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BARROW COUNTY
SCHOOLS
ARE THE BEST
VOL. XXII.
THE RELATION OF THE
HOME AND SCHOOL
(By Mrs. Annie Belle Slieats.)
The school is one of the greatest
forces for public good which has
been worked out through the ages
for the betterment of conditions un
der which people must live. It should
be the center for study, for thought,
for culture, for action, the place near
est home, where all may meet and
discuss the interest of their town
and community. ’Tis here our chil
dren are being trained for life and
service. Then why should we not
be deeply interested. Between par
ent and teacher there must be a
band of unity in effort, else the work
which each is striving to accomplish
must fail.
Therefore, between these two
means, which stand for the complete
development of the child, I do think
there should be understanding, co-op
eration, and fellowship. To express
myself more plainly, I will just say,
the home and school should be a
team, as it were, pulling together for
direct results. Did you ever consid
er how limited is the single person
ality or corporation? The success
ful administration of the nation, de
pends wholly on the splendid team
work of our President and his Cabi
net. If we analize the situation slow
ly, we will find that this team work
is the basis of all modern business.
So it is with the teachers of our
school, single-handed they cannot ac
complish the results hoped for. Pub
lic sentiment must stand back of
them, uphold and encourage them in
their efforts. Then as a town let’s
stand firm for the very best school
our means can afford. I know that
we have the very best teachers and
I do think it a shame that we as
parents are so seemingly careless
and indifferent. But we are expect
ing a great transformation along
this line through the instrumentality
of our splendid Parent-Teacher asso
ciation, so ably presided over by Mrs
Holsenbeck.
This will be the means of bet
ter acquainting parent and teacher,
that they may plan together for the
common good of their children. We
should visit our school more and un
derstand more fully the splendid
methods and the honest effort put
forth for the development of our chil
dren. Let’s acquaint ourselves with
our children’s teachers, invite them
to our homes and consult with them
about the best interest of your child.
My experience as teacher enables me
to know what a day’s toil in school
room means, and too just how much
a visit from the parents cherish and
encouraged me. Let us sing praises
of our teachers, for they are most
deserving of praise and commen
dation. Their burdens are not light
by any means.
Then how can we as mothers light
en these burdens. I can very quick
ly tell you how the men can and are
assisting. By building the beautiful
and commodious structure they are
now erecting. They can also en
large the corps of teachers so that
teacher will have only 25 or 30
pupils under her direct care and su
pervision. Our teachers cannot do
for our children on account of the
crowded condition of their rooms.
But mother’s way of helping is not
so quickly done. She must begin
with the babe in the cradle and pa
tiently, cautiously, and prayerfully
nurture and discipline that child into
a sound, mental and moral, efficien
cy. Tiie first important step is in
the proper nourishment of the little
bodies, that will afterward be the
temples of the mind and soul. We
should have clear ideas as to the nu
tritive value of food. The harmful
and beneficial of certain food com
binations. A tree is not planted in
just any kind of soil, regardless of
sun, wind and moisture which it may
receive, if it is, we cannot hope for
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the best beauty, growth and shade,
as it matures. Just so with the child
it should be carefully nourished, so
that it may develop a strong, beau
tiful body and mind. The first seven
years of a child’s life are the im
pressionable or physiological period
and it is during this period that the
seeds of character are sown. If this
is true, and obversation and study
have proved that it is, then what a
grave responsibility rests upon us as
mothers during the first seven years
of our child’s life. We can’t expect
a teacher to take our children and
make courteous, neat and obedient
children of them; if they have’nt
been taught these requirements at
home. They should be taught respect
for elders, submission to authority,
cleanliness and punctuality. Parents
should never indulge in idle gossip
or scandal or criticise and find fault
with the teachfrs of their children.
Children should be made to under
stand that to be self-assertive, stub
born, unkind, or aggressive shows a
lack of good breeding. If they are
taught these requisites they will be
pleasant at home and at school and
in later years they will be very grate
ful for their good early home influ
ence. But mothers in our eagerness
to make noble men and women out
of the jewels God has entrusted to
our care, let’s don’t neglect the all
important duty of telling them of the
Savior who died that they might live.
Lead them gently to understand and
appreciate the living, loving Christ.
Sing with them, laugh with them, en
ter heartily into all their little joys
and sorrows. Their griefs are just
as real to them as ours are to us.
In short live with the children," for
this is the only way you can lead
them to live the good and beautiful
truths you teach them. And now at
the close I have some resolutions I
want us as mothers to adopt:
Resolved, First. To strive to see
the good points in my child’s teach
er and to speak about them to oth
ers and to her.
Second. Not to criticise the teach
er.
Third. To make home conditions
as favorable as possible for the phy
sical, mental and moral well-being of
my child.
Fourth. To visit the school as of
ten as possible, that the teacher may
be assured of my interest in her and
the welfare of my children.
