The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-01
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1sT, 1926.
THE WOMAN TOUCH
By Mrs. Mabel Coan

BY Mrs. Mabel COan
We are women
And do as only women do.
The little helpless things have always been our
{ care
But little things grow great;
How very great only we women know
So keen thing is womans vision
Men call women the weaker sex;
They little know how hard
How very hard they lean upon us;
The world has need of women.
We are
And love as only women love
Life itself were not too much to give
Where love is worthy.
We give as women give-our all;
And serve as women serve.
Take woman's love and woman's service from
the home
1t were as if blight and darkness
Had come upon it.
The world has need of women.
We women
And think as only women
Our thoughts create-our visions materlahze;
Men see homes and little children
Spring up all about us
Flowers in waste places-laws enforced
The finer things general
And man himself oft made great
Because of woman's thoughts;
Thank God-there are women!
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KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL
" HE attendance at the Redwood Falls
school, or rather the lack of such attend
L ance, is little short of crime. Students
are using any sort of trivial excuse to remain
away from school, and the parents are apparent
ly backing them up; at least they ask that these
students be readmitted to their classes. No
student is permitted to go back to his class at
ter an absence without written request from his
parent, therefore it seems unreasonable to sup
pose that these parents do not know just when
and why their children are out of school. The
scholarship of the Redwood Falls schools is none
too high-in fact the assurance that it is rather
below the average is matter of considerable
concern to faculty members. 1t should be a
matter of much more concern to the parents and
taxpayers of the District. And assuredly no
school can attain it's best in this respect with
An average of absence such as published In
the Gazette of last week. Twenty-eight pupils
were absent in the combined junior and senior
high schools in single day. That means that
these twenty weight lost their class work, ina
their teachers had to devote time outside the
classes to makeup work. and that the class
itself cannot progress rapidly with so many alb
sences, simply because makeup work never does
the work of the regular class PERIOD the absentee
thus automatically becomes a laggard and tn'
class must wait for him to catch up illness OF
the part of the pupil is legitimate excuse, poti
for the protection of himself and his associates
There NAV be serious illness in the home tina
necessitates his presence there and there ma
be other reasons why occasional absence i
excusable But they mighty few-and thel
substitutes are many! 1t is matter for parent
to ponder over. 1t is also matter on which the!
must use their parental authority Gf any, in or
der that the student may not feel that ne cal
stay at home to satisfy caprice of his own. kee
these boys and girls in school. Five days
each week. And try to see that they are tnef
on time. Going to school is their JOB. VIII
not have them do it with the same concentrated
they would give any other worthwhile work.
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