Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-14
woMAN'S DEP
MABEL H. poMERoY, EDITOR.
About Women.

MISS WneeleT, ubuBhIeI VA Non'
Joe Wheeler, has gone to Santiago
TO nurse her father who was seriously
wounded in the late battle.
A meeting of patriotic women was
recently held at Bloomington, Ill.,
and resulted in the for nation Of the
Army and Navy League Of Mclean
county. The object is to give aid
and sympathy in every way possible
to the soldiers of the United States
in the war with Spain and their fam
ilies. Mrs. Adlai X, Stevenson WIS
chosen president. The meeting was
also held at the Stevenson home.
Wives Of the officers of the army
and navy who are in active service
will remain in Washington oil summer.
They will be able to get more salts
factory news from the seat of war in
Washington than in some of the
smaller resorts thereabouts. They
will put in most of their summer
working for the families Of the regu-
lar soldiers who are left IN compare
lively destitute circumstances by their
wives being deprived Of the washing
and work for the officers families.
Mrs. Sumner, wife of Col. Sumner, Of
Fort Meyer, has interested herself in
these people, and the wives Of the
officers meet every Thursday morning
in the hall OF the Washington Club
to sew for them. Mrs. Sternberg is
actively engaged in this work and
will not leave the city except for u
short time during the summer months
on account of it.
We can imagine that future hlstori.
ans may look back with curious in
terest to certain phases Of our life
that are most prominent at present.
One Of these is the fact that women
choose to isolate their work from that
of the world as q unit. Each of the
greatest national and international
expositions has shown this feature in
a marked degree. II is no doubt
necessary and fit at this stage Of the
movement that such should be the
case. The Woman's Buildlng,""T
Woman's Board of Managers" are
but straws upon the great current Of
the woman movement. This is, how.
ever, but a transitional stage Of the
movement. When woman can prove
that she can compete with man in all
lines of activity, conditions will adjust
themselves again and the ultra radical
features OF the present discussion will
become-history. Work will not at
tract attention solely because it was
done by woman, When the battle
is over and the victory won it will no
longer occasion even passing comment
that women does this or does that.
Then great expositions will not fur
nish special exhibits of woman's work.
II will be results that are Of interest,
irrespective Of the sex of the workers.
Parents meetings." is one Of the
modem educational fads and unlike
most fads it has met with few oppo-
nents The parents meetings are
simply occasions when the parents
and the teacher may meet to discuss
pl ans OF mutual helpfulness. One of
the ma rked tendencies of the times is
che desire to look at all great ques.
tions from the point Of view Of each
person directly interested in certain
Eesulte. 1t has been truthfHlly said
that the people most interested in the
child's progress are usually mark the
horizon line of the child's life. His
waking hours aye divided between
the home and the school, Half of the
worries Of the teachers life spring
from misunderstanding with parents,
A frank, kindly discussion of the
manner in which the home and the
school may co operate is the work of
these parents meetings. In the old
days of boarding round" the peda-
gogue was brought into living contact
with the home life ofthe pupil. Who
can say what helpful impulses came
from the homeIy. old-fashioned GUS
tom. Ichsbod Crane, IS he rocked
the cradle with one foot while be held
his smallest pupil upon the other
knee, was type of the cid relations
between the home and the school.
Modern conditions and modern ques-
kinna muak ha mot in Ynodarn rooDnar