The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
TEACHING THE YOUNG
WOMEN OFFER SUGGESTIONS FOR
IMPROVING PRESENT METHODS.
Plea for Humanitarinnism i'm Educa-
lion and an Argument Against
Dcmolalixfng yivfsectiOn.


In the field of education and. organization
and organized work, in patriotism and poll
ties, occupied to-day's session of the Ma
tional Council of Women. Many of the
papers embodied suggestions for improv-
ing the methods OF teaching the young and
In the various phases of education. The
greetings Of the National Council of Women
OF Canada were. presented by Mrs. VIII
loughby Cummings, of Ontario. The OPEN
Ing address was made by Dr. Julia Holmes
Smith. of Illinois, whose paper was read
by Mrs. Glare Bewick Bobby, of Washing
ton. DR.. Smiths paper was entitled How
Can the Higher Art Be Brought to Bear
on the Common People through the COM
mon Home and the Common School" 1t
gave an analysis of characteristics of hui
manity so far as regards the love OF
beauty. Following this review came
statement of the necessity for the cultiva-
ton of higher ideals in children and a
protestt against the commonplace In edu-
cation. She magnified the work done in
the cultivation of higher ideals by art
lovers through lectures and conversation
classes and the influence of the work
tnaugurated and successfully carried
through by the kindergarten Association.
In the discussion that followed Virginia
Graft, of Pennsylvania, pointed out that
all children, irrespective Of outside condi-
tons, are responsive to kindergarten teach
ing. while Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of WASH
ington, protested against restriction OF art
instruction to the higher arts.
Formal invitations to the council and all
interested in woman's work to participate
by two fraternal delegates from Atlanta
Mrs. Lulu M. Gordon, chairman OF the
woman's congress in connection with the
exposition, and Mrs. William NJ. DICKSON,
OF the art committee.
Elmira S. Taylor, of Utah, president of the
Young Ladies' National Mutual Improve
ment Association, and Isabel King, of South
America, patron of the council. and Mary
III. Hunt, OF Massachusetts. opened the dis
cussiOn on the subject. Caroline Earl White,
Of Pennsylvania, an anti-vivisect. onist, next
made plea for humanitariansm in educa-
ton; She advanced three reasons why vivi-
section is unreasonable She took the
ground that 1t Is morally unjustifiable, it
has never materially advanced the science
cause of decentralization to those who prac-
tice 1t, and consequently to the community.
She assumed that vivisecuon retards the
progress of the human race, and all true
lovers of mankind should oppose it.
The need of business education for women
the he president of the National Association
of Women Stenographers. She told or the
women who worked only for pin money
and of the bright intelligent business women
whose business education was prefaced by
home lessons in usefulness, promptness.
Is o demand for business women. and con-
cluded by suggesting how many wives
could save their husbands from ruin If ia
Miss Lucy Wheeler. Of Boston; made e
short address on roebers psychology of
to follow as the child leads. to discover
TO him the world in which he Is to live
and give to himself in the fullness OF his
The perils of immigration were COM
mented on by Mrs i c. Manchester' OF
ISOLATION of Loyal Women of Liberty. She
protested against indiscriminate immigra-
ton and declared that our great middle
aspect of the situation, since the foreign
vote has become so important factor in
ns She at po apees
compelling all immigrants to bear care
fiYi1y prepared certificates, extending the
s ii,' on educatioral conditions immigra-
ton was not an idle fact. but the class of
Immigrants has changed to vicious, I'M
skilled and idle adventures
The International Kindergarten Union.
held the first section OF the n eyendinS an
speeches were made by Virginia e. Geaff
Of Pennsylvania; Jessie e. Beers. of New
Lucy Wheeiock, Of Massachusetts
The second part OF the programme was
devoted to government REFORM The fol
lowing papers were read: Our Proper At
titude Toward Immigration" by Elizabeth
Cady stanton, New York, read by Susan ,Iss
by Mrs. I. c.. Manchester. Rhode Island;
.'Restriction Upon Immigration by Min
erva Roberts, Colorado. Mrs. Stanton con-
tended that the question of immigration in
volved that of land monopoly, that there
should be no ownership of land except by
the man who occupied it, his right ending
with his life, and the land to revert at his
death to the State unless his children de-
sired to occupy 1t on the same condition.
The value of his Improvement should be
bequeathed to his family. Most of our
political evils she attributed to the annual
Influx OF 100000 foreigners, and che held
that the naturalization laws as enforced.
are travesty.
Resolutions on the death of Frederick
Douglass were adopted. They were in part.
as follows:
1--WE mourn him as a great and good
man, gone, as q great figure Of prophecy.
Of hope and of fulfillment in the annals OF
American history, but keener is our sense
OF loss because he was so lately in our
midst. He stood for temperance and purity
and religion, and personified the virtues he
extolled. In him the hopes of his race were
realized; In him humanity was dignified.
The world is poorer because he Is gone;
humanity is richer because he came. The
legacy of his life and service attests the
truth that God keepeth watch above his
own, that he shall overturn wrong until
injustice dies, and the right eternally tri-
umphs."
The resolutions were sent to the family
with sympathetic letter written by Mrs.
May Wright Sewall, president of the coun-
GIL which was read at the meeting.