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MAGNOLIA 
(Continued from page 14.) 
Sunday evening: Rejoice, Handel; 
Der Nusstaum, Schurmann; Tueig- 
nung, Richard Strauss; Sylvelin, 
Sinding; From the Land of the 
Sky Blue Water, Codman; Dear- 
est, I Bring You Daffodils, Dorothy 
Forster; My Laddie, W. A. Thayer; 
The Greatest Wish in the World, 
Teresa Del Riego; If Your Have a 
Sweetheart, C. B. Hawley. 
Miss Moses’ ability as a pianist 
was immediately recognized by her 
audience and it is interesting to 
know that she is an assistant of I. 
Gebhardt, Boston’s noted pianist. 
Miss White’s skilled handling of the 
harp won instant favor and the 
selections which she played were 
very well received. Miss White was 
a pupil of the late Heinrich Schu- 
' ecker, harpist of the Boston Sym- 
phony orchestra and also of the pre- 
sent harpist in that incomparable 
orchestra. She has played in almost 
every state in the Union in concert 
work and for the last season she has 
been second harpist in Symphony in 
Boston and en tour. The concert 
was one of the most appreciated of 
the Sunday evening programs at the 
ehurch this winter. 
Vocational Training Subject of Ad- 
dress of Magnolia Meeting. 
The February meeting of the Par- 
ent-Teacher association, Magnolia, 
attracted the largest attendance of 
any meeting thus far this season and 
a very interesting evening was spent 
with Elwood Kimball of Gloucester, 
as the speaker of the evening, and 
music and reading finishing the pro- 
gram. Mr. Kimball’s subject was 
‘‘Vocational Training in the High 
School’’, a movement dear to his 
heart and one which he hopes to see 
installed in the Gloucester High 
school next year. At the outset, the 
speaker dwelt upon education as a 
public movement, the responsibility 
of the home and the responsibility of 
the school. The school has the child 
only five hours out of the twenty- 
four; the home has him the other 
nineteen and during those nineteen 
hours habits of regularity in hours, 
work, play and religious and moral 
training should be inculeated in the 
boy or girl while young. 
The next characteristic important 
in the making of a well-to-do and 
energetic citizen is the early teach- 
ing of the habit of thrift. The child 
should be taught to save his pennies, 
for the habit of saving, once con- 
tracted, does a great deal for the 
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future prosperity and happiness of 
the child. In this connection, Mr. 
Kimball spoke of the banking system 
so successfully carried out in many 
high schools in the state. With the 
exception of the president, who is 
one of the faculty, all the officers of 
the bank are chosen from the Junior 
class, being elected in January and 
holding office about a year. Any 
deposit, however small, is accepted 
and teachers as well as pupils make 
their weekly deposits of a few cents. 
The school bank is connected with 
the city banks and during vacations 
pupils make their deposits there. 
Although this system does not as- 
sume to make bankers of the boys 
and girls interested in it, it does 
teach them habits of thrift and ac- 
curacy. 
The speaker gave a very concise 
and interesting account of a Prac- 
tical Arts Course for both boys and 
girls, which he hopes to bring about 
at Gloucester. In order that the ex- 
pense of the necessary alterations 
may not be too great, his sugges- 
tion is that the course be started in 
a small way and allowed to grow. 
Many a boy or girl, who cannot find 
congenial studies in the classical, 
general or commercial courses will 
be able to interest himself or herself 
in trades as taught in the Practical 
Arts Course. For the girls, this in- 
eludes home economics, cooking, 
sewing, millinery, home furnishings, 
et cetera, for which colleges now 
give as many credits as for Latin 
and other purely academic studies. 
For the boys this course gives the 
chance to take up wood-working, 
machine work of the most interest- 
ing sort, forging, electric wiring and 
the simple elements of plumbing. 
In one of these lines a boy is almost 
sure to ‘‘find himself’’ and, inei- 
dentally, if he discovers that in 
some line of work which he hkes,— 
algebra, for instance, may be neces- 
sary and he will study that subject 
without more ado, whereas before he 
could not be coaxed to take it up 
because he could see no practical ap- 
plication. Mr. Kimball’s practical 
talk received generous applause and 
he was given a rising vote of thanks 
by those present. 
The second part of the program 
was as follows: 
light on the Hudson, Miss Eva Gray ; 
vocal solo, Valse Brilliante. Miss 
May Strong; reading, ‘‘Hzekiel 
Promising,’’ Miss Katherine Cope- 
land; sung, When the Day is Over, 
Mrs. Walter Marchant; piano solo, 
selection from Cavalleria Rusticana, 
Miss Gray; vocal solo, Happy Song, 
Piano solo, Moon- . 
Miss Strong; piano solo, Canoe, 
Allyn Brown. 
Miss Gray’s playing was very well 
received by the audience, as was also 
Miss Copeland’s reading, which was’ 
a negro dialect story. Miss Strong, 
who was well known to her au- 
dience, responded to the applause 
given to her first song with a lulla- 
by, ‘‘Sleepy Time’’ by Collins. * Mrs. 
Marchant’s singing was without ae- 
companiment and the song, *‘ When 
the Day Is Over,’’ a simple little 
lullaby, was’ sweetly sung. 
ago Mrs. Marchant’s mother found 
the old poem in a serap book and 
composed the music for it herself. 
The original air has never been 
found and Mrs. Marchant sings the 
song to the tune which her mother 
wrote for it. After the program, 
the social committee served  ice- 
cream and homemade eake, and the 
usual social hour concluded’ the 
evening, 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES. 
The Ballet of Sylvia which was 
recently given in Boston by the 
Suffragists, was such a great success 
that it is to be repeated at The 
Opera House, (exactly the same as 
before, with Miss Mary Kellogg as 
manager) for the benefit of The Wo- 
men’s Peace Party. Many of the 
same ladies are interested in the 
Peace Party. This reminds us of the 
regretable fact that the President of 
the Anti-Suffrage Association (Na- 
tional) has recently sent a message 
asking the Antis not to join the Wo- 
men’s Peace Party, because Suftra- 
gists are at the head of it! (It is quite 
true that Miss Jane Addams is at the 
bead of it.) 
ask why Suffragists are the leaders 
of this big Peace movement,.and to 
consider seriously whether all wo- 
men cannot stand together at this 
time, for Peace?  Anti-Suffragists 
are cordially invited to join the Wo- 
men’s Peace Party, which will now 
hold conferences on Saturday morn- 
ings, at eleven o’clock, in the Con- 
gregational Bldg., 14 Beacon -st.,, 
Boston. This week Mr. Nasmith will 
speak. . 
The 
‘“War Brides,’’ which the famous 
actress Nazimova will act at Keith’s 
Theatre in Boston all of next week, 
was written by Marion Craig Went- 
Reader, 
The Wed- 
uesday afternoon performance (Feb. 
worth, well-known as a 
Writer and Suffragist. 
17) will be ‘‘Suffrage Day,’” and 
groups of Suffragists are already 
securing boxes and. seats for* that 
performance. —L. R. 8. 
Years 
Would it not be better — 
remarkable anti-war play, 
pa. 
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