Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-05
with the laws regarding our public
school system.

with the laws regarding our public
school system.
Cultivate acquaintance with the
teachers, their aims, methods and in
l.uence. Experience has proved that
the establishment of kindergartens
usually results, sooner or later, into
the school system, and the success of
this most important part Of the edu-
cation of the child lies not alone in
the worth of Froebel's method, but al
so in the fact that here teacher and
mother touch hands in sympathetic
work
know the sanitary conditions of
your schools. Observe the relation
of seats to the light, which is so little
considered, and has had such disas-
trous results in the defective vision of
the present generation.
AS the training of the child is the
training of the future citizen, urge
that especial attention be given to the
development of civic pride and love
of country, and insist upon having
short time in the daily routine devot-
ed to that purpose.
I'VE believe that public sentiment
can be so cultivated, quickened and
directed that our children will no lon
ger be denied their birthright, the
right to improve every advantage the
state can supply toward an educated
and equipped manhood.
In the furtherance of this purpose,
and to remove a more formidable OBJ
lection to universal education, we ask
you to consider the free text book law,
adopted with such happy results in
other states
Household Economics Committee.
This committee, the members of
which are Mrs. Minnie P. Campbell
Malvern, Mrs Emma Van Vechten,
Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Ida L. Snyder
OF Tabor, is somewhat allied with the
educational committee, in that they
both work for the practical education
OF the children. In the letter from
the household economics committee
in the year book, the following para
graphs appear:
"The household economics commit
tee believes it is justified in saying
that the outlook for this branch Of
club work Is very encouraging, and
the many inquiries reaching us testi-
fy to the fact that our women are
forming truer conception OF the i'm
portant place household economics
hold in the great question of how we
may reach a higher standard of liv-
ing?
What we want is to make a more
scientific study of the home which
will help us to place it on a broader
social and scientific basis. Is it not a
reflection upon us as women that we
have been so long contented to let our
nome affairs rest upon the traditions
of the past?
Why should we be willing to accept
the grave responsibilities of mother
hood, wifehood and home-maker, with
out proper preparation, when every
other avocation of life requires skill
ed workmen. Let us hope to arouse
public sentiment in demand that
when woman assumes the care of a
household she has at least theoreti-
cal knowledge of what pertains to her
duties in the home.
1--WE, should demand that our
daughters have systematic training
in domestic science, and this will only
be possible when our public schools
have this branch of learning added to
their curriculum"
At the Convention.
One of the morning sessions of the
convention will be devoted to these
two committees, and the club women
will be addressed by three speakers