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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
SOME CHRISTENING CLOTHES.
MISS CHICAGO TELLS OF THE BAP-
TIsMAL SHOES SHE is TO PRE-
SENT TO HER GODCHILD.

The Whole Outfit Comes in n white
Box. With the Baby's Name on the
Top Some Christening slippers
Are of Gold and silver Tissue,
SuperbIy Embroidered other
Pretty Fripperies for Well Dress
ed ChiIdren-MnIsie's White Or
candle Crisp as French Pastry.
New York, June 22.-"There Is no doubt
that summer is no longer y'cummin' in, as
the spring poem of the middle ages has
1t, but the season has already arrived
and with a vengeance that calls for a
powerful protection of organizes" an
nounced Maisie as an excuse or explana-
tion of the snowy frock. crisp as French
pastry, in which she adorned the top step
of the vine clad veranda.
In white organdie. based upon a white
lawn underdress, she looked like a sum-
mer cloud stopped down from heaven.
Down from her waist ran to her knees lin
gerie tucks picked up in the organdie, two
in each group, spaced a few inches apart
Three times this tucked extent of skirt
was latidudinally barred with entire deux
of family cream Renaissance insertion,
and below the lowest line of lace frothed
out her side pleated annex fiounce Of or
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

bordered with lace. 81 am dressed. YOU
observe, In this soft silk and fun train to
greet flock Of babies asked in to eat
Jack Horner pie and sponge coke with my
6-year-old daughter.
Little Folks FInery.
ALREADY four young ladies' have ar
rived, and / must admit their gowns are
charming. All of them, save miss who
has but just learned how to walk, are
wearing thin black Isle hose and low, one
strap, slippers Of soft French kid. Patent
leather Is now regarded in the same cat
egory as diamonds and long skirts, too old
for little girls. Brown shoes for out Of
doors, and the morning TO quaint, plain,
lowheeled slippers for the house and dress
occasions. Nearly all the little maids
have their locks falling free about their
shoulders with one tress caught up on
the left side and tied over the brow with
big bow Of gauzy pink, blue or green
ribbon. One or two of my small CUES q
even wear these gay top knots OF wired
pastel tinted taffeta cut from the piece
and made as artfully and carefully as
the agrettes Of tulle and feathers for
their mammas. There are two bewitchlng
pink bauste frocks on my lawn now. one
Is IN stripes of rose and white. the skirt
quite plain, the fun body made with a
yoke Of cream embroidered lawn, finishe>
win wide shon'her frill OF the same. Tho
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
CUBAN SCHOOLS AND
TEACHERS.
ENTIRE ISLAND WROUGHT UP OVER
COMING EXCURSION TO UNITED
STATES.

How the Present Educational Sys-
tenn Was Created-BIOcked Out and
Perfected by Alexis Everitt Frye,
Present superintendent of Instruc-
ton on the Island.
Havana, June 1S.-For months all Gu
ba has been in a ferment over the coming
excursion of teachers to the United
States, and as the date of lts departure
approaches, excitement concerning it Is
rapidly nearing fever heat This is not
surprising since the excursionists are to
number 40, are to be selected from the
schools Of the entire island and their
whole expenses are to be paid by che
United States government and the author -
tiles of Harvard University and their
friends. Such an excursion from any part
Of the United States to another would
rouse general interest throughout the
whole country.
This remarkable enterprise was planned,
and all its details blocked out by Alexis
Everett Frye, superintendent of the Cuban
schools. The idea of such an expedition
took possession of him soon after he as
sumed charge of the islands educational
system. In carrying 1t out, he has been
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

