The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
THE SOCIAL SIDE
By Mrs. J. M. deCottes

HTuEu mlBu uEU Eu . lEl H1 HUAUH0Mlim 1 purpose will receive them to classify and arrange them.
 The festival is to be held from { to | 2 o'clock, and the members of the Flow | CT Growers Association and their | friends are expected to come and enjoy | the feast of beauty and fragrance pro- l vided for them.
 The two articles prepared for the | Flower Growers column have in, In to- days Advertiser, been separated as they l came in at different times. One is by Miss Cozart and the other is by Miss Andrew, Chairman of the Nature Study | Committee of the School Improvement Association. Both are very interesting g articles to flower lovers. as well as to | flower growers. | Ses Y 5S
 FOR MANUAL TRAINING
 IN CITY SCHOOLS. A strong movement is on foot to in- | troduce a practical system of manual training into the Montgomery schools. This will not supersede any of the ex- isting school work It is merely tardy recognition of the immediate necessity for this neglected department This must not be understood as a school for teaching finished trades. It lies beyond the province of the public school to select the trade or profess sion to be followed by any boy or girl. But with a regular kindergarten train- ing of the perceptive faculties. there will be developed, year by year. we'll guided ideas of construction and de- | sign; and always new fields to con- quer in the manual training room The human being is the only animal that possesses a finely developed hard; and it seems that any educational fys- i tenn which fails to emphasize this fact is defective. Pupils must feel a pride in this special gift; and must be | taught to place the intellect in com mand of their physical powers; to con- centrate the attention upon muscular | effort; to use materials with economy. | for the best results. They must learn patience through toll; neatness through the proper sense of the fitness of | things; and they must cultivate the | adaptive faculty, learn to do one thing well in order to apply the same princi- ples to any work thats sthey may aftes- | wards be called to perform. l A sense of power comes to one who | has contemplated even a simple piece of work well done by his own hands; | and it is hard to decide when diff | ferentiation should occur.--the boys work for the boys, the girls work for the girls. What Is good for one is | generally good for both.
 Does this work fall below the plane of the poet, the moralist, the senti- mentalist? If the practical side were swept away you might seek through the primrose paths of all Christendom and, To! the poet you would not find l Efor he would be starved to death The highest ideals are the only ideals to be content withal; yet these ideals are as naught without a practical foun- dation. Imagine City Council with out a treasury; school board voting us beautiful playgrounds for our chill dren without money to buy the prop erty.
 A similar proposition confronts the Montgomery school children. They are kept ten or twelve years and then sent forth with the bencdiction. De part, and be ye comforted." But they are unprepared to meet the obliga- tions of life. They are united to es- tablish homes where they i1ay at ieis- ure contemplate the literary treasures they have received at the hand of the school That is a defective system which evolves a class of helpless citi- zens. The parents who lead strenu- ous life In this city appreciate this fact and they take their children out of school to place them at soms work which will make them independent.
 Something more is needed in the
 
 sociations have taken up this subject for earnest consideration. Each school district has a Manual Training Com mittee, whose object 1t is to ascertain the needs of its school. From the concerted efforts of these committees with a strong public opinion for the background. they hope to evolve a feasible plan for instituting the sys- tenn of manual training.
 The purpose is not to beg. coax threaten, or defy the powers that be. They believe In the Mayor, in the City Council, in the School Board. and in the movement of 1910. Therefore they are preparing to teach the children of the 100, 900 after methods suited to 1910. They are at present, however, teaching the children of the 10000 white people after methods grown old in 1910. K. G.
 SMTTH-RAMSEY.
 Mrs. Asa Alexander Ramsey of Union Springs announces the engagement of her daughter, Pauline. to MT. Archi- bald Stuart Hall Smith. of Scotland Neck. N. C.. the marriage to take place in June.
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 COLE-LUM.
 Mir and Mrs. George English Lum or Birmingham, announce the engage ment of their daughter. Carolyn Lewis, to Mr. Robert Leon Cole, the wedding to take place May 9, at o'clock at the home of the bride. Invitations will be issued to eut-of-town friends only
 wOMAN's HOME TEA.
 The afternoon tea at which the mem