The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
FLAPJACKS Will
STOP DIVORCES,
SAYS EBERHARDT
Former Governor of MINI. De-
clares Good Cooking Means
Matrimonial Bliss.
ASKS BISCUIT COURSE
IN EVERY SCHOOL
Statesman Gives Teachers Kitch-
en- Talk and Wants Ad-
vice Adopted.

An expert knowledge of hot-biscuit
making, accurate flapiack turning.
teTpcramental coffee boiling and lus-
ty broom-pushing last night was de
clared panacea for divorces BY for
mer Governor A. Q. Eberhardt of MIN
nesota.
He was talking to hall full Of
school teachers, and ne declared the
schools ought to take hand in teach
ing such gentle arts as ne described.
The governor himself not so long
ago went to Africa where. while he
followed the trail of Theodore Rooso-
welt in quest of big game, he learned
to concoct his own decoctionS. to .iuggle
his own skillet and to makeup his own
bed-he didn't indulge in hot-biscuits
and anyway he is Northerner.
The address was delivered before the
general session Of the Southeast Mis-
souri, Teachers Association, highway
builders organization and other organ
izations at the general roundup at the
Normal School The hall was filled
with more than 1000 persons.
Schools ought to make the muscu-
lar art of butter-making, beautiful. al
Turing, inspiring to the country girl.
and fill the business of seed corn grow
ing with glamour for the farm boy"
he said.
Butter and seed corn ought to he
their A b C's Many divorce record
would never have been placed in our
courts if the schools taught something
about home-making
an our anxiety to teach our chill
dren their A b C's we have forgotten
to teach them how to make the home
beautiful, how to enjoy their lives. 1t
is the glamour of the city that takes
the country lad off the farm.
''If you don't give the normal boy
or girl, wholesome entertainment you
cannot expect to hold him on the farm.
| If you do, then You have driven him
to the farm from the city, YOU have
! taken him out of the rcformatorics and
all your public institutions. You cut
down the city's population.
eve have spent millions Of dollars
IN mistakes in the citicS-we have put
up public Fairgrounds and parks,
everything to attract the farm lads.
And yet we still think nothing Of do
ing anything at all for the entertain
ment of the boy who goes to the little
red schOOlhouse at the cross roads"
Governor Eberhardt spoke for the
school as a social center in rural COM
munities and he told Of the results
that are obtaining in his own State
The farmers have learned to use Their
school houses all the time.
They hold their meetings at the
school houses, they have musicaIes
there, they have exhibits there, the
boys vie in seed corn raising, compc-
tition is melted, the women have their
clubs, the children Ike to go to their
school
The movie has been placed there
The governor said that a move was
afoot now to sell movie films to the
school authorities by the State, the
films to be circulated in the school
houses.
The influence of such a social center
is far-reaching, he declared and it is
wholesome in the community. You
cannot drive the boy off the farm when
he lives under those circumstances.
"The movement has had its critics"
he declared, "but it is easy for people,
to criticise anything. The schoolhouse
as the social center is living through
its seige of ridicule."
Governor Eberhardt complimentcd
the Commercial Club of the Cape, the
Teachers Association and the High
way Association upon their work in
organizing the Roundup meeting. He
described it as a start in the direction
of the farmers'2 get-tOgether move
ment.
Following his address, an informal
was held in the corridors of the Nor
NAL School auditorium. Governor Eber-
hardt departed for his home in Mime
sofa early this morning. He made the
trip to the Cape especially for his adj
dress.
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, editor of
the Missouri Woman, gave an address
on "'The Commercial Value of the
Woman Citizen" before the governors
and the meeting last night
was oponed by music by Miss Blanche
of the Normal Music De-
partment and Miss Flora Drusch, also