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Schools For Our Young Women
Why Aren’t These “Finished” Young Ladies Taught the Art of
Dressmaking, or How to Decorate a Home?
AVE you seen the finished
H young lady come home
from school absolutely
incapacitated for any position In
life?
She plays a little music, plays
passably enough to entertain her
friends. but she could never earn
a dollar in . .cert or as a teach
er were she thrown on her own
resources.
She draws a little, and her
doting parents buy an expensive
frame for one of her works of art
which took the prize at school.
But her art work is as unlucra
tive as her music, when put to the
test.
She managed to get her diploma,
but she is utterly wanfitted to teach
others. She has graduated in
French and German, yet can not
converse for ten minutes in either
language.
And so she drifts along through
the vears after she leaves school,
wailing to be married—and if she
marries she had learned nothing
at school which fits her to be a
first-class home maker, a first
class housekeeper, a_first-class
mother, i .
Vortunately for the world,
gchools for young women _hé.ve
undergone a change in the last
score of years, and practical ideas
are beginning to creep in. Yet
not long ago a diseriminating
mother took her danghter away
from one of the most Trenowned
schools for young women because
she said she found nothing
taught there thoroughly which
was of any importance, and she
discovered a spirit of. frivolity,
fashion, snobbishness and folly
prevailing in the institution which
was detrimental to the deveiop
ment of real womanliness.
Meantime, there are excellent
How to Help the Health
of Georgia
It is to be hoped that the earnest appeal of Georgia physi
cians and health authorities will not be lost upon the Legisla
ture this summer, and that some sort of legal machinery may be
provided for the intelligent assembling of vital statistics within
the State. :
Health conditions generally throughout Georgia are very
good, but by no means s 0 good that they might not be improved.
There never will be further marked and permanent im
provement along that line, in all probability, however, until
health and sanitation experts and authorities are able to study
conditions as they actually are—and that will be impossible
until vital statistics are freely and fully available for considera
tion and analysis. :
Georgia, with its unusually large negro population, much
of which is extremely ignorant and illiterate, is peculiarly a
State wherein the close and ciu‘eful study of vital statistics is
indicated. The records of births and deaths, of epidemics, and
of health conditions generally are scattering, carelessly recorded,
or not recorded at all.
It is all but impossible to inquire exhaustively into any
average condition of health in a given community in Georgia, so
utterly lacking as a rule are facts and figures upon which in
telligent conclusions may be based.
The physicians and health authorities of Georgia are very
much in earnest in their desire to see the legal assembling of
vital statistics provided for. They KNOW that Georgia's health
status will be greatly improved, once a bureau of vital statistics
is established and has had a little time in which to work.
The appeal that is to be made to the Legislature in respect
of this matter'shoulq not go unheeded. It is founded upon the
largest possible measure of common sense and sound public
policy. -
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SAW them beautiful, in fair array upon Commencemenl Day.
I Lissome and lovely, radiant and sweet
As cultured roses, brought to their estate
By careful training. Finished and complete
(As teachers calculate).
They passed in maiden grace along the aisle,
Leaving the chaste white sunlight of a smile
Upon the gazing throng.
Musing I thought upon their place as mothers of the race,
Oh, there are_many actors who can play
Greatly great parts; but rare indeced the soul
Who can be great when cast for some small role;
Yet that is what the world most needs; big hearts
That will shine forth and glorify poor parts
In this strange drama, Life. Do they,
Who in full dress-rehearsal pass to-day "
Before admiring eyes, hold in their storc
Those fine high principles which keep old Earth
F'rom being only earth, and make hen more
Than just mere men? How will they prove the worth
Of wears of study? Will they walk abroad
Decked with the l:laumam' of dead bards of God,
The glorious birds? And shall the lamb unborn
Be slain on altars of their vanity?
To some frail sister who has missed the way
Will they give Christ's compassion or man’'s scorn?
And will clean manhood, linked with honest love,
The victors prove,
When riches, illy gained, dispute the claim?
Will they guard well a husband's home and name
Or lean down from thei raltitudes to hear
The voice of Yattery speak in the ear,
Those lying platitudes which men repeat
T'o listening self-conceit?
Musing [ thought upon their place as mothers of the race,
As beautiful they passed in maiden grace. .
schools all over the land for the
teachine of practical things to
girls. :
Afler a girl obtains a high
school or a seminary education,
and before she enters college, if
she wishes to go through college,
a term at least in some of these
institutions is of inestimable value
to her.
