Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14

The corner stone OF this noble monument
will be laid in June and its early COM
pletion seems to be assured. The general
public, therefore, may be interested IN
knowing about the uses to which 1t Will
be put, the need for 1t, and the courses
of study offered at the State Normal
school.
1t is to be a dormitory hall, devoted TO
the daughters or granddaughter of Con-
federate soldiers. II will cost $4,000 ana
will occupy a choice site upon the campus.
1t will have a handsome front, and 1t is
safe to say that the Daughters OF the
Confederacy will be interested in contriv-
ing a comfortable and tasteful interior.
OF the COL students in this school last
year, the large majority were the sons
and daughters of old Confederate soldiers.
The present dormitory capacity OF the
school is only 200, and the school was UNI
comfortably crowded throughout the ses-
sion.
These students teach for a part of the
year, and go to the State Normal school
during their vacation; frequently not lon
ger than ten weeks. The average pay
of common school teachers in Georgia is
only s23 per month, and they are obliged
to enter some school which gives the best
normal instruction for the least possible
money. The cost of living in the dormi-
tory, including all necessary living ex-
the work of the school is thorough with
out being in the least pretentious.
The course extends throughout three
wears and includes the usual academic de-
partments, together with the domestic
arts and sciences, art education, manual
training, and the handcrafts. The depart
ment of domestic arts and sciences has
been fitted out by Mr.. George Foster Pea
body, who pays the salaries of its TWO
teachers, both of whom are southern born
although graduated from the Dread In
stitute, Massachusetts,.
The cooking school was fitted out by Mr..
Robert c. Ogden, of New York The de-
partment of art education and manual
training is under the direction OF Mr.. Fred
]. Orr, whose preparation was had at
Drexel Institute, and Teachers College,
New York.
Mr.. Peabody has recently sent another
thousand dollars to provide the depart
ment of psychology and child study with
the most liberal outfit Of apparatus to
be found in any school in the south. This
work is under Miss Celeste S. Par
rish whose preparation was had at Chi
cago University Cornell and Yale.
Now, 1 understand that the purpose OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy is two
fold; first, to honor the memory OF noble
woman, and second to give chance IN
life to dependent, deserving young Wo-
men, the daughters of a brave, southern
soldiery.
This school Is distinctly a school Of the
great middle classes Of Georgia. 1t bias
for no other clientele. Some months ago
a noble hearted gentleman Of Athens dis
covered a young woman of this class pick
ing cotton with her younger sisters. she
had been used to work in the field all her
life, but was wonderfully bright MINDED
and eager for an education. He took
her out OF the field and has put her INTO
this school where she may stay until
graduatics.
Last week the daughter Of an old Con-
tolerate soldier was forced to go into
cotton mill in Atlanta. Her father IS an
invalid with only his pension, to live upon.
Her mother is dead. Her old home Is
broken up. When the case was stated to
generous-hearted man of means the money
was promptly furnished for her education.