Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-12
ORLEANS COUNTY SUMNER SCHOOL.

The following article on the Sum
! mer School was written tor our issue
/ Of Aug. 5, but we were unable to use
/ it at that time and therefore give it
this week.
An audience of teachers and towns
/ people assembled in opera hall Tues
day evening to listen to Miss Arnold's
izen" Miss Arnold is very fluent
speaker and she never hesltates to
find a word to express her meaning.
She speaks in a conversational style
with Iucidity of expression so as to
leave no doubt as TO her meaning and
fills her theme with most apt illustra-
tions taken from her own observation
or experience. IF it be a fact that
1.-THE best teacher of a child is it's
mother, and the next best teacher is
the one most like the mother" Miss
Arnold must be one Of the best of
teachers, for she impresses one with
! large heartednees which would take
in all the children of all the schools
over which she presides. Some of the
! thoughts Of her lecture were as fol-
lows: every lesson which we teach
the child has to do with the future
citizen. What is the school doing for
our coming citizen? In it we must
make our citizen to be intelligent, and
intelligence means more than book
knowledge. knowledge should end
in nirO Crnn6 To tho 0noT010 Of
munity, the doing something to better
our country. We teach with knowl
edge uprightness and honesty. Our
future citizen should be self govern
ing. The schools are helping the
children to acquire this power. The
citizen should be capable of the high
est patriotism. How are the schools
/ helping our children to be more up
right, intelligent and patriotic citi-
zens? How much deeper and more
enduring is the making of character
than the teaching OF arts and sci
ences. Education makes men more
independent. How narrow the life
Of one who cannot read. When we
read of the events that are transpiring
anywhere in the world how our lives
are enlarged as we enter into the ex
periences of others. A we'll read man
j. cultured man. A spiritual help
! comes to US through the ability to
read. We are stronger and Drawer
and nobler because we can read. The
glory of America is that every boy
, and girl may go to school. Are our
schools doing anything to make our
boys and girls to be more upright?
High ideals are placed before our
children continually. The heroes of
] literature and history impress them
| selves on the children's lives" All
! these ideas were illustrated, showing
how the schools are developing char
acter as we'll as intellect, nobility,
patriotism, unse!fshness aud all the
elements which go to make the truest
and noblest manhood.
Thursday evening the teachers and
many other young people assembled
at Sewers opera hall for an informal
reception, and to become better ac
dodLIlC0 Will OdCI1 OUAO4s 14O1A' l.
w. Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin, Walter
, D. Parsons of Woodstock, County
Examiner E. G.. Baldwin and Rev. A.
B. Blake received and after introduce
tons an impromptu literary and
musical program was given for the
entertainment of those present; and
we doubt if it could have been much
bettered if it had been carefully pre-
pared beforehand The fact was
there was talent enough present to
have presented a first class enter
tainment at a moments notice. The
program was opened by piano solo
by Mr.. @. Stevens Of Charleston fol-
lowed by vocal solo by Mrs. Cora
Prime. Miss Lothrop of Barton Land
ing sung song and Miss Ewens of
North Troy gave a dramatic reading
on "The Earthquake of Charleston,
South Carolina.'' Miss May Wheeler
of Irasburgh gave a whistling solo.
Miss Lucille Prime sang song and j.
L. Briggs of Attleboro, Mass, played
a difficult piano solo; Charles Stone
favored the audience with selection
and Master Give Seaver of North
Troy ittingly closed the program by
little pleasantly. Interspersed was
marching to piano accomplishments
by different pianists. 1t was a most
+ enjoyable occasion FOR teachers, in
structors and visitors, especially
those who have been under the strain
of hard class work, for it gave them
the relaxation needed to prepare