Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-11-10
FitzgeraId's Woman's Club
Address by Miss Margaret McGaugh.

adopt school nourh it, Is there need to call
adoption? Truly the public school the natural child of the Woman
Club Every tied very stiff strings
white little to the head of her baby girl aud watched
with ndesbabe ache in her heart the which the lit
skipped away school very time who ha
put red apple equally new and red pencil into the brave lit
baby boy and watched his sturdy taking him
the school will understand when say that schoo
than adopted fancy 1t is your child; you
with the other agencies develope it. be
you hearing with for bring direct
sage from this child of yours and
the thinking cultured mother the club
Fitzgerald
shant you practically necessary
of the school, they being considered by the of the town
and school home will be comfortable one 1t may take
years accomplish they planning the schools but
believe DONE school board ambitious But
they physical
years. cannot though they would that their children develop
natural different from the relations that the
supply this 1t that numbers children have
home there multitude who do receive it,
they growing up forming the citizenship of town.
have years. feel it keen
have
or that capita where You
prudent your win the respected the communi
ty exists it must avoid infringing the rights of
other organization of your Then
the you will have choose between those
seemingly equal appeals These your poDem and Tor hat
reason an grateful for the hearing | am getting
wish very your growing strength and activity to-
wards the public Fitzgerald wish to know that
need YOU your especially to direct attention
to crying schools the lack Of pictures There
fifteen school Fitzgerald there picture of
no influence through greatest culture that of art
Whatever beautiful and and within the of his own
nsncve appeals the little child His eyes are
daily opening upon world Of law and symmetry and he part OF
it responds unity before he able formulate the
pssons wrought upon his plastic mind he misses the best that
the during his early m he loses much which should in
his later years.
Here arises responsibility of the home, the school, the com
munity in which neher begins ends
of these Education begins with
"Only little brain empty of thought,
Or0 ohoartf rOuhIa dyvith aupht.O
until the very end of his life So early does begin that
we do not know when child takes it's first step
on the knowledge We know that the baby rests best in its
mothers gentle arms luied sleep by mothers singing,
soft and low with wide and wondering at the
monest thing that it taught by want and wish and contact
with the things dmped eh that lurd by light
and fame and robe that learns the of hands
and feet % love of mimicry bgiledt utter speech
Aud so through years shade day night tasting
ing SEEING hearing and smelling this little cleaner gathers knowledge
through all the give gateways of the mind"
In his way little day. th is faithful little CLEANER
learns more perhaps during the first four years of his life than
student college In six short years he learns
speak language understand when spoken by Others With
his limited vocabulary he can express his wants
and wishes the speech others Thus equipped he
sent school, from his where he has been In close touch
nature manifest forms ne has oeen Deserving ener
cou or He ntey feels the bond between him
self growing developing things since he himself represents
in another form the growth and development
have the text books that are being used
the schools of today all that best in literature find
ing it's way ROOM all that best art will surely have
place there. Isit true what Browning says;
eve are so made first when them painted
Things we have perhaps hundred times cared to
o they painted better to which the same thing
r given for that"
4 the most famous paintings world has looked then
and worthy praise and we bring them befor
the little child selecting these pictures such must be chosen
are allied child life and to nature The child sees n ana
the picture becomes filed with life and Low
and his quckened and expanded The artist tells
story to looks his painting For examp