Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-07-25
RuRAL WITHDRAWING.

u. TRANCIevILLE. LOUISIANA
RURAL UNDERTAKING..
Ne Ned Of Ed.cstion In the Country In
telllgsntly Discussed.
Practical education is needed in the
country ~ well as in the city, writes
Grace Dodge. There has been too much
hrain-culture in the past, with too little
sense development and mind-training.
With all opportunities for objective
teaching and manual training, but lit
tie Of it has come to the country, and yet
the boys and girls there need this train
ing as much as children in crowded city
tenements. Successful experiments in
these directions are being made in
many country neighborhoods. Groups
of ladies are inaugurating cooking,
carpentry and clay-modeling classes
and sending to the cities for teachers.
In these neighborhoods boys who ex-
pected to become clerks and in consc-
ouence to leave their homes for city
boarding-ho are becoming impress
ed with the interest as we'll as value OF
tools. Girls are enjoying lessons in
hygenic and the chemistry of food, as
we'll as practical demonstrations of
cooking. Sewing is also growing more
and more interesting, and the young
girls appreciate doing with the learn
ing.
Take, for example, two neighbor'
hoods on the Hudson, near New York.
In one library association was started
a few years ago by some ladies' There
seemed but few people around who
could or would untilize a library or
reading-room, but soon many men and
boys gathered nightly. sewing
school was started for Saturdays upon
strict business 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. boys class for modelling
and carpentry started, then cooking
class for girls, and all were successful.
Monthly entertainments 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 dressmaking
course, and boys carpentry classes
Village bands and choruses are val
liable. 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 to lead local professions, to
play at entertainments, etc. Here.
also, the teacher of the village school
has started a gymnasium and is train
ing boys and girls alike in the Swedish
movements. Country children need
to be physically d. vcloped by training,
and taught graceful movements as we'll
as city children. Village volunteer
companies Of boys can be organized and
made power by furnishing practical
outlets to energies physical as well as
mental.
Interest. in surroundings should be
reused. The country, with its woods,
rocks, trees and plants, should be stud
led, intimacy with the beautiful variety
of animal and insect life should be en-
couraged Through such channels
homes will be made brighter. Happi
ness means contentment, and content
ment comes from health, occupation
and interest. Country contentment viii
be the result when young people be
come stronger, keep brain as well a.
hand busy. and are Interested in others
If, therefore, those who live in farm,
house or village could learn from ex
amples like these to adopt as a basis OF
action the principle of agitation, educa
ton and cooperation, thus rousine
from inactivity of mind and spirit tc
educate themselves by finding out what
can be done, and combining to do it
they will find that cooperative meth
DDS are adapted to country and village
and through such methods will realize
a practical solution of the dizziness ot
rural life, from which SO many want t.
escape. -Lippincotts Magazine.
How Two F.wn. Took Their Kntion..
Amos Patterson, of East Valley
Wash, has two fine young deer that he
has raised on his place. He was on,
hunting one day and killed IA doe with
two young fawns. The creatures were
very small and ran away in terror a
the death of their mother. In few
DAYS Mr. Patterson caught them ans
brought them home. They steadily re
fused to imbibe the tactical fluid through
regulation nipple attached to nurs
ing bottle and other articles tried were
in vain. What was to be done? i
they were much longer without foot
they would perish. A bright ide;
struck Mr.. Patterson. Taking thu
hide of the mother that had been butch
cred previously, he inserted the nipple
through the skin. When the fawn
felt the warm coat of the supposed
mother, they commenced to drink a
once, and for a good while after n
trouble was experienced in giving then
their regular rations- Forest an
Stream.
A Strange Case.
Young Doctor! was just goin
around to see your brother. How is h
this morning.
Patron-Hc is no better.
Young Doctor-What? No better