Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04

school will be fed, but in many cities
the poor children are provided with
something to eat The experiment was
first tried In Boston, and with marked
success.
A school for mothers is the latest de-
parture In educational work. philan-
thropic gentleman, George II. +. Schra-
der, has founded such a school In New
York, to be known as the Caroline
rest Poverty stricken mothers with
wee infants are taken there and cared
for. With the pinch of poverty no
longer felt the mothers are able TO
devote themselves to learning the sci
ence of child care, under the guidance
of the trained nurses attached to the
institution. 1t is said that the expert
ment has proved a gratifying success
School savings banks are also new
departure. Educators have long un-
derstood what most parents seem never
to have learned-that saving is habit
and that 1t ought to be formed In the
earliest childhood. 1t is hardly to be
expected that the child who never
learns the value of money In childhood
will truly value II in after years. To
meet this condition experiments have
been made in teaching children to
save their pennies, through a school
savings bank, and 1t is said to be
astonishing how easy Ii Is to inculcate
habits of thrift and economy in the
minds of the child Europe has used,
satisfactorily, the system In It's schools
for many years.
The railroad school system to be-
established by the Hartman lines
will represent another incursion into
the field of new things in matters of
education. Aside from the United
States military and naval academies
these schools will be about the only
ones In existence where the student is
paid for his services. There viii be no
guarantee of a position to graduates,
but the demand for technically
trained men is so great that a paying
position Is practically sure to follow.
This experiment viii be watched with
especially interest by all big employers
of men. A most interesting feature of
the work is that all the instructors will
be practical railroad men, engaged In
the work of the operating department
at the time
Boston, first in so many matters OF
education, is first in having an open
air school for consumptive children. 1t
is established in Franklin park, and
the little weaklings take to the work
with zest. Even in the dead OF winter
they arrive at the park at 8:45 o'clock,
and are given their breakfast After
this is over they take course of
study, and that is followed by lunch.
After lunch the steamer chairs are
brought out and each child creeps into
a warm sleeping bag for an after
dinner nap. 1t is said to be surprising
how the little fellows get along. and
even in the coldest weather their favor
ite spot is a place where the wind is
broken only by n canvas. Many of
the little pupils have regained their
former good health by a course of this
kind. and have been permitted to return
to the regular schools.
Canada is much interested In teaching
domestic science to the girls. The Joke
about the cooking school girl does not
go with Canadians. They realize that
in the home science may accomplish as
much as elsewhere. Winnipeg has
been leader in teaching the girls
housekeeping, and has met with such
gratifying success that the department
is to be enlarged and extended.
Ohio is the first state in the Union
to adopt a compulsory course of study
in fire prevention. It has been esti-
mated that the property DESTROYED by
children careless with fire amounts to
more than s60,000,000 a year. and that
more than 500 lives are lost annually
on this account. The Ohio law re-
quires that at least one lesson in fire
prevention shall be given each week,
all pupils between the ages of 6 and
IA to have the benefit of these lessons
Congress last session appropriated
more than S4,0000OO for the Indian
schools of the United States. These
schools have upward of 25,00O pupils in
them. It has been the hope of the
government that the time will soon
arrive when the bureau of Indian af-
fairs may be closed up, and the In
dians cease to be the wards of the
nation. But that the Indian still needs
someone to look after MIN is illus
trated by an experience related by
former Indian Commissioner Leupp at
recent meeting of the National Edu-
cation association. He said that a
certain old indian had told him he
wanted a roll-top desk. Asked what
he wanted with such a thing when he
could neither read nor write, he re-
piled: $50 1 could set in me chair. put
me cigar in me mouth, hold me paper
up before me face and tell the fellers
what come see me, GIT out, too busy
to talk to you now.''
Copyright, 1909, by Frederic j. Haskin).