The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02
North Caorlina will continue to be IN
the country.

the country.
Sizing Up the Problems Correctly.
The general principles of all things
are the same in the country or IN the
city. Yet the city habit or Ire Is
| superficial, and in no way is II ADAPT
ed for life in the rms conul-
ton the Red Springs institution rec
| ognizes. and il is the purpose or the
| trustees and the faculty TO impress
upon the girls that the big problems
Of life in North Carolina are 10 pc
country problems, and that the tram
| ing of the country girl who comes TO
Red Springs can not be satisfying II
it is an imitation of the training OF
the girl who attends the city cOIleSe
with its city ideals of the superficial
things. The college at Red Springs is
a country college a when 1t was
established there were few cities IN the
State, and no city but wilmington In
the territory of the PreSbyteries which
established the institution. The col
leee is a country institution now be-
cause OF its location, but also of the
determination that it shall be a cOun-
try college for the purpose of dolng
work for country girls that shall give
them an understanding of ountr life
and a confidence in III possibilities
and the ideals Of ountr life.
Quite closely affiliated with this in
stitution is the other of giving to do
mestic art and science broadeS
possible opportunity. The education
OF women has been a haphazard
thing. In the early days education
was for men. 1t was to fit them for
professional work. When women.
steadily forcing recognition for them
selves and for their rights to a fair
chanc with men, finally were granted
the right to go to school 1t was a
I problem what women might be taught
that would hpnpfit them 10 NAV he
harpsichord and work a sampler was
about as harmless is anything. That
served. Anything is good if it is a be
ginning. Once women were accorded
the right to any kind of an education,
if only to learn to up to ten,
the rest was certain to follow.
Presently the girl was allowed to so
to the training school to become a
teacher. Yet to merely teach girls
how to teach others to teach others
did not fulfill the purpos Of having
girls in school. So something more
had to come and something more
has come, and keep coming until
schools for women and for men get
far beyond where they are.
Recognizing the New Education.
At Red Springs this was recognized
and one Of the most complete courses
in domestic arts and sciences was in
troduced. When these lines were frs,
proposed at Red Springs the world fig
ured that education meant a certain
polish for the girl, and an unlettereC
negro in the kitchen to attend to The
physical requirements Of the family
SO unimportant a thing as preparing
} food being too undignified for an edu
5 Gated woman to dea with. Rec
Springs has set the standard Of edu.
; cation for women far ahead of tn
: field. This college will come up will
! that standard some day, but it has We
f a struggle with the old habit of con
, servatism. An interesting incident il
disclosed by the possession of a farn
a short distance from town which DR.
I Vardell bought with the hope Of es
$ tablishing IN the farm a feature Of tn,
college trainining. He had hoped t.
. teach there some Of the things tina
S come up in farm life experience tina
t the girl who comes from the farn
I might go Jack to the farm with
: more intelligent and scientific under
Q standing Of what may be done to ad
e vance farm life if the desire to ad
vance is in evidence.
DR.. Vardell, like every other pic
neer, is a little ahead Of his time. Blu
that he will be overtaken seems en-
tirely likely when the progress tn
college has made is remembered
Here are now fine brick buildings, al
O ode comforts and convenience
that make life physically agreeable
e and for the moment everything seem
available that is to be desired. o
e course the school tomorrow will hav
IS outgrown the school facilities Of to
day, and hat is why the new thing
d will be overtaken before anybody i
aware of hat progress is in the all
) Domestic Science Exemplified.
O Oh, no., domestic science does ne
IS mean going into the kitchen an,
e washing dishes. The first thing tha
will strike the practical man VIII
h drops into the domestic science de
n partment at Red Springs is the bi
% collection Of chemical devices and i'm
ol plements. There he will begin to b
Is interested. The girl at Red Spring
IL learns to take a handful Of flour an
put it under the microscope and Sc
20 that it has too large a percentage G
= middlings in it. or whatever may &c