Ij'ifth. That if I feel positive that
the teacher is using unwise methods
I will have a friendly chat before re
ferring it to higher authority.
Sixth. To make enforcements of
obedience to wise rules on vital
principle in order that the home and
school may work in harmony.
I am sure if we will abide these
resolutions, we will have the very
best schools and the most pleasant
and obedient children in well con
ducted homes and schools.
Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Rev. W. M. Dempsey, of Statham,
will preach at Bethlehem next Sun
day afternoon at 4 P. M. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all to
come out to both Sunday school and
church services. „ . k
Educational Edition
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, March, 23, 1916.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY.
MY FAVORITE PAINTERS
AND THEIR PAINTINGS
(By Mrs. H. A. Carithers, Jr.,)
To take up the study of painting as
an art and the masterpieces of all
time would ceratinly take days in
stead of minutes. Too, any of us
would find it hard to decide what to
write about when speaking of our
favorite paintings for the love of the
beautiful, is.pronounced in all of us,
that all beautiful paintings are loved
by us. So I shall just mention a few
famous paintings, that we all should
know about, beginning with three
of the 16th century.
Michael Angelo was one of the j
greatest painters, sculptors and archi j
tects of his day, indeed, his name is
considered the greatest in all the his |
tcry of art. Though he wished to be
called ‘sculptor’ his friscoes in Sis
tine chapel at Rome are some of the
most noted paintings in the world.
He painted the ceiling which is cov
ered with great pictures, the finest
of them being ‘The Creation of Man.’
And, too, his ‘Last Judgment’ is
quite familiar to us. It is painted
Sistine chapel over the high altai
Will next take up the paintings of
Leonard da Vinci, who was born
at Venice in 1452. When he was
about 30 he went to Milan to be
come court painter then, and later
its duke. While at Milan he painted
two of his greatest pictures, “The
Last Judgment” and “The Madonna
of the Rocks.” Unfortunately The
Last Judgment was painted in tem
pra on a plastered wall and the great
picture has almost faded out and
scaled off. Another of his great
paintings is the “Mona Lisa” which,
possibly some remember, was stolen
from the Louvre about three years
ago. It was lost for about a year and
returned by the thief himself, who
was pronounced insane and placed
in an institution for those unfortu
nates.
Another well known painter is
Santi Raphael, who was born in Wel
ino, Italy, in 1843. His face was like
the face of an angel and his disposi
tion angelic. Knowing this of him
makes his Madonna seem the natural
production of his brush. We know
him best for his Madonna, though
in the history of his life we find
quite a number of his other paint
ings mentioned, among them is “The
Transfiguration.” The Sistine Ma
donna at Dresden, painted by Raph
ael, is considered his greatest work
and the most beautiful and the most
inspiring of all Madonnas. In this
picture we see the curtains of heavei
draw back and the Madonna stand
ing on the clouds with the Christ
child in her arms, with his great
serious eyes , he is more wonderful
than his mother. The two cherubs
at the bottom of the picture are said
to be after-thought of the great artist.
Two very small children came every
day to his window to watch him
paint and as he was contemplating
the picture he noticed them. Their
intense interest struck him so that
he painted them on liis picture jusl
as his artistic mind conceived them
to be. Among his other Madonnas
are Madonna of the Choir, Madonna
of the Grand Duke, Madonna of the
Meadow, Madonna of the Fish.
Murillo, who was one of the great
est Spanish painters, painted as his
masterpiece his ‘Conception of the
Virgin.’ The Virgin Mary was al
ways represented as- light haired
and blue-eyed; but Murillo braved
the dangers of the inquisition by
painting her dark haired and lustrou
eyed like his beloved wife.
Another great painter of this pe
riod is Rambrant Van Rijn, often
called the Shakespeare of painters
He is a genius of Dutch art. One of
his greatest pictures is “The School
of Anatomy.”
traits of this picture we can see the
contract between the cold flesh and
stiffened muscles of the subject,
which the surgeon is examining and
G. W. Woodruff,
Who offers 12 agricultural scholar
ships to the boys and girls of Bar
row county.
lias brought strogu, forecful gospel
the robust vital figures about the ta
ble.
There is a musuem in Brussells
which was built especially for the
works of Wertz, and is named for
him. Wertz was a poor man, born
at Daniant in 1806, and died 1865, at
Brussells. He was not able to buy
material for his works so the offi J
cials of Brussels furnished it, with
the understanding that he leave his
works to the city of Brussels.. The
museum is very unusual, a part
of it having a double wall. On the
outside wall is placed some of the
pictures and one has to look through
a peep-hole to secure a view of them
Among the foremost French land
scape painters was Jean Court. His
favorite studies were misty lakes,
rivers smothered in vapor and the
quest of moonlight or sunrise, which
he painted as a poet would have writ
ten of them. His masterpieces are
“The Dance of Nymphs” and “Mac
abeth.”
