Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-11

Hodges animadversions on the hood
lum, said that we must face the stern
fact that with all our facilities of edu-
cation we are raising a large crop of
boys who will not be such men as those
of so years ago. In every city there is
a large number of young men who fear
neither God nor the devil nor man
nothing but a revolver stuck In their
faces. Young men are being pushed to
the front too much at the expense of
gray hairs When the city needed an
assessor it must go to wholesale liquor
shop to get him, ousting men who had
served the city long and faithfully, but
were no longer young. We have two
boys at the head of of the highways. He
had heard Clark university criticised,
whether falsely or not he could not say,
for building up pure intellectualism.
Now what we want is something diff
ferent from that for this country has
got some most perpleXing problems to
solve; if it does not solve them success
fully, it will go on the rocks, and al
ready we can hear the breakers.
Mr. w. A. Watts said he thought
children should be taught in the home
without waiting for school. 1t was not
the young men and women.
He then presented the following reso-
lutions which We're unanimously adopt
ed:
Resolved, that the Worcester County
Horticultural Society has perfect conf
dence in the management of Commits
sioner o. b. Hadwen at Elm Park, and
that his management is for the best
good of the public, and that we con-
denim the majority of the parks commits
sion for its treatment of the custodian
of Elm park in being Influenced by
few irresponsible people, who are more
sentimental than practical
Mr., Hadwen was taken by surprise.
He thanked the assembly for the conf
dence shown him in this matter. In
whatever l have done in my 80 years
of work. he said, I have endeavored to
be faithful. His words were greeted
with cordial approval, and the meeting
adjourned.
Tomorrow the Worcester Market Gar
deners' Association will be addressed by
Prof. A. A. H. Cutler on insects.
Prof A. A. Brigham Of the Rhode ISL
and Agricultural College will deliver an
illustrated lecture on Japan before the
Horticultural Society Feb. IL.
Mrs T. G. Kent gave a luncheon
Thursday for the Crawford Club,
Patriotism" is the timely topic to be
discussed by the League of Unitarian
Women Wednesday, at the Church of
the Unity. There will be three papers.
Miss Mary Trumbull will consider patri
otism as it is taught in schools at the
present moment; Miss Belle Cushman
will read a paper on 'The ideal patriot
ism,' and Mrs B. 7. Rice will present
the subject of women as patriots"
The consideration of patriotism will be
be preceded by a short account of the
polychrome Bible by Mrs. Gardner c.
Whiting, chairman Of the committee on
current events.
We are in receipt of the following let
ter:
To the Editor of Out and About: Al
low me to call attention to the state
ment published Feb in your report of
the meeting Of the school committee, to
the effect that the magnificent sum Of
$1,000 is all that is spent for the teach
ing of drawing in the city Of st. Paul,
Mimi AS a matter of fact, the sum
paid is much larger, as can prove from
a letter received this week from the
assistant supervisor of drawing in that
city, which says:
There are two teachers of free-hand
drawing in the Central high school and
one in each of the other three high
schools. The salaries range from $3.50
up. The supervisor of drawing receives
$500, which with the salary paid to
the assistant supervisor and the high
school teachers, amounts in all to
$500 for free-hand drawing alone.
There is nearly as much paid for me-
chanical drawing in addition to this,
but as that is done in connection with
the manual training work, 1 cannot give
you the exact flgsres. About $4,000 was
also spent this year for supplies in the
department Of drawing.
If the figures from the other cities are
as correct as these, one cannot help
wondering If this is sample of the
accurate work which the Worcester
school board expects from its pupils. If
so, one might ask if honesty as well as
arithmetic are as well taught as for
merly.
A daughter was born Thursday fore
noon to Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus S. Wood
ward of 2 Harvard place. The same day
Mrs Rufus Woodward grandmother Of
the little one, celebrated the anniver-
sary of her own birthday.
The Ladies' Circle of Hope Lodge met
with Mrs NJ. A. Hale, Thursday after
noon, and started arrangements for a
fair and supper to be held in Castle
Hail, some time in April, in charge of
manned to supper. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Granger, S5 Coburn
avenue.
'@Uncle," the popular English comedy
in three acts by Henry ]. Byron, was
successfully given before a large audi
ence at All Souls Vestry, Thursday
evening, under the direction of Mrs. n.
H Ingraham, and for the benefit of the
Ladies' Aid Society. The young actors
were very skilfully made up and the
stage setting was elaborate and eX-
tremely pretty During the evening an
orchestra, under the direction of Mr.
w. T.. Ingraham, played selections from
Flotow, De Koven and Herbert The
parts were taken with gratifying sue
cess by Mr., Edwin ]. Adams, Mrs. Ru-
dolph c. Weyer, Mr.. William H. King,
Mr. Lewis L. Jenkins, Miss Blanche N.
Ingraham, Miss Minnie B. Upham and
Miss Alice e. S. Henderson.
DR.. Albert Schinz delivered the first
in his course of German lectures Thurs
day afternoon, at the house of Mrs.