problem when you i

want to ask some one else to solve it for you, to go directly to school or home when you want to lag, to shut your lips close when you want to say unkind words, to put your pennies in a bank when you want to buy candy all those are steps toward higher education, and they all mean self-control. Continual brief reference to these facts as a basis of all worth-while character should be made in schools. It is far more important than teaching children to dissect dead animals. Should the duties of citizenship be taught in schools? If so, which method will be more effective, the study of a i text book on that subject or the organization of the school into societies similar to real political organizations? Are there any objections to the latter method? Is there any other better way ? The early ideals of Washington and Jefferson and others men of great and broad principles should be taught, and the children given a sense of the responsibility of each individual to make himself worthy of his country and to aid in making his country wor thy of the world's respect. A Careful Kindergarten Training the llest Foundation. Can you suggest any way in which ' public school education can be more helpful in alleviating the condition of the lower classes of society, i. e., the ' extremely poor and the vicious classes, : "the submerged tenth?" What, if any- j thing, can be done through the schools ! to lessen juvenile crime? What is your opinion of the value of manual training, cooking and sewing in the public schools? Why? Manual training, sewing and cooking are of great importance in the schools. But before the "submerged tenth" enters the public or graded schools it should have a careful kindergarten training. All the educators and philanthropists and reformers in America should band together to establish kindergar-1 tens for the children of the poor and j vicious. In its instruction order, system and self-reliance are contained. Not one child in America need be deprived of this advantage were our wonderfully generous and philanthropic people aroused to the importance of the work. Then the public schools should amplify their manual training advantages and add to the number of teachers in those departments, j Besides this a thorough course of humane education should become a part of every school course. Until this is done it is impossible to eradicate the tendencies toward cruel-1 ty born in the children of the vicious and selfish. j Schools Must Aid Parents in Teaching Children to Be Humane. The majority of parents never do, ! and probably never will, unaided by the schools, educate their children to be humane and kind to creatures weaker than themselves. Wherever humane education has been Introduced in schools there may be found a remarkable decrease of cruelty and viciousness among children. They become proud defenders and protectors of suffering or misused animals or human being3 they encounter. But to produce the desired results included in the last question we must change our industrial conditions instead of our school curriculum. the First Year Wonderful Time. slips, you know. They should be plain shouldn't they?" "Oh. yes," and the shop woman's tired face lit up with all a woman's Interest. "They wash so much easier I if they are plain and you'll need so ! many." j "Yes, that is what I thought the plainest, cambric slips for the mornings. And the finer dresses I'm going to make myself by hand later" with a soft flush, "when I can't go out so much." "Yes, I know," the woman murmured. "That is the way my sister did and she so enjoyed making them." HER HAPPINESS SECURE. Her sister's child! This was probably the nearest of maternity this poor woman would ever come. And as she left the shop, Helen's eyes filled with tears as she thought of all these

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The Ten Commandments of the Summer Young Man BY DOROTHY DIX.

Take Not the Kiss Thou Mlghtest. -v- jHEN the sun waxeth hot, and the straw hat bloomV V etn in the 6treet take heed to thy footsteps, oh, my son, for the summer vacation season is the time wherein they Guardian Angel shutteth up shop and knocketh off business as he sayeth, "Oh, what's the use?" 2. Forget not that danger lurketh for thee at every turn, for the summer season putteth that in a man's heart which taketh away his reason, and maketh him call the Fool Killer and say, "Lo, come and get me, for I am thy goat." 3. When thou goest to Coney Island take with thee thy mother, or thy maiden aunt; so shalt she dry the tears of the young woman who hath lost her carfare and weepeth because she lacketh the price of the ride home. Thus shall thou be saved great trouble and tribulation, for, behold, there is more protection in the presence of Go Warily a female relative than in much virtue. 4. Rejoice greatly, oh, my son, as thou goest forth on thy vacation clad in glad raiment, and with money in thy purse, but forget not that thou shalt come home with thy pocketbook flat as though elephants had trodden upon it, and thy shirt held together by safety pins. For, lo! thou shalt be despoiled by the daughters of the Summer resort, who shalt leave thee not so much as one stick pin, or one shirt stud, or one cuff link wherewith to adorn thyself. 5. Close thine ears to the hint of the maiden who complaineth of her feet when she seeth the chariot that runntth with gasoline, and be thou deaf as the adder to her who discoursed about the lobster, for verily I say unto thee that these be ladv women wasting among counters and shelves the best part of their lives the best of their womanhood. Did their arms never ache, not only with lifting down and putting up goods, but with the longing to hold in them something of their own? Surely even the tenement mothers, with their droves of ill-kept children and drunken husbands had more of life a woman's life than these colorless, soul-starved women encased in their black gowns. Helen's own happiness never seemed so secure as now. Warren's gentleness and tenderness almost swept from her memory those months of his irritability and selfishness. Parentage that was the rock on which their love was to be safely anchored at last. Never had she waited with such joyous expectancy for him to come home in the evenings and never had he come home with such promptness. "And how is my little woman tonight?" Was always his greeting now as he took her in his arms. "Has she been taking good care of herself?" THEIR EVENING TOGETHER. And she would smile up at him. "Oh, yes, such very good care! And what wonderful things has she bought today?" "Oh, the dearest little but no, you're not to see or be told of anything until after you've had your dinner." "So I must have my dinner first? you dictatorial little thing." "Yes, I told Anna to haye it early

