St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 14, 1912

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JULY. 14, 1912.

Mrs. Halcyon Childs Concludes That Although Instructing Young May Be Woman’s Work, It Helps Discipline to Have Man in Background.

work, but it helps discipline to have a man in the background. This has been the experience of Mrs. Halcyon Childs. who has just laid down the work of teaching in the St. Louis public schools, which she began. in 1858, and to which she has given nearly a half-century of her lit-. Those whom Mrs. Childs taught in the old Jefferson, Franklin, Stoddard, Lincoln and Chou- teau Schools, and the pupils of the Bryan Hil]! and Ashland Schools, of which she was principal, know that she was not the sort of teacher to take her troubles often to the superintendent or the board. She was generally equal to such emergencies as might be created by unruly pupils or a disorderly “gang.” e But this resolute woman, who in her time has defied parents’ organizations, is very ready to acknowledge that there are some situations in school work which it takes a man to handle. “One of the pleasantest things about my school work,” she said to a Post-Dispatch reporter, “has been the readiness of the higher officials, es- pecially the assistant superintendents, to give needed help in matters of discipline. “There are some boys with whom a woman can’t do much. It is also true that there are boys with whom a woman teacher can deal better than a man. But I am speaking now of the other kind. “The boys who give a woman teacher the most trouble are generally the ones who have given their mothers the most trouble. The mothers usually tell the teachers how bad the boys are, and then throw up their hands and leave all the retponsibility on the teacher, Teacher Sometimes Finds She Can’t Influence a Boy. OS “partioutar when a mother has made a S work teaching may be mostly women’s particularly thorough failure, the teacher finds she can’t do’ much with the boy, either. She can’t give her whole time to one boy, and it might not do much good if she did. “The board and thé superintendent have always left us teachers free to use the rod—or strictly speaking, the rattan. Frequently that has proven t> be all that was needed, but @ Woman can only whip about so hard, and it is sometimes better to turn a boy over to one of the assistant super- intendents. “T recall one boy who was so wilful that nothing seemed to do him any good. Finally I gent him to Assistant Superintendent Collins, I didn’t know what Mr, Collins would do with him. The next day the boy was back in his place, paying the best sort of attention, and after that he made no more trouble. “I asked him one day what happened when he went to see Mr. Collins. He said Mr. Collins talked to him. What he remembered best was what the assistant superintendent told him, ‘It all depends on you.’ “He had done the one thing that needed to be done for that boy. He had shown him his respon- sibility and had aroused his self-respect. All the whippings that could have been given him would not have had such an effect. “I have used corporal punishment, especially in the first part of the school year. There have been cases that I saw no other way of dealing with. I have found the least need of punish- ment among the children of German families in South St. Louis, and that has been because the matter of discipline was thoroughly attended to at home,” Believes Changes in , - _ Teaching for the Better. | BRS. CHILDS believes most of the changes - that have been made in teaching methods er Guring her long experience have been changes for the better. But she excepts the free book plan from the list of things she com- mends, although it is one of the things for been most praised. “The free-book plan seemed like a boon to the public,” she said, “but it has been true in this, as in other things, that what is free is not regarded highly. ) : “The children are not careful of the books, and the teachers have to give a good deal of time and effort to keep the books in any. sort ef condition for use. Then, too, when the books are not personal possessions, but just part of the equipment, like the desks and blackboards, the pupil loses that personal feeling of associa- tion with his books which helps to build up a love for books in general. “jn my school days, most of the children pre- served their school books, and made them the beginnings of their libraries. Now the child has no such nucleus for a collection of books, but must turn his books over to another child when he has done with them. “And when we give so much attention to sani- tary matters, doing away with public drinking cups as we have, it would be worth while to consider whethor the boolss passed on from one child to another may not pe just as dangerous to health. Done Well in the World. “— {, A®&S. CHILDS has never learned that any of the youths taught by her has become famous in professional or public life. has her training produced notable s¢ great or small weal She says | much of the credit them turned out con- ee Be * et ‘J not accept * J a e # ER fe Fee : 3 . ais t a : Ae: F 4 oe % y 7 a AES. TN ie om, a — a: Ss Py Heterne ge ty Teageny, ae om “gt Fo ey Bh ye — LEARNED IN F LIFE IN SCHOOL ¥Y ryt rue SAM wa iS é °

