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TIUO BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1014. i IXiAz 1Ipp H?mihi TWIT a Mf,ha&: "A Modified Montessori" School for Farmers i lly ELIIEKT HU11DUD. f'tftcen miles west of the c'r of Knox le Is the Farragut school. This Is a intry school. No place of business Is sight. It Is a school aur- rounded by woods 'ami fields and great, Krecn, tow- stream crocs unnmnir nvrr inn cks, searching Its lx teachers arc oinuinved. Te Department of ilucatlon nt imuKht so much of the KaiTairut Aplinnl Hint 11 nnn. Hlal lullr has ocrnlng it Jp'o bund . tfnV memory Trre on- hool of a. What Are the Wild Waves Saying? :o.- Cupyrlght, 1911, Intern'! N'ews tcrUT. :o: By Nell Brinkley nAAt n-nivl.i. ....... 1 ... I . V. . I jgjuch 'va live. I jsBiit then Jfarwniit was a school teacher aalwcll as a soldier. So why not a Far ragut school "tltlls u grado and vocational school, combined. It Is u school ot farmers, ed out of the minds and needs of nounlalnccrs. ertntendent Phillips, the man in uJiargc. Is from Chautauqua county, a Product of the Kredonla Normal school. 'ItSi? moll'0l8 a' the Farragut school inlgHt bo termed "modified Montessori," orfiklndergarten for the higher grades. yiscipnno is Kept out of sight. Any one (eligible to enter who wants to learn. t Intent Is the only requirement. iimn nr inn minim nnva wn rn hn i in act, me siuucnts nero ranse an tno way from 0 years old to SO. Occasionally a mountaineer and his wlfo ij como down from the hills, twenty, Irty, forty miles away, and spend a week or a month at this school, boarding With some farmer In tho neighborhood. Thcro are lectures on farming, house keeping, cooking, dairying, dressmaking. Tho three H's are taught, alro the pupils are taught to live. They are taught to Imj polite, active, thrifty, energetic, ileanly, healthy. In this country school there Is a system of modern plumbing. Shower baths form an Important part ot the curriculum, and when ono realises how much In need a country district Is of both facilities, you can guess the wisdom of the mind who In stalled this modern plumbing system. This was something tho farmers really hadn't thought of. Applicants are nierely expected to bring their own soap and towels. Certain evenings a week tho school Is open. Volunteer teachers are provided. Tliero aro .night classes for those who cannot come' in the daytime. Days are s6t apart for social purposes. There are "spplllng bees, debates, cooking classes and much good cheer with the help of 'hickory nuts, apples and pop corn. Thero Is a complete cooking outfit here, with a kitchen that Is much more com pleto than Is found probably In the homes hereabouts. And Just pleaso remember that this Is a Plain, evcry-day school, supported by tho people who live In the vicinity. It is. not an endowed school. Every part of the equipment Is In use, and to some people who know the lavish outfits that aro provided In certain schools of the north, the Farragut school seems al most pitiful in its parslty of equipment. n n,t,n en 1,1a MT1.A v wuauu.ii Ti 1 1 j uuiii a. liu v u ft uu us, n. college la In Inverse ratio to the cost of its equipment." That Is to say, the people should provide things for themselves, and that is the big lesson In life. btuacnts nero are not pauperized, nor do they suffer from paternalism. They are lifting themselves, under the kindly guidance of a most able, generous, sim plo and effective teacher. In talking with the state superinten dent of education ot Tennessee, he told me that the endeavor alt over the state was now to do away with the llttlo red schoolhoii80 and Its lonely teacher, and p combine several schools In one. In Tennessee there are quite a number of schoolu conducted along the plan of tho Farragut school, and, as tho years go by, there will bo a great many all over America. Soveral teachers working together can get up an atmo&phero which will per meato and dispel the fog of ignorance In it community. They acquire an Impetus, as It were, a. momentum, which makes for progress. Co-operation must prevail In school teaching us In other things. AV'hen one thinks of the Indecency nnd disorder that are often found around the district school, one is both surprised and delighted to find In a so-called illiterate district, In tho mountains of Tennessee, a school where good order prevails and the