The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-29
State Association Meetings Will
Begin Tonight.
The Attendance Promises to Be
Very Large.
STANLEY TO WELCOME.
Programme includes Addresses
by Prominent Educators.
George E. Vincent, of University
of Chicago, to Lecture.

The Kansas school ma'am seems to be
on the good side of the weather man.
She has a faculty for getting on the
good side of people. At any rate the
weather man sent around a pretty nice
brand of weather today for her visit TO
ToDeka
And she took advantage of 1t. Every
incoming train today has brought the
school ma am to the state capital in
droves. in flocks. in crowds. and in the
cars. BY tomorrow morning there will
probably not be less than a thousand
of her in Topeka She is filling UP the
hotels and the boarding houses and the
politician has to get out of her way.
The street cars are full OF her, and the
man who wants to ride had better walk.
She owns the state house. She throngs
the corridors and Superintendent Nell
sons Office is crowded with her. Every
body is gracious to her, and she smiles
back This is her holiday. and she is
happy. Governor elect Bailey, however,
has been in hiding most of the day. He
has been in his temporary office. the
lieutenant governors. back of the senate
chamber. pretending to work on his
message 1t is a very hard place to
find, and there he is safe from the
crowd. Next year Governor Bailey will
have to welcome the school ma ans to
the city. This would be a good time for
him to practice up on it.
Topeka always looks forward with
pleasure to holiday week. because it
! brings the school ma'ams to see her.
There isn't nicer gathering in the
| United States than the annual meeting
OF the school a'ams of Kansas, and
! Topeka is always glad when they came
They can have anything they want In
the town.
the annual meeting of the State. Teach
ers association. which opens tonight
and Will continue for three days, will be
larger than ever before. There are "A
number of reasons for this expectation
beside the fine weather Iii thu first
place the association does not interfere
with the Christmas celebrations as It
kas rearly always done heretofore. In
former years the association usually
began on Christmas day AMI many
teachers did not like to leave home at
that time. This year it comes after all
the Christmas doin's are over. Then
again the central idea of the meeting
this year is the improvement Of the ru-
raj schools, which appeals to a great
number of teachers who have rot been
attending the yearly meetings of the
sociation.
I'VE expect at least a Thousand teach
ers here by tonight" said SuDe~inrend-
ent Nelson this morning. Already a
good many have come in. some of them
from the extreme western part of The
state. For instance, Wichita county,
which only has Is or 20 teachers all told,
has sent eight of them to the associa-
ton. That is a pretty good showing
for county away out by the Colorado
line"
The first session of the association will
be held in Representative hall in the
state house, beginning at o'clock this
evening. Following it will be & sorr of
reception to the visitors in the senate
oh 1I.ar nj X~af4,1
mornings the general session will be
held in Representative hall, and in the
afternoon all the department sessions
will be held in various rooms in the
state house. The evening entertainments
and lectures after tonight will be given
in the high school auditorium.
The officers of the association are as
follows:
Joseph H Hill, vice president State
Normal school, Emporia. president.
! J. W.Wilson. principal Atchis0n coun-
ty high school, Effingham, first vice
president.
schools, Arkansas City, second vice pres
ident.
w. F. Murray. superintendent King
man county, Kingman, third vice Dresi-
dent.
Bertha Marlatt. superintendent Cloud
county, Concordia, secretary.
| w. c. LansdoE principal high school,
Fort Scott. treasurer
J. w Wilson, first vice president who
will be in charge of the primary DEPART
with county Superintendents and pri-
mary teachers, asking for suggestions
for topics for general discussion of in
| terest in rural primary grades, and he
has prepared the following list from
| these suggestions:
Difference between valuable and time
killing busy work
Idleness among intermediate pupils
i lea rna6 while in urinary dHS-
kindergarten methods in the rural
school,
Industrial training in the schools.
Need of more attention to primary
methods in the county normal insti-
tute.
Moral training a necessary part of pri-
mary education-means method.
Literature of fact VS.. the literature of
fancy as meeting the live needs of chill
dren in the primary grades.
Is it wise to teach fairy stories?
The travelling art gallery
School room decorations
Treatment of defective pupils in the
primary grades.
Incentives to keep up prompt attend
ance
| Nature and influence of morning talks
and readings.
Some of the possibilities in nature
study Drawing as means of express
sio-.-
Nature study the means of moral and
ethical Improvement.
How to awaken interest in the beau
tiful in art literature. nature lives
Classification where attendance is nee
essarily more or less irregular.
The idea that "anv one can teach 1T
tie children''-its results.
Primary reading.
Number and length of recitation per-
iods of little folks in rural schools
Should the state text in spelling be in
troduced below the sixth grade2
Is it advisabl to use copy books ir
the primary grades?