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understandings, real or fancied
wrongs, will have a number of se
rious questions to ask their parents
a few years hence when they face a
work-a-day world unequipped for
their duties.
It should he the business of every
father and mother In every school
neighborhood to see to it that the
school attendance is 100 per cent
for the sc hool term, it must be borne
in mind that one absent pupil re
tards the progress of the entire
school. If a parent Is zealous for
the advancement of his child, he can
secure that end by seeing to it that
his neighbor’s children are also in
their places. Nothing so handicaps
the progress of the school as irregu
lar attendance.
Organize Your Community to Work
for a Uetter School.
There is no force that will do
more to make the country school
what It should be than an organized
body of school pntrons who know
what constitutes an efficient school
and w ho arc* pledged to see that their
school fulfills the* conditions. There
are three organizations of women
throughout the* South that have done
efficient work for onr schools. The
Woman's Association for the Better
ment of Public Schools, The School
Improvement League and the Wom
an’s Farmers* Institute. If one of
these* organizations could exist in
every school neighborhood, with the
UllJtV'l nu|'|iui l tMflJ M IKMII Jlill
ron. there Is no limit to the possi
bilities of the country school. Th«e
patrons would see to it that educa
tion prepares for life and for a spe
cific line of life. They would see to
it that education be both broad and
prnatleal; that the school environ
ment be sanitary as well as beauti
ful. Then we shall have a school in
the country that will appeal to the
imagination of the country boyB and
girls and will arouse their enthusi
asm for greater intellectual attain
ments.
Make House Keeping Easier for the
Mothers.
A number of letters hare been re
ceived by the Home Circle Editor
since the appearance of the articles
upon the Care and Feeding of Chil
dren. All of these letters have ex
pressed deep interest in the subject
and keen desire to know more about
this very important matter. The con
ditions of the "over-worked, tired
mother," referred to in the above
communication, are common Hut I
believe that with a clear, adequate
knowledge of what is safe and
healthful In the way of food, rest
and exercise for mother and baby,
there will be found ways of lighten
ing the burdens of housekeeping dur
tng these important years or n wom
an'* life, that she may have strength
and time and knowledge to rare for
her baby as she should.
Best Sandwiches for a Picnic.
Baked Bean.—Mash a cupful of
baked beans, add a teaspoonfu! of
chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of
onion Juice and a little prepared mus
tard. Season to taste with salt and
white pepper. Butter white bread
on the loaf, cut into thin slices and
spread with the tilling. Trim off the
crusts and cut lato shapes.
(linger and Nut.—Cut very fine
1 part of preserved ginger to 2
parts of nuts, moisten with syrup of
the ginger or with thick cream and
spread between slices of white bread.
Nut.—Chop fine English walnuts,
add enough majpmnaise dressing to
make a paste and spread between
thin slices of wheat bread.
Bill and Hum.—Cut thin slices of
rye or graham bread, butter evenly
and lay between them two thin slices
of lean ham and this slices of dill
pickle cut the long way.— House
keeper.
COLLEGE TRAINING FOR THE COUNTRY GIRL.
What a College Education Means to Her in Increased Efficiency
and Added Enjoyment—How Her Training May Brighten the
Home Idfe and Bene lit the Community.
By Miss Minnie C. Middleton.
IN MANY A country home in the
South where money is none too
plentiful and help necessary, the
question of a collage education for
the daughter of the house is quite
a problem. Though there are many
homes where the entire family is
making great sacrifices to this end,
there are many more asleep to the
possibilities of a broadened and
strengthened character which college
training helps to develop. They do
not realize that just as improved ma
chinery lightens the toil of every
day labor for the farmers, college
work teaches his daughter to meet
their daily tasks about the house
with common sense and wide-awake
intelligence.
