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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31

for work, not for curiosity. Years ago
there was too much arithmetic in the
schools. 1t was considered the one
thing needful. Now, the pendulum has
swung to the other extreme, and I'm
not afraid to tackle the question, and
to insist upon a proper amount of time
and attention being given to this most
important study"
Downstairs in the big hall on the
first floor, to which the Child-Study
Club had removed on account of the
numbers who wished to attend the
session, Dr. Dresslar of Berkeley and
Margaret Schallenberger of Stanford
were talking about "Genetic Psycho-
logy." The doctor wanted mental
cross sections of the childS mind
made by competent observers at diff
ferent times and various places. And
Miss Schallenberger earnestly recon-
mended child-Study to teachers, for
the mere attempt to study children
changes ones attitude toward them.
This isn't a fad" she said. It's not
an attempt to further burden the
teacher, but to lessen and to take away
from that they already have
In the department of business an in
tereSting discussion was going on on
the growing irreverence of the Ameri-
can child. Children train parents
nowadays" said Mrs. Prag, instead
of parents training children. A threat
to refer a matter to a pupils parents
carries very little weight"
I am entitled to more respect said
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THE THIRD OF
THE SYMPHONIES
Ups and Downs Of the Pro
qranme and the Per-
fOrnnance.
Some of the Ladies Wore Hats and
Some of the Audience Was
Locked Out.

