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Show Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs, r $1.00 PEE IFTTBXiISHIEID DEi'VEE.'y ZrEJ.A.rR. SALT LAKE CITY, NOVEMBEE 27, YOL. II. in Public School management. CCJofnon's - Pattt Extracts from an article by Mr, S, A, Wetmore , recently published in the Boston Transcript: An intelligent woman can address herself today to no more useful task . WEEK. NO. 49. 1897 could have registered if they had desired, and they could have chosen whom they pleased to represent them on the school board. As it is now constituted, the board is composed of twenty-fou- r persons, three of whom are women, and these could only be chosen by receiving the support at the polls of many thousands of men. If women were chosen on the basis of the number of women who could vote, and the number of girls in the schools, then half the board, instead of only an eighth of it, would be Mrs. Another member is Dr. Elizabeth C. Keller. The third is Mrs. Emily A. Fifield, Fanny B. Ames. who for many years has given almost her entire time and strength to the schools. In the Boston department women do not engage in all the activities of men. Their energies are almost entirely confined to the educational subdivisions of the work, and the business affairs are in the hands of men. The standing committees are appoint- than that of widening and deepening popular interest in the common school. Surely, it may be said, the mother will take an interest in the school if the father does not. As a matter of fact, the mother at first observes with ed by the president of the board, and some curiosity the studies her child is women. as a woman has never held that office, before she will long engaged in, but the assignments from year to year It is a genuine pleasure to acknowlThey teach so edge the high quality of the service have been made in accordance with a say, despairingly: ' differently now from what they used rendered by most of the women who mans ideas of the fitness of individto when 1 went to school that I cant in recent years have found in the uals, or in compliance with political follow the lessons at all. And that Boston School Committee a field for pressure exerted. In the board of does She not try to master ends it. Whether a citys last year ten standing committees public usefulness the new method, or to catch the spirit schools are governed by a board were made up exclusively of men; of the new idea, as she so easily elected women were assigned to nine commitby the people or by one apchild and the from on goes might, pointed by the mayor or governor, tees, but were not a majority in any. grade to grade a perfect enigma, sucthere have been seasons when the fitThe restrictions placed upon them are ceeding or failing the mother knows ness and availability of women for thus indicated: They did not serve not which. If the studies are unfamsuch offices have been seriously dison accounts, on annual reports, on iliar, the school board is alien. It cussed I do not mean individual elections (to fill vacancies occurring a- little be might colony of Martians women, but women as women. in the board itself), on evening for all she knows about the individu- Of the eight members of the schools, on legislative .matters, on :als composing it. True," she might State Board of Education appointed, nomination (of teachers), on salaries, is it for but some vote somebody, by the governor, two are women, and on schoolhouses, on supplies and on bother to register (or she thinks it is), their influencd has been most truant officers. Two served on kinsalutary. is not anybody running and there The late Governor Greenhalges ap- - dergartens, on manual training, on for whom she would go to that pointees were Kate Gannett Wells hygiene and physical training, and on bother. and Alice Freeman Palmer, whose rules and regulations; and one served ' One would think that if a woman fame as an educationist is not con on drawing, on the Horace Mann cared to vote at all, she would care fined to the State, or, for the matter School (for the deal), on music, on most about voting for a school board. of that, to the Union. Of the memexaminations and on Ninety thousand men secured the bers of the Boston board, she who is The branches which owe the most to right to vote in Boston last year, and most widely known, by reason of her .the intelligent interest of women are only 10,000 women took the trouble leadership of educational and philanmanual training and the kindergarto do so. Probably 100,000 women thropic movements in other States, is ten. Also, it was a woman (Dr. Car- . r 1 - V . text-book- s. Ladies Trimmed $3.00 and $3.50 Hats for $2 48 Ladies Trimmed $4.00 and $4.50 Hats for $3:48. opposit p. o. NEW YORK CKSH STORE, |