| Show Value of the School Garden Movement change hange and must mut mustI I met meet th the cba ett conditions I In the long past pant kings kin ruled the th world and ami SchoOls did tb theIr ir lr iroil full oil duty in training pupils to obey implicitly constituted oon authority M as rep represented r resented anted by b the teacher It U ia is 1 now many years Bines folk oik won their liberties but U it 1 1 I only yesterday that at to the Ote n need ed ot of It changing school man management g m nt ao so that lUpU should i hare in the of their and school yard lor the better children hav bv their fellows fellow H cheat cOd and cue C dis and end have an kept silence a am Je is by b their thelt code of honor arid ani anito to ur many years year i ant multitude multitudes of thu th bol Ilea of ot America have pursued t lr c n ways aYI unmindful or ot the Kraft graft null cud aul vice Ioe that fluur ii d In I theIr local gm and communities When hAlt we C train our school children to organ teed lied p In social fix a habit of righting the tha wrongs about them then and develop a fe J Inc ln In of or responsibIlity fu fo ur the tho general welfare then th Iho schools h will have hav met the needs of 01 democratic govern son government mont ment in modem modern America INDUSTRIAL The Industrial world changed ev et even eton on en as lIB has hag the political At about tha tbt period of tha thi th American Revolution there commenced an Industrial revolution tion In lit old that has h affected nit fill the world The Tho ancient manor vII vil villages lages lagee of England whose tracts of tilled and pasture lands lAndl were hemmed In from the outer world by forest foret belts belt were communitIes supply supplying ing both lord and abd tenants tenant with all al alth their th lr simple needs n 11 of food clothing and shelter The colonial pioneers of ot America manifold homely homily arts a rill for commerce was aa difficult and lI tea as B the tb rule Fee Fac Factory tory production by power machinery has utterly changed eha ed the customs and of ot the peoples people The farm arm boy boyhas has lias left the countryside to one Oft In the census lists or ot multiplying and ad rule cIties All hi his 1118 handicrafts handicraft are ue forgotten that he h may ma tend lend a ma mil machine machine chine The grandfather wrested nil hi from rom the tte 11 natural na t ural world ni o 0 ohis his bill farm The grandson serves arve a 0 ma machine machIne chine dune ant and although the bounty of ot th thIT the whole IT hole world hi Is placid placed cheaply him in return he lacks the free frt health healthful healthful ful tul varied stimulating life of ot his lal Id talk or 11 amid the natural world INDUSTRIAL TRAINING THAINING The schools mu must t give Ile lve American boys MY and aRd girls girl lr the varied Industrial training that was wa a a necessary neer part of ot i u U child life lire o on a pioneer r term farm Refers Before CIvil war times buy boys were lIeo busy bu from frum early dawn dan till dark daik In the field the tho barn or the shed bed using ax hoe or orell saw ell driving horses horse bor mending fence tenc or planting potatoes The girl sew w Ironed and cooked often drove the cows cowl CC to pasture helped plant the tim corn perhaps drove droe to mill or store to Such u children had few books boo at home bome and anil had a right to devote their whole bole time tim in 10 C books book during the brief term of or s hooting allowed them In the little ret reI choo house at the tour four corners Now most moat children lite itts In large lar towns or O clUel they spend 10 months at and two to more loitering about aboul until school reopen What Whal are re the school doing The sam earn old teaks the children of old time Ume district worked at books An Anthe the newspapers cry cr r out against an fl change as a a fad and deplore the tha nag nee lect of the three R H The tact fact 1 Is 11 that the children of our schools read write writ and cipher far t r and nd away better beUer than tItan the average c of t a half halt century ago and nd It Is I Ii alao also true that in practical ways way many nII are without training and are ate Inefficient Employers find them care eare careless less lees of responsibility and lacking In power to undertake Independent n nt work Now that tbt the school takes children n hand for tor practically all the year Fr it itIs itis Is 1 In lit duty dUI bound hound to give them an In all aU round training SCHOOL GARDEN The school garden is i the hilt best form of ot Industrial work ork the school can un undertake undertake Undertake Farm boys boy lived lIed In the out outdoor outdoor outdoor door air school children are crowded crowde within buildings building e that ar are usually but poorly ventilated Garden work takes the school a hoot hool outdoors where health re return returns turn turns to many a child that la Is breaking down iown while hile bent over a desk dek The n manual training work that replaces many meny man farm handicrafts is I 1 practiced practised within doors doom and II is often so aO stereotyped 4 as a to 10 fall fail of ot affording a tree free develop development development development ment equivalent to that of ot