rights of property are respected. This is "our school" and the farmers .and their families so regard It. It is a center of light, a candle throw- its beams to a distance. In pedagogy, as In all elbe, we work from the complex to the simple. Admiral Farragut, it Is well to repeat, was born on a farm near Knoxville. Her his parents sletp. Ho wan a mountain boy, of Scotch parentage, who had a hun gry mind. Ho entered the navy as a lad of 9 years. He was an errand boy, a servant, a midshipman, a lieutenant, a captain, a commander, an admiral. Well have the people of Tennessee done lonor to Farragut by naming after him i school, and a school which Is so simple, natural, so effective that It hao at- toictfed. In a degree, the attention of the eacning worm. nythlng Is good enough until you know oCffoinethins better. To see the Farragut -ooris to feel a pity, not a pride, In the old-time "little red school house." " vs r l i i t Vta That toon their leaping manes of white foam will bo bringing In tumbling, laughing, I tho beaches along with the shells nnd kelp and that It won't bo no ovcrlastlng long uow countless Loves that somewhere Love, and bathing girls and fellows are already fringing I till thoy'ro hero, hero, hero! NELL UUINKLEY. IT" Do Men Shun Marriage Because It's Too Easy? Fashion Fully Described by Olivette May Providence Intervene .j HO fvi (H'S1. tar saV T-! Mm m By DOItOTIIY DIX. In a recent Interview in a Paris paper. Madame. Bernhardt explained what Sllaa Wogg would call "the decline and fall of matrimony." Sho said: "If tho customs of my youth were now prevalent and tho young peopla ot to-day were not al lowed to mingle so much without hin drance; tho marriage returns would rap Idly Increase." Same here. The divine Sarah the wise Sarah has put her finger on tho crux of the whole matter. P o o p 1 o don't marry bo cause comradeship has been substi tuted for love be tween men and wo men, and they are contended to be friends Instead of husbands and wives. Women were never as attractive and desirable as they are to-day, Not uvon among the ancient Greeks was the per centage ot female pulchritude so high as It Is now. .The cult of the body has become almost a religion among women. So It a man seeks for beauty In a v'.fe he may shut his eyes, and make a. grab in the dark In any group ot girls, and be sure of getting one who In hla grand mother's timo would have had all the poets writing sonnets to her eyebrows, and all the beaux fighting duels for her smiles. Women are also more Intelligent than they ever were before, more versatile, more sympathetic, better fitted to bo wives and helpmates to men; yet with all of her attractions and accomplishments the modern girl lacks one .art In which, her grandmother excelled the art of catching a husband. And the secret of this aro was the art of allure of tolling a man along In a word, of making courtship difficult, Instead ot too easy as It Is 'now. The chief reason that men show a dis inclination to marry may be largely ac counted for by the freedom of companion ship that prevails between the sexes. In the olden times when the only way a man could enjoy a woman'e society was by marrying her, he was In a rush to hustle with her to tho altar. But when custom permits htm to mono polize a woman's evenings; when they may spend long days together on the golf links; when they may attend thea ters and parties together, and tea and dine In company unchaperoned In restaurants, the man la In no hurry to wed. He has as much ot the lady's no clety as he dea'res without the neces sity of assuming her bills, or giving her a right to lecture him. 3fe anderbilt ) of ef njrurufourth otheef east oldorti QJWenuJfoto Tork "WALTON nrMAIPHALL, Mngr. An Heal Hotel with an Ideal Situation Summer Tzrfer Tho long engagement la u nuui.ru in vention of man's, not woman's, and It is a handicap that our grandmothers never knew. Nothing that the new status of woman has brought her Is so dollghtful as Platonic friendship with man, but we get nothing In this, world without pay ing for It, and tho price that women pay for comradeship with men Is too often splnsterhood. When It was a. case or cither lover or nothing, It was generally lover. . I Another reason why men are less eager about marrying now than they UHed to be Is that women arc too willing. Many things change, but human nature never changes, and