Many hesitate to send their girls
to school because they know nothing
of the curriculum offered. "Well,”
they say, "I guess learning the piano
and how to speak French is not going
to help Molly and Jane to make bet
ter biscuits. They can learn such
things as that here at home, and
languages and science will soon be
forgotten.” And yet a postal card
or a two-cent stamp would obtain
all the catalogs and information that
they will need to discover that, after
all, books are not the greatest fac
tors in school training, but that the
many lectures, concerts and social
features offered lay a firm basis for
further training in tfie world itself.
The farmer often argues that his
daughter has no special talents, and
that her sphere of activity lies at
home—what then does a college edu
cation mean for the country girl who
simply intends remaining at home?
Knowledge (lives Added Possibilities
of Enjoyment.
In her own life it means a wealth
of resource before undreamed of, a
formation of valuable friendships
and wholesome acquaintances; for
college days, of all times, present
broad opportunities for meeting con
genial people in large numbers. A
college education also means to the
farm girl an added appreciation for
the beauties around her own home—
and surely in our own Southland
there should not be a single young
woman whose heart does not b°at
more rapidly at a glimpse of the long
leaf pine or the native maple, sturdy
and home-like; who does not meet
:he humdrum of every-day routine,
whether churning or sweeping or
lusting, with a glad heart because
her study of poetry and art history
have heightened her love of bird
songs and God's great out-of-doors.
Moreover the college-bred girl has
nearly always learned the great pos
sibilities of enjoyment and knowl
edge in good books and current mag
azines, in music—even in tasks which
the world has called for many years
“household drudgery,” for the
science of domestic economy is fast
spreading over our country, the true
message and spirit of home-making,
of home-keeping. Such a young
woman is no longer dependent on
gossip and frivolous chit-chat to
while the lonely hours away. Life
holds a deeper meaning for her. By
constant companionship with cul
tured and broad-minded people who
have enjoyed many advantages of
study and travel, the old sharp corn
ers of narrowness are rubbed off,
and in their place the roundness of
genuine common sense and intelli
gence appear. The days are no long
er tiresome because there is not a
constant round of amusements and
social gatherings, which in many>
cities are fast increasing the number
of young people who are Incapable
of enjoying a quiet hour of thought
and solitude. Should the country
girl not more deeply appreciate the
deep stillness of summer nights, the
beauty of rain and moonlight and
the freshness of "the waking hour of
dawn,” because Wordsworth, Steven
son and other writers have expressed
In beautiful words her own hidden
ideas? Should she not listen more
eagerly to the thrilling of the South’s
own sweet singer, the mocking-bird,
because she can compare his notes
with the voice of some great musi
cian whom she has heard at school?
And yet how many girls in the coun
try are not keenly alive to the joy
ful notes which the commonplace
duties sing to them, simply because
they have not been trained under
in experienced musician in life’s
mysteries.
riie Collage Girl Should Be a Better
Housekeeper.
But the world will estimate the
efficiency of college training chiefly
ay the influence of improvement and
true service which the graduate ren
ders in her own home and communi
ty. The home people, if they are
practical, will not be apt to test the
college daughter’s ability to write
well and speak modern languages
with ease. Naturally they will be
interested in these things, but if from
her training in chemistry, home econ
omics and physiology she be able to
prepare food in the proper way, to
meet sickness and accidents with a
cool head, to add the indefinable
touch of simplicity and artistic har
mony which comes unconsciously
from association with copies of great
art, will not home be more pleasant
and comfortable because of her pres
ence?
Wliat the College Girl Can Do for
Her Neighborhood.
The home community, too, has a
perfect right to demand much from
the college girl; in the church and
social life as well as in general im
provement methods she should be
willing to play an important part,
not as a leader alone, but as a prac
tical, experienced helper. The Young
Woman’s Christian Associations,
which are now holding a large place
in the student life of America, are
meant to train Christian workers
and leaders for the church at home.
Every part of the Association work
is thoroughly organized so that the
young woman is forced to realize
the value of definite plans and exe
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