The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-26
UNCONSIDFRED TRIPLES
Some Facts, Serious and Frivolous, Of
Interest to the People of Montpelier
and Vicinity.

Some Facts, Serious and Frivolous, OF
Interest to the People of Montpelier
and Vicinity.
What does e. mean?" inquired
a Fond Father, examining the report
card his son had brought home from
school. Now the grading runs down
from A to e, and the boy who is
marked E is not likely to be promoted.
But the son, while not diligent in his
studies, is bright enough. "'E," he
said why E. stands for excellent "
"Well, my son" said the Fond Father,
81 am pleased that you are doing so
well. Here's a dollar. I'll give you
another every time you bring me a
card marked e." The son was
careful and the Fond Father gave up
four good dollars. l don't know
whether he has yet found out the joke.
Which goes to show that parents of
school children do not take the inter-
est in the schools they should; do not
visit them and are not familiar with
the details of school management. |
never saw schools where visitors
we're more welcome, where there was
more genuine interest in making visi-
tors acquainted with all the details
of school work; but l find, in CONVEX
sation with the teachers, that Rus
sian Jews, Spaniards and Italians,
some of them unable to converse in
fa1I in, Itch
quent visitors of the public schools
than are the natives, the Yankees.
This is no affair of mine. Not every
parent who sends boy or girl to
school is capable Of passing judgment
on school management. Pedagogy
has developed into science. But if
a child of mine was attending the
public schools l should want to know
something of the methods and sur
roundings for one-third of each day
and two-thirds of each year.
And speaking of the schools reminds
me of a curious fact that came to no.
tice last week. One of the strongest
objections raised to the purchase OF
Redstone for a High School site has
been that it was so far away from
the center of the city. Might as well
go up to Middlesex where we can buy
land cheap" said one man. Following
the ordinary course of travel, it is six
tenths of mi from the corner OF
Main and State streets to the en-
trance of the Redstone grounds, and
five-tenths of a mile to the LOOMS
street site, which was favored because
of its accessibility. One tenth of q
mile is not enough to cause any spec.
ial hardship to any boy or girl big
enough to attend school. AS regards
those who don't care to walk, the
Redstone property is as near the street
car line as any site that is likely tt
be chosen.
Montpelier needs some good moder
ate priced tenements more than any
thing else just now. A man came t
town last week to take a fairly goot
Job. He looked all over the place an(
was unable to find tenement to ac
commOdate his family for less thar
$50 month. His wages would hav,
been $275 a day and he thought h,
would be better off to go home to tn,
farm. Another man came here anC
could not get a tenement at all ant
threw up his job. There is not mucl
use in the Board of Trade trying t
bring new industries to the plac,
when there are not sufficient accom-
modatiOns to house the workmel
these industries might bring here.
There are fifty men, perhaps more
who take their meals regularly a
the lunch carts. The others VIII,
take their meals, with more or les
regularity, at Farrar's, Miller's Sta,
Inn, the old Field restaurant, thu
Montpelier House or the Pavilion
make up respectable number, ant
as many of them say:
ANY old place | hang my hat
Is Home, Sweet Home, to me-"
The number OF married people VIII
do not keep house, and the numbe
OF unmarried people who must some
how be fed and lodged is large The
are scattered all over the city in pri
vate houses and in many case unabl
to secure such accommodations a
they are willing to pay for. A goo,
sized, properly planned, fifty locate,
apartment house would provide JUS
the kind of quarters many of thes
people want, and no doubt in many in
stances they could be better accom-
modated than at present for less mon
ey. 1t is true that the cost of build
ing at present is very heavy, but |
POOR, FOOLISH WOMAN.