The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-10-02
TEACHER HAS FIVE OF
HER CHILDREN AT SCHOOL
Arlington Mother Returns to Profess
sion to Help Out Cause Of
Education,

Education,
The Bent Twig tea.house has been
replaced by lively school children
both divisions of the North District
school being well attended. Miss
Preo has the older children, from the
third grade up, and North District
parents are much pleased that in this
Il year of difficulty in securing good
teachers, they should have the good
luck to have a teacher OF so much
Iexperienoe, intelligence and charact-
4 err. The school-year is an assured
success in her hands. Fer the young
Ell children, the first and second
/ grades, an interesting attempt is
being made along lines which Ameri
can educators often wish could be
more developed, that Is, the utilizing
of the training and experience of
good teachers who have married and
Ihad children OF their own. The old
er people in Arlington village will re-
member what an excellent school
was kept by Miss Margaret Lyons of
This gifted school-teacher was Cap
tured from the school system and
turned into fine mother by good
marriage, and as the wife OF James
/ lyman has been much-respected
citizen of Arlington ever since She
has raised a large family of children
every one of whom is now of school
age, and five OF whom are now in ale
tendance at the North District
School. What more natural than
that she should follow her children
there, now that they are no longer in
the home? Mrs. lyman has consent
ed to try to combine home-duties
with schcol.work and to take over
the teaching of the younger children
land/ every morning sets off for
school with her FIVE children beside
her The only difficulty has been
/ the hnding OF someone who can help
Mrs lyman with her house-work.
Anyone who knows Of someone who
would like work in good family
this winter. would help the cause Of
I good schools along by letting the
North District School know about
ihei
t The Battenkill Women's Club at a
recent meeting, took account OF stock
after a summer OF very brisk activi-
ity, and finds that the money made at
lThe Bent Twg tea-house, 1.-THE ccm.
faunty tea-Dom, which was run in
1.-THE North District sehool-house last
summer was enough to ensure a
very sufessfm serving of hot lunches
( during this season to the school chill
drep. From the percentage given to
the school and from the sac OF an
tiques which were given &c the school
! Tor thaf purpose. a little more than
seventy dollars We're earned by the
ladies OF the North District This
money is 10 be spent for the raw ma
teTial for hot lunches for the children
during the coldwinter months. The
North District children come, many
OF them. from far up on the noun
tain slopes. and after battling their
way dgwn through snowdrifts, or
ram-storpns. they need the addition
of a hot dish to their bread and but.
ter and cake or PIE, brought from
home, It is planned to have a Ger.
tain amount OF simple domestic
science taught TO the children of the
school in connection with the serving
OF these hot dishes, and some ele-
mentaTy Instruction will be given
them IN foodyalues, ii 1t is no more
than to teach them why school
lunch composed OF tea, doughtnuts
and pickles is not good for growing
children, Altogether the Battenkill
club feel very happy over the result
/ Il the Bent Twig tea-house enter
prise and very thankful for the sup
port which they received from the
public in this attempt to help the
school.
There was of course much talk and
/ discussion about the other North
District enterprise, the moving pic
ture theatre in Arlington, when the
club met; much wrnging OF hands
over difficulties much laughter over
funny sides OF the business, so new
to country bred women, much discus.
sion of how to do better, altogether a
stirring of interest and a stimulat.on.
TO brain-action which can only come.
with the attempt to get something
done. The ladies' broke up the
meeting, feeling all of them that such
attempts TO get something done were
| by no means flowery beds of ease,
and that they had had some pretty
hard times in the business and work
ed with all their might; but that on
the whole the experience OF trying
hhard to get something done, and learn
ing a lot in doing it, even il mistakes
are made, was more worth while than
spending ones leisure time, rocking
on the front perch, doing tatting and
watching who goes by, and where he
.is going.
one other subject was taken up at
the club meeting. DR. Elliot. the
Health officer of Manchester came
down by invitation and spoke to the
club on topics connected with his of.
fee. The ladies' had chance to find
out what a health officer really is in
the new ruling, what his duties are,
what the duties of parents are in re-
CARDS to him, what the new rules
about quarantine are, and many SINH
lar topics. The interest aroused by
this was SO great that 1t was voted to
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