Jean Francais Millet (1815-1875)
is called the French peasant painter,
and lias portrayed French peasant
life as no one else has. His pictures
are probably the most familiar to us
of any of the great paintings. The
Angelus, The Gleanor, Man with the
Hoe, Sower, etc., are really almost
as familiar as the portraits of our
own family.
Other very familiar paintings are
those of Rosa Bon lleur, who was
a French animal painter, born in
Bordeaux in 1822. She made a study
of animal life and in that department
achieved great distinction. Plough
ing with Oxen, Horses in a Meadow,
and The Horse Fair, are among her
best known works. The Horse Fair
was painted by her when she was
only 18 and sold for SIBOO, and later
was bought by Mr. C. Vanderbilt for
$.<•0,000 and placed in the Metropol
itan Museum of Art at New York.
There are so many others I should
like to mention, but my paper is al
ready long enough. So I will just
mention a few of our own noted
painters and their works.
One of our very first painters
was Gilbert Stuart of Rhode Island.
His pictures of Washington are not
only on our postage stamps but
in most our homes and schools.
The paintings of George Innes’
Peace and Plenty, and Golden Glow
are familiar to all of us.
Whistler, who was born in Massa
chusetts in 1834, is one of Ameri
ca’s greatest artists, if not its great
est. He lived most of his life abroad
and in fact, did his best work in
other countries than his own. His
“Portrait of the Artist’s Mother,” is
one of the world’s noted pictures. It
is owned by the Luxemburg Gallery,
Paris, but copies of it are seen often
in the homes of our art loving fami
lies.
La Farge, Edwin A. Abbey, John
S. Sargeant, George De Forest Brush
Sargeant Kindall and Miss Cecelia
Beaux are all very familiar names
on account of their beautiful pictures
It seems to me that the picture call
ed “One Evening,” by Forest de
Brush, is in itself enough to maße
ALWAYS
-P-U-S-H
-YOUR SCHOOL
WOODRUFFS SERVE
IMPORTANT NOTICE
I hardly think it necessary for me
to again announce the educational
feature of the Woodruff North Geor
gia Fair, as it has once before ap
peared in print and was announced
to the teachers in their last teach
ers' institute. Yet I cannot allow
this splendid educational issue of
The Winder News to pass without
making the simple statement as to
the scholarships offered for boys anf
girls.
The boy winning first prize i$
corn club work gets a scholarship;
the girl winning first prize in Can
ning Club Work gets a scholarship,
Then there are to be elected five
boys and five girls. Each school m
the county nominates two candidates,
one from that number five boys and
five girls, making in all six boys and
six girls from Barrow county.
We hope to keep this work up for
ten years, which will make one hun
dred and twenty young men and
women to receive this limited agricul
tural training from our Fair. Besides
this, we hope it will pave the way
for others to be interested enough to
take this same course, and still oth
ers to take the full agricultural
course. In short, we hope it is the
beginning of a thorough study of ag
ricultture in Barrow county, and will
soon find our baby county at the top
in scientific farming, .*;■
We have already made application
for the live stock exhibit of the
State College. We had this stock
show last fall, and while it cost us
over two hundred dollars (200.00) to
feed and care for the cattle, we be
lieve. it.worth.the cost if it wilt cause
| one man to begin raising good cat
j tie; others will follow and will be a
blessing to our people.
We have arranged to have Barrow
county represented at the Soutli Eas
tern Fair this fall, ami at the Ma
con State Fair. These plans were
perfected several months a|o- t
We are doing our best to make
the Woodruff North Georgia Fair the
most useful fair in the State, We
are now doing more on these lines
than any other county fair in Geor
gia, and while some are jealous of
our success and are trying to butt
in, we want the people to know that
will be on hand at the same old
stand, same time and place, this fall
as usual. Come to see us.
G. W. WOODRUFF, Mgr.-
SIOO.OO Improvement at First:
Baptists. j
The First Baptist church has re
cently installed waterworks, kitcher
furniture, lavatories and a handsoini
new piano. The improvements co :f
about $400.00.
Possibly no church in the stale
made greater progress in the last"
few years than this one. A bright
future lies out before its progressive
membership.
The more you speak of
the more you are likely to lie.
How to Prevent Croup.
Wen the child is subject to at
tacks of croup, see to it that he
eats a light evening meal, as an over
loaded stomach may bring on an at
tack, also watch for the first symp
tom —hoarseness, and give Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy as soon as
the child becomes hoarse. Obtaina
ble everywhere.—Advt.
us Americans feel that we need not
look with longing to the past of
art in any country, for with the
hosts of gifted and sincere artists de
voted to the interpretations of life
and of the land, witli the awakened
Interest in art which is being shown
by the multiplication of art museums,
clubs and societies all things seem
to promise a great school cf Ameri
can painting.
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