The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-17
WOMAN 5 CLUB
HELD MEETING
DEPARTMENT or EDUCATION
PRESENTED INSTRUCTIVE
PROGRAM YESTERDAY.
QUESTIONS AN, WERED
On Educational Points Were Interest
ing Features--Paper Ry Mrs.
John s. Hacker.

The Cairo Woman's club held an III
teresting meeting yesterday Afternoon
at the club rooms in Library hail, til,
Department Of Education havin,
charge Of the program,
MRS. George Clark, chairman or til,
department presided and in lieu q
parliamentary law which subject wa.
given in the program book but whicf
was changed by reason Of the alb
sence CT several from the city who
were to take part. propounded ques
tinns on education which were RI
sponded to by Mesdames Thomas b.
Farrin. sr., e. s. Dewey, Samuel
White, G. w. Logan and J. w. Rule.
The questions and responses were
az follows:
l. What authority first laid down
rules for spelling and what method
was used prior to its appearance?
The first recognized authoritr en-
spelling was Or, Johnsons Dictionary
published In 1875. While the diction.
aries Of Bailey and others preceded
that of Samuel Johnsons that great
work did not appear until l775. and
although there was a general ten,
dency to accept IL as a conclusive all
thority, II was not possible that its
orthogaaphy could at once supplant
the habit Of phonetic spelling, which
had prevailed to a greater or less ex..
tent from the time OF Alfred the
Great until the beginning OF the
eighteenth century. II Washington.
was at times indiviiualistic In his
spelling and in his syntax, he was
no more 80 than Alfred the Great;
Washington was a man Of great intel
lect, not q great orator. because he.
bad never attempted To cultivate
hnency of speech.
2. In what manner did the French
government seek to control education
in that country?
1t sought to regulate all schools
public and private. Count De Monta.
lembert who vigorously opposed the
aided in establishing an un-
authorized school and was arrested
for teaching therein. His speeches on
he subject have made him famous.
3. What in the German view, is the
zeal essence of all educational train.
ng?
Reverence! The first and simplest |
ohase of which Is reverence for what |
5 above us; next. reverence for that |
which is about us, reverence for our
EQUALS; third, reverence for what is
,eneath us to recognize in pain-sor.
ow and contradiction. even I'm those
hings, odious as they are to flesh
nd blood-to learn there lies in them
IN endless blessing.
4. viii education and talent al.
Ways bring success in life?
To possess both of these is not
ufficient without persistent applica.
ion OF both. Men are architects of
heir respective fortunes. Genius un-
xerted is like the moth that futters
round the candle until It scorches
Lself to death. If genius be desired
is only of that great and magnani-
nous kind. which, like the condor of
iouth America pitches from the sum
ait above the clouds. and sustains
tself at pleasure, In that empyreal
egion, with an energy rather invigo-
~ oil L.,
fort.
5. What political evils are cured
y education?
OF all the remedies which can
elicit the attention of the statesman
nd politician TO prevent the evils OF
ignorance there is one that excels
nd includes all the rest; 1t is uni
ersal education. the first demand
lust be for an education as complete
rom base to summit as Is known TO
uman intelligence Let the thought
nter the very souls OF the present
nd coming generation. that in a
government whoever Is
OF ready to bear a share OF its
oubles and trials are not fit 10 take
art In the government We must
4 rid Of the evil which causes our
oes. Ignorance"
The last feature Of the program
as a paper by Mrs. J. s. Hacker
hose subject was Education" 2
hich she treated In her usual origi-
Il style afterward reading an ar. y
sle by Ebert Hubbard from The a
hilistine. An animated discussion b
flowed Mrs. Hackers reading d
lNHuMAN CRIME. q