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

Special Correspondence.
81 oNDoN,i Sept. 24,-Two Amer
lean ladies are setting England
an example In the reform Of
5S --eA----al the village school. They arr
Mrs. Victoria woodruff Martin and
her daughter Miss Zula Maud Woods
Iiull. Mrs. Martin is better known
in America as Victoria Woodruff I'M
der, which name she made great
fight hale century ago for the vote
for women. 1t will be remembered
that she was the only woman who was
ever nominated for the presidency oil.
the United States.
Victoria woodruff and her daughter
arc teaching England q lesson. on theit
heautiful estate at Norton Park, III
WORCESTERSHIRE This estate is now tha
property of Miss woodruff. having
been left to her by John Biddulpni
Martin. the millionaire banker, VINO
married Victoria Woodruff nearly 81
years ago. The Martin famllN maze ia%ss.
been large landowners IN that part or
WORCESTERSHIRE for many generations,
sS some Years ago Miss Woodruff ans
her mother gave to the county the
school ut Freedoms Norton, the village
which snestles at the foot of Bredotl
= Hill, on which Norton Park stands.
They turned it over to the county cd,
ucation committee and for years i was
run in the hard old way IN Whlci,
most OF the village schools in Engla,lu
are still run The children were tau ~, ~
1ittle tho teacher was underpaid anu
oyerworked and the sanitary conditions % y
x 1vere such that they are best LETT
d4,,nfl cscrjbed 1t is enough to say tlaI
in most of the English villages toos.s
the physique Of the schoo, chii =,
much Inferior to that OF the sciloo'5
children of the towns.
NEVER HEARD OF FRoEBlii.1f
About year ago Victoria Woodruff
aud Miss Woodruff paid q V ..,i ~, -
tbe school aud were shocked Win ",
condition of things which they QUIZ, ~
there. The children were ulr ~ a.,e
,mrared for. They We're evidentis 1 pr
fitinr not at all by the teaching su ir,t
rs 1T was and 1t was also 8esiu M. 100
\ +noi,. health was suffering me NV
.,a,,,en q once put themselves III COM COM
,,,,nication with the county coucltiotsS
a,,thorities and placed plan. OF ~,
f1,,,n, before them, Victoria Wooal Iu
, ~ that the Kindergarten system
nf teaching should be introduces q,
oncc that competent teachefs ,sti9uius
no engaged and that tne emu ~
4 s sn he regularly Inspected by
aa,na15 man. she offered to bear any
n,.trt, f,xnense which might be entill i
J ~, tbese reforms, but the educatlot,
- stood on its dignity anu
5aniarnd that what was good lor t lh,
rest OF Worcestershire was soou
enough for Bredon's Norton; li ,s., -
nly to the suggestion thaI INC
~ ,srte,, method should be iiltroduceda
-, sth, thevs had never heard of a
4 tsa ,, cher named Froebel and thatssthe
\ I;J mt propose to Introduce any new
j .s,,d ,,ntried method of teaching IN
Worccstershire.
RUN SCHOOL, THEMSELVts:
u 5,,asn,t the American wayFto take
70 rebuff like this and the demand iut
Sraform' was pressed Finally the edu-$
scation committee told the two; women women
that i they didn't ike the Was....nia
school was being run, they coulel 5 =. ~
n and run it themselves Ihest , selz .s..
the chance of setting an eNa,l'lie
other village schools. ana touay pc
5,lof,,s Norton has the distinction ol
4; aviy,e- what is without doubt the pcst-
seuuipied village school in Ensiah9 l.
The first step was to clean UP ti .z
building, which had been allowed AZ 10
fan into a semi-ruinous az, ~.
i ~ trenlace the old village teacher BY
4 ~ 10 i,,ed kinderga rteners from the
hest training college In LONDON: II
fact. the two young women VINO are
4 % ching the chiIdrenof thew ofcestet
fahjre peasants In Bredorss Nofto }, M =
received exactly the same tralt. IN liz 10
q ne h eoyerness who is educating the NJ
III ehidren of tho Prince and Princess
IN wales. Englaiid,s future tslls NY ~
,,,,es \, ~ Every appliance that couid
; be thought Of 70 make teaching easier ,,.,
and learning peasailter Sto s,a shs march arch
VA Z, a. dance To the strains of high
a ,iass u auto piano, the teacher thus be
fras 10 devote all her attention 70
s sns !, r .s and dancing, and they