the primitive instinct In man la for the chase. The harder a thing Is to get the moro he wants It Women have forgotten this masculine peculiarity, and Instead of permlttlnii themselves to be pursued, they havo turned around and run after the men with tho result that they seldom catch them for woman, alas, was not built for tho chase. Probably our grandmothers were lust as unxlous to get married as any girl la now, but they had the gumption to affect a poy and reluctant attitude, and became, a man believed that it,waB difficult to capture the citadel of a maiden's af fection, he wooed her with fire, and pas sion, and energy. Because she appeared Indifferent to his visits, he kept tho path to her door hot with footstep. Becauso the most that ho hoped to win from her hand In the shape of a letter was a line or two of nwect, copy book, maidenly reply to hla numerous missives, he weighted down the malls with burning love letters. How Is It nowT The modern girl has left him In no doubt as to the state ot her affections. She'll say "yes, and thank you, too," whenever he asks her, so he feels that any old love making will do. If he doesn't come to nee her, ehe calls up on the phone, and so he nes when there's nothing more amusing In prospect, As for letters, she'll write any wny, so what's the use In bother ing to keep up his end ot the corre spondence. It's tho old story of the over ripe peach that no one wants to gathtr. Our grandmothers also had another ad vantage that we lack our great-grandparents understood the value of the un attainable. They didn't throw their daughters at eligible young men's heads. They built fences around them. When a young man came a-wootng tjie entire family didn't tako to the kitchen to give him a chance, On the contrary, the stern parents stood guard over a girl, and put him to his wits' end to steal a moment's secret converse with her, or slyly, press her hand. Sometimes the wily father even went to tho extent of locking a girl up In her room to keep her from a suitor, and then the man, who very likely couldn't have beon driven In at the front door, risked his neck climbing up to the win dow to steal her. In a word, they made courtship ro mantic and difficult, and In consequence there were many elopements. Now, how ever, because we have made courtship too easy, thero Is little of It. It Is be cause nowadays a man may have a wo man's society without Incurring say re iponsibtlltlM that he ducks tho wedd'ng ring. It women war.t ta promote mstrl- i.ionj. they have get in gambler's phrase, 10 make men ciucr put. up or shut up. I 1 ItKT .tt'MMsfc 1 jMtftOlsBlmmBmmsslmmmm. sensible Institution the Lord Intended it to bo, and ceuses to 1k the national lot tery, thoh will this earth be ready for th millennium. lly IltCATUICK IWIIU'.VX. Homo one, somewhere. It courting some body tonight, and with such a large num ber of persons losing their hearts aitind him,' It Is llttlo wonder that the god of j , -r .-l-, lovo occasionally loses his head. Over-1 At1.V108 tO tUG lj0V8l0ril worked, flushed with success, nnd withal a little conceited because of his power, ho alms Indiscriminately to the right nnd to tho left, nnd mutches a Beau Brummel with n Martha, and a liocky Sharp with n plowman. lie whirls his victims till everything Jly HEATllICK VA1HFAX. You Are Wrond.. Dear Miss Fairfax I am a young nan. In love with u pretty girl. Bhe loves nut also, tint at present we are not. enKanru. One of the most conspicuous frocks at a late French race meeting was this model, specially sketched for summer wear. It Is made of white gabardine. ine ooaico is cut basque shape and fastens down the front with a row nt small bowl buttons ot the material. Em broidery In whlto floss follows the lino of ine D"iion. Tlie Basque gathers Into a tab at the underarm. The neck Is cut t p -.ha' i-1 derolletasre. whlrh In bordered by plaited block net, of which also Is formed a high standing collar at the back, The sleeves are set Into a low armhole and gntherp Into an cmbroldrred tab at tue wrist. The shaped long tunlo Is trimmed with a high band ot embroidery that extends to ine Knees, under tnis fain an ac cordion plaited undorsklrt of black satin. t'ould anything be smarter or simpler for the borne drrsier to cjpy'' y OLIVETTE. around them nssumes one shape and one She keeps company and goes out with a color, ami tho wrong sweetheart