The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-07
MEETING OF THE WoMAN's CLUB

Saturday afternoon the Woman
Club held their regular business meet
ing with a very good attendance. Mrs.
Hooker presided at the meeting. and
after the minutes of the previous
meeting had been read the business Of
the afternoon was taken up. The va
rious officers and chairmen made
their reports. one of the most inter-
esting being that of the civic commit
tee, Mrs. c. R. Tydings, chairman.
The members of this committee have
drawn up a petition which they will
present to the board of health for its
consideration. 1t deals with the I'M
slightly and unsanitary condition of
one of the most conspicuous parts of
Ocala, the evils of which it is hoped
will be remedied at once.
The report of the Junior Civic Lea
que was also quite interesting.
The necessity of having a fagman
at the A. c. L. crossing was discussed
and steps will be taken to force this
road to have these fiagmen at the va
rious crossings in the city, as it is i'm
perative on account of the present
danger to the lives of our citizens by
the switch engines, and numerous
trains passing through the city dali
ly.
Mrs. R. A. Burford, chairman of the
educational committee, then took
charge of the meeting, conducting a
round table on. the subject of Model
Public Schools" After a few remarks
in which she said that her committee
had accomplished the medical exami-
nation of school children, which had
been so long desired, and for several
other things done by this committee,
Mrs. Burford read a splendid article
from the Worlds Work on this sub
! ject Among other things the article
said that the model public school of
the future instead Of devoting so much
time to the three R's-reading. riting
and rithmetic-wo would deal more with
the four Hs-health, heart, hand and
head. Mrs. Burford was followed by
Miss Nellie Stevens, principal of our
primary school, and who is one of the
most thorough, painstaking and mod
| ern school teachers in the state. She
gave one of the best, most comprehen-
;--a o~l ;,,~+v,,o+;x-n toIIyc IN tho ,o,Yb
lie schools of today and of the future
| that has ever been given before the
club. She said that the teacher
work is not merely to teach the child
so many subjects and so many books,
but that they were engaged in train
ing the boys and girls for future citi-
zenship, and that it is the duty OF ey-
cry citizen of Ocala, whether a patron
of the school or not, to see that our
| teachers are doing their best along
these lines. That the teachers, as
we'll as the children, need the encour-
agement of the men and women Of
the town. and that they must have it.
She stressed the importance of the
childrens games and out of door exer-
aises, which she said is just as impOr-
tant, if not more so, .than their les
sons That strong bodies as well as
strong minds must be developed, as
one is OF very little value without the
other Her talk was most interesting
throughout, and was listened to with
great pleasure.
Mrs Hooker then read an article on
DR. Ella Flagg Young, the superin-
tendent of the Chicago public schools.
Her career has been a wonderful one,
and she has done more for the chill
dren of Chicago, and for school work
in general than any other person in
the country.
After the adjournment of the club
Mrs. Converse and Mrs. Whaley serv-
ell tea and cakes. They We're assisted
by Mrs. Groves, Miss Hatchen and
| Miss Dickinson