The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-09
LIBEL ON PENNSYLVANIA.

a little trip around Boston.
LIBEL ON PENNSYLVANIA.
1t has been said that Pennsylvania
is "a state Of mines rather than minds"
This is q libel. This state produced our
first lingilist and our first fictionist. as
well as other noted persons, and we are
proud that we have both minds and
mines.
Professor whitmeyer gave a delight
full address on "The Home and the
School-How May They Help Each
Other?" Nowadays mothers meetings
and societies and all sorts of organ
izations are in vogue to bring harmony
into life and to elevate humanity. Yet
the distance between the school and
the home seems to widen in many To-
calities. The average attendance at
public schools in Pennsylvania is So
per cent. In Lackawanna county it is
81 per cent. Would any business man
in this city run his business in such a
way as this?
How are these homes to be reached?
The teacher must do this. The school
must be the medium of salvation in
saving the boys and girls to be better
members of society. We hear much talk
of closer application, Improvements,
interest in the work and many other
requisites, but better than all these is
the teacher with heart sanctified with
the desire of leading the children to
higher life.
Get acquainted with every mother
In the community-witht the father II
possible, but at all events-with the
mother. She can't frame in language
the emotions of her heart in divid-
ing with the teacher the responsible
ity of training her boy. There are no
words to picture her anxiety, and the
teacher will find it easy to gain her
cooperation in his welfare.
MOTHERS MEETINGS.
Write personal attentions to a moth
ers' meeting" Tell the mothers that
you want to talk over the good of
her boys and girls. Have recitations
that will take hold of the hearts of
your listners. Tell them you want
them to help you by getting the chill
dren in school, and having them on
time. Tell them the good things in
| their children, hold up wonderful pos
sibilities, lofty ideals. Tell them that
the boy who goes to college has three
| times the chance of the ignoramus.
| These meetings have had the greatest
results wherever held. You must be a
| light in the community. You won't wear
out.
| Whatever you do give the children
| pleasant surroundings. We are salts
fled too easily. We are living on too
low a plane. We want to be uplift-
ed. Be what you want your boys to
be. Whether you want them to copy
you or not, they will do so for the re-
fiex action will be shown in them.
The programme for today is:
MUSIC '.s..................... ..frOI. COSSWell
Main room-Section II.
| Language MISS Buckbee
Section /.
| Relation Of a Principal of Schools to
the School Board and to the Teach
NJ. ]. Lloyd, VIM. NJ. Taggart, and F. r.
Coyne.
Superior court room-Section I.
Penmanship ................Supt. Twitmyer
Section II.
Penmanship .Supt. Twitmyer
Main Court Room.
The True Aim of an Education,
Rev. Elkanah Hulley
With Holmes and Whittier,
Prof. Green
Thursday, 1.3O p. m.
Music ......Prof. Cogswell
Interest in Education ........Dr. Benedict
How to Study an Authors Writings.
Prof. Green
Address to Teachers and Directors,
DR.. John Q. Stewart
TONIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT.
Tonight the second entertainment Of
the institute course will be given ir
Young Mems Christian association
hall. 1t will consist Of a lecture BY
George r. Welding. of whom the
Louisville Courier-Journal said: "Tt
hear Vending once only creates 6
desire to hear him again."
He is one of the most eloquent and
impressive orators at present on th'
lecture platform in America,