There was music to please all sorts
of people at the Symphony Socletys
concert yesterday at the Tivoli. For
the seasoned symphonic there were
the D minor symphony Of Schumann,
the Beethoven "Egmont' overture and
the vorspeiI to "Lohengrin'; and
for the light-eared stranger there
were the ''Teu'' overture and the 'Syl-
via" ballet. The programme was typi-
cal of Scheel, who evidently believes
that in America it is a pretty safe
scheme to please the patronizer of
symphony concerts as well as the
patron. The ballet music evoked the
greatest spasm of applause, and the
Rossini overture, which closed the con-
cert, was applauded standing and
walking. Both are masterpieces or
their kind, 1 acknowledge, and both
were fairly we'll played, especially the
overture. The ''Sylvia" suite, L
thought, was delightfully."- planned in
the directing, but somehow the band
did not respond with the fine precision
that is so vital to grace in music OF
terpsichorean character l think the
ballet music was just a bit muddy;
notably the slow waltz movement cit
was encored, to DE surely had not the
nice, clean ballet seduction. The
Schumann symphony was played-wel,
say half as we'll as the Beethoven c
minor was played at the previous con-
cert. / confess that, according to my
way of hearing, one half (the laSD of
the Schumann D minor symphony is
fully twice as interesting as the other;
and in holding Scheel up to comparison
with his phenomenal rendition of the
Beethoven-which is previously beauti-
full and understandable in every bar
I am perhaps straining a point Still,
had I never in my life heard a sym
phony I should have known by the
delightful rhyme and sentiment that
Scheel brought out of the romanza and
the splendid fury he worked the band
up to in the finale that the composer
was not alone to blame for all else in
the work that came out dull and
pompous. The "Egmont'' overture
which asks of leader nothing more
than good sense and a little dramatic
tact, was given lucidly and with the
right application of strength. The
''Lohengrin'' vorspeil-at once nery-
absolutely demands the hand of a vir-
tuoso. 1t got it. Scheel played it with
a feeling, a finish and a cumulative
sweep that was simply imperial.
Many of Mr.. ScheelS gestures were
rendered invisible by the high hats
Quite a number of the ladies kept them
on in spite of the law and in omen
defiance of Manager Marks, who went
about the auditorium with a personal
appeal. Also a hundred and more per-
sons came late and were locked out
until after the overture.
ASHTON STEVENS.
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yesterday afternoon at Native Sons
Hall. The meeting was called by A. F..
Chandler, who desired to inform them
of the opportunity of securing some
desired apparatus at comparatively
low figure, provided a number of or
ders should be given. OF the twenty
five teachers present fifteen gave or
ders, and if the apparatus meets with
the approval of the science teachers of
this State a company will be formed at
once and San Francisco will have a
new factory.
The apparatus referred to included
the ammeter and vOltmeter, two very
essential instruments in the teaching
of electrical measurements and physics,
and very difficult to get on the Pacific
Coast. The teachers claim that the
Eastern article, besides being so ex-
pensive, is unreliable for the coast,
consequently very few schools have
them. The name of the man who has
offered to make them was not disclosed,
but it is known that he is a gentleman
we'll known throughout the coast as
manufacturer of science supplies for
schools
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Bishop, who had been interrupted in
delivering his address.
" Bishop Bishop' whispered some
one near. It's a parrot, a parrot
I don't care said the Bishop. I
am entitled to more respect, any
way
This was an anecdote that Mr.. Vein
stock told as a corOllary to his paper on
"A Weak Spot in Our Educational
System"
Mr.. O'Connor declared that the
teacher had to teach the parents as
well as the children. I've had to go
to several schoolhouses, and in order to
bring about the conditions l wished
I've always had to begin on the pa
rents. Children have the foolish idea
that subserviency is slavery To avoid
that children become disrespectful.
Children must learn that they like all
human beings, are in two relations to
the community. There are two things
to be conSidered-their individual lib
erty and the general comfort of the
community
In Sierra Hall Miss Amy T. Campbell
was speaking on How One School
Manages Drawing"
In POrtola DR.. James Black was de-
claring to the teachers that the time
was here when every teacher should
be able to tell whether or not the eye
sight of pupils in her class was normal
and to make herself a sort of assistant
hygienic guardian to the child.
In the library department teachers,
librarians and mothers were discussing
good books for boys and girls to read
the practicability of providing branch
libraries at various schools, the degree
of restraint to which children's reading
should be subjected. The librarian of
Stanford took a Drominenf mart II, tl,ie
discussion; so did the librarian of the
Free Library; and then a clever
mother of four boys put in a merrily
ironical plea that mothers be consid-
cred a bit. She knew, she said. that
it was not the thing nowadays for
mothers to have anything to say about
their own children, and then merely by
delivering her excellent paper she pro-
ceeded to show that she was a mother
in 10000. Everybody's book that is
worth reading this marvel of mothers
knew and could talk about. She dep
recated the contempt with which the
other speakers mentioned fiction: she
implored a free, full draught of Jungle
books and fairy tales for the children.
whose entrance into the higher schools
would be marked by overdoses of seri-
Gus reading, and she carried her audi
ence with her
The teachers of this institute have
had the opportunity to meet and talk
with specialists on every topic almost
that interests teachers. They have i'm
proved these opportunities, too. Dis
cuSsion has been very general And
the round-table sessions are chiefly re-
spOnsible for this. They have brought
together teachers with q common in
terest they have specialized work, and
they have encouraged general, almost
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California Educators Discuss Their
Various Methods and
Systems.
An Interesting, Entertaining and Amusing
Series of Talks by Those
Who Teach.

