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Southern Industrial Educational Association Oberlin Gollt'.411 Wllruy (@uttrtrrly :!Rllttgttiiur OF THE Southern Industrial Educational Association f ;.. ·. DECEMBER, 1912. VOL. IV. No. 4. '11 ... ;-·.~,. Southern Industrial Educational Association Granny's First Christmas Tree.* (INCORPORATED) Organized to promote industrial training of the \vhite children A little old lady who had just dismounted from behind of the Southern Appalachian Mountaineers. a gaunt, grizzled man dodged past Anne and ran into the Headquarters: Southern Building, Room 331, Washin&ton, D. C. garden. "I am just bound to see ho'v it looks," she said. MARTHA s. GIELOW, Found•r "Oh, hain't it a sight. for cherubim!" She stood in an ecstasy of delight, hands clasped, withered little face ®Ilic tra shining within the quilted woolen sunbonnet, small body .Pruident Vic•-Pruident and Or,ranlz•r Ylc•-Pruid•nt HON, SETH SHUARD MRS. MARTHA S. GIELOW C. C. CJILHOUN. E~Q. all alertness beneath the heavy homespun shawl 'Chief Justice Court of ApJ)ea!1 The Farragut, W1uhington, D. c. Trtasurer The general uneasiness and apprehension abated Some­ Di~tdct of Columbi11; MILTON E. AILES, ESQ. Vice-Pres. Riggs Nat. Bank what when Christine stepped out in front of the tree, R•,grdin, S••rttar1 c~rrospondinr Secruarf Mas. ·C. DAVID 'f.'tUTE Ml!.S. A. S. STONE Chairman of PuD/icity Committu Anne's Testament in her hand, and began to read, in her 331 Southern Building THOMAS NELSON PAGE earnest, tender voice, the story of the first Christmas. As IDrustrrn she proceeded, there was absolute silence. Not a person Mrs.·o. G.Ambler Prof. Herbert E. Day Hon. Seth Shepard whispered. not a child stirred, not a baby winked. Faces Richard K. Campbell Monte Griffith, M. D. Mu. Samuel Spencer beca1ne rapt, astonished, awed. The white, everlasting C. C. Calhoun, Esq. 01. Thomas Nelson Page Mn. c. David White 1'Hon. ,p ..P.. Claxton Leigh Robinson, Esq. Miss Cbra, •..Vilson hiils themselves appeared to hearken. "And Joseph also NEW YORK AUXILIARY went up to Bethlehem to be taxed with NEW YORK, N. Y. Mary his espoused wife. And she brought forth 0FFICEll.S her firstborn son, . and laid him in a manger. Pruldmt FirSI Viu·Prctid•nt Tr•asur•r Mu. Algernon Sidney Sullivan Miss M, V. B. Vanderpoel Mr. James Lees Laidlaw There >.vere in this same country shepherds abiding in the Second Yiu·Pruidut Third Yice-Presidtnl field. keeping \Vatch over their flock by night. · And, lo, the Miss Mary S. Eurkh-am Mrs. George W. Jenkins angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the .A.ssittant Treasurer Corresp1mding S•crttary Ruording SHrctary Lord shone round about them, and the angel said Mn. Juan Ceballos Mrs. Eugene Frayer Mn. Livingston Rowe Schuyler 777 Madison A:ve. unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings MARYLAND AUXILIARY of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you BALTIMORE, MD. is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Pr•sident, Mrs. J. J. Jackson, The Walbert. Ruording Suretary, Mrs. Joseph Trippe, 6 W. Read St. Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with the Corruponding Surttary, Mn. John M. Miller, 1404 Bolton St . .dfssistant CQrretjonding Surdary, Miss E.W. D. Ligon, Ellicott City. angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and Tr•asuror, Mrs. Eric Bergland, 1116 N. C,harles St. saying, Glory to God Jn the highest, and on earth peace, CALIFORNIA AUXILIARY good will to\vard men.""" SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Suddenly ·granny stepped forward in front of the tree President Firri Vlu·Pruidut Suond Vi"·Pruidtnl and raised a hand for silence. Mrs. C. C. Clay Mrs. L. L. Dunbar Miss B. Letcher ''Friends," she began, in a waVering old voice which Fruitvale, Cal. 331 Parnassus Avenue, 2235 Durant Ave., Berkeley Trucsuru Suretary took on strength as she proceeded, ",ve find ourselves ;Miu:N. D. Rideout, Felton Miss N. A. Queen, 2212 Sacramento St .. San Francisco gathered to~day in onlooked .. for and, I may say, onpossible ALABAMA AUXILIARY Ylu-PresJJent-lf.t·L11.r~•. Mn. Chule5 Hendcnon. Troy. The Chrisbnas. Tree on Clinch. By Lucy Furman. The Century Magazine, December, 1912 :Mn. R.ay Ru~hton, Montgomery Mr1. J. Bowron, Birmingham Mrs. Chappell Corey, Birmingham s 4 The Christmas Star. fashion, refreshing our mortal eyes with the sight of this here wonderly tree, and our immortal sperrits with the By MARTHA/ S. GIELOW. good tidings the fotch-on woman has just read us out of Christmas joy is in the air, the Book. I never heared just that particular scripture Gifts are