Arizona republican., 1911-09-30

been required to take months of train ling and practicing on country pupils
 before they were permitted to teach in
 town under Q superintendent.
 The country schools should have trained teachers: teachers of sound
 judgment in understanding the nature | of the child and tact in dealing with | him. \ live, progressive teacher in every country neighborhood is often the little leaven which "leaveneth the whole lump" We need fewer classes
 in the country schools; the lorE study lperiods are productive of inattentiOn and mischief; if a child is permitted | to spend this study time in idling and reading inferior fiction. he loses the power of concentration on his lessons
 and his taste for solid reading We need a well selected library planned for systematic readings; We need recitation benches and desks which will not produce sUinal troubles. We need attractive school rooms, bet ter furniture good pictures and in structive maps. Part of the returns of the farm invested in the school is one l of the farmers best investments, for all the improvements in the condition of farm life must come through cdu-
 cation Many helpful innovations on
 the farm have come about through a discussion of what the child learned l at school.
 We also need better playground facilities Thousands of country chil-
 dren don't know how to play. When
 they are at school there is nothing
 to play with: when they are at home
 there are chores. intending chores. to
 be done.
 | There is work right here for country women's clubs to do in supplying the
 school grounds with tennis. croquet.
 and any other equally wholesome and
 good sports which children can enjoy.
 Hence we must plan to meet and dis
 cuss our mutual problems. We need
 the stimulating influence whicn an eX-
 change of ideas and the enthusiastic
 co- operation of club membership | brings. We can accomplish much by the concerted effort which can only follow a reasonable getting together on the part of the farmers wives. Working the handle of dry pump won't bring results that little prim- ! ing brings. Women won't attend a club unless they get results: they must have something to help them through the week-reading courses and study program as well as the social half hour We should study dietetics and learn how to balance the days food. to provide such articles as will feed as
 well as fill the family stomach Man must eat to live, but he need not eat nearly so much if We give him the
 right kind of food The more We study our business, the more attrac- tive it becomes; when we cease study
 ing it. we. lose interest in our work So country women are organizing clubs
 for discussion and study When club is conducted in an orderly manner, and
 responsible for it's success. when it's membership is small enough to seem
 like a big family yet large enough to gain and hold interest of the mem
 bers, it will work a revolution in a country neighbOrhoOd Wherever a country wOmen's club has been organ
 zed. the women report that it gives them new energy for their home work Out of a small club al Adair. Iowa, has grown so many smaller clubs that a joint picnic of the members and friends brought out a crowd of nearly 1000 people. These ladies have issued a cook book with the proceeds from which the. are enlarging their sphere of usefulness.
 Another club. the Daughters of Ceres. at Bedford, Iowa tissue a calen- -dar for the years work which com pares favorably. with the work of any club. Country women's clubs are usu- ally short of money, and difficulty is sometimes experienced in securing books for study. Would it not be we'll for every state to supply reading