Metropolitan Hall is an interesting
sight these mornings. 1t is as crowded
as though the attraction were sym
phony concert. Those who believe that
the teacher teaches merely for the
monthly salary she draws, and those
who believe that institutes are "au
talk" pure theory with no tangible re-
suit, should have spent yesterday
manning or afternoon with the 1000
eager, interested teachers who filed
the halls on Fifth street and on Mason
There is no audience like an audi
enoe of teachers. 1t is an elite of au-
diences; one able to obey as well as TO
command. No other body of people
will give to the orator such close, such
patient attention. And no other body
demands as much of the one who ad-
dresses it, for the reason that teachers.
as body, average, in intelligence and
critical taste, far above any other
collection of individuals
There never was an audience reader
to applaud thrusts at its own weak
nesses.
Within her sphere she's an auto
crat, said Professor Draper apropos of
the teacher yesterday morning. THE
continual exercise of power over in
ferior minds is dwarfing. The teacher
may have many virtues and many
characteristics that are not virtues.
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She NAV have dyspepsia and mistake
If for principle!" And the house ap-
nlauded as one teacher, and that one,
one who had never been afflicted with
dyspepsia.
"A dolorous, profound, solemn teach
or is a nuisance. The teacher who
does not know that athletic
sports make better boys and stronger
girls should be put on the shelf and
labeled, and that too, without pen
You would have thought by the
hand-clapping that that whole lnsu-
tute of teachers wheeled ana swan anu
played golf for a living.
But. after all, Professor Diapers ad-
dress on THE Spirit of the Teacher
was a very sane, human, practical talk:
1t preached a happy, competent sort OF
optimism. In ninety-nlne times out OF
a hundred, the teachers decision is apt
to be right. In the hundredth time
some one would help her out
If you would see the teachers at their
hest. though go to the Round Table
sessions. as they are called, where the
institute breaks up into half dozen
small. easily Institutes. Native
Sons Hall fairly buzzes IN the after
moons. There is the department OF BUS
Tres at Balboa Hall, child study at
d.
Yosemite, hygiene at Portola, ana IL
Traries at CabrillO. In the nails are
capable. business-like normal student,
GIRLS. who act as ushers; such ideal
iIshers they make that San Franciscans
will be spoiled forever by such courte-
Gus treatment, and will forever yearn
after the unattainable. And IN eacn
one of the six halls there is crowd Of
neonle most surprisingly ready to dis
cuss subjects, and still more surpris-
,nglv capable of carrying on such dis
IF becomes an old story to one, as
the afternoon wanes, to see women
,iee and. without a trace of stage
fright. speak their minds in we'll
chosen words. Although there are
men. many of them, members of this
institute, it's woman's affair mainly
Vhv all the speakers use the feminine
form in such sentences as IF any
teacher find that she --"; or, When
= teacher decides that she -" It is
,1aI,e,. he The old masculine pro-
,1oI,r has been superseded. The best
naner read at the han yesterday was
nv woman The teacher who most
bored his fellows, who was farthest
away from their sympathy, was a
man.
II would have been interesting to
have the roof removed from the Native
Sons Hall from to o'clock yester-
day. In one room Professor Charles
Allen Of San Jose would have been
found declaring that the fact that no
arithmetic was taught in the first
two years of school in Oakland was an
educational outrage"
There is tendency, we all know, to
go after strange gods. I'm glad to
know that you who come here come
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
DR.. DIAPERS ADDRESS,
spirit OF TEACHERS"

At Metropolitan Hall yesterday
morning, A. S. Draper, LID, of the
University of Illinois, delivered an in
structive address on 1.-THE Spirit of the
Teacher" In speaking of culture"
DR.. Draper said:
First, we must expect to find the spirit
of the teacher marked by culture. The
teacher has had some early educational
advantages, surely. The foundations
have been at least fairly well laid. There
is something to build upon. The powers
OF the mind have been well set in opera
ton. Opportunities have been frequent
and constant. The habit of inquiry and
investigation must have been acquired.
The surroundings must have been favor
able; there must have been some results.
Taste has been aroused and it has
grown.
Then the work of the teacher has been
Tor others. She has endeavored to open
the minds of her pupils and arouse their
powers. She has become interested in
them. She has witnessed the develop
ment OF the human powers; she has seen
minds open and souls grow. This start
in life, this environment and this eX-
perience must have had a refining infiu-
ence upon her own mind and her own
soul. With all the fluctuations and an
noyanceS, If the true teacher has de-
Veloped, the immortal part of her ma
ture will show purity, strength, breadth
OF information, variety and accomplish
ment, power of discrimination, delicacy
of feeling and nobility of bearing, which
Will be recognized in all intellectual and
cultivated centerS.
The gross and the coarse common to
all human nature will be eliminated
gradually; the language, the manners,
the style will change; the life will be
Keyed to the music of the humanitieS;
the soul will aspire to the heights of the
sublime.
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the disbandment is scheduled to take
place.
Graceful Frank Worthing. he of the
high collars and languid hair. will
leave for his home in dear old Eng
land, where he expects to take a much
needed rest.
Miss Blanche Bates will leave for
New York to accept one of the MANY
ofters to act as leading lady in one of
the leading companies there, while T.
Daniel t'rawley intends to organize
he will present to the San Fro ncison
public some time in April. He will
nave a strong aggregation of PLAYERS
and hopes they will endear Themselves
IN the hearts of the public as did his
initial organization. AS to wbe+bar
Gladys Wallace will be member bes
not yet been learned mas
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
DISAPPOINTMENT
IN ART CIRCLES.

