The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30


Lawson played beautifully while the
members were gathering, and the au-
dience being again called to order, Mrs.
Coalter. president of the Utah Fedora
ton of Women'S Clubs, was introduced.
Her subject was THE Home as a Po-
tent Factor in Education"
Ancient and Modern Homes.
Mrs. Coalter contrasted the ancient
and the modern home. Formerly, she
said, the father played a much more
important part than he does today, the
supremacy of motherhood being more
in evidence now than then. In ancient
times the wife was what Mr.. DOOley
terms "a casualty" but the influence
of woman has expanded for thirty-two
centuries and still continues to expand.
Mrs. Coalter argued that the home
should be the conservatory of state
and society and the foundation of all
progress. A mother may cooperate
with the schools, though uneducated,
and the speaker ventured to say that
DR.. Johnson's mother didn't know the
road from Mecca to Moab," and if she
trains them Alright, material fit for the
tnfi,mary will not come into the public
schools.
There is much to learn in common
sense.' continued Mrs. Coalter. There
is much laid to heredity that should
be laid to a boys breakfast, for the
food he eats is not the least thing to be
considered in child training. The
home must be organized like the school.
"A slack. easy nature will do tor camp
out on. but it Will not do in the battle
of life
Mrs. Coalters humorous references
made splendid hits. She went on to
relate some personal observations, and
touched upon the need of morality in
the home
Teachers" she went on. ''you have
a right to assume that the home is a
preparation for a school, and when you
find that it is not, you have the fur
ther right to find why not
Stephens on Music.
The Washington school furnished a
splendid chorus, and Professor Evan
Stephens came forward with an excel
lent paper on Music as a Potent Fac
tor in Education
outset few people question the import
ance of music in the public schools, and
he proposed to tell in part what OBJ
stacles must be overcome.
These he held to be the incorrect
method of teaching, the giving of mu-
sic it's place in schools as an amuse-
ment ahead of study, the habit of using
the faculty of imitation instead of
thought the lack of individual appli-
cation, and finally the failure to give
it the time and attention it deserves
with other studies. The professor con-
cluded very prettily with an illustra-
ton of music as q joy and consolation
to the child in after years.
Miss Mary E. FELTON,, director of mu-
sic in the public schools of Ogden. pre-
sented a well-written paper along the
lines advanced by Professor Stephens
She referred to the unanimity of opin-
ion among musicians that music can
be taught successfully in the public
schools She deplored the use of mean
inglesS songs in the school room, when
40 much good music has been written.
We would not think Of giving our chill
dren improper literature. and Miss Fell
ton believed the expulsion of poor mu-
sic just as imperative.
Professor George G. Young of Salt
Lake followed. He was of the opinion
that music would become as great
study as arithmetic in the public
our everyday lives2 Will the masses
ever read music? He would answer
yes to both questions. 1t will be passed
up from grade to grade until it becomes
permanent. The necessity and inffu-
ence of music, he said, are already
settled questions.
Before adjournment, Professor Gill;
Ian moved that committee of three
be appointed TO draft resolutions in
memory of the deaths that have oc-
CURED in the association during tie
year. He had in mind Professor T. B.
Lewis of Ogden and Professor Mat
thews of the university. Professors
Marshall, Kerr and Engle were se-