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Show ; 1 I Home and School League j By MISS ROSE JONES, Director of Kindergarten, University of Utah. PDAV. Play is an important in the child's life as is the work of the parent, and should he treated with the same consideration and fieri oun nf-ss as the recreation of an adult. Hay which fieerns to ua unimportant unimpor-tant often involv-s the most eeger attention at-tention and desire on the part of the child. Wantonly and unnecessarily to interrupt .such nlav is not only an injustice injus-tice and a crudity, hut arouses every force of rebellion in the child's nature. Yet we expect children to be respectful, considerate and thoughtful of us and oft our work. Mrs. Mary Wood Allen illustrates illus-trates this very forcibly by the instance of a younff merchant, intent on business, who, while rushing across the city on his wheel, met with a collision, resulting in bruises and dislocations which kept hini from active duties for several days. The mental currents which had been rushing out along the lines of business activities, were suddenly checked, and boiled and sf.r-f.hcd In irritation and rebellion. "It would not have been so hard," he said, "if i could have been let down asy. but thin sudden Htoppaye from a point of intense in-tense activity to a state of enforced quiet, is utmost unbearable." One evening, while lying- on his sofa, he noticed that his little boy, a bright --it tie hoy of four years, was remaining up after his usual bed time, and. calling call-ing the. nurse, he .commanded her to take the child to bed. The little fellow resisted with kicks and screams, was scolded and trapped by his father into sullen acquiescence and carried off re-helliously re-helliously to bed. "I. declare," said the father, ;,that child is pettinpr to be incorrigible. in-corrigible. shall certainly have to take him severely in hand." This remark was addressed to a friend, a woman of experience, who, sitting in the room, had been a witness to the proceedings. pro-ceedings. The comment of the father opened the way for the expression of thoughts which were welling up in her mind. "Did you notice what the child was doing when you ordered him to bed?" she said. "Why, no, not particularly. He was playing, I believe." "He was vers' busy," said the friend. "He had a grocery store in one corner of the room, a telephone tele-phone in another, and a magnificent train of cars with a coal scuttle engine. He was talcing orders from the telephone-, doing up packages in the grocery store, and delivering them by train. He had just very courteously assured Mrs. Brown that she should shortly have a pound of rice pudding and a bushel of baked potatoes; po-tatoes; had done up a pumpkin pie for Mrs. Smith, when he was rudely disturbed dis-turbed in his business by Sarah and car- ried off to bed. He resented and, probably, prob-ably, if he could have put his thoughts in words, would have said just what you said a short time ago that if he could havo been let down easy, it would not have been so hard. But to be dropped suddenly, in the midst of business, was intolerable. Now, he knows that tomorrow tomor-row the grocery store will have been demolished, de-molished, the telephone will have disappeared, dis-appeared, the train will have been wrecked, and If he goes Into business again he will have to begin at the foundation. foun-dation. You think your experience is hard enough, but you know that there are others at your place of business who are looking after things as well as they can. How would you feel if you knew that your store was demolished and had to be built up again from the foundation?" founda-tion?" "Oh, well," said the father, "but that is business. The boy is only playing." play-ing." "The boy's occupation to him was business, just as much as yours is to you; his mental activities were just -as intense; the sudden checking of his currents cur-rents of thought were just as hard to bear, and his kicks and screams were no more unreasonable to him than have been your exclamations and sufferings during the time that you have been ignomin-lously ignomin-lously consigned to bed. You have been worrying over plans that were suddenly confused because of your accident; he goes to bed feeling that Mrs. Brown would be disappointed because she didn't get her rice pudding, and it was Just as hard for him to bear this as it was for you tb bear your experience." "Well, what would you have me do?" said the father. ""Would you let the child sit up all night because he is interested in his play?" "No, but you might have let him down easy. Suppose you had given him fifteen minutes in which to rearrange rear-range his thoughts. Suppose you had called him up and said: Well, Mr. Grocer, I would like to give you some orders, or-ders, but I see that it is about time for your store to close, and I shall have to wait until tomorrow. No doubt the little lit-tle grocer would have been willing to have filled your orders at once, but you