The Portland daily press., 1896-10-16

training that it shall go hand in hand
hnth with the school and the homa train
ing of our children.
Miss Snow quoted the president of
Smith college as saying that the Clock
of lime has struck the woman's hour.
and then introduced Mrs. Caroline Dana
Howe, who would give her poem entitled,
THE woMAN's H OUR.
The morn grows bright. The woman IS
hour
TO fresh hopes oonseorated,
Comes in with elements OF power,
And tidal promise freighted.
Force gathers force; ard thought with
thought,
Draw to thsinse selves the blessings sought,
Through Faiths supreme attraction,
Of ancient Britain 1T was shown,
| That growth year suspended,
| With upt urned suil, and seeds unsoWn.
| Brought harvssts wide extended.
Thus we to old traditions clung,
n And long delayed our message,
| Unsaid, unwritten, and unsung,
| Though heralded by pressesage.
But lol The soil so fruitless held
| Through that long involution,
| BY some transmitting force 1Mpelled,
| Makes gracious restitution.
For all fresh growth and interest
Goes toward the spirits moulding,
AS fruit, new-pledged, is manifest
! In apple blooms unfolding.
If we have learned through waiting years,
| The lessons of denial,
| Renewed thereby, a pathway clears,
| To make of life, new trial.
For they who learn, and they who teach,
| Hold common cause together.
AS May lies near to winters reach.
| Though cheerless be the welther.
AS planets lighted by one sun
And held by power magnetic
| Divisible yet still as one
| We draw our lines prophetic
A nd in this hour may dare compute
| What comes of faith and reason
As buds from germs, from blossom fruit,
| PerfectinR in their season.
Not yet hath day dawned full and clear
| Along the path we enter,
| But Truths warm sun rays gather cheer
| Diverging from their centIe.
For what we gain, and What have
wrought.
| Of broader aims for woman.
Shows in the hours advancing thought,
| Benef1cent and human.
So may the world it's grace accord,
| And recognize union,
Vital in principle, and broad
| In creed. rs in communion.
For what mere knowledge or degree,
If souls may yield no largess,
Content to sail on Life's smooth sea,
| In Pleasures summer barges?
While mind developed, ranks with mind,
| No privilege we barter,
| Or seek lesser place, assigned
By birthright or by charter.
If love and knowledge in our path
Stand forth as herit
| The Future. in its aftermath,
Holds promise for the ages.
So hail we each advancing year,
Though bound by class restrictions.
Since wise men bring us words of cheer.
Belief. and bendictions.
New impulses this gives to life; &s
From selfish pride estrane,s
And wins its way through Lobler strife
To glorious interchanges.
CAROLINE DANA HOWE. /
The next subject in this linz was the i'm
provement of the surroundings of suhur
ban schools, which Is something that j
certainly needed in most Of our countr,
schools. and all would be glad, said Mis-
Snow, to hear what Mrs. o. N. Mason o
Bethel had to say on this subject.
Mrs. Mason said that the founding o
Arbor Day was great blessing TO us all
Its object In the beginning was to pro
teot the trees, but later the idea of deco
ration came in. 1t was Of great benofl
to the pupils, to assist in this plantin
of the trees, to foster in them love q
nature. Cooperation was much to b
desired between parents and teachers i
these matters.
Miss Snow said In response, that 1T wa
much better for children, as an objec
lesson in order and neatness to Q
through well ordered path or yard t
the school. She then very humorousl
{ introduced Mrs. Beedy. adding no,
} thoroughly equipped sho was to speak o
her subject, History Study in tb
/ Lower Grades"
MRS. BEEDY
said the subject was very near her hear,
, but the method must vary in differer
places. Mrs. Beedy had made M an
researches in the history of her state, a1t
regretted that she was not younger, b
study more. The beginning of this lou
for study in the childroE must be stim,
lated by the imagination, and should b
: gin at home. She would like them to /
taught the Bible and Crack stories, I'll
teachers should be informed of lou
history, and tell that history to the chi
dren. They say there Is no history, b,
perhaps an old building may make q
! local landmark around which much ma
Z cluster. A good idea is to decorate TT
! school house walls with pictures of lou
! buildings and characters. /
Mrs. Bsedy dwelt particularly on ii
, power which lay with US for this VOL
, among the clubs for school improy,
, ments.
Q 4 Then followed interesting one mimi
reports from the following clubs: Aubu.
Art club. by Mrs. Wing; Auburn Ar
> and Literature club, Mrs. Hayes: AZ,
@ eusta China Decorators olub NJ.