The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-13
Great Granddaughter of
Kansas Pioneers.

begin hundred years oeIore ne Is
born, said wise old DR.. Holmes, and
when the Kansas prairies in their
sunny brightness. full of golden
promise, cried out even to the New
Eoglaud hills, with cry that brought
the energetic young people o. the
older states into the West, even to
the land Of the buffalo and the coyote,
to the land of hardship and toll and
inconsistencies, then was begun the
training of these great granddaughters
of whom we are to talk tonight.
Though the moving was, ia many
cases, the work IF life time, and the
stops by the way were often for years.
slowly, but surely the stream of able
men and women reached Kansas, and
today we see the descendants of thoes
women who never faltered nor turned
back when there was work to be done
the fullfiilmeat Of the dreams that be
came visions t. the souls Of the Kansas
pioneers. And what are we doing for
these girls who have such an inherit
ancs?
A few days ago l went through the
$4,000 building at Manhattan where
Kansas girls are to be taught some
things that will make life easier and
ban,,. 'r for them, and my Kansas pride
% avan o cater because she is The
first state in the unio.' TO give SO gooo
a building for girls alone.
Kansas IS 200 miles wide and 400
miles long. and one buildinl won't go
very far toward providing for all her
daughters but as the grain of mustard
seed, this one building will Increase
aud multiply till all Kansas shall be
doing her duty by all her daugsteTs'
The world has changed Since our
forefatners came out across the
mountains aud rivers into the great
West. Nobody today asks whence
came you or who was your grandfather,
but eyeryb dy does ask of you and OF
me one question, and that is; what
are you good for? What can you do
or give out Of your life to make this
old world wiser or happier OF better,
and 10 so far as you give the best that
is In you, just SO far will yJu hear,tbe
plaudit, well done"
Education is the training we give
young people to make them ready for
whatever duties come to them. We
have for years believed In giving boy
special training. If he were to be
farmer, we sent him ~ Jhe agricultural
college, that he be able TO best handle
the broad acres God gave for the
sustenance of His people. If he were
to be a. doctor, he must go to college,
then spend three years Ia special
fitting for the care of our loved ones
Were he to be a lawyer, college training
again, then the law course or If he
chose to be minister, his college
training must be supplemented by
long study and deer thiRking before
he could enter the pulpit and hold up
Standards Of right living for the
people. All these advantages for the
boys. What was done for the girls,
who in a few years as mothers, must
send oat from their homes other boys
aud girls wise enough, strong enough,
and good enough to make the farmers
and lawyers and doctors and ministers
and housewives OF the nextgeneratlon?
We once forgot TO help the girl by
special training; but today we are
awake to the fact that the girl need
mUre and more help. We give 1t to
her by teaching home making in the
schools. We call 1t by many names:
domestic SCIENCE" domestic art, y
'home economies" but it all resolves
Itself into one great subject, which is
"hOmemaking."
We sometimes say we have taught
the young people 1.-The three rs"
lsug enough. Let us teach the three
his awhile, the hand, the head and
the heart. Teaching the hand means
that 10 the schools, especially the
grades, sewing should be taught with
the drawing; training the hand to
work out tue thought OF the brain
We call 10 "maDual training" an1 it
has come int our schools to stay.
The day will come when q man who
can only use his brains will be cUnnted
as only half trained, just as We today
say the man who can only use his
hands is bus half trained.
WAR A. mot for trained hand. there