The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-24
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II WHY A MOTHERS CLUB7 ..
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(Hy Mrs. f. B. Pugh. President OF
First Ward Mothers Club
With all honors due our most
worthy superintendent, Mr.. Chas'
Evans. and his corps OF enthusiastic
teachers, Ardmore has again been
we'll launched on another school
year, with larger enrolment thah
ever and with more work and re-
sponsibility for teachers and moth
ers.
The First Ward school has an
enrolment of 450 pupils, with ~
teachers. You know some OF these
ch.plren are your own. and some
of these teachers will be more or
less intimately associated with your
child for nine months OF the year,
and they will patiently be moulding
their characters to nobler aims; be
sides teaching and governing them.
Are you working hand in hand
with them for the welfare Of your
child?
Now. since the work of educating
the child is shared by both parent
and teacher, the two should often
confer with each other in regard to
their mutual duties and their metn.
DDS of fulfilling them. For this reas
on we have organized Mothers
Club
The object of mothers club is
to unity the interest OF mothers and
teachers and by united effort bring
into closer relations the home and
the school that parents and teach
d---mau, cooperate intelligentN Il"
hood" and TO carry the motherhood
love and mother thought into all
that concerns childhood in the home
and In the school
II physicians, lawyers, scientists,
AMI all branches of trade find 1t
necessary and helpful to come to-
gether and discuss the best methods
Of promoting their work. surely the
most important of all vocations that |
OF child training, or citzen-malng /.
should need our most earnest and
prayerful consideration /
The aim of our Mothers Club is .
for the mothers to meet with the .
teachers, to work together to gain
greater wisdom as to the unfolding
of child life-Greater ability to lea
iit wisely-greatcr power to guard in
lhome and in school the little ones
whom God has intrusteN to our care
ito train for life here and in the
lworld beyond
r While working for Improvement Of
childhood's opportunities in school
-the Mothers Club recognizes the
'HOME as the most important lac.
tor and Il desires TO have every
mother every mother whosec hildrcn
are still under her guidance. as q
member. /,
Tie proyorb. Like mother lk,
son." 10 historically correct Let us
lraw a few comparisons Sir Wal |
er Scott's mother was superior
woman, lover OF poetry and Of
'aint!ng; whilst Byron's worst enc.
ny was his mother, she was proud
md ill-tempercd. Again. the mother
.y,f Nero was murlercss. Rut the
mother OF Patrick Henry was mark
I'd by superior conversational pow
Frs. Then the mother OF the Wesleys |
2yas DISTINGUISHED for her intellect
al power and executive ability. so
hat she has been called the moth
Of MethOdism." /,
Any encyclopedia OF American bi-
'graphy will prove that our most |,
men, our most distinguish
ad scientists, our most eloquent
reachers, our merchant princes, our
b!est lawyers, came from the hum.
le homes. where the mothers rule
not as queens OF fashion but as
ueens of the nursery and family.