war there were virtually no children IN
school at all not even in Havana and
the larger cities. Most Ct the phochlal
sehCos even, Wee disbanded, and in a
lopu alton OF about a million ard a EaH
the education Of the children was quite
forgotten.
In November, 1898, after almost year
of American occupation, the reports show
ed a nominal school enrolment of only
about 10000 pupils. To the Cuban secre-
tary of justice and public instruction in
Gen Brooke's cabinet had been entrusted
the work of drawing up a school law, but
it had been drafted along the lines of the
Spanish regime, and its schedule was an
impossible one. presenting such manifest
absurdities as the teaching of higher math-
ematilE to Children of 10.
Down to this time the enforcement or
law and order and various strictly sanitary
and military problems mad occupied the
energies Of the American Officials in Ha-
vana, but il was now evident that the Sc
rious matter of founding a system Of pub
lie schools could no longer he delayed.
Ii was then that Mr.. Frye cana to Cuba
a the suggestion of The Secretary of War
and on the invitation of Gen. Brooke,
whose personal friend he was.
Mr.. Frye's Work.
Mr.. Frye investigated conditions thor
oughly and made an unofficial report TO
Gen Brooke 1t was plain that nothing
could be done without a new and practical
school law. One hot evening Mr.. Frye
went home and worked till morning by the
light of the candles. The next day he
took a workable law TO Gen. Brooke. 1t
was promptly signed by the Cuban secre-
tary of justice and public instruction, and
at last the foundation was laid. From that
hour to this no changes have been made
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and there one saw pictures of miiitarv
heroes, Lord Kitchener conspicuous among
them
And there's where e sat at table, as
can just remember, i'm, little lad
"Stalky g. Co." l think is not so eose.a
book for boye as for their teachers and
their maiden aunts. The trio are, in many
respects, boys of the Stone Age, as I be-
lieve some one in the book suggests. Thev
answer to Platos famous definition: "Ot
all animals, the boy is the most unman-
ageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain
of reason in him not yet regulated he IL
the most insidious, sharp-witted and in
subordinate of animals" Its not brutal
n.y. says the tutor, Hartopp; ITS boy,
only boy
In the head, the chaplain, and "little
Hartopp," the book has a saving remnant
OF human teachers. but the chaplain re-
marks: Never again will I forget that
master is not man" In "Stalky & CO..
it is the teacher as Ounce who takes his
turn. This shriveed man is pathetic, be-
httIed by living continually with his in
feriors-the man who has taught Latin
so long that he talks like a translation of
Cicero. King addresses Bette: Come
FORTH thou inky buffoon. You supply 1
presume, the doggerel for this entertain
ment Esteem yourself to be, as it were,
a poet?" (That quasi is delightful)
The photographed bits ure inter-
esting: Beetle taking to books in the IL
brary of the Head, who would read here
verse and. here another of these poets,
opening up avenues" Beetle editing the
school paper; Beetle the laureate of the
school, their songster and spokesman;
his pen the torment of the mas ters--"You
see l can always make him hop with
some more poetry"
10 was always wrltin'," says Foxi-
bus; sometimes it was for the Bideford
paper all unbeknown. You couldns keep
him from writin' then no more than now"
Everywhere the little red sergeant
seemed beWildered as to his own identity,
perplexed TO find himself both inside and
outside a book, at the same time. The
old soldier had been twenty years in the
army school at Westward Ho but plain
ly the most wonderful experience of his
career had been the entertaining and dis
cplining of a genius unawares To be
years after introduced to the world by this
troublesome lad such was the romance
of Foxibus, the little rcd sergeant
tbs IMMORTAL fane the gintleman's
goin' to give up" says Mr.. Kipling's Null
vaney.
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TO the United States. when he perfected
the plans for the teachers excursion, and
he lay i'll for some time in Boston. hut
even from his sick bed he dictated cores
pondence and gave directions for carry
ing our the plan.
Mr.. Frye is q graduate Of Harvard has
been principal Of the Quincy, Mass, High
School, and superintendent Of schools i'm
California, and a teacher Of methods in
the Chicago Normal School. He has Ice
tured before teachers associations IN
nearly every state in the union, ard IS
the author of a round dozen Of success sful
text books. His home is now in South
ern California, where he engaged in the
raising Of horses and the culture Of
oranges.
Cuban Opposition.
Al the beginning Mr.. Frye met with
violent opposition on The part OF the Gu
bans. They fancied that his sole object
in establishing a public school system,
avowedy based on THAI of the United
States was unduly to "Amor.canize" the
Cubans and further annexation This
report ran like wildhre all over the ISL
and; the newspapers broke out in viru-
lent and scath!nE editorials and not a
day PASSED that Con. Wood was mt re-
quested to discharge this purveyor OF
pernicious education. ana letters and pc
titions. against the new system poured
in from an sources for weeks. During
chat period Mr.. Frye was the most cor
daily hated American on the island.
Then the bubble of opposition collapsed
and the reaction set in. To-day the food
tide Of native enthusiasm over Mr.. Frye
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

