The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-26

that month in order that no extra call
might have to be made to the board
for financial aid.
Speaking of the unexpected calls that
have to be met almost every month, |
she told of one instance when 40 chill
dren We're i'll with measles at one time,
which greatly increased the medicine
and milk bills.
Going back to the time when the
schools were first introduced, she told
of being forced to take outcasts TO
start, so great was the opposition to-
the schools, but this has been changed.
The latest rule of the school is that
children who are placed in the school
are not allowed to go to their homes
| in vacation. She said that they brought
| back so much wickedness and disease
that it required a year to get them
over the effects of vacation. The
| boys remain in the school until they
are Il and the girls until they have
been through high school or Bible
school. Relatives are allowed to visit
the children at any time. Generally
/ the women of one town who have chill
dren in the school club together and
send two of their number to the
school annually and they spend one
week there. Miss Suman said what
they did not know about the children
and the work of the school at the end
of the week was not worth knowing.
She contrasted this with the lack of
interest in school work shown by par
ents in America.
Criticism of the schools that it had
not borne much fruit she met by saying
that it was only 10 years old and that
as children were taken at three and
four years of age it was little early
for much fruit to ripen. Last year the
first two girls were sent to the Bible
school
Her statement that new clothing was
cut in lots of IL dozen occasioned a
general gasp. The children do all of
the work in the school. The first four
grades are kept at home, for it is too
long a trip for them from the home to
the schools and those who make the
trip find little or no time to do any
thing in the way of work about the
home except to wash the supper dishes.
Miss Suman said they are entitled to
some time for play.
She said that when she goes back
she plans to ask the board to let them
keep seven grades in the home and to
5 do this Will require more children and
one more missionary. She added-that
she was not going to ask anything I'M
, til it was known what the policy of the
present administration toward the flu
I ture of the islands was to be.
2 She said that they do not pay the
s children anything for their work about
the house, but when it is known that
r six bows between the ages of and Il
= cook all of the meals for household
: of over rs it is fair to consider tha
2 they earn the three pesos a month i
Y costs to keep them There are girls il
S the industrial classes who finish on
5 piece of clothing every day. She TOLD
of how the girls of the first grade sew
0 the buttons ON the new garments ant
d how those of the third grade make tn
5 buttonholes and others do the othe
k work of making the garments,
Y Since the war began, She said. tn,
g evenings are, given up to battles I
/ hallway II feet in width runs tn
length of the home 1t was not diff
J. cult to believe that when the tin pa
=, drums and the clash of battle were al
t in full Operations during the playhoh
It 1bedlam let loose was a fairly ade
j, quate description. s3
d She closed with description of TIL
e teaching of English and of how tn
Christmas cantata is started in Septem
# Der in order to have both words an
" music memorized and the pronuncia
ton Of the new language nearly pei
G, feet She used this as an illustrate
he of early beginning of tasks and sug
t. gested that if the members began no7
lie there would be no deficit OF the Ne1
e England apportionment next year.
- Miss Leavis, representing the Unite
s. Study Books, spoke briefly of thel
as at the conclusion of Miss Suman s r.
p marks and was followed by Mrs. R.
in West of Newton Center, Mass, VIII
n spoke of the Home for Children of Mi
I'd sionaries in Newton Center of While
n she has been in charge nine years, til
gn home having been established 80 year
During the nine years that she h;
e been the mother in the home % fan
us lilies have been represented. Since ii
u home was established 30 children of mi
IA, sionaries who had their homes the
er have gone into the mission fields, 70,
ay of them in the last nine years. The
IN are now % boys and girls III the HON
w 10 of whom are in high school al
70 seven in grammar school.
Ia Adjournment was taken at H..
clock and the delegates went to Il
he new Odd Fellows temple, where di
rd ner was served They will eat supp
nd there this evening, the Rebekahs ser
ar ing the meals.
'ar The afternoon program began at
Ice 0 CLOCK and the program called for t
to reports of various officers, talk
est the new study book, by Mrs. Carroll
Atwater Mason, the author; Missions
mt the Sunday Schools, by Miss Elisabe
-he Arlington of Newton Center, Mas
by What Hasseltine House Means, by M
lal II. A. Henderson of Burma, and o
ses Black Pansies, by Mrs. Elizabeth
ry, Hall of Africa.
to
70. MILITARY CONFUSION.