Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-22
Club NeDVS

4 w OMAN'S club of Hollywood will
i w finish the January programs
Thursday with a day devoted to
Spanish art. Professor William Lees
Judson, college of fine arts, U. S.
c., being the speaker of the afternoon.
| Hostesses will be Mrs. George Schnei-
der, Mrs. Lawrence Ernst. Mrs. F. M.
Douglass and Miss Minnie Bridges.
The programs for February and
March follow:
February 2-Common Sense in the
Home, Mrs. Emma Greenleaf. Host
esses. Mrs. A. G. Schloesser, Mrs Fran
ces Lyon, Mrs. Charles. Lippincott,
Mrs. w. S. Cummings.
February 9-Art day. Athens, the
/ Violet Wreathed. Mrs. Cecilia White.
Hostesses, Mrs. H. E. Rodenhouse,
Mrs. S. W. Garrettson, Mrs George
/ Stockwell, Mrs. ]. r, Toberman.
February 16-Literary day. Origi-
nal Monologues, a travesty on the
vagaries and inconsistencies of woman;
Mrs. Bessie Thew Miller assisted by
esses Mrs. +. A. Brown. Miss e. c.
Mccullough, Mrs. Jacob Stern, Mrs. r.
P. Risher.
February 23-Civics day. Municipal
Art, Mrs. Willoughby Rodman. Host
esses, Mrs. Ida ]. Walker, Mrs. j.
/ Pashcholy Mrs. F. w. Wellman, Mrs.
J. ]. Pickett.
March 2--The Last Day" of a coun-
try School When We Were Young,
by club members. Hostesses, Mrs. G..
] r. Cover, Mrs B. r. Cartwright Mrs.
/ Harry Dow Kirk, Miss Anna Hoff.
March 9-Current Events Mrs. Lou
V. Chaplin. Hostesses, Mrs. w. H.
Code. Mrs. W. c. Finley. Mrs. L. G..
Somers Mrs. Randel. st.
March 16-Literary day. Book Cir
/ cles. Psycho-Therap History. Biog-
raphy, Children's Books, Fiction
+ Hostesses, Mrs. o. R. Stratton Mrs. f.
! H. McBurney, Mrs. ]. F. Leland, Mrs
] Frances Burlingame.
! March 22-Education day (open meet
ing). Professor George Leslie, Mrs. o.
Shepard Barnum. Hostee ses, Mrs.
Adolph Frese, Mrs. N. P. Bailey Mrs.
L. J. Andrews, Mrs: A. L. Leonard
| Walter Lindley. NJ. D., LID, trustee
| of the Whittier state school of Cal'for-
MIA and special commissioner appointed
by Governor Gillett last March to ex-
anime into the methods of the indus
/ trial schools and reformatories OF Great
| Britain, addressed the Friday Morn
ing club yesterday on "The Delinquent
Child"
The speaker prefaced his address bv
/ a reference to the method employed
/ by France in caring for her dependent
children. The government of France
neither supports nor assists IN support
ing a single orphans home, putting
the children instead in agricultural
/ families-one to family.
1t was shown that the greatest step
that has been taken in England toward
the prevention of delinquency is the
childrens act of 1908, which became a
law in 1909
one fertile former cause of the de-
praved childhood and criminal adult
life was the almost universal habit or
drink among both men and women o.
the laboring classes. Nine-tenths or
all the bar tenders in England are
women, and before this law was
| adopted It was quite customary for
mother to go into the barroom with her
/ babe in her arms and sit and gossip
and drink until both she and her chlld
were in a sodden state. This new act
j makes it a crime for children under IA
to be admitted to public bar; also II
provides a severe penalty for giving
Intoxicating liquor to a child, except
] upon an order of a physician
, Another step in the prevention Of de-
/ linduency is the rapid DEVELOPMENT or
/ the public school system of Eneland
! There are 100000 children in the public
+ schools of London alone, and 10000 IN
/ the private schools of London. COM
/ pulsorv attendance is required from b
/ to IA years of age, but the children of
/ 8 years and over re admitted to he
! schools if the mother cannot stay at
i home. Destitute children are provided
/ with free meals and oil are provided
with free books. During February II
! is nothing unusual for $1,000 schoo'
/ children to be given hot free lunches,
/ Still another important voluntary or
! l., he "a committees
which assist parents in finding careers
for defective children. Ill health ana
impoverished childhood are great
causes of delinquency, as the child IN
/ that condition is naturally backward in
! his studies and drifts from that to tru-
/ ancy, and from truancy to crime. IL
/ has been proved that industrial school
/ bows at the age of IA are nearly seven
/ inches shorter and twenty-four ana
three-fourths pounds lighter in weight
/ than boys of the same age in the public
! schools.
To improve the health of children and
thus prevent delinquencies numerous
! open air schools are provided in the
! suburbs around London Pupils for
these schools are selected by medical
INSPECTORS They leave for school when
| their parents leave for work, and are
given a bath. a good warm breakfast
/ luncheon, and a warm meal before go
/ in, home. While the weather permits
| thev have their studies outdoors, and
are also given nature lessons and work
in the garden.
| After luncheon all lie down for two
hours. getting absolute rest, and the
/ Improvement of these delicate children
| in these open air schools is marked.
Another important preventive of de-
| linouency is the evening school. There
are 12S, 900 pupils in the evening schools
of London. Government inspectors are
| constantly visiting children whose
names are given as absent from school.
After due warning they are placed in a
truant school. Twelve hundred children
are in the truant schools of London,
| and $500 are out on parole.
The actual delinquent is sent to one
of three. classes of schools-the day in
| dustrial school for children under A.
residential industrial school, the re-
| formatory.
Every effort is made to keep the chill
dren in their homes, and in England
| there are over 5000 children in these day
Industrial schools. The residential in
| Industrial schools The residential in
| are very similar to the industrial
| schools of the United States, except
| that the former have children under IA
years of age, and the latter from IA
to IS.
the English industrial schools are either
| illegitimates, or one or both parents
are dear, or they are the offspring of
criminals or parents who have deserted
them.
In the schools for girls the pupils are
educated with the idea of being domes-
| tics In the Industrial and reformatory