look. J "u'b- ot otliar m"n' in lhl" like the rlht one. and the counterfeit Unt ft B,r, ,B oncaerd ,nfc( has the lovp looks like the real. It whllo thty prIvjInB0 of having na many men friends aro still dnzed, clutching fast to what-jna Bno cnoostB, Tne g absolutely no ever comes nrsi wiinin tneir grasp, mat they reach thn marriage nltar and then tho troublo boglnn. Kuch troubles and so much of It, and nil duo to matrimonial misfits, It Is a wondar that thero doesn't nrlse In th hearts of those still free n little sus- .....I . i. . i i ,.... ..m ' 7' "' " that sho Is not truthful. Pi Cupid, nnd a dotininlnatlon to come Into what I should do, tncir Heritage of love witn eyes wiae opened. It Is a wonder thut young men and young women, oane and wise In ordinary transactions, do Jiot display at least a , grain of common - sense In this ono big nnd most Important transaction of their lives.. . Tho writer of tho following letter says ho hah a good position In .business. How ho holds It with the amount ot credulity Impropriety In this., and you must not permit yourself to be a harsh and unfair judge. Tlio Truth. , Dear Miss Fairfax: 'Have known a girl for. the lust four yearn and confess that I lovo her. But tho only fault is lease advice !lad a serious talk with her and make hor realise that a lite founded on truth and faith Is the only happy one. Tell her that you will try to help htr overcome this fault and that In turn sho must help you In your weaknesses. &lienk to Ilia Aunt. Dear Miss Fairfax : I am a sixteen-year-old girl and attend Sunday Rchool reguiariy. ror tun last row bundaya l ho displays In his letter. Is a mystery. I havo noticed a certain young man, and If some one enme Into his store anl"e noticed me. His aunt Is my ..,.. , ,,, . teachir. As I am very anx'oua to meet wanted to glvo him ponnles for dimes hlm , nou(, H t0 know ,f ,t would v hn would feel that his Intelligence had been insulted, but along, ponies a woritan who makes a similar offer, nrtd h.o doesn't know what answer to rivet Bho Is n wICow with a child", he la only 72, and she hinted that sho would tike to marry him. "What." he pleads, "shall I do?" Loso that "good position," nnd. then sec If she wants you to marry herT I doubt It. The women who arc the real bargains j on the matrimonial counters are not going around, with their children In their nrms, hinting to mere boys to merry; thorn. I A. woman writes that she Is a 'Idpw; of l and has a sou of , and lo unpaged j th a man of 28 who hates her child, nnd makea no attempt to conceal It. Shall she inairy blip? she asks. Again It may be stated that the women who are bnrgalnn on the matrimonial counter nro not engaging themselves, ti) men who hate their prospective step children. A woman who Is worth whllo' loves hei- child first of all and considers ' Its Interekts first. Unless sho does, her! lovo is not worth much to any man. j A young man of 30 lovuo a widow night yoars his senior. He has u small nalury. nnd she Is extravagant and fond of. pretty clothes, und would bring In hor da mands on hint, not only personal wunts, but tho care onC maintenance of a youna win. What, he asks, should ho doT Hun. young man, run' Your oxtremo youth glvrs you tho right to run, and run hard. "Eighteen" wants to know if alio should keep company with a young man who calls on her when Intoxicated. Sho pay that she would like to Accept his atten tions, knowing that she would never marry him. There are others better fitted than I to glvo advice In a case like this. They are the gaunt, haggard, half-starved, Ill-treated wives of drunkards. Let "Eighteen" go to them When marriage becomes the sane, proper to ssk hla aunt to make me ac quainted with him. UNCERTAIN. By all means ask the aunt of the young man you admire to Introduce you. And do )i6t delay so long that you will bn self-conscious on meeting him and feel that he th.nkn you flirted with him. Does your skin itch and burn? Ifyoq aro Buttering with eczema, ringworm, heat-rash or other tormenting skin eruption, try Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap. You will bo surprised how quickly tho itching stops and tho skin becomes clear and healthy again. Preoeribrf by doctors for 1J rwt. All drutrzitU sell Rolnol Olntmsnt (tOa and I LOO), and Bestnol Soap (15c). For trial dts fre, writs to Dept. 17-8, P.Incl, Baltimore, lid. Refute Imitation!.