old days day ye yeII U It is t I less leaa 1 easy to 10 prescribe by b rule Just Jut what to do IP It a garden arden var variety varlet lety let confronts confront the tb little gardner gardn ra with th problems not prescribed In manual manua Then too gardening at lit school chool toads leads directly to gardening at horn home ho when at al Int a chill may nay plant what be he 11 make mak multitudinous mistakes and In tn mending them win back his hll birthright to 10 learn by unfettered pta ties U and to gain In by b free Initiative tho the thol l power ower to plan and to execute large works work In later life Ufa If It a boy be and ds out In a home hom bo p aA that neglect brings bring but a It crop rop of weeds white while hUe faithful thoughtful care car care MM borne fruit In bounteous ou harvest for OI I Ill 1111 rent next n Ioor door he may mA well 11 hats hav r learned a fL le I on OI making him worth mir mr to In a future employer then than have hll been the th naIl of a years 1 in I trill In 11 It em i iIO IO i hi I Hi lIE it the th brut nl nis of f itt I placing Ito 1 I I 1 it III Ill I Is e to 10 thi th to I tin thy tOil noil nn spit I triLl mil I them t I grow the thi n vgo go got t ihlen a hi that I 1 hn I t I in I n the I lit h garden If of Jt ft r nt lItEl SCHOOL The Thru irr rl R ninny minor objects object at ci t i h bY v mean Inne of school chool gardens At 1 th It i obet School Lynn MaNn Massa ihu Iou u t write writ Principal Philip Em Km Emron ron in II II Maxwell Talisman hileman there la is the thc th tre n fI 1 lung Inn t strip next hr teacher and children hat havo ba hatI i t pome om IW native natle herb r f nil 05 n de to 0 that have been brought thi th I h eld led and woods wood near r Lynn Lynna a il I from tar far away IY In New N Eng EngI J l I 11 Ill thus r the children and the th Ih pass pasa pa i 1 p the t wild plants plant bud forth t in ind nd form torm their seeds seed each seth in ini F i ii IM n Label give Ive them name l l i MI II 8 ne Th TM The treat great wild WI Id park pirk r l Mm n v becomes more valuable Die I i 1 ty because of this living Index t tt It Its i undergrowth The le children ar ari an i i r of the Ike u rarer wild lId plants plant h i in i top IMn e n taught to prole t and anG value alue ih 11 e i 0 school Nth plant pInts are of ne i IT IT gw wn n from peed sed Som children hive h ht f rl little wild gardens In their h inn n In The work li it I a m most wt t ef f nIn nj n lent aid ild 11 to tot tin tI th nature tU tudy Iud of or If this I hm Nerr tIn tho Ih street also alao Is I th the pint 1101 where such t field rn oIn ini n i commercial plants plant are lit 0 n an as R when t rye outs 01 t Indian corn broom broon corn corn alfalfa and other fodder crops Cr cotton flax flaa hemp emp tobacco chicory sugar beets II and the like They 11 admirably supplement the school II cabinet of geographical l specimen men and aid in giving Ine meaning to the th words word of If the textbook ok la In 1 a num br hr of nf ways the hol garden contrib contribute ute UI to 10 the hi work orl of nf tin till MODEL SCHOOL The i outlook m I gardening at hool how hu hO ve ei t I le tu to 0 the I stimulation It of the community at It larK large Th The and find It Its Ita grounds should be beautiful model models In every er way wa that the children and their parent may wish their homes home beautiful and aDd sanitary The vines vine In cling to the brick belch walls wUa of the schools school replacing its it stating staring red with waving muses maae of or those thOle that adom th the Ibe Jl h in rl types of 0 what may ma be bl bedone b done do to 10 transform the tb humble hom horn hornof of the th mechanic or the pretentious bet bot at unlovely mansion manlon of a wealthy fI parent nt to a more beautiful exterior Beauty ha h a market value that I II Is rising rapid rapidly ly 1 A home bom with a garden cant cantI neat meat I lawn and hade hadu or fruit trees tree IR is assessed d for far more mor wilt will sell 11 for or more and Is II really worth much more than then any adjoining weedy un kept lol lot oven even though the tatter latter bear boara beara a It large la or r costly COlli hoses hone h The Th eItl ity will beautiful horn homes attracts attract business and 4 prosperity The with a home that he be Is la making more mors beautiful yearly ha therein a lull leU testimonial to his hi worth to any atty an employer a as well a U 5 to hi hl fatally faMily fc DllY and an hi his fellow The hool garden that send semi Ben 1 children home to 10 ak aek their parent to 10 tart home gardens garden even If these the mutt must be only In boxes boafo I is II doing dolD It Its Ita community ity good gead service nIce When a man com corn commence menTal mence men to tl Improve the lot he rents rent he ha will not leave lea it but tut wilt will Kv ha h hom come om a permanent valuable tenant n L LOr Or he will to buy bu a home if It f hi his own Orr that thaI he may own the meats ment he make Thereby a Ih pop population lei Ieee Ie changeable When hn a man mart come to work with wife and al I children In hi ht garden before bero and aft r the 1111 day dall work worl for wages wage and to In eat Mt the Ille sweet Iw t of ot o his hi own 0 gurlen