The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Smith, who has position at the Me-
vidian Woman's College has come home
to spend the summer.
Mr.. Roy Hale, of Jackson was a Sun
day afternoon visitor to homefolks lately.
Mrs. M w. Baines and Misses Kath-
arine Smith and Mitte Hale spent Sat-
urday lately in Jackson, shopping.
Miss Lola Maude Rogers, a Blue Noun
tain school representative from this place,
reached home few days ago to spend va
cation with homefolks.
Drs. G. L. Todd and r. N. Whitfield
attended the medical association which
met at Pelahatchie Monday.
Miss Ruth Pierce, who has been spend
ing several days with her sister in Wilc-
zinski, has returned home.
Miss Laura and Essie Sistrunk took in
the Millsaps commencement exercises in
Jackson.
Rev. Wayne Aliston is in Indiana on
some agency work
Mr.. Joe Flowers is in Texas visiting
kin folks, and taking look at the counz
try.
We have upon our table the MAY and
| the June numbers of "Our Home" neat
| little SPACE monthly issued from the Meth
odist Orphanage, Jackson, Miss. We must
say to everybody, Methodist people in
particular, that you miss nothing in sub
| scribing and paying for this travelling
| representative of your fatherless little
ones The price is only IS cents a year.
lie profits of this 2 bits go into the
fund of this benevolent institution This
little paper tells you of the monthly pro-
gress and condition of the I8o orphans
housed ~under the shelter of this Home
for the penniless and helpless little ones.
We want to tell you that these parentless
Children are treated in this home just as
though they were the wards of rich
refined family. They are in the hands
ard under the loving care of two among
the best hearted people in Mississippi. We
know Bro. Williams and his ladv well.
We knew them when they were children,
and we know them to be good people
trained for. Just such a lob as the AL
mighty Father of the fatherless has placed
in their hands. These orphaned young
people are not only being clothed and fed,
but they are also being educated, and are
given the advantages of every accomplish
ment and refinement they, or any of them
are capacitated for. Tney are taught tc
sing and t0 make music and to be cheer
4:. ". and merry. This is no perfunos5 5rv
job the manager and his VIE vie has taken
upon themselves The work Bro. Will
lianls and his wife are doing for and
with the helpless children, is from their
hearts. The children are not slaves ;; yet
they do domestic duties, no mere no less,
than your own daughters do OF your COM
Portable and happy homes. The boys do
work out upon the lot and in the fields
just the same, no more, no less, as your
sons do on your. premises. And with all
this there is no slavish drudgery From
cur own. personal observations, we have
roticed that the working forces of the two
orphanages at Jackson are happy, cheer
ful lot. And it does our heart good to
know that the lives of these dependent chill
dren are made as pleasant to them as it
is possible to be done by people who take
the place of their loving parents now gone
away. from them can do We are glad
to say that the burden of work in the or
phanages is to raise the orphans Alright,
intelligently, morally and religiously, and
fit them to make their way in life and be
useful citizens, just the same as you,
fathers and mothers, would do for your
own children by your side Now try, good
Christian people, to keep this God-built
home. These children must be cared for
out of your own purses. They are your
wards. They have been left to your care,
and the responsibility is yours. Take
tho paper Our Home Send 2 bits to
the Editors, Rev. W. NJ Williams and
wife for it.
The School Book Commission is now
in session in Jackson to select the text books
to be used in the common free schools of
Mississippi for the next years. The av-
erage cost to the children of the state
year for school books during the past
years, was $I56,SIo.38. This figure IN
cludes all schools,-city, town and country,
coming under the common school. laws.
Reduced down to one child the average
book expense was hardly 24 cents year!
"These figures show that less money"
says Jackson News, ''is spent for school
books each year than for matches or chew
ing gum, and less than is paid each
month for tobacco"
To show to our young ladies what can
be accomplished by them in making records
as pupils in their respective schools, we
mention the case of farmers daughter,
student of the University of Kansas,
who was graduated at this institution this
season. OF the 1900 students in the col
lege of liberal Arts and Sciences of the
University, Miss Blanche Zurcher is the
only one, according to an article in the
Jackson News, who has attained anything
like perfect record in her four years
course. In every study she has taken
her marks range between 90 and 100, ON
100 per cent basis. She found time for
other things besides her books. She special
lied in Latin and Greek. Now, what can
our girls not do when they make up their
minds to study? Frivolous affairs must
be side-tracked and diligent stifdiousness
have the right of way. Love affairs must
ue gwen to the winds, or else stop irving
! to study and get married and be done with
what your mind in such case eventually
leads to, without accomplishing any solid
education work in the end. Now what
about tie boys? Here is the case of a
young man, Russian Jew who left