Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-12-29
STATE NOTES.

The following program Is ready for
state study.
PRocRAM FOR DECEMBER 1905.
First Meeting Business day; paper,
subject selected. followed by discuss
ion
Second Meet,ng-Household economics
paper, What constitutes good house
keeping; demonstrations, roast meats.
Third Meeting -Temperance day;
study Of alcohol and its effect upon the
body.
Fourth Meeting social day, lecture,
music. reading.
PRooRAM FOR JANUARY 1906.
First Meeting Business day. parli'
mentary drill.
Second Meeting-Mother's day, pa
per, child study. Discussion, baths.
clothing, table manners, religious
training, patriotism, parental rever-
ence.
Third Meeting-Study of physiology
the bones, the muscles and integument
foods, digestion, circulation, pespira-
ton, discussion.
Fourth Meeting-Music day; biogra-
phries OF composers, instrumental and
vocal selections. Discussion; Resolved
that rag time music should be elimi-
mated.
PRoeRAN FOR FEBRUARY 1905.
First Meeting-Business day. Paper
subjects selected.
Second Meeting-Study of civil gov.
eminent, state. government. civil gov
eminent, law, writ of habeas corpus,
tax, civil liberty, international law,
citizens right of suffrage, political
rights. civil rights. Origin Of the
constitution. House OF Representatives
and the Senate, President and vice
President. Electors, how the number
of electors are determined, name the
executive department of the govern
ment, judiciary. the highest court.
who presides, salary received. who is
the chief justice, what is the court OF
claims. power of Congress, outlines OF
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.
Third Meeting-Housebold econo-
mics, papers, subject, tpure food, dis
cussion. demonstrations. selected.
Fourth Meeting-Study of George
Washington, the causes that led to
American revolution. Washington's
administration, and the Declaration Of
independence,
PROGRAM FOR MARCH 1906.
FIRST Meeting-General history; the
three great periods of history, the
time EN- braced in each. and the events
marking their separation. State some
effects of each of the following con
quests: The Mohammedans. the Nor
mans, the Greeks, the Romans.
Second Meeting-The Renaissance
period. Name the most illustrtou
persons of this period.
Tell to what country each be
Ilonged, and in what respect each dis
ltinpuished herself. Gi7e an accoun
of Charles v. Give some account o
the Trogan war, and the literary pro
duction to which 1t gave rise,
| State some important fact in tn
life of of the following persons: Arts
tides, Miltiades, Leonidas, Thermet
tocles and Socrates.
Third Meeting-Give brief accoun
OF Charles OF England. The crusade
The French revolution. Mary Queen {
SCOTS, Queen Victoria.
Fourth Meeting-Social day. priz
spelling bee.
PROGRAM FOR APRIL 1906.
First Meeting-English Literature
Give a short sketch of the life
Chaucer. Name his greatest work
and sketch brie fly its plan. Reading
Canterbury Tales.
Second Meeting-Sketch the rise {
the drama down to the time of Shake
speare. Give the chief facts in Shake
spears life. Describe ten of his DIRE
mas. Name the celebrated contempol
aries of Shakespesr. Reading, Han
let's Soliloquay.
Third Meeting Compare Byron an
Burns, showing wherein their live
were alike, and wherein different
Name the principal works OF escf
Reading, 1.-THE eotters Saturday nigh
"Child Harold"
Fourth Meeting-D Discuss the charat
teristics Of the writings of Thacker
and Of Dickens. Name the principl
works Of each. Reading, WANT
Fair, )" .The Old Curiosity Shop"
PROGRAM FOR MAY 1905.
II First Meeting-Business day.
| Second Meeting-Negro authors
quotations. paper, reading, "souls G
Blask Folk" Discussion.
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