At yesterday afternoons exercises in
the department of art many Of the
prominent educators in the State par
ticipated.
Professor Griggs of Stanford read
an essay by Professor Barnes of STAN
ford on "The Place of Drawing an Ele-
lnentary Education"
THE four classes of drawing teach
ers," said the paper, may be described
as follows: One-Those who consider
drawing as a language, a means of ex-
pressing ideas Two-Those who con-
slider drawing as eye and hand train
ing, n process of nerve coordination.
Third-Those who look upon drawing
as a form of mental training, a mode
of forming type concepts. Fourth
Those who would use drawing as a
means of esthetic culture"
The other papers read were: what
Child Study Says About Drawing"
Mrs. Louise Maitland, Stanford Uni
versity; How One School Manages
Drawing" Miss Amy T. Campbell, San
Francisco.
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PICKED HER POCKET.
Joseph Dougherty Arrested for
Steolinq Mrs. Corlson's Purse.

Mrs. Carlson, living at 142 Natona
street, had her pocket picked of her
purse while walking along Market
street last evening. She felt the thief
put his hand in her pocket, and she at
once raised an alarm. The thief took
to his heels and ran across Market
street, followed by Policemen Harrison
and Jackson.
They chased him for several blocks
and then he darted up Morton street
to Stockton. AT the latter street he
was overtaken by officer George Har-
rigan, who had also joined in the
chase. He gave his name as Joseph
Dougherty, and when searched the
stolen purse, which contained 81 so and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
PRESIDENT CHIPMAN Is CERTIFIED.

In speaking of the the President Chapman
said The
THE o
This
"a
Costa superintendent Phan informed that contains
81 enrolment members
san Francisco has offered the best accommodations have had
S a
I
of
the of studyare
improvement particularly
believe it be question of
tmewh
the highest mark This aim being reached mainly
the meeting of
OF
wiug US a welcome"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
CHRISTMAS at ST. JOHNS
The Sundoy-SchooI Children of
the CHURCH and Chopels Hod
Their Celebrations

The Sunday school children of ST.
johns Episcopal Church and the chan
els, The Good Shepherd and The HoIv
lnnocents, celebrated Christmas in
their respective places during the past
week. AT st. Johns on Fifteenth
street the entertainment was held in
the Guild Hall on last Tuesday even
ing. After the exercises were over
about go sat down to refreshments
which had been prepared for them bv
the ladies' of the parish. DR.. Spalding
sisted by Rev. W. NJ. Rrack delivared
suitable addresses to the young peonle
Senior Warden Judge F, w. Van Rev
negom and Junior Warden F. Fl. Eich-
baum were present and aided in MAX
ing the occasion as pleasant as posi-
BILE
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better. Boards appointed by a central
authority were more responsible than
boards elected by the people. Mem
bers of the boards should be chosen
from the whole city, and not from dis
tricts. He believed that the Superin-
tendent should have full power to en-
gage and discharge teachers. There
should also be one man fully empow-
cred to make all contracts and see that
their provisions were vigorously car
ried out.
IF you can't eliminate party politics
from the schools" he concluded, there
is no hope for the schools. There are
other influences besides politics that
menace the schools. There is the
church influence, the club influence and
the social influence"
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WHAT Is BEING DONE
FOR "THE CHILD"

chatty, discussions, which would not
otherwise have been possible.
And all for THE Child" 1.-THE
Child should be very grateful for all
this interest, this heartfelt attention
and care, this devotion of thousands
to his welfare. Really, THE Child" the
brilliant young professors of Stanford,
and the doctors of Berkeley, the orig
inal-minded young women of the coun-
try and the cultivated well-dressed
teachers of the city have labored all
this week for your benefit. 1t was to
have been vacation week, too. How
are you going to repay them?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
CHILD STUDY A
FAVORITE ONE.