To know how to cut and make a
home gown, how to trim a hat,
how to shop, how to market, how
to prepare a meal, how to deco
rate a home are all matters of
great importance. -
Teach your daughters how to
sSew. ;
Give them training in dress
making.
No matter how well-to-do you
may - be, no matter how much
money you possess_and how inde
pendent your daughter will be
when she enters the world of
womankood, give her a knowl
edge of dressmaking and sewing
as a part of her education,
Ever since human beings evolv
ed from the aboriginal state wom
an has worn garments, and no
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. :
Important, if True.
Dr. Henry Allers, of New Jersey, attacks bathtubs as insanitary.—
News Item. .
WHEN Tommy was a little boy his mother, filled with fiendish joy.
Would peel his duds and with hot suds
Apply a weekly scrub.
Poor woman! little did she know that venomous bacilli grow
Extremely spry and multiply
When nurtured in a tub.
YOUNG Tommy proved a fragile chick—he very frequently took sick,
Grew wan and pale and slim and frail,
And wabbly in the knees,
The bites of germs could not have hurt if he had been incased in dirty
But he was not, and so he got
'Most every known disease.
WHERE Willie grew up, on the farm, they looked on bathtubs with
alarm— g
~ As luxuries, devised to please
| The useless, idle rich.
t And hard as the bacteria tried to sink their fangs in Willie’s hide,
| Their plots were spoiled and they were foiled
By dust and dirt and sich.
B UT let us warn you, ere you rush to thorw away your scrubbing brush,
And take a club to smash the tub,
| Or let it go for junk,
That in this tale are elements which do not square with common sense;
b In point of fact, to be exact, : o
It’s wholly built of bunk.
Doing Their Poor Best.
- Burglars drove a van up to a
New York store, jimmied open the
door and carried away the safe
They had evidentlv been reading
about the New Haven manage
ment. 3 5
Illuminating Statistic.
An Oklahoma preacher has re
ceived only $l6 in salary since
last November, which throws a
good deal of light on the reason
that a distinguished Nebraskan
gave up his desire to become a
minister very early in his career,
Nothing at All
“I was oal, a child compared
flgflorm —{harles W. llorlt
paraphrase Wordswort
Week Ending
June 2,1914.
matter what the condition of the
country, no matter how troubled
are the finances of a nation, a
State, or a town, or a family, *
woman always obtains material
for wearing apparel and goes
forth elad in the prevailing mode.
Since this is self-evident, it
behooves every woman to Know
something of the methods of mak
ing the clothes she wears.
There is irritation of the mind,
and depletion of the purse, and
loss of time, and inconvenience,
and annoyance in being a slave
to dressmakers and tailors.
Beside the avoidance of all
thece undcsirable things, there is
an important phase of education
to be had in training of the mind
by such study.
Schools of dressmaking to-day
are conducted in a scientificeman
ner. and the girl who takes a
thorough course of study in one
of these institutions learns some
thing besides sewing.
1t is not to be urged that every
woman should make her own gar
ments. That would be folly.
Any woman who can afford to
employ professicnal workers in
such departments may use her
own time to better advantage by
doing so and giving her energy to
study, travel, reading or enter
taining her friends, for the world
was not meant for work alone;
social pleasure and the higher
kinds of amusement are a part of
life and development.
But the woman who under
stands how to sew, how to design
and cut b garment is sure to ob
tain better results from the ma
terial she purchases than one who
knows nothing of the art or pro
fession. :
And aside from the direct bene
fit in such respects she gains
mentally in various ways by hav
ing been taught along these lines.
Therefore, it is . from every
point of view desirable for a
young woman to give at least
one term to the study of dress
making and sewing.
Better a good practical knowl
edge of sewing than a superficial
one of drawing; better a fair
dressmaker than a poor artist.
slightly:
“A little child, that lightly draws
its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What can it fear of death?”
Catching Up With Bryan.
“For three days Secretary Gare
rison has been without informa
tion as to developments in the
Mexican situation.”-—Washington
dispatch.
A Real Test
It Conan Doyle has the detec
tive ability which he gave to his
chief character, let him come to
Georgia and find out what “Little
Joe” is going to do.