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Editorial Page 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. - ; THE L WEEKLY= 4 7~GEORGIAN A Y IR ; - L L% ll IL :” A-~ eT YN (AN o e g y 4 Copyright, 1914, by Star Company. 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.