Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-16
MOTHERS TALK
OF CHILD STUDY
CULTURE AND CARE OF YOUNG
DISCUSSED
Many Interesting Lectures Delivered
at Annual Congress at Ebell Club
House--Edueationa Topics
Are Chosen

with the child when he is punished'"7-
Mrs. A. b. Cass.
"See that your children are clean and
give them good food for luncheon'-
Mrs. r. N. Hutchinson.
"Give the child cu1ture."--Mrs. Mary
Foy.
"Do not feed your children too much
cereaI food. n Ia not good for them."-
Mrs. e. c. Moore.
"Do not buy ndulterated foods pay
well for what you get and have it good"
Mrs. o. Shepherd Barnum
A sextet of interesting speakers ap
peared before the members of the Cali
fornia Congress of Mothers and Child
Study Circles which had their annual
meeting yesterday in the Ebell club
house.
The problems which are so harassing
to the mother and the teacher in caring
for the child were discussed, and ways
and means of making the relations be-
tween the home and school life closer
were devised.
The circles propose to have the same
methods of education physically, moral
ly and mentally taught in the home as
well as in the school, so that the child's
life will be in harmony and one-half of
his days teaching will not conflict with
the other half
The mother vas cautioned to save
the teacher as much as possible and
not judge her unjustly. Mrs. Cass ad-
vised the mothers not to tell Johnnie
when he came from school and said he
had been kept in that she was sorry
and that it was too bad, for it fostered
the spirit of INSTRUMENTATION.
1t was also suggested that the mother
make 1t her duty to visit the school fire.
quently and get acquainted with the
teacher and become familiar with the
studies taken.
Several of the speakers suggested that
the mother and teacher should get to-
gether and talk over the little oddities
and peculiarities of the child so that
each would find it easier in dealing
with him.
Keep Children Clean
Mrs. Cass was very emphatic on the
subject of Fairgrounds being provided.
She thinks that in playground boy
has so much larger scope for his ener-
gies and that he meets the boys he
wants to in place that is good and
clean and not on the streets. She says
a boy needs play and plenty of it, and
we ought to provide all that we are
able so that he can play.
Mrs. r. N. Hutchinson says that IL
the children were sent to school clean
a great load would be lifted off the
teacher. She also declared that great
deal of the illness on the part of the
children comes from the parents giving
them money for lunch. She thinks that
If the mother would give the child
good wholesome lunch from home it
would be so much better, since If the
child spends the money he invariably
buys cheap unwholesome food or
cheaper candy.
Mrs. Mary Foy gave an excellent talk
on the work the child should do in
school. She emphasized the fact that
q mass of detail does the child no good,
he soon forgets it. but he should be
taught in a way that would show him
how to study with both pleasure and
profit. Mrs. Foy thinks that the work
should not be made such drudgery
but should be given in a way that
would give the pupil line of thought
which he could work out for himself
and thus become interested in it on his
own account. She said:
Teach Them SeIf-control
''There is too much commercialism in
the air now for the good of the average
child, and more attention should be paid
to giving him culture. The three most
important requisites in child's char
acter, and three that should be taught
by the school life as well as by the
home, are courage, self-control and
truth"
Mrs. o. Shepherd Barnum talked on
the subject of food adulteration, tell
ing the various fakes and how to avoid
them, and cautioning the housewives
most particularly against thinking that
they could get pure stuff for half price,
as is claimed by many firms.
The physical care of children was dis
cussed by Mrs. e. C. Moore, and she
said that in her opinion if child We're
sent to bed clean, given plenty of fresh
air while sleeping and then fed a good
wholesome breakfast without too much
cereal food he would be healthy.
Many other helpful suggestions were
given. This annual meeting is held for
the benefit of the suggestions which
the different circles can give each other.
During the year the mothers, through
the medium of the circles, enlarge their
econe and line of vision in rasinp their