from the ground up.
This is strictly true. In all my travels
in Cuba, from 1895 to 1898, which took me
from Cape Maysi to Cape San Antonio, /
never saw one school house-that is to
say a building built and occupied solely
for gchC oil purpo es. such as we have in
the United States. There were houses used
for alleged school purposes, and these l
saw, but they were without exception
buildings devoid of sanitary appliances.
miserable as TO light, totally inadequate
as TO accommodations aud utterly bare
of the modtrn and indispensable adjuncts
for educational purposes with which even
most Of our country districts are now
supplied.
In these houses the teacher, and often
his family, liz ed. the house being given
rent free. One room was ser aside for
the school, and there the children. were
huddled in promiscuous fashion. seated
on a variety of seats, ranging from
wooden bench to "A mambi chair, made Of
"A wooden frame. AMI covered with uu-
tanned h de; in some Instances there were
no seats at all and the children squa; ted
on the floor
The teacher always had a salary prom
Is a. but IL was never paid though he was
allowed 10 collect TUITION from the parents
of such pupils as were able to pay. There
was no school law; there was 70 course
OF study; there were no teachers exam
nations; no school board. no supervision.
no regulation, no supplies. None OF these
was included i'm the farcical thing which
Spain called the educational system of
Cuba.
AT the close OF the Spanish American
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

child wears a big pink Liberty satin bow
In her chestnut hair, and a very narrow
ly folded girdle on long rear sash ends
of the ivory tinted lawn.
Empire Styles and Much Batistc.
Her sister wears a figured pink batiste,
fine and soft as null, with a yoke and
sleeves all prettiiy rucked. Another
youthful beauty. is in white, crisp pine
apple grenadine, with a yoke of Nalen-
ctennes. knots Of cherry ribbons on her
shoulders and a quaint belt of lace bead
ing. through which narrow ribbons run.
Her graceful sleeves are in two pieces.
a puff on the shoulder ending in beading
and ribbon, and then the full long sleeves
to the wrist are finished like the bottom
OF the puff"
What is Pauline arrayed In for her first
afternoon tear" queried Maisie.
In an empire creation" smiled the
fond mother. 1T is pale blue Indian mus
lin, short upon her chubby aims, ana CIT
open bit about her plump neck. The bot
tom of the little skirt is very el1borately
hemstitched, and then very foil frill of
Valenciennes whipped 10 the edge OF that.
Right up under her fat arms Il beading
runs, and blue ribbons threaded through
this gather the gown in very short en-
pire waist line and knot in a big friugy
bow"
Christening Clothes.
Sweet" exclaimed the visitor, appre-
ciatively as they came in view of the
lawn full OF children, dancing about like
flowers in the breeze. THAT baby in the
embroidered white muslin with the Fol y
frll about the yoke Of lace and the white
kid shoes is d beauty. By the way, l
am a godmother and the business Of one
under such vows Is to present the child
not only with appropriate silver and
string of coral beads, but the christening
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

travelling expenses to the seaport from
which the transport will SAIL and incl
dental individual outlay. The women
teachers will have accommodations in the
homes of private citizens: the men will
be lodged I'm the dormitories. The women
will dine in the beautiful Memorial Hall
and another large new building, with
spacious reading rooms and parlors in
charge of a Cuban woman, has been es-
pecially prepared as a meeting and rest
ing place for them. The government
transports on which they will sail are the
Burnside, the Mcpherson, the Mcclellan.
the Crook and the Sedgwick. Sailing day
is June 25.
Soon after the excursion was announced
a discovery was made on the part of GER
tain persons here that it would be highly
improper for several hundred young Gu
ban women to go junketing TO the United
States under the guise of an educational
excursion unchaperoned and without the
restraining influences and moral benefits
supposed to attach 10 constant espionage.
This discovery was followed by general
outbreak in the Cuban press, which lasted
for about ten days, Mr.. Frye being ence
more placed under fire, while the usual
threats were made TO issue an appeal
"signed by the best citizens of Cuba" to
be presented to Gen. Wood, forbidding The
trip A general lowering of the moral
standard and a debasemeut of woman
hood shocking to contemplate were pre-
dicted as inevitable results of such tour,
and Cuban mothers were implored to send
their daughters TO Cabanas before they
would allow il. In the meantime hun
dreds of letters were pouring in on Mr..
Frye every day from teachers all over
the island, chiefly women, imploring to
be taken on the excursion and urging ev-
cry possible reason why they personally
should be included. Then 1t was discover
ed that Mr.. Frye had provided a num-
Der of Cuban women to accompany the
party as ehaperones. The sudden hub
BILE of opposition was pricked once more
and preparations for the excursion are
now going merrily forward.
George Reno,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

