Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-19

gartens for the children of women employed
away from home more methodical ar
rangements as to domestic affairs, and
other benefits might be confidently hoped
for.
1.-The influence of such system of in
structfon properly conducted must soon be
impressed upon the whole class for whose
uplifting 1t Is designed. The constant sight
of tidy, well-mannered, orderly young col
ored people going regularly to their tasks.
bearing away with them the benefits they
have acquired, and putting them in prac-
tice in their humble homes, and in the fam
HES of their employers, would surely raise
the standard of all in domestic employment.
A wholesome ambition would take the place
of indifference, the prospect of better
wages for satisfactory service would slim
ulate the most laggard to efforts in the di-
rection of efficiency.
In time we might hope that the lower
class of colored people, now most annoy
ing and unreliable dependence for domes-
tic service, would be abolished in the only
way the lower classes can ever be abol-
ished, by raising them in decency, virtue,
honesty and Self-reSpect.
Among the Mountaineers.
The last paper was by Miss Helen Dan
gerfield of Kentucky, on Social Settlement
and Educational Work Among Kentucky
Mountaineers." giving an account of the
work done by bands of women among the
highlands of the blue grass state.
Following the papers there was a gen.
eral discussion of the condition of the
negro in different parts of the United
States Addresses were made by q number
of well-known colored people, including
Andrew F. Hiyer and Mrs. Mary II. Ter
rel of this city and Robert Pelham of De-
troit, Mich.
The Library of the Future.
Libraries and their future relation to the
people was the theme considered at the
session last night. DIR. Anderson read a
paper written by Melville Dewey, state
librarian of New York, on 1.-The future of
the library movement in the United States
in the light of Andrew Carnege's recent
gifts The most important effect of the
latter, Mr.. Dewey thought, would be the
interest in the library movement thereby
inspired. The present was the library age
Old-time librarians were merely jailers of
books who were required only to look after
the safety of volumes in their charge. To-
day the librarian must be master of an eX-
acting profession. The library of today
was the great center for educational in
hCence, especially for adults, which was
as necessary as the elementary education
of the young.
Mr.. Dewey's views of the future of the
library movement were optimistic. The
idea of travelling libraries would spread
and more SparSely settled portions of the
country would receive the benefits of the
system. Books would inevitably become
cheaper as facilities for their making in
creased and became more simplifed 1t
was probable that the great libraries of
the future would be book stores as well
as book repositories; that they would sell
as well as lend books. The establishment
OF great library press for the publica-
ton of such books as would be purely of
benefit to humanity, to publish the worlds
best literature at cost for libraries, as well
as for buyers, would be an immense infu-
ence for good. 1t would be as proper for
the government to give the public the re-
suit of the worlds record experience as to
give them good water, good roads and
good drainage. Mr.. Dewey suggested that
the future would soon see improvements in
the size and printing of books; their pages
would be narrower and the type and press
work fitted for giving the reader the bene-
fit of the thought, with the least strain or
the eve and the brain
In the discussion that followed interest
ing remarks were made by Prof Raymond
OF Princeton University, F. Il. Sanborn
Mrs. Ora Langhorne, DIR. Wayland and
MIR. Wood of South Carolina the latter
describing the need of libraries in south
ern rural districts and the excellent re-
suits from the few already established in
those sections.