Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-28
Human Education
PI17a NOoO Making
Real Progress
by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
copyrIsht. lsls. star company.

Humane education is making its way
into public schools with much success.
The acting chairman OF humane educa-
tion IN Rochester says:
Fifteen years ago the Rochester HUI
name society, pioneer in the field. be-
gan the work OF educating the school
children of the city in humane ideals.
Today we find humane societies all over
the country following this kind OF work
and looking to our society for guidance.
At the convention Of the American Hu-
name association. held in November. in
St Augustine. our delegates found hu-
name education to be the keynote
sounded. May we take unto ourselves
due credit?
"Of course the work done here has
progressed greatly in the last fifteen
years. Where at one time an occasional
lecture was given. now all the public
school children in the city are shown why
they should be kind to animals. Through
the courtesy OF the Board of Education
and the superintendent of schools, Miss
Woodward gives lectures in each school.
There were eighty-one lectures given
during the year 1915. the assembly halls
in many Of the schools permitting several
grades to be addressed at one time. In
terested by Miss Woodward, the children
made a splendid response to our offer
OF prizes for essays on the following sub
jects:
Subject for Eighth Grade-1 Our Com
mon Birds; What ones have YOU become
acquainted with? 2. Game Birds: Why
should humane people countenance the
shooting Of game birds. so-cslled. at any
timer
Subject for Seventh Grade-Hiberna-
tion; The relation of cold TO animal life.
Subject for sixth Grade-The Horse:
The difference between the work horse,
the race horse. the fire horse and the
saddle horse
Subject for Fourth Grade-How I
found home. CCat or dog story)
Subject for Fifth Grade-The Horse:
Is he laborer? Does he have the right
to wages? What should they be?
Subject for Sixth Grahe-Bird habits
Subject for Seventh yGrade-How in
sects live: How they Breathe and how
they eat
Subject for Eighth Grade-Animal
painters and sculptors and some Of their
masterpieces.
These are good subjects and require
research study and thought which will
benefits the minds of children while II
awalSens their sympathles for all oui
dumb kin.
Here is a touching and true story
of how cat awoke the humane spirit
in the hearts Of rude men: A stray cal
crept into an empty freight car. There
she gave birth to a family of kittens
When they were few weeks old the cal
was attached to an outgoing train.
For three days the frightened mother
and starving kittens rode in that cal
without food or water. Then the wal
of the mother cat was heard by one o.
the brakemen, The car was opened AM
the almost dying animals discovered. Tw,
kittens were dead; two nearly so. Th'
brakeman brought milk and the raven
GUS and gaunt mother refused to touci
it until she carried her two living kitten
to the saucer first and had watched then
drink. Then she satisfied her own thirst
THE brakemen, who until that tim
had regarded cats with no more consid
Grafton than they gave to rats or mice
were not ashamed to shed tears over thi
poor tramp feline.
Here IL the true and touching end 0
the story:
They shook hands around the nttl
group and vowed that they would neve
III use an animal as long as they lived
She had taughto them lesson. The Eel
lows had been quarrelsome among them
selves; hatred and malice had ruled thel
lives; now a couple OF men who had no
been on speaking terms for months for
gave each other and made It up. Their
was no end to the kindness which thos
few tears had washed away: the unselfis
deed of a poor animal had melted the ic'
and the stony hearts had become heart
OF flesh.
When the train reached the neares
station the men handed over the purrin
mother and her still living kittens to til
station master. and they made up a lit'l
purse among themselves for their keel
Before starting off again they mad
a strong appeal to their new friend I
treat the little family well. with a prom
ise like that OF the Good Samaritan.
further payment for their food when nel
they came that way. Frcm that hour
feeling of brotherhood prevailed anon
the little band. and It was all pussey
doings."