are a 4 i rena: abt eRe ° ee Shar } . SRA ee nes AOR ee asap ee he : " E ie £ NEW PROTEST OVER WIFE’S SISTER CASE. Churchmen OCriticise House of Lords’ Act- ion, Insisting Upon Civil Law Preference. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. LONDON, July 13.—Churchmen are protesting against the action of the House of Lords in dis- mising Canon Thompson’s appeal against the de- cision of the Court of Arches monishing him for refusing holy communion to Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Banister of Norwich, on the ground that they were “open and notorious evil livers,” They insist in effect that temporal authority cannot make that to be not sin which the church teaches to be sin. The chain of actions, civil and .ecclestiastical, in this case grew out of the marriage of Banister to his deceased wife’s sister. They went to Canada to escape the English law against such marriages, and were there wedded Aug. 12, 1907. Aug. 28 of the same year marriages of this sort were legalized in England, and as the law was retroactive Banister and his wife became en- titled to all the legal rights of man and wife. But here church law and civil law came into conflict, because the rubric in the communion service of the Church of England, which has tHe sanction also of the statutes, provides that the clergyman may deny the communion to persons who are “open and notorious evil livers,” such as the church regarded Mr. and Mrs. Banister to be. After the pair’s return from Canada, Canon Thompson, Vicar of Eaton, whose parishioners they were, refused to cOmmunicate them. They procured a decision in the Arches Court of Can- terbury that his refusal was illegal. It became the duty of the Dean of Arches to issue a moni- tion warning Canon Thompson to abstain in the future from refusing the sacrament to Mr. and Mrs. Banister. , The Divisional, Court refused Canon Thomp- son’s appeal, which followed, and he took the matter to the House of Lords, where his cause was finally dismissed, eo ee ; The situation remaining is that the church must perform an act which violates its. moral teaching, or in any event that is the view taken by those who endorse Canon Thompson's course,

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HARRIET QUIMBY 5 FLIERS GOOD LUCK OMEN RY OF GIKL + ool

Het Confidence Was Placed in a Tiny Brass “God of Bad Luck” Which She Had Caused to Be Beheaded. _ a \ By HARRIET QUIMBY. (This story was written a few days be- fore Miss Quimby’s fatal fall at Boston.) but ail women flyers are superstitious. And again it isn’t s0 curious either. All people who follow a calling in which chance enters largely are super- stitious. You nmeedn’t go any further than the sailors, who have omens of all sorts and pet beliefs, which have failed them a hundred times but which they still use to satisfy the want of explanation. Although a superstition may not be an absolute belief it becomes a factor which one sometimes does not feel safe in leaving out, My own superstition is Ganesha, a little ancient brass idol. He brought me such bad luck and was such a misbehaved little person that I just simply had to kill him, You would think that his centuries of observing things would have told him his danger and made him do the right thing, if only to escape his impending fate. But somehow the more I threatened him the vr’orse he became. So I had his little brass head sawed off, and, wonderful to state, he’s been behaving beautifully since. You mustn’t laugh when I tell you that I think there was something to the little beast. He ‘looxed so grumpy and _e so eerie that he used: to give me the shivers, although the beast was quite likeable at first. Rescued Little Brass God From a Prospective Funeral Pyre To first time I ever saw him was in the

[ is a curious thing, office of the London Daily Mirror. He was in a heap of talismen and idols of all sorts who had brought their owners bad luck. The Mirror used to hold Saturday: ‘arf ‘oliday burn- ings of these misbegotten little omens of ill- luck and thousands poured in ‘from all over the city. : This particular Saturday afternoon when I saw the little brass idol he was ready for the funeral pyre. He looked at me so pleadingly from his solemn elephant eyes, and his little fat tummy quivered so fearfully, that I just had to rescue him. 1 went to get permission to take him and as I was returning some one threw him into the fire. I just ran and poked him out. He had belonged to a French, aviator who met with reverses and gave the brass god to a country gentleman. who in turn sent him to be burned. I was arranging for my flight across the English Channel in a Bleriot monoplane and wanted the flight kept secret until it was accom- plished. Here is where Ganesha got in his first licks. I confided the hope that I might be the first woman to fly across the Channel to an aviator whom I trusted very much. Two days later the aviator (I will not mention his name) tcok a woman as a passenger across the Channel, rob- bing me of the distinction ofr being the first woman to cross. Later I did fly over, and was the first woman to make the flight alone, but the other might just as well have been mine too. Did Not Get Her $5000, but ' She Did Not Suspect Idol for the flight went back on his word. I had heard so much of. British solidity and business honor that I couldn’t think of making a written contract. with him. Disgusted, I left for America, returning home a few months ago. Ganesha came along, too, because,I did not sus- pect anything. | | No sooner had I landed than I was embroiled in financial disputes, none of them serious, but all annoying and a bit unpleasant. In the past two months' I had to see my lawyer about thirty times. Before that 1 do not remember ever talking over matters with him ten times in a Tie: the man who had promised me $5000. n to suspect Ganesha. I believe he t to Go the things 1 accused him of, that is, that way to me. So I spanked him and as & paper weight, a most ‘humilia- for one so MISS QUIMBY 'S IDOL OF “BADLUCK