plot the saloon will have lea lesa tion for or him II UI lie will find and soviet society nj nl satisfaction for Clr his hta appetite at hon honIt hn If It I a school m cannot not thus thu tb nn r n nf form f i e community alone and at ly It will prove proe an effective to this thin end n when hen bero et an eni l i Ir r conducted coDd ted AN Ai I K School gardens garden have nave a Uy lu u purpose pur to te errs too tot While they the afford e to nil all the mum les under healthful conditions and no stimulate th the children and thereby therY their parents parent and neighbors neighbor t prefer beautiful natural surroundings antI to appreciate the practical v values lue of ot the V table garden gardening also alio vets sets flet children cb thinking tn to t good 00 puri o i iA A garden IB Is 1 made with brains brain tat hr than with tool Any our one can weed weeda with lIh a hoe but not every tin 1111 tnt can use U a C ho hoe so A tee to kill the weeds ed d form torm a too loo 1 surface roul mukh h to 10 pa H roll elI 11 moisture aad ad alo al o avoid avIt cutting th itt route roots of growing crop Right here the Ute school can improve upon uron the ho hotiS us training of the th Vast Jut K 0 i the hinted a school garden antell ha has a as mm mm h reason for tot being belna In a country community com ity of or farmers farmer a as al In a tty where gir gr girdens grdens dens den are rare Farm Farra work has ha been ur or II scientific work obedient tu tO In Inand n fl nand fland and crop rop have been pith The m mt ml 1 em ern em farmer farmr I t is to understand the n underlying hi voik t rh ork k i will 11 thereby theby oe be avoided Effort will 11 t I Intelligently directed t and pr pro f fIt It its will 1111 be large larce The orb Tb gardi gardn n nI I ii the broad bread basis bal for fM such tuch success IU The nil boys boy and nd girls girl th thre re trained t to experiment Alth aith grow growing inn crops with wit Ii soils lIOn and 1114 will nih UI be prepaid to gain pin tar far more at al our nur u Ill il I Icon colleges con than present ul nt do Tho Tbs who ho enter schools of farming fanning and gar gardening dening today tudY spend mm mu mud h Ii time Ilm on tn pi pie elementary work that Ihal I distaste distasteful ful to their mature mini 1 but Which u uI I ii a n necessary for tor the tb tru truwork truwork truwork Mh hn n work of or th the farmers carmer college teachers are trained t I undertake this thin work In the chool school In v school chool gardens garden the l I ti y who hc enter agricultural college collages con and Jd schools generally will Kiln gin a broad broa r rd rd atad d de d desper ei r there because thy they bring to tl their tasks tak her better train I rill I mInds mind The many wl w I peal paa at on n from school to life by th ir of the f principle or o f plant and nd animal life ut ir ii 11 md boat about Hie ii Ih school garden will wID ha Ita hay heen lIn so 10 train trained trained ed d to scientifIc way ways lot r f thO thou it ani sni 11 ful work that ti may vail avail themselves of the u to Ith of crt know cow dg placed It Ht th the dl r M i of armer by the many man ex n experiment ailment and i ly Iy the of f the th agricultural l at i uhl nil ton MENTAL dENTAL POWER ASH AND AN MECIA MECHANICAL NI CAL SKI SKill I r rS S 8 School hool gardening ar girt tr mental trait train training ing It a It as well ell tta as muscular r 10 la an 11 I m training of oC th the b kind P i h 11 aver that in Ine in lit on OnI ill I of tile the not can I I 1 over tr Into hit other dev de i FV Pt J I celebrated are aiH ill nt In practical l their heir own n getS ld Skill li ii 1 valuable lua ble fur for a like 1111 wort ol I man tan but It does doe not DOt m ILl ali i mi in III Ii making eking bread or grow gena IJO t good wag v I The Tb boy 0 who u t ft nd Km Em 11 talk ir If I IL h grammar can oan lall I writs write bet bri tIer I a So 1 will tan can an bt It r I It hr therefore for t may till h h he n H I Imo abler bier or o b bu s man in lIt wit mot teepees rl li ir I MIL I It Said Held Is IsIt not mo transferred trat to t P department It of r the mI to any i k kit kd 1 degree t o How low th n ar ury then tb n t s cOs country boy ty should U be trained tn in I I k In term Mold b of br plants and sad ammal t I 0 and lne bus Mi aa 0 p well 1 aa as with words word t i I 1 with ilk pin and paper r Yu UI ii I i i ill all dr MS In la 1 ane city mor Inore I thi Ih thin n in Ift II MM Md to 10 b be traIns trained to Ie i TV rn e id 4 cit ait t b where hr the flit mini hall hal t tt u tk i hand In dealing wit Wi tools and thing t t to In t f V ul II nf of f l Idu 0 cutilli tl t I knowledge if f the Ih teNt rust but bul that f r b future meat neet In I I from frol trot dei I n s bUt u I 4 y with wih j r I val valt ki ij i t kil iii II i L t til ait I hut lut itty 1 t n II 1 n U I aJ OJ iJ value rk k Hi I US use II Ii fl 1111 with aill lh h 1111 01 I th thun ti the eye I III un I II hand In 11 deftly a 1111 I 15 V ut utI ti I so o u an ti I i line Iii ii 4 hIghly Id p I if fe t I mid it iii 1 lil t tal 1 ii tu I I l 1 I I If UK i 1 i J I f aI 1 t in hi s in a 1 1 I 1 I n I KI Id i ii 1 nt of 1 ii i t r t tI fi 1 i i i i i i i 1 il t 1 l 4 i ti I i |
