Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-22
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| Have you man to take care of
our FARM"
| We wish a young woman to teach
domestic science in our city SCHOOL,"
I'VE need skilled mechanics to teach
carpentry. wheelwrighting, and black
smithing?"
Negro nurses, men and women, are
in great demand here in our town"
There are some of the many calls
that assail the principal Of Tuskegee
institute at all seasons Of the year.
1t is reasonably SO. The change Of
the trend Of education among both
white and black: the increase of
wealth and courage to venture into
business among negroes; the higher
and higher esteem into which the
skilled negro workmen are rising
all make this call louder and more
general.
At Tuskegee Institute some 30 odd
of these industries are taught There
are millinery, dressmaking, ladies'
tailoring. upholstering and mattress
making, domestic science, laundering
and gymnastics for girls; there are
shoemaking, tailoring, wheelwright-
ing. carpentry, cabinet making, tin
smithing, printing, harness making,
mechanical and architectural drawing,
mechanical, electrical and steam en-
cheering for boys; and there are
dairying, swine raising. truck farming.
poultry raising, stock raising, floricul'
ture, landscape gardening, veterinary
science, fruit growing and many other
branches Of industry, both mechanical
and agricultural trades for both boys
and girls. This again Is the modern
trend of things. Therefore let no one
halt at the idea Of young women en-
tering the agricultural trades.
Moreover, experience and expert
ments at Tuskegee institute are
demonstrating that the young woman
is just as apt and able a pupil with
the machinery in the creamery, with
the science of feeds in the poultry
yard, with packing and handling fruit
in the orchard as she is with gram
NAUTICAL syntax in the class room, and
Just as quick and aggressive as her
young man classmate, to whom time
and prejudice have hitherto restricted
these trades.
The colored man that proposed a
negro flag has certainly lost his
bearings. And he Is said to be a
bishop, too. Well, whoever he Is, ne
has a right to his private opinions,
about whatsoever, but when he breaks
into print with the object OF influence
ing and teaching he should be eau
tious. OF course no harm follows, but
it makes the race appear silly and
foolish. How Is 1t possible to get
flag under the conditions? Flags
stand for something. We think the
bishop would be ashamed If he was
driven to the possible source Of his
flag getting. The Africans, apparent
ly, have not worried themselves about
what banner they essayed their wars
under, or cultivated their fields in
peace. Perhaps he would not be
ashamed of the source Of his extrac-
ton, but ashamed OF the actual ban
ner if they had any. The art of
manufacturing cloth did not spring up
in our portion of Africa. 1t would be
too bad to bark back to the Garden OF
Eden in the hopes Of finding vestige
of cloth suficient for flag design
Indianapolis Freeman.
A man who lives right and Is right
has more power in his silence than
another has by his words. Character
is like bells which ring out sweet mu'
sic. and which. when touched. acct
dentally even, resound with sweet mu-
sic.-Phillips Brooks.
At the recent meeting Of the Negro
Business League the most striking
story of financial success was that OF
Watt Terry, young negro. who In
1900 went from Virginia to Brockton,
Mass, with a capital Of Is cents. He
worked as coachman, janitor, porter
and shoemaker, and finally became
real estate broker. In the last named
occupation his success has been so
great that at the present time he re-
ports that his income ranges from
50, 900 to $1,000 month
One great value of initiative Is tho
conouering of fear. Through all his
torv we find that those that have &C
complished things lived above fear
Fear of adverse criticism, fear OF hard
ship, fear of failure, all were lost IN
a supreme effort to share with their
fellow men the gifts entrusted to
them.-Blanche Blessing.
Talents are best nurtured in soil
tude: character is best formed IN the
stormy billow Of the world.-Goethe.
Have It a fixed principle that get
ting into any scornful way is fatal to
the hest that is in you.-Bushnell.
The world always judges a man
land rightly too) by his little faults
which he shows hundred times a
dav. rather than by his great virtues,
which he discloses perhaps but once
in a lifetime and to a single person
Lowell. ,
Take warning by the misfortunes
of others. that others may not take
oxamnle from you.-Saadi.
Carry your cross with patient sub.
.~A l., Tho ond II will carry