The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-07
Met Yesterday In Hasbrouck
Hall and Discussed
Education.
TEXT BOOK system CONDEMNED
Not Easy for Honest Men to
Be Elected to Board OF
Education, Says Miss
Allen Miss Bur-
dicks Paper.


| Woman's Club was held yesterday after
noon in Hasbrouck Hall, the subject for
| the day being s'education," in the hands
| of Mrs. w, E. Marvin. chairman of that
| department., and although one of Mrs.
Marvin's speakers disappointed her, the
programme was of exceptional interest
and quite long enough.
Preceding the programme there was
| some business to come before the meet
ing. It is the custom at these meetings
to spend the first half hour in business
preliminaries, consisting of the reception
of new members, roll call, reading of min
utes and business.
The matter of business brought before
the club yesterday was with regard to
changing Section 2. Article Wit of the
constitution. making the hour of meeting
three o'clock instead of half-past three, as
the ladies had evidently been arriving
home too late on club day to suit their
husbands, judging from the Presidents
remark that it would not do to ~aptagonize
the men. Three O'Clock was. however,
found to be too early for the teachers who
constitute a large percentage of the menu
bership, as all business would be trans
acted before they arrived. giving them no
voice in their own club, so the constitution
in this respect remains unchanged.
When this point was settled Tor rather
tabled a lengthy discussion ensued as to
what the club should do to close its mee--
ings at five o'clock according to constitu-
ton, but after fully half an hour a
been spent in this discussion, a particu-
,arly bright member discovered that they
were unconstitutional as according to
that little pamphlet "the executive board
shall transact all business necessary to
the welfare of the club"
BY this time it was half past four, as
Mrs. Marvin noted in her Introductory
speech. n the programme was opened
by Miss Flora Eloise Clark, who sang
Lady Nine" by Hawley, with "Dolly's
Doctor" by Meyer-Helmund, as an en-
core.
Miss Burdick, of the Free Public
Library. then gave/an address on Read
ing for the Young I'm what better
way said she, can a child's imagina-
ton be awakened than by a course OIL
judicious reading? The healthy youthful
mind has a owe for literature and children
will read"
She then urged the Importance of see
ing that children were provided with good
suitable books and reviewed briefly the
changes in juvenile books during the past
century. With reference to Maria Edge
worth's stories, she said, 1--WE have heard
so much about The Purple Jar, that we
wish it had been broken long ago."
"About the sixties" continued Miss
Burdick, began the Juvenile golden age
Of American literature and then pro-
ceeded with criticism on various books
of the day. Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
stood out, she said, mot because it was
true to nature for it was not"
Miss Burdick further said that the
Juvenile literature of today was on a
higher plane than ever before, and
| especially praised Lang's fairy tales,
Robert Louis Stevenson, who has reach
ed the high water mark of juvenile
literature and Rudyard Kipling, 'the
| giant Books for children, she thought.
should be a happy blending of fact and
fiction with a moral and should be put
in the hands of a child as soon as he
was able to read. In the annual report
of the library, Miss Burdick said, she was
especially proud of the fact that S,S73 well
| chosen volumes had been circulated
| among the children through the in
| strumentality of the public school teach
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~ paoa,sa, and M,ss E,ivaheth A Allen
proceeded with her address on THE
ocnooi Oh unrest.
The speaker likened the position of the
average school teacher of the day to the
Roman statute of LAGOON and his SON
graphing With the erpents ms state Oh
| affairs. she said, had arisen out of the re-
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the teacher and pupils found themselves.
The cause for this she laid down at the
IGOR a noli+,cs saving tbat Il was almost
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as easy Tor a camel 70 go through the eye
| of a needle than for an honest man to be
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rectly IN connectlon with tnls sne spoke Oh
the lawful abuse made of the system of
free taxt hooks. nothing how It was a
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