The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-09
BROKEN LINKS
BY Vsndea Thomas WeIlKnown Writer
peFuniak Florida.


If the School Improvement Society
of Pensacola will adopt us We will
give it all the land needed. even a
SS-year lease on some of our best
sand. e.
The National Council of Horticul-
| ture, WHICH has just met in Chicago.
arranged for general publication of
articles with special reference to or
namentation of public school grounds.
| 1t also petitioned congress for law
to place horticultural teaching on the
curriculum of the public schools.
This gets at the root of things.
The child is living today who will
see our public schools so transform
| ed by common sense that they VIII
| bear as little resemblance to the in
situations of today known as public
| schools. as old Sol does TO tallow
| dip You remember Mark Twain's ex-
perience with French. He was going
abroad, and thought he would learn
! the language and shine in gay Paree"
| but behold, what was his mortiflca-
ton in not being able to apply the
exercises of the text book All he
you seen anything of my grandmoth-
er's red heifer?" And this hardly
seemd to hit the different occasions.
! This is about as much of practical
use as some children get out of books.
! To be sure, book learning we must
| have to a. certain degree. but let each
page be illumined by earth and plant
| and animal and sky, by manual labor,
industrial education. agriculture, hor-
! ticulture, use of tools and machinery,
sewing, mending, cutting of garments,
cooking, housekeeping. nursing, gar
| dening. Then there will be no dull
ones or laggards, for each will find
! his own.
| Out of the SO students that were
! dropped for poor scholarship at the
| end of the last semester in Stanford
University, only two were women.
| This was the reason Why the late
| President Harper of Chicago Univer-
| sity insisted on the separation of the
sexes for the first two years of the
! university courSe-the girls left the
| boys so far behind in standing, both
in Classroom and examination. But
then they have fewer other arduous
| dutieS-smokng, hazing, fortlballing
! and the like.
The committee on elective franchise
! of the constitutional convention of
| Michigan recommends that the word
male be omitted in the new cOnsti
i tuition. This resolution. it seems, had
! been chloroformed in the usual man
ner. but somehow it hapDened to come
TO life unexpectedly. The convention
may put it 10 sleep again but neverthe-
| less the women have done good work
! in the suffrage campaign in Michigan
and it is only a question of time when
! all who help sustain the state will
| have voice in state affairs.
/ Four states now give women full
suffra ge-WyOming- Colorado. Idaho
! and Utah. and Oklahoma, too. l think.
A man in Florida is worth no more
| than a woman in these. states. Think
; of il, lords of creation, Feel the
/ Ground slipping from under your feet,
! See your crown drebb!ing in the dust,
| Behold the sceDtre encirclod by an
! other. hnud emallnr. whittier that
should he rocking the cradle"
Sold Smith to jones in wild debate.
/ Tpon the woman question.
| You've answered we'll my ether noints
Vow here's my best suggestion.
When women go from home to vote
NOT nlIeE away, " may De
! Who then. 1 pray viii ctav at home
Ard rock and tend tho baby?
! oh since yCUr questions turned
On this on its axis
/ JUst get II" one who rocked II when
/ She went to nav hnr taxes"
Did YOU ever nav your taxes. wO-
men? I mean. did Won ever 90 to
! court horse in u city of anv size and
nav yOur own taXer7 Well. if YOU
did Won felt as thought you should be
! fumi@ated for week thereafter
ALWAYS manage TO get someone to look
after this business if an lucky
enough 70 own ANYTHING But once I
wae' in syracuse. y. Y and widow
+: lad asked if I bad lust as soon steD
eyer and nay her taxes. Certainly
! would -taN. hit 7 did not do the
! work thOI-gh the effort was sincere
| There was mob Of all shades and
grades Duehin@ and crowdine Nearly
! all hrouoht the pirns and some
! brought thor dogs Tobacco TO the
| light end, left: SMOKE trn thick TO see
the ceiline no vaptiIatinp and that
seethinp mass, redoIe7t with bologna
/ and whiskev, II would take an hour
70 reach my case and aS an hour in
| that melee threatened 20 end me,
withdrew.