speeding everywhere, read before, or if so I never kotch its full meaning. Of On the wings of love they fly course,· I knowed Christ had come to earth 'way back To the dear ones far and nigh. yander in old, ancient days some time or 'nother; but I never· heared tell of his coming to all nien. From what Over homes with plenty blest, the preachers said, I got the idee he just come for to Over homes by want opprest, snatch a few elect favor-rites out of the hell to which all Over homes both near and far, the rest of us Was predestinated, ,vhether or no; and con­ Shines the Christ-Child, Christmas Star. sequent', I never tuck no great interest in him, or felt particular' grateful. Even if I had had the assurance of May its tender loving ray, being one of the elect myself, which I never, I still would Pierce the dark and lonely way, have worried a sight over them which was bound to be Of mountain cabins bleak and drear, lost, not seeing no justice, let alone mercy, in it. Shut-in homes that have no cheer. "But now comes the woman, and reads out of the scrip­ ture that the angels theirselves laid down and declared that May its beam this Christmas morn, unto all men was barned a Saviour, that the tidings of joy Bring the long-belated dawn, was for all. ·Which, though it takes me by surprise, is the To the little mountain-child, very best and most welcomes! news that ever fell upon my Waiting in the mountain-wild. years. Yes, glory to God! all men-not only the elect, not V\Taiting for the hand of Time, only the upright, but the very low-downest and dog-mean­ To bring the light of love divine, est, the vilest and needingest and most predestinated, is Waiting, waiting, oh,' so long, all took in. Now that's the kind of a Saviour my heart To hear the joyful Christmas song. has all us called for; that's the kind I have laid awake of nights longing to hear tell of; and now at last the news has come, 'pears like my bosom will bu'st with the joy I The Southern Industrial Educational Association will be ' hain 't able to utter. · · ' glad to give addresses and directions for forvvarding boxes '.'And that hain't the only good tidings we have heared or barrels of the following articles, that rural schools find this notable day. That selfsame angel, and a multitude most useful: Maps, globes, black-boards, books and mate­ more, sang together in that Christmas sky, 'peace on earth, rials for manual work, Bibles, flags, wash-basins, towels, good-will toward men.' 0 friends and chillens, words in­ soap, combs, clothing, blankets, pieces of silk and calico for deed fails me when I try to tell what powerful good news patch-work, sewing materials, pencils, stationery, books, that is to me. 'Peace and good-will' ; no more hate, no. magazines, pictures, needles, thimbles, scissors, toys, dolls, more pride, no more proj eckin' and devilment, but 'Peace etc. on earth,, good-will toward men.1 " 6 7 Home Life of the Boys in a Settlement School. house and for an hour aftenvards they work out of doors, or if weather is bad in the shop. Then at eight school [We publish the following account of the daily routine begins, and they hurry to .their books. We dine at eleven­ in· one of the mountain settlement schools because it shows thirty, and then for another half hour the boys d~ outsid_e how far such training exceeds that given in the small pub­ \Vork. 1~hen school again, including manual tra1n1ng until hc schools that exist at more or less remote intervals in three-fifteen, then \.Vork time out-of-doors . from three­ the mountains. Too often, also, the teacher of the little thirty to five-thirty, ·when the supper bell rmgs. log cabi~ country school could not pass a fourth grade examination, and the crude training that is given is hardly Fron1 six to seven in the evening is play-time, and in worth the salary that the teacher draws.] fine weather the boys plays outdoor games, ball, football, base and the like, over in the school grounds, wh.1le on Our thirteen youngest boys live at the cottage, and do 1 the outside work of the place. Several of them have spe­ \Vinter evenings they gather about the grate fire 1n the cial jobs, \Vhich are changed every t\vo months. At present cheerful red-papered sitting-room of their cottage and play checkers, fox and O'eese, dominoes, etc., crack walnuts, John is horse-boy; Jacob cleans the machinery and keeps 0 up steam in the power house; Hugh is carpenter, making roast potatoes, pop, or as t h ey say, " cap, " corn, an dhav e repairs to fences, otitbuildings, etc.; Peter is wash boy, a good time generally.
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