Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-07-23

Paraauy from ne General r. w. Cd
In some states the Clubs are cooperating with the school
boards and doing effective work.
number are devoting much time to child culture and
have the public school teachers among them during discus
sion Of this topic. Ia several towns the club women have
fitted u proems for the youths, making them attractive with
books. games. music, even reading to those who like it, and
giving to all the perfect freedom Of home.
A Massachusetts Club has for two years supported a free
Kindergarten aud held Mothers Meetings, thus educating
not only the chniren but the mothers as well.
It has fitted upin one school a thoroughly equipped model
kitchen. The Club women support a teacher in domestic
science to instructthe girls of the public school on Saturdays.
This Club has secured a course of ten lectures for the
benefit Of the public school children.
It is also looking forward to establishing a permanent
scholarship at Radcliffe College, while perfecting the ar
rangsments for this fund is. at the same time, paying the
expenses of student at that college.
In Connecticut many Clubs are interested in placing
pictures in the school rooms, and have presented the schools
with a goodly supply. Something has been done in the way
of establishing travelling Libraries.
In Rhode Island one Club has provided a fund from which
a scholarship to Brown University has been given to some
young women. Another Club in this state supports a free
Kindergarten. A great deal has been accomplished in this
State by the College Alumnae in the decoration of school
rooms, thus emphasizing the importance Of the study Of art
in the public schools.
Delaware has no compulsory school laws, and Club
women cooperate with the teachers in visiting delinquent
school children and by their persuasive influence endeavor
to place them in school. Corporation exists between the
Club women and teachers, and a committee of public school
teachers meet with the Club women. and together they dis
cuss questions of mutual interest,
There are t~hrty-fve Clubs in the Georgia Federation, and
in each CLUB there is a committee of women who visit the
public schools with a view to becoming useful. The teach.
ers all over the state have aided in forming reading circles
for the young, and Mothers Meetings, where parents and
teachers together discuss subjects of interest to the home
and school.
Ire Club women of Georgia own and operate at least
twenty travelling libraries in the interest of the remote rural
districts, The women will in the future endeavor to inter-
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libraries.
In the far Northwest we find the Club women greatly in
terested in educational work. They have the cooperation
of the prominent educators and teachers and hold a meeting
once ayeari in Convention with the state teachers association.
They also endeavor to secure legislation for the establish
ment of free circulating Libraries. In our state Prof. Boyd,
of Kosciusko, has advanced the same idea. The co-opera-
ton of the Club women with the teachers association in an
endeavor to intererest the legislature in establishing free
travelling libraries. The Club women should give special
thought to this question.
In Alabama the Club women are interested in forming
a public library for Montgomery. These Clubs have estab-
lshed a free scholarship for girls, at Monteveno. and are
educating nine girls at that school.
In Florida the Clubs are at work supporting travelling
libraries, and gathering state history from early settlers
with a view to preserving it. This is fine work for all
Clubs.
The Michigan Club women have secured the erection of
a WOmans Gymnasium at the State University. Club wo-
men have recommended improvements in the school build
Ings and have in several instances secured the tinting of the
walls in the school rooms. The Clubs also recommended
the purchase of a picture, or statue, as a class memorial to
the school by its graduates.
Mothers and teachers meetings are held by the Club
women in almost every town and city of Michigan.
The educational work Of the oldest Club in Illinois isl
pride to the women of that State. The last report showed
that they had assisted financially, 1,4S1 girls to gain educa-
ton.
Many Clubs have formed Round Tables for Child Study,
between parents and teachers, held in the school houses.
Clubs of Kansas are doing great educational work through
external means, in striving tc teach order and neatness, by
identifying parks and grounds, by placing fountains and
watering facilities where most needed. They have the
most hearty support of the Press and the educators of the
State. very interesting meeting was recently held be-
tween the Club Women and State Teachers association
with a view to bringing about unity between the nome and
school,
T~birty-seven Clubs are at work IN Iowa in the interest of
travelling Libraries; some by contributing money and books,
others by establishing and maintaining libraries, Great
effort has been made to develop the artistic taste of school
children by placing pictures in the schools
The school boards in many places have become interested
in this work, and have promised the Club women to obtain
an appropriation to further this laudable object.
BY the Club women of Mississippi securing Legislation
in favor Of compulsory education two evils would be over
come; The ~abolishing of Child Labor, Zone OF the questions
so earnestly urged by the State President at the last Conven-
tion) and Gas Prof. Andrew Sledd, Of Emory College. says),
the well know Southern indifference to Educational enter
prise" Prof. Sledd also says: This conclusion is finally
confirmed by a single fact. mo Southern StateQs96- 1897
has any law for compulsory attendance upon such public
schools az are provided; while every other state in the
UniOn(ax only excepted, three of which were slave states),
has such legal provisions"
Another vital question discussed at the last Convention
was the establishing Of a Free Scholarship at the 4 and Q.
All the Clubs of the State Federation should contribute
toward establishing and maintaining this scholarship. The
Texas Clubs alone are raising $4,000, per annum, for per-