Four, the Oregon Movement, 
1ich was first put into practice eight 
ars ago, when the principal of a 
1001 found that a girl who simply 
mild not do algebra had made the 
isk of bed-making into an art. She 
‘made an instructor in this 
omely science in the High school 
id was given ten credits for bed- 
<ing. From this grew the custom, 
| has been taken up by a sur- 
g number of schools, of allow- 
credits on the school record for 
cellent home and outside work. 
_ Five, the After-School club, which 
is to give the pupils entertainment 
nd work for outside time. 
_ Six, the School Visitor. In these 
days the teacher does not have the 
unity of going into the pupil’s 
nes as freely as formerly, so much 
the personal touch is lost. The 
1001 visitor supplies this link. 
Miss Chapman’s report brought 
it the very newest ideas in mothers 
s’ and school movements. One 
the most interesting and most 
aticable for a town like Manchester 
s the plan of installing a dean for 
s in High schools. Miss Laura 
“Dyer was the speaker on this sub- 
et at the conference and she told 
‘something of its history and results 
‘in the towns which have tried it. The 
movement was started in 1908 at one 
‘of the Oakland High schools when a 
dean was appointed for the girls. 
She was in charge of the girls in a 
general way, seeing that they were 
not left too much alone, that, in case 
of illness, they are cared for, that 
there was a good reason for tardi- 
“ness or dismissals. In addition to 
all this she was a social leader, she 
talked to the girls about healthful 
and regular personal habits and 
urged the return to the simple, nor- 
‘mal activities in place of the artifi- 
cially exciting ones that are now so 
prevalent. Perhaps more than all 
she encouraged idealism in girls, who 
are most impressionable at the high 
school age. Now there are deans in 
all the high schools of Los Angeles 
and Chicago and all report progress. 
Miss Dyer spoke also of the advisa- 
bility of bringing the girls together 
in organizations which will still re- 
main after school life is finished. 
She spoke very highly of the Camp- 
Fire Girls as an organization for the 
younger girls. There is a flourishing 
branch of the Camp-Fire Girls in 
Manchester. Mrs. Herbert Wright 
of Worcester gave some interesting 
statistics on “Mental Efficiency De- 
pentent of Food.” Among other 
things, she especially urged the use of 
the courser flours in bread making, 
as white flour loses three-fourths of 
its nutritive value in refining, The 
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Woman’s club of Worcester is to 
have many foods analyzed and will 
publish a booklet called “A Pure 
Food Book.” Alfred McCann’s book, 
which has been highly endorsed by 
leading physicians, was spoken of. It 
is “Starving America” and is very 
reliable. The afternoon exercises 
were held at the Boys’ Trade School 
and Davis O. Snedden spoke on “The 
Problem of Systematic Moral Edu- 
cation in Schools,’ which he said is 
very complicated and still too new to 
receive a fair judgement. All we can 
do for the present is to respect the 
courageous leaders, who are daring 
to make a start in this movement. 
A. L. Barbour, Superintendent of. 
Schools in Quincy, spoke on “Some 
Phases of Trade School Education.” 
His address was interesting and in- 
tensely practical, dealing with a sub- 
ject which has been before the public 
some time now. 
Mrs. William L. Putnam of Boston 
and Manchester was the next speaker 
and, as the official delegate from the 
American Association for Study and 
Prevention of Infant Mortality, she 
spoke on “Pre-Natal Care.”  Pre- 
vention of infant mortality, she said, 
means not so much making sick 
babies better as educating the 
mothers to care for their children 
properly. Mrs. Anna Steese Rich- 
ardson of New York spoke on “Our 
Baby Saving Campaign” and as na- 
tional.chairman-.of the committee on 
Child Hygiene she was able to speak 
competently on the work done in 
New York City, where although the 
people endure the noisy elevated, the 
automobile and siren horns and the 
traffic policeman’s whistle, there is 
one thing they will not stand and 
that is the ailing baby. Through the 
campaign for Better Babies mothers 
have been, taught to manage their 
homes more efficiently and to care 
for their babies properly, thus great- 
ly reducing the infant mortality there. 
Following these reports the speaker 
of the evening, Eugene Averell of 
Gloucester, principal of the Sawyer 
school, was introduced. He delivered 
a very practical address on “How 
Parents May Help the Teachers.” He 
contrasted the clean, normal life of 
the country boy, where the home in- 
fluence is the greatest, with the good 
influence of the church and _ school 
close seconds, with the life of a city 
boy, who, perhaps, has no home, or 
a substitute which is worse than no 
home, and who does not go to church 
and whom, therefore, the school 
alone reaches. The school must en- 
deavor to reach the boy’s home life 
and, if there is need of improvement, 
to do whatever is possible there, 
“The street influence plays an im- 
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portant part in the life of the city 
boy,” said the speaker, “and must be 
faced accordingly. It is here that 
the boy contracts the fatal habit of 
smoking cigarettes. ~The American 
Tobacco company is the greatest im- 
porter of opium in the country,” 
continued Mr. Averell. ‘The liquor 
traffic is also met with here in its 
worst forms and the boy must guard 
against that. 
“Parents may help the teachers to 
instill ideas of right-living in the chil- 
dren by Having regular work for the 
children to do at certain hours, by 
knowing where their boys and girls 
are every minute of the time and, 
where this is impossible, by training 
the children to such truthfulness that 
they will not hesitate to tell their par- 
ents where they have been, by know- 
ing their children’s companions and by~ 
directing their reading.” 
As work for the Parent-Teacher 
associations Mr. Averell spoke of 
the establishment of playgrounds un- © 
der proper supervision, fireside clubs 
for the boys under the same, of the 
necessity of more friendly visits, of 
district nurses and associated chari- 
ties and of the encouragement of 
church-going. In concluding he said 
that in making the boys better men 
attention must be paid to the little 
things and he quoted from Michael 
Angelo, who said, “Trifles make per- 
fection and perfection is no trifle.” 
After another selection by the or- 
chestra the gathering adjourned to 
meet the social committee, who ser- 
ved ices and cake down-stairs. * 
ASSISTANT PostMASTERS To Go. 
Orders have been sent out from the 
Postmaster General at Washington 
notifying postmasters that in the in- 
terest of economy and efficiency the 
office of assistant postmaster will be 
abolished in some cities and towns 
and there will be promotions and de- 
motions. Supervisors of branch post- 
offices will be demoted to assistant 
superintendents. Separate finance 
and mail handling divisions will be 
established in each office. 
Just what postoffices this will effect 
has not as yet been made public by 
the postoffice department, but the or- 
der is supposedly a general one and 
will effect most of the cities and 
larger towns in the country. 
Queen Quality boots for fall and 
winter wear at Walt Bell’s, Centra! 
sq. adv. 
“No Shooting” signs for sale, size 
11x14, on cloth or card board, at 15 
and 10 cents each, respectively. The 
Breeze office, Manchester. adv, 
