Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-25
EDUCATIONAL.
Satisfactory Reports From. Secretaries
Of Chautauqua Circles on the
Pacific Coast.

Philadelphia now proposes to furnish
q free MONDAY lunch to the pupils In its
public schools.
There are said TO be 10, 600 children In
Chicago unable TO attend school becanse
Of insufficient clothing.
The New York Recorder says Massa-
chnsatts proposes introducing tho type
writer into the public schools.
The annual cost OF education Ia the
public schools Of the United States ia
1885, for each pupil In attendance.
la some Of our colleges number OF
young men are taking 10 study as re-
lief from the monotony OF athletics
Beeton Transcript.
A Smith county. KAN, school teacher
has been employed for an eight months
term on condition that she will not
marry during thAt time.
Oxford University, England, has ex.
pressed its Willingness "a send an 8 AIRED
crew 10 the Worlds Fair, provided .
competition can be arranged with Amer
lean college crews.
Baltimore has now IAdiee' Athletic
Club, under the instruction Of one OF DIR.
Sargent's pupils, and New Orleans has
large gymnasium In connection with
its w oman's Club.
Some unnamed Eastern philanthro-
pist has given $50 900 toward library
fund for the Colorado College at Colorado
springs. Of this $4,000 will be ex-
pended on building, and $4,000 for
books.
This school for the boys Of the Apache
tribe, At Mount Vernon barracks 10
Alabama. Ii 4 success. The Apache
boys there are taught 70 speak the
English language and TO give up all the
ways OF savsgery.
The new Chicago University owns
land worth $4,000, 600, and has an en-
dowment OF ~, 400 900, but little money
to put up buildings. The trustees have
issued q call for subscriptions OF II 900,
600 for this purpose.
Advices have been received from
Gcffe, Sweden, under date OF November
18th, that tho Parliament OF that coun-
try has just passed = Temperament du-
cation law that In all the public schools
OF Sweden instruction shall be given re-
garding the nature and effects Of alcohol.
No less eminent authority than Sir
William Gull OF Great Britain has said
tii0b tiiG OIhCut AGIlNCu ttOiu ~ uHiNCI
sity education. such AZ girls get at Newn-
ham and Girton, makes them and their
children stronger and healthier. Also,
that the percentage OF childless marriages
10 less with the educated women, and
the percentage OF children that survive
infancy is larger.
Most satisfactory reports are to hand
from secretaries of Chautauqua circles
In different parts OF California, also from
Oregon and Nevada. The system OF
popular self-education outlined by the
faculty at Chautauqua, N. ", has be-
come pretty well Understood by the peo-
Pile. II has brought happiness and in
terest to many firesides in homes stu
ated far from the centers OF population
lin the mountains, along the seashore
and scattered through the farming Sec
tons Of the coast. The studies during
the present year are devoted almost ex-
clusively to American subjects, fact
which popularizes it with many who
took little interest in the method before.
1t is a well.recognized fact that the PEG
PIE know too little about their own
country. All those who pursue the
course this winter will find themselves
next year in the possession OF informa-
| tion they never dreamed Of before. In
San Francisco the course of free popular
lectures inaugurated year ago has been
continued, and every event draws out a
large audience. Recent information
from the Eastern headquarters is to the
eiiett that more persons are pursuing
the readings this year than ever before,
and that even in foreign countries there
is growing interest in the Chautauqua
system.