Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

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OUNCES NOW MODEL PUPILS.
- a doctor examines them once "a week
Land amy defect Division or ineipient
Illness is at once noted and attended
to. One result is that children who
under the old school methods We're
8classed as ounces have developed into
model pupils, because the eye weak
ness which caused their apparent dull
ness has been discovered and remedied.
The walls of the school are covered
with good pictures and arrangements
are being made to bring lecturers down
from London to talk to the children
and to illustrate their talks by magic
lantern exhibitions. A beginning has.
been made already in the lecture
course. Last winter one of the teach
ers OF the village school made a trip.
to Rome and since her return she has
been able to take the children over the
ground She Travelled with the aid of
photographs and magic lantern slides.
LESSONS IN. FARMING.
Practical teaching is not forgotten in
the Bredon's Norton school Most of
the children are the sons and daugh-5
tiers of farm laborers and their lot in
life Will be cast on the farms. There
is a garden attached to the school and
the children receive regular lessons in
gardening and in the lighter kinds Of
farming. The girls are taught butter
making and the care of poultry Ma
tture study is the excuse for delightful
rambles iii the woods and fields.
+ COUNCILLORS ARE CONVERTED. }$
The most surprising thing OF all is
that the Worcestershire county coun-
cilors are fast becoming converted to
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other they are Informing Mrs. Martin
that they are astonished at the prog
ress the Bredon's Norton children are
making and that they are sorry they
did notSaccept her suggestions at first
They are even talking about taking
sBredon's Norton as a model for the
rest of the county. And it is no Won
der.that they have been converted. a
year ago the children were ragged.
dirty ignorant. Today they are
clad in neat school uniforms. clean, and
They can scarcely be rec
ognized as the same children. The
progress that they have made is IA
standing contradiction to the state
ment5 TOP often made. that little can
be done to improve the standard of in
telligence among the English agiicul-8
ttiral laborers. 1t seems to be only a
question of catching them young
enough.
GREAT SCOPE OF WORK.
The village school is only a part of
the work Victoria Woodruff and her
daughter are carrying out at Norton
Park. The old manor house has been
turned into Il woman's agricultural club
and training school. where d couple OF
score of women are studying. The es-
tate of 5000 acres is being split up
into small holdings ranging in size from.
Is to 40 acres. which viii be let to
men who arc conpatent To make the 4
most of the land and To apply the dis 4
coperies of modern science to its cuI-
tivation, Their aim is to make Norton
Park the center of great education-
al. movement which will help to ne
generate England, and their hope is
that other English landowners will fol
low in their footsteps
We wish to revive the old motto
'Nobiessa oblige. said Victoria Wood
hull to the writer The great families
of England have duties which they
UP to the pursuit of pleasure and they
never give a thought to the welfare of
the thousands of human beings for
whom they are responsible.
Il find that our neighbors are watch
ing our experiments With the keenest
interest and many OF them would like
to follow Our example, Some of them
are afraid that we are going too far
and say that they cannot follow us.
There is not one who could not do the
same If they would only give up u
little OF the useless luxury by which
they are now surrounded and fettared. =
Miss Woodruff has a large estate in
South Carolina. where she Will prob
ably repeat the object lesson she is
now teaching In England. asGsoon as
her work in England is so far adj 4
vsneed that 1t will not require her UNI
divided attention.
JOHN S. STEEI, IL,