The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-15

Wilder's orchestra furnished music of
which the audience showed it's APP
probation.
The meeting was opened by music
by the orchestra after which President
Adams of the Association introduced
Mrs. Bessie II. Strong of North Pom
fret, the president of the auxiliary,
who acted as chairman. A short Sc
lection entitled "What came to Dilly,"
was rendered by Miss A. Jennie
Palmer, instructor of elocution at
Montpelier Seminary, in a very pleas
ing manner Following this, Mrs.
e. b. Lund of Burlington, vice -presi-
dent at large of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, addressed the
meeting on "Eome building" She
spoke for homes built for health and
comfort with sanitation well looked
out for. She advocated home instruc-
ton by observation, and spoke for
amusements at home. Children who
love their homes and can enjoy them
selves there are not likely to go wrong.
Good home cookery is something
every wife and mother should undef-
stand and teach to her children. A
plea was made for the abolition of the
T liquor traffic and for prohibition and
its enforcement.
After music by the orchestra Miss
Palmer gave the amusing selection en-
titled "Me and Maria" For an en-
core Miss Palmer gave bit of tele-
phone conversation.
Hon. Walter E. Ranger, state SUI
perintendent of education, was next
introduced and spoke on 1.-The life of
the child He introduced himself
as farmer and told of his various
experiences on the farm which en-
titled him to be so called. In brief
he spoke as follows: The Master suf-
fered little children to come unto him
and we had best follow his example.
1t is i'll thinking of and doing for chill
dren that we do our best work No
home is truly such until there is lit
tie child there, and the first born is
the cornerstone of the home. We hear
there is danger of making too much
of children. We may grant that we
sometimes do too much to cultivate
that arrogance and pride and conceit
which so easily starts in a child but
we cannot do too much to build up a
childs' best nature and to bring out
their powers into full strength.
We now give more and more time to
the study of the child but something
more is needed, and that is love and
sympathy. We sometimes long to be
once more children. We may Once
more walk the paths of childhood by
watching and helping the development
of child's nature The best part of
our lives may be the childhood that
still remains in us. Childhood is now
more than preparation for adulthood
The customary graduation sayings are
false. Life begins the minute the
babe is born and every day after is a
day reaching toward the fulfillment of
the objects of life.
We had better take the child's view
of life and be pleased with the bird
and the flower and the doll. You
must know the child in order to teach
him best. Sometimes children have
their sensibilities so injured that they
never recover from the blow, and al
ways suffer from it. When a child
must be denied, as they must very
often, let the child see it is for his
own good, and not ont of spirit of
cruelty. Today we believe child is
by nature innocent and not vicious,
and so instead of trying to beat the
vice out we develop the innocence and
strength.
Thoughts, feelings, purposes, ac-
ton, make up the circle of modern
education. Each person must work
out i'll his own way a method of edu-
eating children We cannot make
good boys or good girls by recipe
Encourage the child to be useful and
to help about the house and business.
The child lives in a world of imagina-
ton, but do not think that he is thus
uniting himself for later life. The
imagination is useful Back of every
conscious educational effort is the
purpose of creation. 1t is our part to
keep the child in touch with the great
spirit of Gods will.
Miss Palmer rendered 1.-The Kinder
gartner's Christmas after which
selection by the orchestra closed the
exercises
Wednesday Forenoon.
The third session of the Dairymen's
Association opened at 10:l5 a. M,
with large attendance. President
Adams first introduced W. r. Brack-
EFT of Boston who spoke from his ex-
perience as a middleman on "A few
points in regard to packing butter for
market. - He spoke for progression
in butter packing and in other lines
of dairying. The day is past when
ICCA
look well will sell as well as neat
packages. He said the butter dealers
have much trouble with the railroads
because of delays in shipment and
suggested that the association pass "a
resolution protesting against such
delays, This would be noticed by
these railroads when individual pro-
tests would not. a plea was made for
sound tubs or packages with corners
securely fastened with tin straps.
We are now competing with Russia
and Australia in the foreign markets.
and it is only by the greatest care
that we can expect to work our way
into that trade
Prof. H. II. Dean, b. S. A., of
Guelph, Canada, was the next speak
er and took as his subject, 1.-THE eff
fects of temperature in curing cheese "
He said he is a believer in men who
do things, and told of what had been
done i'll the cheese factory connected
with his college. He said that he con