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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1915)
Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. GREETINGS TO OUR WOMEN. To extend to you our greetings is a pleasure indeed, and since we are coming lace to face, as it were, with so many of our friends with whom we became acquainted through the Worn an's Aurora, we feel very much “at home.” With the cooperation of our old friends and of the many new ones whom we shall meet through the Woman’s Column of the Monitor, we hope much good may be accomplished and much inspiration may come into many lives. We will inform you of what our women and young people are doing, we will publish such articles as we feel will be helpful to you, and we will endeavor to entertain the chil dren. We wish each mother, each woman to take a personal interest in this col umn; any response or comment will be given our earnest attention. The problems that confront us are many and vital. If, then, this department be of the least service to you, our ef fort shall not have been in vain. VACATION—ITS PURPOSE. School has closed. Vacation is here. Many of the older children have found employment, but the majority will be at home all the long summer days. Relaxation from the strain of hard and continued study is the main pur pose of vacation, but relaxation does not mean idleness. Idleness in chil dren, even as in adults, produces de cline physically, mentally and morally. There must be play, but there must also be study or work of some form suited to the age and needs of the child. Gardens—flower and vegetable —appeal wonderfully to children and are both profitable and instructive. Some little task in the work of the home may be assigned. Few children will, unaided, properly employ their time so the guidance of the parent is imperative, that they fall not into sin ful, unprofitable ways. One has said: “No amount of argument can disprove the facts of evolution which show the dependence of a sound mind upon a sound body and statistics prove that healthful, continuous occupation is a means of salvation for young and old, poor and rich.” GREATNESS IN SMALL THINGS. One of the greatest mistakes made in our thinking, and especially among the young people, is to suppose that there is no place for heroism in com monplace affairs. Aspire, if you will, to the seemingly “big” things; but you must bear in mind that the majority of us must be content to be heroes and heroines in the humbler walks of life. The true Knight Errantry finds Its battlefields in the lowly plains of life. The Son of Mary went about His ob scure and lowly business of teaching and healing in the same spirit with which He fought the foes of God and man at Gethsemane. More chivalrous deeds have been performed in the school room and in the home than on the battlefield. Greater far than the hand that scepters empires is the hand that rocks the crad’e and leads little chil dren into paths of righteousness. Greater far than the hand that holds within its grasp the revenues of a continent is the hand that changes the prairie into bread for the hungry and "flowers for the poor man’s child.” When the final roll of heroes shall he called, names that were never heard in senate halls or public forum shall flash out into light brighter than the stars. Congratulations to Miss Irene New man, who graduated from Commercial high school, and to Messrs. Lawrence Parker and Othello Rountree, who received diplomas from Omaha Cen tral high. Miss Newman will take special stud ies at Central high next fall. Laurance Parker will enter Nebraska State uni versity and Othello Rountree will en ter Howard university at Washington, D. C. St. Paul, Minn.—Completing the four-year course in three years and taking highest honors in a class of twenty-five is the achievement i» Catherine Leaver Lealtad, a colored girl of St. Paul, who was awarded on ;he 10th of June, the senior Noyes, scholarship prize at Macalester col- j lege. This is the second time Miss Leal tad has led her class. Three years ago she was valedictorian at Meehan ic Arts high school. She will go to Washington, D. C., next fall to teach in the National Training School for Women. Newark Evening News—Besides re ceiving the degree of doctor of medi cine, Miss Isabella Vandervall carried off honors at the commencement of the New York Medical college and Hospital for Women, held in th< Astor galleries of the Waldorf-Astoria. Dr. Vandervall was the first colored stu dent to matriculate in the college since its organization fifty-two years ago. She received the prize for hav ing maintained the highest efficiency during the four years of the college course. Miss Vandervall has been officially notified of her appointment as an in tern at the Hospital for Women and Children at Syracuse, N. Y. ! - New Orleans, La.—Mother Rather ine Drexel of Philadelphia, Pa., found er and Superior of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for the evangeliza tion of the Indians and Negroes, has purchased an extensive property in New Orleans for the establishment of a new convent and industrial school for the training of Negro children. The property was formerly occupied by the Southern university. The pur chase price was $28,000. Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin, known throughout the country as a staunch friend of the Negro, and who has de voted her time and contributed large sums of money to aid the race in its progress for betterment, has tendered her resignation as chairman of the Executive Board of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. Mrs. Baldwin is the widow of the late William H. Baldwin, Jr., presi dent of the Long Island Railroad, who was a great admirer of Booker T. Washington and who was active In philanthropic work up to the time of his death, which occurred about nine years ago. Mrs. Baldwin was forced to give up her work on account of ill health. The last sentence in her letter of reslgna tion would make a high and broad ! platform for all who are interested in working for our race. We repeat mat sentence here: “Let us work, not as colored peo ple nor as white people for the nar row benefit of any group alone, but to gether as American citizens, for the common good of our common city, our common country.” THE CHILDREN’S CORNER. If you would be heard at all, my lad, Keep a laugli in your heart and throat: For those who are deaf to accents sad Are alert to the cheerful note. Keep hold to the cord of laughter’s bell, Keep aloof from the moans tha: mar; The sounds of a sigh don’t carry well, But the lilt of a laugh rings far. —Strickland W. Gillilan. Vacation Dos. Learn to swim. Help your skin to breathe. Take a bath once a day. Let the dog and the cat alone. Play in the shade. Give your stomach a rest between meals. “Pull the Bar” before going to bed. “Cut” the hoky-poky man and the ice cream cart. Work in the garden every day. Watch the flowers grow. “Did *he Children All Pass?” The long term is ended, the "finals” are o’er; I’m watching the little folks passing my door, As fresh as the snowflakes on midwin ter day, Or apple blossoms scattered by breez es of May, Like sparrows they chatter, like hon eybees hum; Were I blind, 1 should know that va cation had come, As far as I see them, adown the long street, They call out to schoolmates wherever they meet; From his school, from grammar, from primary class; One question floats backward, "O say, did you pass?” In fancy tonight I can enter the door Of the homes of the wealthy, the homes of the poor; The children are hungry, but supper must wait For one who from store, or from oflice, comes late; \nd O what a rushing when voices shall call, “There’s papa, his step you can hear in the hall!” They scamper with this thing; they take away that; They hand him his slippers, then hang up his hat. He’s brushing his hair, but he turns from the glass. To mamma and asks, “Did the chil dren all pass?” There’s kissing and praising, and such an ado; There’s dialling and laughing, to think they got through; But heavy the shadow on homes where instead A little child sobbing, is taken to bed. None cruelly censure, or whisper or shame, For love fain would carry the burden of blame, And soberly asks, “Did we do all we could. Or see that each lesson was well un derstood? or with lass To save all this sorrow of failing to pass.” Tonight I am thinking of years that shall conir, When under the coffin-lid lips shall he dumb; When angels shall lean from the bat tlements high, Unheeding the glory that reigns in the sky— They’re watching their children and loving them yet, 'or love is immortal and can not for get. 'lie days have been many, the years have been long; Temptation has met them, and some were not strong; And harps shall be hushed by the an swer, alas! To the Question they ask, “Did the children all pass?” —L. U. Case. 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