Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-11-08
Opening OF Florida Institute October
z, 1907.

The call to their organization, was
answered by large and appreciative
audience of our best citizens.
ALI over the State the people are
being called together in meetings of
this kind and they are taking to the
plans with zeal that encourages us
to believe we shall be able to reach
every home in the State. BY the
Domestic Science organization, we de-
sire to enter the home and come into
closer touch with the parents of the
boys and girls that are being neg
lected. who will constitute a part OF
the next generation.
We wish to teach men and women
the necessity of real honest work: to
train them to give a better day'swork
to work with both heart and hand.
Here in the Florida Institute, we
hope In the near future to make this
a kind of Chautauqua for women of
every age where they may come for a
short time and learn the important
things that should be known by every
woman in order to have a refined,
good and orderly home.
We wish to discuss the farm life its
needs and blessings in the true sense;
to inspire the negro to go out from
the city, buy farms, work and build
homes so that they will stop throng-
ing the cities and living in idleness;
to train the negroes to have more
homes and better homes; to paint
their buildings, fences and to keep
a general clean appearance in and
about their homes; to instilI such
principles in the woman and men of
this day, that they will make better
citizens, and also be better prepared
for good honest home life.
We are striving to make better
women by meeting with them and dis
cussing such questions of importance
as The rearing of children, and the
training of the head, hand, heart"
The Live Oak Daily Democrat had
this to say of us recently:
In response TO an invitation, the
editor of the Democrat, yesterday
morning, visited the Florida Institute
in this city. an institution for the
education of the colored youth, and
made an address before the faculty
and student body, and in a measure
looked into the character and extent
of the work being done. We were
very much gratified to find that the
school is one of superior order and
real merit. The discipline seems to
be thorough, and the department and
general bearing of the students in
dictates that the teachers and
managers in charge of the training
have been successful in imparting a
cultivation that is highly commend
able Perfect order was noticeable
throughout the morning exercises and
prompt responses on the part of all
the students. The grounds and
buildings were clean and neat, and
the students were all neat in their
dress and appearance. In fact from
what We could learn, neatness and
cleanliness everywhere is emphasized
at all times by the teachers. One of
the principal efforts being made by
the teachers is to thoroughly i'm
press upon the mind of every student
the Importance of their forming
habits of industry. and ever keeping
in mind to do what they do well. In
this connection they have an indus
trial department. where, to some ex-
tent, a technical training is carried
on. The school is also Christian, be-
Baptist church. An effort is made,
says President Jones, to train the
heart in sound religious principles,
as well as the mind in other things.
The institution, though twenty
seven years old, is poor in both
equipment and buildings. 1t needs
help, and the work it is doing ap-
peaIs. not only to those of the colored
race who may be able to help it. but
to the white citizens of this section as
well. for not only moral sympathy
and support. but financial help, that
it may be made more effective in its
efforts to better the negro race among
us by training them for useful, up
right lives and to be good citizens
hereafter"
I1ara in this CITY good feeling and