The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-12-15
Miss Carpenter Addresses
the Spokane Apple Show

nroacbes I seek accommodations ior
the night in whatever home Is iiea,
Generally | seek the humpiest u"ei
lincs. Those of you who are situa.eu
where YOU can come in contact WITH
vour own sex and other people 90 not
know what it means to live where yo
never see any one but the members Vi
your own family. In such homes
talk to the wife. You can learn more
nv talking to the wife than by talk
ing TO the man. l sit on the WOOD pox
and talk while she Is getting supper,
wipe the dishes, and get in my tax
about the school and pupils.
In Wha.com county the mothers
are doing fine work. They are organ
izing mothers clubs regardless OF
teachers. county superintendent, or
anybody else The mothers are taking
I'D questions of school grounds, san
ita.ion, and similar questions.
Il want running water in our
schools and rural homes. 1t is not
asking too much, and is asking exact
" what every woman has right 10
have-water so that she does not
have to pull it out of well with
rope and pail, so that she can wash
boys clothes and keep the boys clean.
Our boys get a suit and wear 1t with
out 1t ever being cleaned or pressed.
Do you blame the boy for losing his
self-rcspect? When his clothes are
dirty all the time, how could 1t be
otherwise? Our mothers can do very
much in this direction. If they have
water they can clean the boys clothes.
| want running water and am workii 6
for it in WhatcOm county.
in our work We have the support
of the grange all over the county. On
their programs they always have an
educational number. If | write them
letter and say, You need to improve
your school grounds they write to
me. Come out and tell our people a
bout it in the grange meeting The
grange organizations In WhatcOm
county are determined to have good
schools. Also, they are not afraid to
pay for them.
"Illustrating how keen the interest
is in Industrial training in our What
com county schools | will tell you 4
story. One of the girls was told by
her mother that she would have to
stay at home and help do the wash
ing. The girl ran away and took her
domestic science lesson, then went
back home and helped do the wash
ing. A similar case was that of one
of the boys. His father told him he
would have to stay at home and shin
gle roof. He sent him to the store
after nails. and as the school was but
a short distance on the boy passed
the store, went to the school, and
took his manual training lesson, then
went back and got the nails, running
most of the way SO as to make time
II do not know how We are going
to elect county superintendent.
know we must do something SO as to
elect superintendents who have other
qualifications than merely the ability
to get votes. They must be honest in
their intentions toward the children
and never let any one dictate what
they are to do II that is at varience
with the best interests Of the school.
have tried to select for our rural
schools teachers who are fitted for tn
schools. and who besides this have a
real interest in teaching. II they tell
me that they are going to the country
10 teach merely for the experience, We
have only nice conversation which
does not end in results. do not want
such teachers. The feeling against nor
NAL trained teachers is due, l believe
to the fact that SO many unframed
normal teachers come in. l feel that
we must have. better class of teach
ers from our normals If We are to
continue our normals.
In her story OF her work in What
com county Miss Carpenter told of en-
deavOrs which have without question
placed Whatcom county in the lead
among the counties of Washington In
the field of industrial instruction In
the country schools. Her talk was one
of the features of the country life pro
gram.