could have said: 'Oh, no, shops must close on time so that the clerks can go home. There will be plenty of time tomorrow. to-morrow. I see you still have some goods to deliver, and your engineer is very anxious anx-ious to reach the end of his run. In about fifteen minutes the engine must go into the roundhouse, and the engineer must go home and go to bed, so as to be ready for work tomorrow.'1 "Do you not see that this would have turned the thoughts of the child into just the line that you wanted them to go? He would have been glad to close up his shop, because that is the way men do; and as the little engineer at the end of his run been glad to go home and resti Instead of a rebellious child sobbing himself sulkily o sleep with an indestructible inde-structible feeling of injustice rankling in his heart, as a happy little engineer he would have . gone willingly to bed to think with loving kindness of that father who had sympathized with him and helped him to close his day's labors satisfactorily." sat-isfactorily." "I see," said the father, "and I am ashamed of myself. If I could waken him I would go to him and ask him to forgive me. Sarah, bring Bobbie here." "He Is asleep," was the reply. "Never mind, bring him anyhow." The girl lifted the sleeping boy and carried him to his father's arms. The child's face was flushed and tear-stained; his little fists w-ere clenched and the long-drawn, sobbing breath showed with what a perturbed spirit he had entered into sleep. "Pool little chap," said the father penitently, as he kissed the cheek moist with weeping. "Can you forgive your father, my boy?" The child did not waken, but his hand gently unclosed, his w'hole body relaxed and, nestling his head more closely against his father's breast, he raised one chubby hand and patted hi father's cheek. It was as if the loving lov-ing voice had penetrated through the encasing en-casing flesh to the child's spirit, and he had answered love with love: and they will always answer love with love. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Mrs. H. S. Tanner, chairman of the home economics committee, requests all district presidents to send in the class rolls as soon as possible. A call was1 made for these rolls two weeks ago, but not aJl have come in to date. It is necessary nec-essary that this information be made ready for the university and the Agricultural Agricul-tural college immediately. The weekly report cards are not all in as yet. These are needed in compiling important data. Will you please mail these two to A. J. Goodwin, 975 Lake street, and save wear and tear on the telephone? WEEK'S CLASSES. Burton school Over fifty ladies have been attending the classes at the Burton school in Granite. These classes meet next Wednesday. Dr. Olson will conduct a class in Infant welfare, beginning at S:30 and preceding him by one hour Miss Blanch Cooper will have a class in food and nutrition. Carlisle school The extension classes are proving popular in Granite, as is attested by the number enrolled in the work. More than thirty Indies from the Carlisle school met each week to study child hygiene. This week's meeting will be held next Wednesday at 3:30. One of our prominent university t doctors will preside. Douglas school The class in food and nutrition, composed of twenty-five ladies from the Douglas district, will meet on Thursday afternoon at 2. Do you know-that know-that all you have to do to join Is to present pre-sent yourself in a receiving frame of mind, at the school building, at the appointed ap-pointed time? Edison school The ladles of the Edison Edi-son Parent-Teacher association are hereby here-by notified uf the meeting next Wednesday Wednes-day of their i-lass in food and nutrition. They are invited to come and to bring a neighbor with them. The class meets at 2. Emerson school Next Monday at 3 the class in food and nutrition, at the Emerson Em-erson school, will meet in tho school building. This class shows up well in point of members. With such a progressive progres-sive body of parents the work is bound to be successful. Ensign school Two classes will be held at the Ensign this week, on Thursday afternoon. The class in infant welfare will convene at 1:30, and following it in just one hour will come the class in ! child hygiene. Twenty-six ladies have signed up for these, courses. forest school The classes In bacteriology bacteri-ology airrl food and nutrition, of 1he Forest For-est school, will meet on Thursday evening eve-ning at 8:30 and 7:30, respectively. The thirty-five ladles of the organization are united in extending an invitation to anyone interested to attend. The men are included In the invitation. Franklin school The class in infant welfare, under Dr. Olson, will meet as usual next Thursday at 4:30, and that under Miss Cooper's supervision will precede pre-cede it, commencing at 3:30. This is one of the strongest classes in the extension ex-tension group, and much is expected from it. You are invited to join. The only