The favorite Round Table yester-
day was the Department of Child
Study. Shasta Hall was not large
enough by a third to hold the crowd,
so an early adjournment was made to
the main hall. The principal speech Of
the day was made by Professor Griggs.
who spoke on Some relations of the
child and the race" He dwelt on some
of the parallels of the development of
the child with early human history.
His address was brief. but very much
to the point. The other speakers were
Margaret Schallenburger and DR.. c. c.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
DEPARTMENT OF
MATHEMATICS.

The Department of Mathematics
opened yesterday with Professor
Charles H. Allen, of San Jose, in the
chair, and Minnie L. Mackay, of Santa
Clara, acted as secretary. The pro-
gramme included Incidental Number
Work in the First and Second Years.
by the chairman; Operative Arith-
metic." by Superintendent J. w. Nc
Clymonds, Oakland: Manual Training
in its Relation to Concrete Geometry
and Mensuration in Arithmetic" by
Walter ]. Kenyon, Stanford University.
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WILL DISBAND HIS ACTORS.
7. Daniel FroWley IpteDds to Do
This oDd ReturD With Hnother
Aggregation of Players.

The latest story going the rounds in
theatrical circles is that the Frawley
company will shortly be disbanded
1t is said that the popular organiza-
ton will leave for Portland at the con-
clusion of its enga cement here and
after short tour of the Northwestern
coast will leave for Washington, where
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
THE DEPARTMENT
OF HYGIENE

The following programme was given
at the Department of Hygiene: "Hy-
giene and Medical Facts for Teachers, -
by DR.. James A. Black; "a Physiology
in Our Public Schools" by DIR. Kate
Overaker; Physiology and Hygiene of
the Teeth" by DR.. H. D. Noble; De
fects, not Faults, or Defects of Sight
Hearing and Respiration and Simple
Methods of Diagnosis by DR.. j. A.
Black
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WHAT WAS DONE IN
THE LIBRARY DEPARTMENT

The following programme was rem
dered at the library department.:
Use of public libraries by school chill
dren-views of teachers deSirability and
utility; at what age should children be-
gin to do supplementary reading and to
refer to libraries; how to induce and to
direct children to use public collections
of books. Attitude of public libraries
toward schools-views of librarians; the
children's room; special privileges to
teachers; library loans to schools; books
loved by girls, books loved by boys-their
educational value
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oronted q Divorce.

Florence a. Chittenden was granted a
divorce from Alonzo E. Chittenden bv
Judge Bahrs yesterday on the ground of
desertion. The plaintiff was given the
custody of minor child. Grace Aiilfred
Chittenden, and was granted alimony i'm
the sum of $50 a month
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
DR.. DRAPER IS SURPRISED and PLEASED.

and the State in general Dr. Draper
with welkept
and should cosmopolitan
q rised to find
mile Certainly California with
Paradise"
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a key was found in his possession.
the City Prison he was charged :
grand larceny.
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MEETING OF
SCIENCE TEACHERS.

The science teachers of the coast
present at the teachers convention met
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31

Lows Horehound Cough Syrup for
hoarseness; price 1Oc. Az Sansome st. "
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Van Lew. Milicent Shinn acted as
chairman.
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BUSINESS MEN AND
LIBERAL EDUCATION.

One of the most thoughtful papers
read before the State Teachers Asso-
citation was that by j. Richard Freud,
secretary of the Merchants Associa-
ton, yesterday afternoon. It was in
the department of business programme
and was as follows:
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-11

The Marietta Boiler Works does not
lack for orders or work to keep them
busy. At present the concern is Keep
ing itself employed on a varied line OF
work, as follows:
Two 125.horse-p power water tube
boilers for Texas. These will be the
first boilers of this class ever made IN
Marietta. The system is the invention
of Mr.. John Tonkin.
Two Scotch marine boilers for Ken
tucky.
One Scotch marine boiler for Indian
apolis.
One smoke stack feet in diameter
and $50 feet in height for the Cincin-
natl Electric Street Railway Co. The
stack is grand one, and is about
ready to ship 1t is a self supporting
stack.
Three boilers for Cincinnati parties
One boiler for Z. j, Lobdell.
There are orders sufficient to KEEP
tie concern at work for long time,
but they are experiencing difficulty in
getting plate readily.