pet s HARRIET QUIMBY. “+> 3 ened brass, toiling months to make the little image that would adorn his: household altar and gazing awhile on the completed idol before filat- tening himself in the dust adoring it. could not help feeling bitterly toward Ganesha, because he should have known’ better. Determined That. He Should Die, but How Was Problem DETERMINED: he should die*after holding | court over him and rehearsing his many evil actions. He didn’t even have the benefit of counsel or a jury trial. He had to die and that was all jhere would be to it. Afterward I was sorry for him, but law is l@w, and the sentence had to be carried out. -But how? Obviously one could not electrocute him, nor shoot him, nor poison him, for his misbehaved soul was of toughened brass. In the midst of my dilemma a reporter sug- gested that Ganesha should have his head cut off, a fitting end for any gentleman, and accord- ing io ancient custom, quite the proper thing. In the engraving room of a newspaper are some glittering circular saws*that go through brass like a knife through . cheese. So Ganesha was taken into the darkened en- graving room which was to be his death chamber and held in front of the saw. Nervously I noted him lying on the steel table. His legs still re- mained crossed, the arms were just as vigorous and lively as ever. One hand held an axe, an- other a hook and the other—he had three arms— held a ball, presumably of mud. Also a foot stuck out from his shoulder in kicking position. Looked Like a Republican Conyention and Was as Tough ITH his elephant’s head he looked just like W a complete Republican convention ready for delegates. But his eyes were squinted narrow and I was in a hurry to have it over with. The nice reporter felt of Ganesha’s neck just like a professional executioner. Then the little beast was shoved against the saw. There was a shriek from the saw, said those about, but it might have been Ganesha. Even a perfect aristocrat may break down at the last moment. Suddenly the saw stopped cutting while the workman examined Ganesha. They demanded to know what kind of brass he was made of. I could not tell, except that it must be very tough, quite appropriate to Ganesha’s disposition. Two saws were required before the shrieking stopped and his head flew off. He wal for a while, but when I cool he seemed a sorry sight. Now. I have him on my ssk- aS a paper weight. When he behaves he can have his head back, but the minute he starts any of his old tricks I take his head away from him. Really, since a week ago, when he was bé- headed, things have gone _ splendidly. Now, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t, but just the same, things are going better, and I am going to let him wear his head a full day sometime, scon, to see if he is really cured. Miss Moisant’s Lucky Omen. Is the Magic 13 in Her Life / him off in water a

13. She made her first exhibition flight tm Mexico City, Nov. 13, and had her machine nym+ ure ’ a f y Ps] . ed . a SS a ari sant * yt —— ake 18 : a he ~ oo 2 MS ae a a ro ae Me yr OM Fs, 6 z oo’ ae m2, 3 ok _ - a - ¥ ty 2s * goat - = res, #¢ ty vs er Sole Mascot || EANNE HARVIEU, one of the leading speed iggy day at Pau, France, a farmer who had seen her « - the pig up in the aeroplane and made one of her best flights. | the pig squealed during the whole journey. Jo Lee my 2 i. a Since the pig has grown up she keeps it In her — bengar, but has it put fh 2 the aeroplane for a ee Meg ‘who files a most dénggrous to to the consternation of army offee o dal oe Ye 3 PA : “ 2 . 7 ISS Mathilde Moisant, sister of the late? 1

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