| Show CLUB ClEAT CHAT The 1111 summer work of the club women of at New Nc Britain Conn Is III In part the of ot a vocation home for self sr young women This home WM wee opened a fortnight BRO ago and Is In to furnish an n outing at al an ex ox low lo cost oot to workers who ho w viii otherwise be lie forced tOteM to 10 pass th hair lr vacation nUon from business in their city It 11 will offer an on opportunity too for Ir any nn of the girl girls who desire to stuns the tho conference fIr The ns ti Hun dub of or New Is II an on anoil old oil end nil flourishing organization It ItAI was AI glar M 1 In 1876 IS and I Is II a R literary club its philanthropic enterprise of ot this summer being practically Its iti first effort ef effort effort fort of at the sort Kort taut Tast summer II II 10 how however ho however ever on tho the advice of It the tho civic com corn committee I the club chub paid the tho expenses expense of at atol ol a room inch and the salary al of or a teacher thus making makl It possible for fifty flU children to attend vacation school for tor a ft month In its Ita It work too for tor or the thet t J TT good ot of others must be counted the fine lecture course open Ollen to the public imbue which the club arranges each carh season Under Its lis auspices many prominent speakers of or the country have been heard In New ew It H counts count a II membership of ut HO women with Mrs Frank J Potter Its is 9 president pr r r ea dent A board of ot managers m consisting of or o t the limo find and six dir directors I rotors chosen ln by the officers oI ceu conducts I Ithe the affairs affaire of or the club This board ap up appoints I points the various committees anal has ha option to approve al or condemn any allY measure a limited control that Is not common among clubs The Elizabeth Elizabeth II H Whittler Whittier club t f Amesbury r Mass conducts a fruit and d school for poor children Mrs E R O I Perkins t the rho newly new elected e 1 act Fd ll president of or this title club is superintend superintendent ent of schools school II In Amesbury and Is lx Isn n a prominent member of or tho the Daughters of the Involution At t one ono of at the tho early larl summer confer conter conferences conferences of or club r women a speaker on the education of or children drew a comparison Icon ison between methods pursued In this matter mattor In England and the United Slates The education of ut English l children It was wall pointed out up to the time lime when they go O off ort to a II finishing school Is conducted on n plan that takes take no cognizance of ot the existence or of nerves because English children are not expected eXI to have such lIuch things thInK There Is certainly nothing In the educational system lI lom to develop the disagreeable possession Lessons are under the charge of tutor or governess ll while the children are aro young oung and are arc doled out each day dllY In amounts that the time pupil can cnn easily assimilate Ie Boisterous play pIny said the time speaker and active exercise ex exercise scrupulously alternate with lee les lesson leeson son lion hours There are aro no seasons of or cramming ending with tc tests ts and It If nn on English J boy bo or girl of or twelve or fourteen may not compare favorably with the public school Am American boy bo or girl of the same age so co cofar far ns as actual progress In school work In is concerned concern I there thero aro are permanent ben elite gained by b the time former formel of ot health and equilibrium that more than offset some sine slight alight loss of or textbook Information Information tion Time The address was wa warmly re received reo received by the audience amid In the ails dis discussion cession which followed the majority of or the speakers showed themselves In AA A t sympathy with Its lis criticism of oC th in p 11 I sent lInt American jua system |
