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e-- z % a r, b - Ik IfllEF ’ ? wi | JfeSßui; VOLUME SIX NUMBER SIXTEEN FRENCH CAMP—A DREAM OF RURAL CULTURE Fine Old Mississippi Town With Two Splendid Presbyterian Schools. By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW. Good luck to the city brother In the crowded marts of trade! But in the country home And the rural school The world’s great men are made! Ah well for the city maiden— And blessed be her fate I But the country girl With her modest curl Is the girl who saves the State! <_ MADE that all by myself—and French Camp made me think of it. I believe in progress, and I do not undervalue some of the nota ble advantages of the big city col lege or university, but there is a rare and awakening something for the wholesome inspiration of youth and the making of real manhood and womanhood in the atmosphere of the high class country school which the city institution can not approach. These observations have come to me as I have remembered my visit to beautiful French Camp—the sequestered rural home of those splendid “light houses” for Christian education, the Central Mississippi Institute for girls and French Camp Military Academy for boys. These twin institutions were founded by enterprising and consecrated Presbyterians about twenty-five years ago, and under practically the same board of trus tees, they have worked side by side through all these years of planting until the garnering time has come, and the sons and daughters of the first pupils are now being taught within these classic consecrated shades. Schoolmates Often Wed. Really, it is a mighty sensible, practical thing for our denomi national schools to be co-educa tional, or to be situated in “talk ing distance” in the same com munity, so they can mingle to gether in occasional social func tions—yes, my dear, and “fall in love” with each other—for our poetic friend had sense as well as sentiment when he wrote: “ ’Tis love that makes the world go round.” And in the sacred processes of this process it is a fine thing when young people of the same religious faith facing each other at the table and engaged in the sacred task of making a home what it ought to be—not that KEBKj<£SMnS%SK J' i £aßygaig9BMß<£ - ■ <■ 1 ■ BLF. . « Vs i < «3ra^ra^^sßw:^W f " w ® sWBwW h»y*- 4tw -BWRMb ■ 1 '•> ■ .-*• * - •>• - jBwBIWr c 4X- •» ' r ■■«->•-■■*v- • »*r . CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE F OR GIRLS. ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 8, 1911 a „ a .. a .. a .. a .. a .. a ~ a .. a ~ a .. a .. a .. a . a .. a ~ a . a - a .. a .. a .. a ~ a ~ a .. a .. a .. a .. a .. a .. a > a .. a .^HW.. a ? © f I a- ifinl i 1 i MB • • hBT ? >: A • ? t I ? i DR. A. H. MECKLIN, i : French Camp’s “Grand Old Man.” i i • •^••••••^••••••••■••• a > a »>a a > aa > aa > aa > aa oaa^0 aa^.a^aa^a ••« a e« a >.a<..>. a >. a >..•..•..•.••.•••.• aa > aa e there are not countless happy homes where the parents are united in heart but divided in denominational name, but all things being equal and principle being regnant it is better for them to be wholly together. But while French Camp performs its own high mission in this it often occurs that the opposite takes place—for the French Camp schools are so fine and their attitude toward struggling youth so generous and liberal, that boys and girls of all denominations are found among the students of both institutions. Sensible, Stalwart Sandersons. Talking about a genuine marriage of hearts, hands and ideals, I found it in Presi dent and Mrs. J. A. Sanderson, of the Central Mississippi Institute in whose auditorium I lectured to a great and generous crowd. Both are educators, both are devout Christians; both believe in sanity, “common sense” and foundation principles in building solid cul tured Christian character in womanhood. In a recent declaration these noble, modest workers say: “We wish to express our profound thank fulness for the large measure of success which has been ours for the last twenty-four years. During these years we have sent out hundreds of cultured, intelligent young la dies. These well-equipped young ladies have established themselves in various lines of skilled work in New York, New Jersey, Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado and lastly in Cuba and the Philip pines. Thus the good work goes on and the range of influence widens. We are now edu cating the children of the first pupils of C. M. I. We have been able to test the plans op erating here and they have yielded fine re sults.” Those Fine French Camp Cadets. Upon my word, if I were a girl and were romantic enough to fall in love with a school boy I think it would be a bristling, gleaming, shining, chivalric cadet. Under the Presi- ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY dency of the scholarly Dr. F L. McCue and limited to the num ber of One Hundred the French Camp Academy boasts as fine a set of manly cadet students as I ever saw anywhere. There are no rough and rowdy ones. That kind can not grow or stay in the French Camp Barracks. They believe in being “soldiers of the cross” as well as “soldiers of the realm.” Eight Miles From the Railroad. Never mind about the distance from the railroad—it is only eight miles over to the charming town of McCool on the “Illinois Central” with hack and automo bile accommodations and seven lines of telephones coming into French Camp. So the students (Continued on Page 5.)