Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-06-13

for all pupils are English, Physical
Training and Hygiene These three
required subjects give some of the
instructions that every American citi
zen should receive and the electives
give each individual an opportunity
use later and to study problems close
ly related to our social, civic and in
dustrial life. The large majority of
pupils in the General High School
have definite ideas as to what they
are preparing to do. Those who in
tend to go to college or to normal
school have courses as rigidly pre-
scribed and as definitely specialized
as if they were segregated in separ
ate schools. For the thousands who
wish to take up clerical work, the
Commercial High School is provided.
The High School of Practical Arts
for girls devotes a considerable part
of it's time to regular academic sub
jects but it lays stress on millinery,
dress-making and household science
for the benefit of girls who desire to
make an intelligent study of the
home from the standpoint of santa
ton, furnishing, decoration and care
But this is not the only aim. 1t pro-
vides for definite industrial training
of high character. All High Schools
would do well to emulate this ideal
of Boston.
The problem of the education of
girls is not one which has just
sprung up but one which has been
slowly growing into prominence. In
the time of ancient Greece We hear
of Socrates assembling boys in the
market places to give them the ben
eft of his lectures and all the knowl-
edge he was capable of bestowing
upon them, but the girls We're not
asked to be present. In mediaeval
times universities were establishd in
Paris and other places for the pro-
motion of the education of boys. La
ter on, in our own country, Harvard,
the first college was designed for
boys. Yet not word was said about
the girls. Neither was the matter re-
stricted to colleges. The first High
Schouls We're established for boys
and boys only.
/ One main reason for the cOntin-
uance of the traditional courses in
our High Schools is the control over
High School work exerted by col
| leges 1t has been assumed that such
studies as Manual Training, Domes-
tic Science and Agriculture could not
possible rank with the formal studies
in gaining power to carry on college
work especially in the College Of
Letters and Science AS a result of
prejudice there has come about a
! feeling that Latin, Mathematics, His
| tory and Literature constitute a sort
of aristocracy of learning. A large
majority of the very best pupils and
parents refuse to accept a course
which is not allowed equal privi-
leges with those courses made up of
old time subjects.
Another reason for the present
course in our High school is that a
majority Of the educators who man
aged the schools thought that if girls
desired an education let them take
what had been provided for boys.
Otherwise girls were considered suf-
ficiently educated if they were able
to cook sew and care for children.
!, The girl in most cases is as anxious
for an education as the boy She is
willing enough to accept what is put
before her in order to compete with
and be on equal intellectual footing
beside her brother, friend and hus-
band, though generally she does not
care to take all that is required for
she realizes that it will not all be
beneficial to her Subjects which
would be more advantageous to her
are not included.
Many boy and girl has graduated
in the same class each having as
much ability as the other and now
we find the boy working for twice
the salary the girl is getting because
the girls are more available than the
boys There are always girls to be
found at home having the needs and
luxuries of life provided for them and
if a little odd job presents itself.
girl is easily obtained to fill the
place for small wages; while. with
the boy the case is altogether diff
ferent. He does not generally depend
upon his father to support him but
as early in life as he can gets out
into the world to make his own way.
Almost every newspaper, daily or
weekly, now agitates the question OF
how to raise the wages of girls in
factories and large department stores
How, oap tba cchooI holm thoSa girls