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15 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Better Baby Plan Explained Become an A ccom BY LE MOYNE LIVINGSTONE. We make the work easy and enjoy able and guarantee results. Music W ithin the R each o f A ll Noted Instructor Exlains How It Is Possible to Learn Art by Correspondence Course. The editor received this letter the other day: “ I hope to keep my girls at home with me on the farm. They both want to learn music and tell me they must leave for the city to do so. Please advise me what to do.—Mrs. E. ” You put a hard problem before us, Mrs. E. But we felt there must be some way out for such girls as yours, and many like yours. To Mrs. McCurdy, head o f a famous school o f instruction in music, we said: “ Can music be learned by m ailt“ This is her reply: BY FLORA McCUBDY, Director American School of Music. FEW years ago any one advocat ing self-improvement by means o f correspondence instruction was ridi culed, but in keeping with the general trend o f progress, ideas in this regard have completely changed. Now every one recoguizes the value o f a corres pondence course as a practical and ef ficient means o f securing the knowl edge sought. Music, however, to many has seemed the one subject that could not be suc cessfully taught in this manner, but those who have investigated this means o f acquiring musical training are loud in its praise, many o f the features of the correspondence system being far superior to the methods used by the ordinary personal teacher. Then, too, it is a well-known fact, in giving a personal lesson, the teacher is explaining while the child is more or less confused in trying to find the right note to strike and listen at the same time, and it is safe to say that half o f each lesson must be taken over at additional expense and loss o f time to the student. Lesson Always Before Student. By the correspondence method the lesson, thoroughly explained and illus trated, is always before the student. No part o f it ever need be lost through forgetfulness. The courses have been compiled by teachers of the highest A Stories at Which You WU1 Smile T THE BATTLE o f Cedar Creek,” said the veteran captain o f a company in one of Virginia’s bravest regiments, “ my company, which generally wasn't afraid o f the arch fiend himself, grew demoralized and panic-stricken. Despite all my efforts, they b rok e' and started pell-mell for the rear. “ As one fellow, whom I knew was as fearless as a lion, dashed by me, I drew my revolver, and cried: “ ‘ Halt, and return to your place! I f you don ’t, I will shoot I ’ “ ‘ Shoot and be hanged!’ he replied, never slackening his pace. ‘ W hat’s one bullet to a b a sk etfu l!’ ” A _ HE DOCTOR was treating the old T lady for typhoid fever, and on eaeh visit he took her temperature by putting a thermometer under her tongue. One day, when she was nearly well, the doctor did not bother to take her temperature. He had hardly got one hundred yards from the house when her son called him back. “ Mother is worse,” said the man. “ Come baek at once.” The doctor returned. As he came into the sick room the old lady looked np at him with angry and reproachful grade o f proficiency and the subjects are all presented in their proper order and in a thorough yet comprehensive manner. Music is now considered as important a part o f a child’s education as the literary schooling and the cor respondence method, having become practical as well as economical, has placed it within the reach o f every one. It gives all the opportunity of learn ing to play well in the quiet o f the home. It does away with the embarrassment and nervousness often caused by the presence of a personal teacher and en ables many a music-lover, who has fail ed to have these advantages in youth, to learn to play for his own amuse ment. For, who is there that has not at some time in his life longed to possess this accomplishment! Music has a refining influence on the family and there is no more pleasant manner in which to spend a w inter’s evening, than to gather round the fire side and listen to the mother or little son or daughter play your favorite selections. Wonderful Besulta Obtained. Time being one o f the most impor tant principles in music is taught suc cessfully by the aid of a time-beater, which counts the time out loud for the student while he practices. This device will count slow or fast as the student desires. The rate of speed at which the studies should be played is desig nated in the lesson and the counting marked so there is no chance for con fusion or mistakes. Many o f the correspondence schools furnish all materials necessary, free of charge. Also the whole family can learn to play from one set o f lessons. Music taught by correspondence is no longer in the experimental stage and the wonderful results secured attest its success. Schools teaching music in this way are now ranked among the fore most educational institutions o f today, and people living in rural or isolated portions o f the country are now able to become accomplished in any line de sired at home at a very reasonable cost. plished Musician T HE “ Better B aby” movement is no “ F ad ,” but a gradual awak ening, individually, among a few thinkers o f the waste of time and energy on a feministic beauty show for babies, to a scientific, educational prop- oganda for the betterment o f humanity. When we are lacking in facts regard ing life, there ia sure to be ignorance. So with a timid, imitative mother and father with no knowledge relating to their offspring many a child comes into the world unwelcomed, often miserably deformed, and diseased. As the mother is pre eminently the director o f the child, it rests with her aa to its development physically. Nouristment is the most important part o f a child’s life, lack o f which retards the ch ild’s growth, and in after years a deficiency mentally can be traced to poor nourishment being the cause. By standardizing our ‘ ‘ Beauty Shows,” we have made the eduaa- tional centers for the enlightment and encouragement o f mothers and fathers. With the magnificent help o f the Woman’s Home Companion giving us a score card containing tables of weights and measures, also the proper mental and physical development, a mother can gain a vast amount o f scien tific data as to whether her child is nor mal, and if defective the probabilities o f correction. Competent instructors. Everything furnished brains and instruments. HE TALK was about a member of Congress who has taken an active part in furthering the currency legis lation. “ Has he any special knowledge of the cu rrency!” asked the Western man. The Boston man looked at him with the indignation with which perhaps his ancestor o f the same name received the information that the British Parlia ment had passed the Stamp Act. “ Has he any special knowledge of it ! ’ ’ he repealed with a rising inflec tion that made the questioner wish ha were back in Kansas City minding his own business. “ Why, sir, he is a Bos ton m an!” • • Write us today. 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