qualification necessary is a loyalty loy-alty to your country that will cause you to overcome trifling inconveniences and take part in this patriotic service. Hawthorne school Monday at 1 the class in child hygiene will meet at the Hawthorne school. The president urges all members to be there. This class has an enrollment of forty-two. Irving school (Granite) Another of the Granite schools to take a very active part in the Home and School league extension ex-tension classes Is the Irving. This group has a good enrollment and Is doing excellent ex-cellent work. All residents are invited to Join the class. It will meet Monday evening. The class in food and nutrition nutri-tion begins at 7, and that in child hygiene hy-giene at 8. Irving (Salt Lake) Residents of the Irving district are invited to attend class in food and nutrition, which is held every Tuesday, commencing at 3:30. The lessons are so arranged that one can begin be-gin in the middle. If necessary, and still understand what is being taught. Jackson school The class in food and nutrition will meet next Thursday at 4. All are cordially invited to attend. Forty-two members are enrolled. Jefferson school Next Friday, beginning begin-ning at 2:30, the Jefferson school will ! have two classes of extension work: 1 Miss Cooper's class in food and nutrition will convene at 2:30 and will be followed fol-lowed by one of the university doctors on a subjejet under child hygiene, at 3:30. Kimball (Granite) Child hygiene 'and infant welfare will be the two classes that will meet at the Kimball school next Wednesday evening, the one commencing com-mencing at 7 and the other at 8. Lafayette school Forty-two seems a popular number among the ladies of Salt Lake. Here is another class with that number enrolled. The next meeting will be held Monday afternoon at 3 to study food and nutrition. Let's change the number to fifty-two. Lincoln school In the early days of the Home and School league work, some boys of the Lincoln school constructed a fire-less fire-less cooker and the girls of the school demonstrated to the parents its use. Perhaps Per-haps that lesson has still its Influence on the district, for there is a very enthusiastic en-thusiastic class of parents there now studying food and nutrition. The class will meet next Thursday afternoon at 2. If vou are not a member it's your own fault. Longfellow school With an enrollment of fifty-four to Us credit, the class In food and nutrition at the Longfellow school is determined to have a record of 100 per cent in attendance next Friday Fri-day afternoon at 2:30. The president will appreciate it If you will help to realize this ambition by being there on time. . Lowell school The Lowell school is scheduled to hold two classes this week on Tuesday afternoon. The class in infant welfare will meet in the usual place at .1:30, and Miss Cooper will follow fol-low with her class at 2:30. Mrs. Malick extends a cordial invitation to all to attend. at-tend. Oakwood (Granite) When sixty class members gather to study, great things can be expected. Onequa school The class in child hygiene hy-giene of the Onequa school will meet next Friday at 3:45. A full attendance requested. Principal E. W. Fraser of this school reports an enrollment of twenty-five hustling members in the class. 'Riverside school Next Wednesday afternoon aft-ernoon the two classes of the Riverside Parent-Teacher association will meet. One of the university doctors will be present with a message on child hygiene and the class in food and nutrition will meet as usual at 3:30. Roosevelt school Child hygiene and bacteriology will be the two classes this coming Thursdav for the members of the Roosevelt school in Granite. The former meets at 7:30 and the latter at 8:30. All are invited. Sumner school Interest in the class In food and nutrition in the Sumner district Is growing. This class is appealing not onlv to the ladies, but It has been noticed no-ticed that an occasional male teacher is present, especially on demonstration days. Other "mere males" are alowed admittance admit-tance also. The class will meet again next Wednesday at 3:30 at the school building. Uintah school The classes In child hygiene hy-giene and food und nutrition at the Uintah school meet alternately every Thursday afternoon at 2:30 and 3:30 respectively. re-spectively. Wasatch school Next Thursday afternoon aft-ernoon at 3 and 4 the classes in child hygiene and food and nutrition will gather. We have no data as to the membership mem-bership of this class, so all who can are invited to enroll before the list is sent in. Webster school Child hygiene is the subject under consideration at the extension ex-tension class of the Webster school. .This class will meet next Friday at 4. PICTURE ANNOUNCEMENT. Mary Pickford, the children's favorite, will surely delight the boys and girls at the next Home and School league matinee. She will be shown in "Poor Little Pepplna," Saturday, February 9. Paramount-Empress theater, at 10:30 promptly. |