in the law, either by Gen Brooke or Gen.
Wood and its success is assured.
The field was now clear for Mr.. Fryes
work, and he set about it with character
istic energy. He had previously Volun-
teered TO serve five years in the Philip
pines without pay, and he offered his ser
vices here on the same terms. A salary
of 5000 was offered, but declined. He is
now receiving the same salary his first
assistant, $500, but ne has never kept
for his own use any portion of this, &C.
voting it each month to relief work among
the more needy schools.
Mr.. Frye is unusually well endowed for
his work, both by temperament and train
ing. His energy is remarkable; his pa
thence boundless; his courage and cheer
fulness unfailing. From the beginning he
has labored early and late; his overtaxed
system gave way during his recent trip
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

candle. Through yoke of lace her Shout
ders showed in pearly pinkness, and the
tucked sleeves had the new elbow decora-
ton of frills, with an arrangement of
lace to the wrist that suggested, while it
did not exactly copy the new mode of the
under sleeve. over the top of her delicate
rice straw bonnet two white Piumes nod
ded and a big scarf of white silk muslin
was drawn full under the rounding chin.
while big fringy parasol guarded the
radiant vision from the justly curious
sunbeams.
You look like one of the lilies Of the
field" said the hostess coming forward in
a striped lilac and black foulard, powdered
with wee white dots and adorned to perfec-
ton by q folded collar and stole ends of
white silk muslin, garnished with a big
lace medallion, and a collar of muslin
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

shoes. I bought my baby an adorable
pair of white silk sandals exquisitey
worked in white ribbon embroidery and
seed pearls. That's the latest christening
wrinkle, and with the shoes the white
spun silk stockings must be given, and
the whole outfit comes in a white box
covered with satin paper and the baby's
name on the top.
''At the shop where bought my baby's
shoes they showed me wonderful pairs of
christening slippers of gold and silver
tissue and of silk and satin superbly en-
broidered in white silk with gold and sill
vcr thread. On some of them they work
the crest of the babys family or the lit
tie strangers own initials inside a wreath
of flowers"
Just at this point Miss Chicago came
mincing over the lawn in white linen
skirt and a waist of striped aud dotte 4
foulard with a novel and becoming Shout
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24

well supported by the entire faculty of
Harvard University. and particularly by
President Elliot. Gen. Wood has also
Endorsed and helped the scheme material
ly, and War Secretary Root has shown his
approval in the most practical manner, by
designating the five largest transports
in the service to take the teachers from
Havana to the states You have probably
read already of the support afforded the
scheme by the people of Cambridge, who
will entertain the teachers while they are
on American soil.
Cubn's school System.
The organization of an educational sys-
tenn was one of the most serious problems
which confronted the American admnis-
tration of the island when 1t took hold.
The problem was not to remodel an exist
ing system since there was literally no
system to remodel; 1t was to build anew,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
A TEXAS WONDER.
Halls Great Discovery.

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covery cures ali kidney and bladder
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kidneys ara bladder in both men and
women, regulates bladder troubles in chill
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and Will cure any case above mentioned.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
Read This.

