St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-10-13
WOMAN'S CLUB MEET.
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decided upon but the committee viii
report at the November meeting. Thu
music committee reported that a clul
chorus will be formed and the board
voted to buy the music for them. The
management of the Athenaeum has
consented to sell guest tickets for the
club and hereafter they may be pro
cured there.
Home Gardening Work.
Mrs. Rebecca Fairbanks reported
Tor the home gardening committee
that the expense had been much less
than anticipated The work was in
charge of Miss Howe at the Museum
"A large percentage of the children
ordered seeds through the Museum
and started small gardens at their
homes. Plots were provided at the
Museum and the Portland street and
/ Arlington schools. There were II
i gardens at the Museum, 10 at Airing
ton and 8 at Portland ST. A class
of 80 Joined the State Boys and
Girls club. The gardens are
now being cleared and financial
! reports sent to the state commission
Ter, b. L. ingalls,, at Burlington. The
largest gain reported was that of a
third grade girl, Ruther Moffet, of
Summerville who cleared 81 from the
sale of flowers and still has her veg
etables to sell. Mrs. Fairbanks also
reported that the school lunches were
such success last year, as carried
On by the club, that the school board
has arranged to have them contin-
ued this year under the direction of
the home economics department.
Teaching Children Music.
Mrs. Hovey spoke of the work
which had been done during the
summer at the clubhouse under the
direction of Miss Gratia D. Balch.
Many of the club knew little of this
work which was done through the
club house association and all were
deeply interested in Miss Balch's err
port which follows:
GAS I have watched for seevral
years the hundreds of children who
have applied for admission to the
music school settlement only to be
put on the waiting list and the 900
happy ones who come every week to
the school for their lessons, two
things have made a deep impression
on me-one that an inconceivably
large number of people are music
hungry and the other that music
teaches most exquisitely the art of
development These things are
true of city children, why not of
country children? And the work at
the clubhouse this summer proved |
my point. The Club House associa-
ton very kindly gave me the use
of the club rooms two mornings a |
week for my experiment, and through |
y Of
public school teachers 1 secured the
only condition was
that the children should love music |
and five cents a week was charged |
to cover the small expense involved. |
The first call brought Is, practically
all from one neighborhood and as L
was the only teacher and was the
Oretically having a vacation L did
not extend the invitation. The work
was done in classes, eight beginners /
about six years old, five a sizes larger
and two older ones who had private
lessons and helped with the little
ones. We met two mornings week
for two months. When we started
some of us couldn't sing a note but
by the end of the time we were all
singing folk songs together, playing
little pieces on the piano and max
ing up our OWN 1III1S 0Oh5S, OOSA
words and music.
No difficulty seemed unsurmount-
aDle-where there was no piano at
,hild's house, usually there was one
1t an aunt's or grand mothers. one
little girl sold flowers to pay for her
essons but the biggest of all was
On circus day when one small girl
gave I'D the parade rather than miss
her music lesson. At the close OF the
essons the children had a party for
heir mothers and friends and show
ad them what we had been dong
through the summer and also talked
,ver plans for continuing their music
essons. A few could afford to pay
he regular fee Of a good teacher ana
still more will continue with one OF
he younger teachers.
After the reading of Miss Balch's
report by the secretary the club, up
IN the motion of Mrs. HaZen, unan1-
voted to give her a vote or
hanks.
District Nurse Secured.
The board reported that district
nurse has been secured but she is
not quite ready to begin work. The
music of the afternoon consisted OF
TWO beautifully rendered solos by
Mrs. Ida P Brooks, who sang by spe-
cial request A feature of the meet
ing which helped make it enjoyable
was the removal of all hats at the
request of the speaker, Miss Arnold.
This is the regular thing in most
clubs and makes listening much