El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-28
Advocated Today By a Speak.
er Before the Con-
vention.
1BE SOCIETY WOMAN
Comes In For a Large Share
of Denunciation, and Her
Bad Influence Said to
Be Far Reaching.

Before the opening Of the Teachers
convention this morning there was
talk of omitting part of today's and
tomorrow's program ard bringing the
convention to close today. The sec-
tions which did not perform the work
allotted to them on the program on
account of there not being suffi ;er c
time will make an effort to do 30 It's
afternoon. The part of the program
| which was not finished last night va
part of the work of the high schoo
section and all of the intsrmedi. te.
the primary and the rural school sec.
| tions.
| The meeting was opened by Prssi-
dent j. B. Dodson, aad "a invocation
was made by Rev. }. T. French.
]. Killpstrick, of Yoskum, read the
first paper, his subject being "School
Id deals." He contsnded that tie mo-
dern school education was not of tie
best and that there the children. es-
pecially the girls, were toe early allow
ed to become aware of the life of a So
cietys women. Girls went through
school without the slie ehsest idea as to
the duties of wifehood aud mother
hood. They knew no more about cook
ing than they had learned by OCCASION
al visits to culinary schools, that is IL
they ever attended suoh places.
The life of the society woman is the
blight OF the country, said he. She
corrupts men in all walks of life by
making of them effeminate beings in
stead of the strong, steady msn they
ought to be. This is exempt fled by the
way army officersactedin the late war.
The society women of Washington had
ruined them and they also are engaged
in making our statesmen effsmineie.
He wanted more men teachers in the
schools of the country on this account.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Kilpatrick's
talk, Mrs John z. Ramsey naaounced
that there would be reception given
the teachers At the court house tonight
aud urged all to attend. All visiting
teachers would be welcome whether
members of the association or not.
P w. Horn then presented& paper
on SIN the Meantime which wa in
tended to show that the children OF
today are better taught, that there is
not the drudgery in learning that
there was twenty years ago. There
are now in the schools of the country
many valuable laboratories for tie
teaching of chemistry, AMI other
studies have advanced 10 the came way.
He thoughtthat toe old rule of placing
the teachers who are jast beginning in
the primary grades was o mistake and
one that was fast disappearing The
children in those grades require
more experienced teacher than the
ones who are further advan ced.
J.S. Kendall, state superintendent OF
public instruction. addressed the meet
ing, and in the talk said that he de-
sired to give an account to the teach rs
Of his stewardship in the Office In
which he had been placed. He bad
made the race for state superintendeLt
on account of many petitions he had
received from the te achers a.d
thought that they we're mainly respo.-
sible for the fact that he received the
largest vote of any other state officer.
TIE teachers of the state were taking
an interest in the schools of the whole
state and they had thrown aside the
policy Of caring only for their local
schools. He complimented the teachers
on the fact that thsy are looking up %
their rights as citizens aud regard
themselves in the light of citizens as
we'll as tea chers.
Mr. Kendall called on the Aim ighty
to witness the statement that he had
always tried to do his dnty as nis cata
of office had compelled him, and that II
he had made mistakes it was his brain
which was st fault aad not his hear.
He wished the teachers Of the state to
write to him in re refereuce to any school