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wolves in sheep's clothing, who shall devour thee and thy substance. 6. Beware the roof garden unless thou has many shekels in thy pocket, fur behold, the price of beer soareth even as does a skyscraper, and the maidens thou meetest thereon have a great and exceeding thirst that many drinks do not quench. 7. Boast not thyself of thy yacht when all that thou hast is a yachting cap and rubber soled shoes, for assuredly one shall come from thine own home town and proclaim that the only craft thou wast ever close to was a schooner of lager. 8. When thou hiest thyself to a Summer resort, and the musicians pipe for the dance, do thou turkey trot with the homely maidens that paper the wall, for among them assuredly is the daughter of him who owneth the cattle upon a thousand hills, yea, Standard Oil stock, and who wilt gladly give a chromo to him who marryeth his daughter. 9. Remember, oh, my son, that the Summer season is the season wherein all women are even as houri and that she that is clothed in a white muslin is beautiful, though she were as ugly as a mud fence dabbed with tadpoles; therefore go thou warily among the skirts, for verily thy danger is great. 10. When thou sittest on the sands in the moonlight, or floateth in a boat under the trees, keep thy tongue between thy teeth and refrain thy lips from repeating poetry; yea, take not the Among the Skirts. kiss that thou mightest, lest the Winter season find thee defending a breach of promise suit; for, lo! the Summer season of peril wherefrom few men escape without trouble. Selah! Thou Shalt Be Despoiled. so we could get through and hare a long evening together." Then when the dinner was over and he was settled in his big easy chair by the light, she would bring out the things she had bought or been working on that day. His masculine ignorance and clumsiness were an unfailing source of delight to both of them. "And what's this?" pulling a bit of lace. "Is this what you call Hamburg edging?" "No, no, she laughed. "You think everything is Hamburg edging. It's the only name you remember. I suppose because it reminds you of Hamburg steak. Material person," with a kiss. MARRIED LIFE THE FIRST YEAR. "Well, what is this then?" still holding to the bit of lace. "That," with her most instructive air, which he loved, "that's Valenciennes, narrow Valenciennes." "And what is this?" it looks just the same, only straighten "That's the insertion the other was the edge. You see, I am sewing them ' together like this to put around a littie yoke." I "But if you have to sew them to- : gether, why don't they make it that : way?" ; HE LEARN SMANY THINGS. "Why. because because" this was disconcerting, for as she thought of j all the lace and insertion she had ! sewed together, she wondered why ! they didn't make it that way. "Because it wouldn't be the same," lame-

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Fully Described by Olivette. By Olivette. -HE scalloped bathincr suit is one of the Summer's fancies

I The little dress we portray has a foundation of gray satin, ! JL trimmed in plaid satin of gray and Geneva blue. The suit opens down the front and is trimmed in self-buttons in a ;

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mgote of the plaid is bound in the gray satin. The undersleeve is of plaid, and the upper sleeve is made kimono fashion and is a con-' tinuation of the gray satin yoke which has little half-inch tucks '

m groups of three. The neck is fashion, in the plaid. ly. "Now don't ask puzzling questions." He laughed. "All right, what's this string for?" "That isn't a string." indignantly, "that's finishing braid to put over little seams." "And this are these buttonholes by the yard? And won't the buttons have to be rather large?" "Oh. no-no; that's beading to run ribbon through. I'm going to put that around the neck and sleeves of this little slip, and then run in this narrow ribbon. Won't that be dainty and sweet?" He drew her, laces, ribbons and all into his lap. "Dear, it's all going to be very sweet." A hedgehog was the means of derail- j ing an engine tender at Sandbach, Cheshire, England, and holding up the j traffic on the Northwestern line for i half an hour the other day. InveEti- j gat ions made alter the tender was de- ' railed showed that the hedgehog had ' crept between the pointrail and the ' side rail, and, beins trapped when ! the' points were moved, prevented j them closing properly. j

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Bathing Suit The deep scallops at the bottom the scalloped swallow-tailed redcut in a modest V and is piped, yoke Condensed. "ITere is an article on IItw to Live a Hundred Years.' ' "Yes. atKl the whole Rubject can be condensed Into two words." "What are they?" " 'Don't die.' " Cleveland Tlain Dealer.

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lr. Yovngwife "Charley's covered the table-cloth with fruit and coffee stains; it's my very best cloth, and because I spoke of it at breakfast, he slammed the door and he he he didn't kiss mc goodby." Inty Drudge "Never mind, dearie, don't cry. Get a cake of FelsKaptha Soap. ItH take every stain away with a little cool 01 lukewarm water." The right way to clean clothes is to wash them with Fels-Naptha Soap in cool or lukewarm water. No boiling or hard rubbing to weaken the fabric. Fels-Naptha won't harm the most delicate fabrics. Just wet the clothes, soap with Fels-Naptha, roll and soak for a few minutes in cool or lukewarm water. Rub lightly, rinse and hang on the line. Easy, isn't it? And the clothes will be clean, too. Fnll'-v dirrrtioni on tk Btd om Cretn Wrapper. TRY COOPER'S BLEND COFFEE For Sale at Cooper's Grocery WE HAVE First Mortgage Trut These Are Good investment Guaranteed by our Bonding Company DOUGAN, JENKINS & CO. Phone 1330. Cor. 8th & Main Sta.