The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30

for doing these things?"
 "No,' said the boy, with his musical southern drawl and a twinkle in his eye, but we feel a little afraid of it's effect on the ladies'"
 The day before in Atlanta a woman unmarried, by the way--had delivered an address on the influence of club women in education. She alluded to the traditional and now somewhat shopworn contention that the place of woman is in the home, not the club and declared: '1t seems to me that in most cases the man is chief ly concerned with his three square meals day. Home represents to him four walls, and nothing more"
 In the peculiar atmosphere of Miss Berry's school, one who recollected that statement could not but feel that there had been something of cynicism in it.
 A Waiting List of 200.
 To work is part of the boys education. Most of them expect to be farmers when they finish That fact alone justihes the statement made above, that the school is great practical success. A further proof lies in the fact that there Is a waiting list of 2OO-more than the total number in the school at present. If Miss Berry had $l0,OO0 with which to build dormitory. those 200 boys would be received. Some body has given $5O00 worth of material
 Another reason why the boys work is that Is costs Miss Berry $1O0 year to board and teach them, and she only asks $50 tuition.
 Two hundred acres of school property are under cultivation with cotton grain vegetables and other crops, under the direction of an agricultural expert. Rid ing behind the sightseeing ox-team. over macadam roads built by the boys, through avenues of trees and flower borders of iris set out by their hands, the visitors saw the embryo farmers laying tile-drainage building fences, cutting firewood, working lumber in a sawmill, and tending hotbeds. Forty or more head of cattle were housed comfortably and scientifically in a barn put up by the boys; and three sunbrowned chaps were whitewashing an up-to-date hennery.
 They served a luncheon in a beautiful grove. these boys, and when one of the visitors asked jokingly concerning the barbecued lamb, Where did you buy this?' the answer came proudly and with out any joking, We don't buy anything on this placei'
 have said above that Miss Berrys school Is :s2a aesthetic success. I am go- ing to suDstantiate that statement before l stop To one coming here it needs only the testimony of his eyes Woodstock Valley In the Catslxills, loved of artists for it's melting distances and delicate colors k not more lovely than the country sur lvunolns the school One who has seen 'Possum Trot the little hill stream that comes tinkling down through the Miss Berry's preserves, is likely never to for get It. The 'Possum Trot Lady" she is called by the people for whom she has worked. Perhaps that country and that brook unconsciously bred into the Pos sum Trot Lady all her life certain canons of taste. At any rate, the school built by her hands, with its score or more of buildings, harmonizes perfectly with it's environment
 The billiard recitation hall at the end Of the long entrance drive; the lesser buildings with their climbing roses and iris borders; the artless perfection of art in the log cabins built by the boys are uni fled by the faultless condition in which the grounds are kept. Dogwood fills the groves with its white tracery, and little forget-me -not-like blue flowers and others of magenta that resemble phlox en- broider the ground.