Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-06-14

you touch. every point in life that you
touch, you keep in good repair. begin
ming with your own bodies, with your
own dress, then with yoIs surround
ings In school and out of school. Be
sure that you try to keep in good re-
pair, In good shape. and then you will
feel vigorous, you will feel that you
can overcome difficulties. ~
Il don't believe 1t is possible for q
person to be a good Christian with one
suspender OF, going around the coun-
try trying to wear one suspender. 1t
lops him all over. He Is one-sided
from the time he gets up in the morn
Ing until he goes to bed at night.
There is something wrong. He can.
not act straight he cannot think
straight. There Is something out Of
order all the time. A person does not
indicate that he has the highest train
ing, the highest civilization, who Is
satisfied to let single button be OF
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his clothes.
Keep the grease spots OF your
clothes. l remember I had occasion
some time ago to call doctor in
and 1t was not doctor here, ! am
glad to say, or anywhere. near here
but noticed he. had a button OF and
he had two or three grease spots on
his clothes. I do not know how much
medicine he knew, but that button of
and those grease spots perfectly dis
gusted me In, reference to that man.
Keep the grease spots OF your
clothes; keep the buttons on, because
no person" who has the highest idea
Of civilization can 90 through life with
out being in proper repair in these re-
spects. y
Make study Of the preparation OF
food. See to it that = certain cere-
mony, a certain importance, be at
tached to the partaking Of the food, a
certain time when each meal is to be
served; then see to it that the food
is not only prepared in the most
tempting way, but that 1t is served
in the most attractive and beautiful
way. In most cases, as you know, the
place where the food Is taken is the
most dismal, the most gloomy place
in the whole house, and people want
to get out of it just as soon as posi-
BILE. See to 1t that when you build
your own home the dining room is the
most beautiful, the most convenient,
the most tempting room I'M the whole
house."
AS is the case with all educational
institutions, one Of the first questions
asked by the visitor to Tuskegee is
what becomes of the graduates. An
investigation made by Monroe N.
Work of the division Of records shows
that about two-thirds of the 1,615 grad
yates and three-fourths of the stu
dents who did not finish are engaged
in some form of industrial work. They
are working as farmers, architects,
bakers, blacksmiths, bookkeepers,
brick masons, cabinet makers, carpen.
ters,- carriage makers, cooks. firemen.
harness makers, horticulturists, ma
chinists, milliners, miners, molders,
trained nurses, painters, plumbers,
printers, millers, shoemakers, tailors,
tinsmiths, wheelwrights and wood
turner's. In addition numbers are
teachers. RI ...&,..,... .......-. s
In the thirty years Of it's existence
the institute has given two years OF
training to approximately 5000 per
sons. The average earnings of per-
sons trained at Tuskegee is about $500
year. Before attending Tuskegce
they earned on an average about 500
a year. Thus the institute has in.
creased by about 600 per cent the
earnings of all who have taken its
courses. The earnings Of the average
negro is placed at about $500 year
The economic value of the institute
to the entire south has been estimat.
ed. The average length of time the
5000 students have been out OF the
school is fourteen years, during which
time their earnings have been $SS,200,'
900, It is estimated. Without the in
dustrial training the 5000 would have
earned in the fourteen years only $12.'
6O0, 900. So that the south, where most
of the 5000 are located, has had the
advantage of an increase of SIS, 100000
in the economic value of the 5000
alone, to say nothing of what Tuske'
gee has done in improving the condi'
tons Of the negro, outside the school
walls by teaching the dignity Of labor
and influencing the colored people OF
the south to sobriety, discipline, order,
better family life, and higher stan.
dard of living in general, all items OF