Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-10
The Charities and Corrections Confer
ence.

WASHINGTON, June 9th.-At the session
of the Charities and Corrections Confer
ence to-day, W. T. Harris, of Concord.
Mass, read a paper entitled Compulsory
Education" in which statistics were cited
voluminously. Compulsory education, he
held was a valuable means to a desired
end. The common school, kindergarten
and industrial art school might furnish
valuable preventive agencies against crime.
Miss Phoebe Couzins read a paper on
kindergartens, prepared for the Conference
by Mrs. Sarah Il. Cooper Of California. 1t
held that the power of early training and
habit was not easily over estimated The
change of habits were generally too
small to be felt until they were too strong
to be broken. The kindergarten system
of training was designed to inculcate hon
est principles, and build up genuine char
acter Character building in the kinder
garten went forward by means of personal
activity in an atmosphere of happiness and
contentment. The epochs of educational
growth followed the divinely ordained
epochs of vegetable growth. Human
plant had its root life, its stem life and its
blossom life The kindergarten was the
best nourishment of the root life of the
human plant As early as 1913 France
had 5000 little children in infant schools.
schools As result the French are the
most artistic race in the world, and the
world pays them an enormous tribute each
year by purchasing their handiwork The
paper concludes with a description of the
kindergarten schools of San Francisco.
The afternoon session was devoted to n
further consideration of the subject of the
morning, and several interesting papers
were read. Among them was one on DE
pendent Young Children in Families and
Institutions" prepared by Mrs. Clara q.
Leonard, of Massachusetts,. The author,
who is d member of the Massachusetts,
Board of Health. Lunacy and Charity,
found that the safeguard thrown by society
around the virtue of women would be
weakened by any provisions which would
relieve unmarried mothers of the penalties
of their action and the care of their off
spring. She condemned the policy of sepa-
rating unmarried mothers from their chill
dren as injurious, both to the mothers and
children. Mrs. Spencer, who read this
paper, said she was so wrought upon by
what II did not say that she could not keep
silent. She would have supposed the dis
tinguished author had been reared in
France, where the chivalric law was that
the father of an illegitimate child could
not be discovered. She noticed from the
beginning to the end of the paper how
very carefully the discovery of father was
guarded against by an excellent woman of
Massachusetts. She believed that the SEN
Gment of the women of the District of
Columbia was largely in favor of holding
the father responsible for the care of the
child
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, June 9th.-The President
to-day designated Commodore D. B. Har-
mony TO act rs Secretary of the Navy in
the absence of Secretary Whitney. The
latter is going 10 New York for few days
Among the callers on the President to-
day were Senator Logan. He simply called
10 pay his respects to the President The
meeting between them was very pleasant, |
and nothing was said about politics Lo-
san's call was brief After leaving the |
White House he called on Secretary Mann |
ne at the Treasury Department While !
here Morrison of Illinois dropped in.
J. D. Carr arrived here to-day, and has |
pent the greater portion of his time III
consultation with Judge Field
A Kentucky Difficulty
LOUISVILLE, June 9th.-A Courier Journal
peeial reports difficulty at Berea, KY, in
which two men were killed and one fatally
The trouble was between VIM.
Harris and Mitchell Preston, James John
ton and John T. Disneyo. Harrison and
ObDStOn were both instantlv killed and |