The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
eouoeTloN M TAe couNvRY.
Towns Need Mammal 5TrainipE4and Cook
sas.-Schools as :4yell.as cities.


Towns Need Mammal i7TrainipE-and Cook
kag>SchOols. as :1yell.as Cities.
Practical education is needed in the
country zas,well as sin thereby. There
has been too muolls brain culture in the
past, with too little sense development
and minflstraining. With all opportuni-
ties for .obiectivet teaching and manual
training but little Of it has come.to the
country, land yet theboys and girls there
need this training as much as children
in crowded city tenements. Successful
experiments in these directions are be-
ing made in many country sneighbor-
hoods. Groups of iladies are inaugural
ing cooking, carpentry, and clay model
ing classes and sending to the cities for
teachers.
In these ,neighberhoods boys. who ex-
pected to become clerks, and in, eonse-
Quence to leave their homes fer city
boardinghouses, are becoming impressed
with the interest las well as valne of
tools. Girls are enjoying lessons in
hygiene and the chemistry of food, as
well as practical demonstrations Of cook
ing. Sewing is also growing more and
more interesting, and the young girls
appreciate.doing withthe learning.
hoods on the Hudson, near New York
In one library association was staKted
a few years ago by some ladies. There
seemed but few people around who
could or would utilize a library, or read
ing room, but soon many men and boys
gathered nightly. "A sewing school was
started for Saturdays upon strict busi-
mess principles, and within a month was
overcrowded. 1t was hard to tell where
the hundred or more girls came from,
but there they were, eager to learn. A
boys class for modelling and carpentry
started, then a cooking class for girls,
and all were successful. Monthly enter
tainments were held, when an admission
fee of ten cents was charged, and the
rooms were crowded.
In the other neighborhood practical
classes have also started and are all
crowded. In this small settlement are
now being held three weekly cooking
classes for different groups of girls, two
large sewing classes, a dressmahng
course and boys carpentry classes.
Village bands and choruses are valu-
able. In one place a large group of boys
are kept interested by their weekly band
practice. A right feeling of pride is
aroused when they are called upon tc
lead local professions, to play at enter
tainments, etc. Here, also, the teacher
of the village school has started a gym
nasium, and is training boys and girls
alike in the Swedish movements. Coun
try children need to be physically deTel-
oped by training, and taught graceful
movements as well as city children
Village volunteer companies of boys can
be organized and made power by fur
nishing practical outlets to energies
physical as well as mental
Interest in surroundings should bt
reused. The country, with its woods
rocks, trees and plants, should bestudied
intimacy with the beautiful variety O
animal and insect life should be en-
couraged. Through such channels homes
will be made brighter. Happiness means
contentment and contentment Gomez
g from health. occupation and interest
= Country contentment will be the resul
when young people become stronger
ss keep brain as well as hand busy, and ar,
interested in others.-Grace Dodge il
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