Covington. Ga, July %. 1898.
This is to certify that I have used DR.,
Halls Great Discovery for rheumatism
Kidney aud Bladder Troubles, and will
say il is tar superior to anything l have
ever used for the above complaint. Very
respectfully,
H. l. HORTON, Ex-Marshal.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
Nj "A ARIA
Chills and Fever, Fever and AEne
Conquered.
Railways READY RELIEF

Not only cures the, patient seized with
this terrible foe to settlers in newly set
tied districts. where the Malaria or Ague
exists, but II people exposed to 1t will.
every morning on getting out of bed
take twenty or thirty drops Of the Ready
Relief in glass of water, and eat, saw.
cracker, they will escape attacks. This
must be done before going out
There Is not a remedial agent In the
world that will cure Fever and Ague
and all other malarinl. bilious and other
fevers' aided by Railways Pills, so
quickly as
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-11-06
Virginia Debt
Dntsall |
is TOO GOOD
a Fellow to Have Some Kinds
Of Friends.

Clever Com. Do,son, a. we have
heretofore intimated, is too good a
fellow to have some kinds of friends.
The name Of -. II. Leonard is well
known to many and nearly all Of our
readers. He is n well known Demo
cratic politician, and here is what he
said in speech at the Senatorial
Convention that nominated Com.
Doison. This is the report MS taken
from an exchange:
nominations for Senator were
then called foT. John NJ. Hamilton.
of Calhoun, presented the name of
Col. J. ID. Wolverton, of Parkers.
burg. Judge McCluer nominated c.
ID. Dotson.
"Col. Dave Leonard second the
nomination Of WoIvcrton, and sprung
the first sensation of the convention
He said that the convention was con.
fronted with danger fit didn'r
nominate the right man. He said
Col. Wolverton could carry the dis
triot, but he doubted if another mar
(meaHirg Dotson) could. He said
there was nothing particular agains
Dots)r, but he was not Il strong man
any longer. He said, Gentlemen
he is the only man who voted agains
the resolution which said that We
owed nothing to Virginia, a practical
admission, on his part, that we du
This is the one blot in his publ,
course. Under these peculiar cir
cumstances is the danger If defeat
in the event of-nJtsom's nomination.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-11-06
Washington District.

notice in the CHI onicle short
time ago, an editorial concerning
Nathan Jarvis fine qualities as IL
member of the county court, will say
heartily agree with you on that
point.
Nathan Jarvis has clean record
and good straight forward business
man in every particular. He is a
man that would fill that office
with credit to himself and honor to
those who voted for HIN. a vote
for Nathan Jarvis for member Of the
county court is vote in the right
direction. As this Office is very
important one it should be filled by
one not controlled BY any man or set
Of men. LITTLE MAN.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-11-06

Quoted drtnified canvass ard has
endcavored To meet as many of the
citizens as the limited time of the
campaign would allow. His record
as member of the State Senate
proves that he will be of immense ben.
eft to his constituents in Congress
"In Jim Hughes the people of his
District have hustllng, able and
honest candidate, whose past record
is without stain, and who can and
will do as much for the district aud
its people rs any congressman we
have ever had, aud he will be elected
by an overwhelming majority, but
the Republicans must be on their
guard against all kinds Of false re-
ports and dark and devious tricks
State Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-11-06
Grn"No'ISd
ton.
TRUTH GREATER THAN
FICTION.

1t has been on every tongue in this
county, for few days, that in
speech made by L. L. Eodges, at a
Democratic meeting at the mouth of
Daniels run, he exhibited quite
large roll of bills and stated that he
had gotten them from Judge Blizzard.
The following details about this mat.
ter are interesting:
On the day before this speech was
made 5. Nj. Mccoy, one of our best
citizens, came to the editor of this
paper and told him that Tom Hodges
had made the landing on Com. Dot.
SON for $50. A little later Mr.
Hodges came into the Chronicle office
and We editor saw in his possessionr&
large bunch of bills, but Hod %s
Iaughingly said he had gotten part
of it from the Democratic State Com.
mittee. This took place in the pres.
ehce OF y. III. Cradduck, editor of the
Signal and member of Mr.. Do;son's
committee. Some time afterwards
Hodges left town and it is known on
reliable authority that he (HIodges)
went t" said meeting in company with
&. ID. Dotson.
Mr. Hodges voluntarily makes aft.
davit, III his own hand writing, and
authorizes its publication, which
clearly shows that said roll of bill,
come from no Republican sources
Did &. ID. Dotson furnish Mr.. Hodge.
with said long green?" 1t j.
hardly necessary to argue the ques
tion. Following is the affidavit: