The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-03
EDUCATIONAL
 CONFERENCE Interesting Sessions Held at Exchange Hotel. PROMINENT CLUB WOMEN HERE An Independent State Association
 Movement. Believed That Necessity for sucs sa Norsaal..tloa Now PrcvsiI.--Man,
 ExceIlent Paper. Read.
PROMINENT CLUB WOMEN HERE

The Conference for School Improve naent opened in the dining room of the Exchange Hotel yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. according to the time an- nounced with an invocation by Rev. Neal L.. Anderson.
 The first paper on the program was one by the Chairman. Mrs. J. D. Mat lock of Birmingham. He rsubject was the history of the movement for school improvement and a review of the work in Alabama. Mrs. Matlock has been chairman of. the School Improvement Committee for tho past three years. and 1t has been through her intelligent and efficient work and to her wonderful executive ability as a director of ef- fort that the present splendid re- cults have been accomplished by the committee of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs.
 Mrs. Matlock's address was followed by one on the subject of School Fur niture and Interior Decoration" by Miss Haley who Is one of the most prom | 3nent educators in the State. She Is of the Alabama Girls Industrial School at Monteyallo and is we'll informed on l the subject of all the needs and methods l in school room work. She gave a graphic description of the school room as 1t should be and made many splen- did suggestions for appliances and inn provements that are both economic and | effective. Many of these she recom- | mended as being advisable from per 1 sonnl experience.
 Miss Mary Eorney of Jacksonville read a paper ,on School Grounds" She treated the subject from the standpoint | of the landscape gardener and gave excellent advice as to the planting oi shrubs. vines. plants and trees for tht enhancing of the beauty of the play l grounds that i'll so important pari l of the rest hours of the pupils.
 Libraries Great Help.
 Miss Nimmo Green of Montgomery I delivered an address on school libra ries She made broad and educating talk on the subject and pointed ou the fact that under existing laws ev cry school js entitled to library b, making application for 1t. She spok' of the work of circulating libraries al a feature of the work in the Depart ment of Archives and History, and o the fact that the Department Of Ar chfyes and History will send to th' rural districts books and magazines l applied for. She stated that the libra " now being circulated by the De partment is not extensive. but Is De
 ing added to from time to time.
 | Mrs. E. D. Thames of Greenville mad
 A. talk on Entertainments" which wa
 especially bright and humorous. as wei -l as instructive. She spoke of enter tainments as a means of raising fund for school improvement purposes an
 told very wittily of successful guilt
 ing parties" "box parties" and meas
 uring parties" Everyone knows abou
 the first, but Mrs. Thames enlightene
 many of her hearers by telling thef that this rural box party is one wher
 lunches are put up in boxes and sol
 and in explaining measuring part 4 measured and demanded to pay tow
 ard school Improvement settle
 amount per inch of his or her height
 Mrs. Charles Henderson. Of Troy l
 lucid manner talked on How [
 Initiate and Conduct County TO
 School Improvement" She talked fror
 personal experience in conducting :.
 campaign for school improvement l
 Pike county.
 Some Personal Experience.
 Miss Jean Craik. of Montgomer!