The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-06
MR.. TARBELL ADDRESSES
THE PROVIDENCE W. c. T. u.

An interesting meeting of the Provi-
Cieuce- W. e. r e. WITS held Tn the small
hall of the Young Mems Christian asso-
citation at o'clock this afternoon, when
Or Horace Tarbell. superintendent OF the
city schools delivered an instructive ad
dress on the status Of Scientific Temper
ance Instruction In the schools OF Provi-
dence.
The meeting was presided over by Mrs.
+, n. Jackson, the president of the Proyi.
dence w. C. T. L.. who, after devotional
exercises and the reading OF reports. in
roduced the speaker of the hour.
DIR. TarbeITs address was IN part, as
follows:
I'm a report presented 10 the school
committee of this city March q, 1855,
the law I'm reference 10 instruction in the
public schools in physiology and hygeine
with special reference 10 the effects OF
alcoholic liquors. stimulants and narcot-
les. and said that this law is the result
OF the feeling that the evils which this
too formidable 60 be overcome by direct
legislation or by moral suasion IL Is
far-sightcd movement, born OF dis
couragement at past results and looking
to the ACCOMPLISHMENT a score of years
hence or the present methods Of warfare,
with the vantage of an enlightened senti-
ment I'm a new generation trained i'm the
schools to know and appreciate the evils
against which the warfare is waged.
with the purpose OF the law ! declared
myself I'm FUN sympathy and said
LAS II Is now law of Rhode Island
We should execute II IN letter and spirit
'"rhe school committee Concurred IN this
and left the execution OF the law 60 the
superintendent and teachers.
Arrangements were at once made for
this work and during al this time they
have been approx Nimstely what they are
now At present our couse Of study pro-
Vides FOR oral lessons once a week ln the
rtr7rr-rir----t h+.---l4- Rla+S.
dels Physiology FOR Little Folks Dur
Ing the fourth ANA nfth years temper
ance instruction IL provided by q weekly
reading lesson in Blaisdells 'Child's Book
on Health During the sixth seventh
aud eighth wears the pupils study Blais-
delIs our Bodies and How We Live >
taking one chapter each quarter and
making a careful study NJ IT, IN the
ninth year. the last Ia grammar schools.
the pupils study. a. a text book for a
review 80 the subject the book just mem
toned
I'VE have spent differing lengths Of
time upon this book and have. az times
omitted considerable OF it. nut never any
base or paragraph un hygiene or the In
rueuCe OF stimglants and narcotics.
"Iutl recent years physiology was
studied iu the High schools; but ~ has
been thought that the knowledge obtain.
~. a.
for AT cxcept hose making special
studies of such subjects aud the subject
De- not now taueht iu The high schools
''Besldes this weekly Instruction,
Throughout the course becoming daily In
stru, tiou m part OF the last year. We
have 0cvasinual special talks by the
teachers based on incidents occurring or
facts aud opinions recently made known.
THESE usually come in the Lessons op
current Events. For example. n boy in
one OF oar grammar schools has died this
FAN from poism,~ssa the lips contracted
from cigarettes. This WAS used very inn
prcssiveN iu the school to which the
hoy belonged and communicated at one
of the weekly meetings of grammar
school principals for use iu other schools
Besides the work or the use or alco-
hollc stimulants We make strenuous ef-
forts 90 diminish the cigarette habit
among our pupils.
"ln our grammar schools every boy "
urged 90 sign a pledge To refrain from
| tne use Of cigarettes during the school
| ear More than - per cent ~ the gran.
| mar solasal- -hnNs have for AlN-nr- ciaht
wears past sieucd such q pledge. and II is
believed that nearly all 81 them have
| Kept a.
we make this pledge cover the school
| ear only because We think II quite as
| important that y pledge should be felt
1 to b. sacred and inviolabie a. that cigar
| eits should NOT hr smoked
We seek 20 accom- pish our nrfpoee
| With our pupils upon Two main fcunda-
tiens-the scientific -demonsffafion ~ the
1 harm 10 the human system from the use