The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01

ms smile which makes the daughter feel
that she has fulfilled her mothers ideal.
We snail have fought half the battle
physical weakness is not a desirable
condition. II usually means that the
girl has sinful ancestors an unwise
mother or an unhealthy home. lrreg
uIar habits in the home, bursts of tenn
per and evening parties begun in child
hood and continued through life so weak
en- the girls constitution that from the
preparatory to the finishing school she
is prepared for nothing but a rest cure
and finished for usefulness.
4 should be far from Directing to any
thing that would add to the beauty and
grace of woman but | would give her
the beauty which comes from good health
and pure mind and the grace of man.
ner which comes from habitual uncon-
seriousness of self and thoughtfulness of
others.
Finally. 1 should say, educate the
girl as you would be boy, in the broad
est sense of the word. Bring out and
train all her faculties so that in the end
she may not feel i failed here through
ignorance when I might have been wise. :
Educate her body because from it shall
flow the physical strength of the next
generation: educate her mind. so that her
strength of limb and feature shall be- an
index of inward strength. Above all. edu-
cate her soul, so that, like strain of
beautiful music she may move through
this workaday world leading mems
thoughts above the sordd and the ma
terial to other heights"
Miss Johnson's Talk.
Miss Martha johnson of the Salt Lake
City schools followed with brief talk
on THE Value of Physical Education"
Miss Johnson's talk was given without
notes, and was followed by three exam
Piles of the work as carried out in its per-
lection under her system, the Highland
fling the Amazon Irill and the frUnGV
dance, all given beautifully to music fur
nished by Mrs. A. H. Peabody. Miss
Johnson said in part:
Education must mean physical, mental
and moral health. The ancient Greek
said: Cultivate the soul of man. Plato
and Aristotle taught that the body was
crude and awkward and an encum-
berance of the SOUL and must be trained
if it is to aid in mans spiritual. develop
ment. During the middle ages the de-
| velopment, for any reason whatever, was
despISed. The soul was developed at the
expense of all else.
But today science tells us of an organic
unity of mind and body. Man is a living
! organism and one part is organically re-
| lated to every other part. Abuse one and
| the effect is felt upon all.
"As it is the man. the future citizen of
/ the country, whom We are training in the
| schools, il is absolutely necessary that we
fully supply all the demands OF. his three
mar develop the mind; music and art,
the soul, and physical education rounds
| out the whole and makes the perfect
man. SO physical education is not a
mere ornamental branch tackled on at a
tangent, but an integral part of the mod
| ern educational system
The child comes to us usually in good
! physical condition, and it is our duty to
the state to return the child after his
! years of schooling in just as good health
| An interesting investigation was made
| some two years ago among the school
children of Stockholm. After the first
/ year in school every thirteenth child was
| found anemic; at the close of the
| second year. every seventh child, ami
/ after the third year, every fifth child
II is just this evil which physical educa-
| ton must overcome.
Good health means as much to our
Doys and girls as a good education, and
| indeed, what can take the place of gooi
health? Health is the promoter of life
/ and the generator of nobility of character
strength, and, after ali, health ana
strength are The first requisites of life
Crittenden Home Work.
The important charity work done b,
various branches of the federation were
taken up next in the form of reports from
| those who have worked along the lines
given. Mrs. John T. Hurst of. Ogden
the president of the Crittenden Home as
sOciation, reported the work of that in.
I
said the work was unpopular and diff
| cult and in many cases ii looked almost
| hopeless, but the net result was as good
as the net result of any charity Worl
undertaken by any organization.
! She spoke of the iniquitious social sys
TEN which permits of the conditions tha
call for this kind of rescue work Sh.
| showed by brief reviews of other lines OF
work that some few failures never Civ,
sufficient cause for the abandonment Of
| a good cause. Mrs. Hurst spoke of tn,
terrible disasters in the Iroquois horror
| the Slocum disaster and the San Fran
| cisco calamity, and how these things hal
called forth a wave of protest from tn,
whole country and the extension of tn,
hand of sympathy from all directions
She deplored the fact that the destruction
of girls which goes on day by day hal
| aroused no general sentiment of helpful
ness among the women of the nation.
Canyon Crest Ranch.
Mrs. Hugh Park. the Mother of Canyon
Crest was the next to report, and afte
| q hearty personal expression of thanks
| to the federation for the generous gift
| to the ranch, she went on to make a NOR,
definite report of the work done. Review
ing much of the results already pub
ished, Mrs. Park closed by saying "Ou
| policy is one of love and trust, and tn
net results are the redeemed lives Of chill
dren who have been sinned against
Lord n