The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-04

be glad to ten you where to obtain
this information. If you do not know
music teacher write to your county
superintendent TO get the material for
you. Call often upon your county
superintendent for help--that IL what
they are here for-they want to help
you. II they do not know what YOU
ask them they will find out and write
you.
Another pleasant evening would be
An Evening With Good Pictures.
president Mcvey suggested q good
thing, which we expect to try in
Barnes county. He said many OF the
residents of North Dakota come from
foreign lands where they were accus-
toned to seeing good pictures( this ia
also true of good music). Many OF
these people have never seen good
pictures since they left their native
land and came to our prairies. so he
suggested az a means of linking home
and school that good prints fcele-
brated pictures be purchased and
mounted, then these collections kept
for time in a school In order that
each child may take the collection
home so his parents can see the pic
lures familiar in their youth. 1t would
bind together the past and the pres
eut In their dives and give them un-
told pleasure. The schoolhouse would
thus be the center for good art. We
have worked hard TO have good pic
lures mounted on the walls of the
school rooms, but unless the parents
come to the schoolhouse he sees not
these pictures. While a circulating
gallery for the homes would go to
them to enrich their lives and might
possibly be the means of getting them
to come to the schoolhouse. 1t occurs
to me Il would he profitable to have
q collection Of these mounted pictures
at the schoolhouse when a club or So
ciety meeting was to be held, and have
q talk given about each picture as 1t
Is placed before the people. At the
close Of the meeting let the pictures
be circulated. They would be passed
from one home to another and thus
recall the pleasure of the society meet
Ing and give them something to think
about. When this center has finished
viewing they would then be passed to
the next schoolhouse to do service for
the next neighborhood center. With
the pictures as with the selections OF
music II you can't get an artist or
a teacher OF art to talk about them do
1t yourself. The various picture
houses, such as the Perry Picture Co..
will furnish abundant material with
which to inform yourself
Wonen's Clubs to Help.
At the meeting Of the State FEEDER
alton of Women's clubs which was re-
Gently held at Devils Lake the keynote
was how to extend their influence In
to rural communities. They want to
help. It seems that this would be a
tangible way in which they could be
OF help. Permit them to buy collec-
tions of pictures for distribution in
rural communities. Miss Fanny Am
idon of the music department Of the
state normal school at Valley City
told me that she Is planning to inter
est the women's club OF our city I'm
buying a photograph to be used in
the rural schools. 1t is a secret yet,
but what Miss Amidon sets out to do
she usually does, so know full we'll
we will get one to use in our neigh
borhood centers. Can't you find a
Miss Amidon in your county seat who
viii get the club ladies to help you in
this way? Try it.
The rural schoolhouse should be the
center for the distribution of good
reading material. Many districts own
very good Libraries which are enjoyed