Show MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS THE TH I HERALD HERD takes pleasure in en endorsing enI dorsing unreservedly City School Superintendent proposItion proposition proposition tion for the establishment e of ot manual training departments department in connection with the th eighth grade schools There is so much to be said in favor of ot the th plan that tat one wonders wonder where to begin and when to leave l ave off or The trend of modern education especially of com corn common common cornmon mon school education is to give young people a fair fa groundwork In mathematics ics In history perhaps a dip into lit literature lt literature and a dash dah of ot grammar All Al of these thee studies have hae their practical practical value alue but they have a tendency to make mae young youg people despise manual labor Jabor That Tat Js is to say boys bo get the notion noton that tat it I Is better beter to earn 12 1 a 0 week as bookkeepers or clerks than to 10 earn twice as a much as as carpenters and bricklayers b er The toil tol that brings the sweat seaL to the face is I looked upon as asIn asin In Sn a sense sene degrading And the pity of or it Is that tat the boys bs never find out their mistake i is too late Almost Am t the same S thing is true of the girls They learn to dislike house household household household hold work ork In It I they can an n see noth nothing nothing nothIng ing but a a ceaseless round of ot drudgery They never r vcr stop to think that that as a Mr r en so o 0 A iveli ell el says S there is a n and nd an art in both cooking and d sewing ana aha that the truly Cultured woman should know kno some something something thing about each ea h Of Ot course coune no girl gId wants want to spend her life Uta in a kitchen kichen or at a a sewing machine but if it she knows how hon to spend a a few hours flours hour at each prof profitably profitably every ever day da she knows the secret of of a happy happ home From Mr r statement of the case The Te Herald Herd understands that the installation of manual maual training de departments departments will 1 not involve an excess excessive ec ss lye hoe expenditure Certainly Certainty the te small smal outlay will 1 be more mor than rewarded in inthe Inthe inthe the betterment of ot the children It I will wil wl wilnot not be b possible to transform them tem from raw rw apprentices Into and ad blacksmiths and car carpenters cr carpenters penters penter and ZUId nd cooks cok and seamstresses but It will be b possible to instill insl into them a a whOles wholesome me respect re ct for t r these tese callings Xo No o boy or girl sirl Is hurt hut by having something on which to fall fal back in time of ot need ned The young oung man ma who I can cn earn ea a good living with wit his hi hands hads need ne never neer be b afraid that want at will 1 overtake him or his The young oung wo ivo woman woman man who can make mak the fewest cn te things tinS last lat the longest time is accomplishing a a great deal del more than han the gat mor girl win who ho hoen folded can en play lay the tM Schubert serenade blind bUnd |