The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

Another OF the three noble women
members of the Chicago board, Mrs.
EmmOns Blaine, has contributed SYM
pathy. intelligent ideas and more than
a million dollars in cold cash to the
cause of public education in her city.
The third of the notable trio of wo-
men school trustees, Jane Adams of
Hull House, the Chicago board of edu-
cation has honored itself by eIecting
chairman of the school management
committee, the most important one of
all Mrs. Blaine and DR.. De Bey are
members of the same committee.
In connection with the development
of the science of GEOLOGY in America
the Iabors of Jane Adams viii stand
prominent and permanent. Hull House
today conducts within itself a school
work which gives instruction to more
than 1000 pupils, men, women and
children. These are mostly foreigners
and persons of foreign parentage The
pupils are those who cannot attend the
public schools, the instruction is such
as the public schools, with their more
or less mechanical system, cannot give.
At Hull House the humanizing prin-
ciples of that pedagogy which takes
into account the threefOld nature of
man, physical. mental and moral, is ap-
piled in daily life and practice. Miss
Adams instituted this kind of edu-
cation in one OF the poorest overcrOwd-
ed Chicago districts fifteen years ago.
ONLY the most illuminated teachers of
the time are good enough to give in
struction at Hull House settlement
and aid in a work that it is an insult
to the human race to name "slum-
ming"
The most distinguished sociologists
of the nations cross the ocean to study
Hull House methods and learn from
Jane Adams success. It will be re-
called that in a recent address Justice
Brewer of the United States supreme
court recommended her for mayor of
Chicago
with the opening of the present
school year Mrs. Ella Flagg Young
took her place as principal of the Chi
cago normal school It is the first time
in America that woman has been APP
pointed head of a coeducational nor
mai school in one of our largest cities.
The salary attached to Mrs. Young's
post is $1,000
Ella Flagg Young is a remarkable
educator The Chicago school super
intendent recommended her for princi-
pal of the normal school and the school
mana cement committee indorsed the
nomination unanimously. President
ridden OF the educational BOARD dc-
quiesced in the judgment of Superin-
tendent Conley and Ella Flagg Young
got every vote.
Ella FIagg was born in Buffalo and
educated in the Chicago schools, from
primary to high and normal. Later
she studied and obtained the degree of
Pm. D. from the Chicago university.
Before she was eighteen she began
teaching in the Chicago public schools.
In 1868 she was married to William
Young, but she did not stop teaching.
| She loved her chosen work too well
for that Always she was thinking.
thinking how her mind could pene-
trata the mind of a child and under
stand it. how comprehend its individ-
uality in each case and help it solve
its intricate problems. She was at
once a natural born teacher, a natural
born psychologist and a lover of chill
dren.
Year by year the power of this clear
J seeing. profoundly thinking woman