The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-10
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
CHARITY AND CORRECTION TALK
The Conference Becomes Real Ester,ain-
ins-An Important War Projootlie
Patented - Hunting De-
faulting Postmaster.
Charities and Corrections.

WASHINGTON, June Gin the chart
ties and corrections conference to .day
the regular order was taken up and
Hon. w. P. Letchworth, of New York,
chairman of the committee on preven-
tive work among children, read the re-
port Of the committee.
William 7. Harris, of Concord, Mas
sachusetts, read paper entitled "Com-
pulsory Education,h in which statistics
were cited v0luminously. Compulsory
education, he said, was a valuable
means to q desired end. The common
school, the kindergarten, the industrial
art school, might furnish valuable pre-
VentlYe agencies against crime.
MISS Phoebe Couzins read paper on
Klndergartens, prepared tor the confer.
ence by Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, of Cali.
tornl q. IL held that the power of early
training nabit was not easily overesti-
mated. The chains OF habit were gen.
orally too small to be felt till they were
too strong to be broken. The Kinder.
garten, as system Of training, was dc.
signed TO inculcate honest principles
and build up genuine character. Char
aGter building in the kindergarten
was forwarded by means of personal
actively In an atmosphere OF happiness
and contentment. The epochs OF edu-
cational growth followed the divinely
ordained ethics of vegetable growths.
The human plant had its root life and
its blossom life. The kindergarten was
the best nourishment for the root lilo of
the human plant. As early as 1913 Pari
had 5000 little children in infant schools
and to-day there are 10000 in these
schools. As the result the French are the
most artistic race in the world and lha
world pays them an enormous tribute.
each year by purchasing their handi.
work. The paper concludes with a da.
scrlption of the kindergarten schools OF
San Francisco.
The afternoon session was devoted TO
further consideration of tho subject of
the morning and several interesting pa
pers were read. Among them was one on
dependent Young Children in Families
ana Institutions" prepared by Mrs.
Clara Il. Leonard, OF Massachusetts,.
The author, who is member of the
Massachusetts Board of Health, Lunacy
aud Charity, discussed, among other
things, the subject of illegitimacy.
She found that the safeguard thrown
by society around the virtue OF women
would be weakened by any provisions
which would relieve unmarried moth.
ers from the penalties of their action
ana the care of their offspring. She
condemned the policy OF separating un-
married mothers from their children as
injurious both to mothers and childron.
Mrs. Spencer, who read tho paper,
said that she was so wrought upon by
what IL did not say that she could no.
keep silent. She would have supposed
the distinguished author had been rear
ed in France, when the
chlvalric law was that the
father of the illegitimate child shall no,
be discovered. She noticed from tho
beginning to tho end of the paper how
very carefully the possibility of discoy-
cry of the father was guarded against
by the excellent woman of Massachu.
sets. She believed that the sentiment
of the women OF the District of Colum.
bia was largely in favor of holding the
father responsible for the support OF the
child.