NEWSPAPER CLASSES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 3

NEWSPAPER CLASSES.

■ American, and English. papers, dealing ; mth';work; -in.' dubs ' ana'': settlements, -mate' occasional;; /mention', of ' newspaper classes, and one has rfithsr ! wondered how snch classes could bo worked; for the. best advantage.,of ;the (prls."' Die "Gnaidiaa" gives.-an excellent idea in its renew of . a pampMet, which, has .jnst been issued by the -CW Council, which gives tho. fullest and.most, detailed direcNewspaper fand Citizenship Classes .which -. arcs ' becoming so; helpful a feature'm girls' clubs. One object of : these . classeSMS, to . widen : the outlook of the girls,. and' to' increase their knowledge- of. tacts (brectty 1 . iboaring on their-own'indistrial position; another is to help'them -to read a' newsp»'.per .with profit. -..Left to themselves, the,* are apt to read -only its fmost sensational: and least edifying 'portions; . but whan 'their interest^ ohce' ibeen :aroused'in measures,.. for'-.: instance,"'; affecting ■) their' own hemes .or surroundings, or in any public event of importance,they.' axe. keen to follow up theso subjects ;in the daily paper, l 'and' to get: additional information on - them from their "club lady." Tho topics chosen for these Newspaper' Classes must; of-' course, be'those: of the,-moment; In: the; pamphlet before us we' fiiid'. model Wessons on- a "General Election," : on. "Finance and the Budtfoi," and on "Tieform of the Poor-law." '■ There are also notes of lessons '-: on "Gambling," on : Half-timers,'': J and: ,on "Emigration ■to Canada"—all' matters;on - -which' girls should, he encouraged to think, and to the leader could' hardly be improved upon..' "She ;should -:nevto ...be 'holding forth', for any consecutive' time, but rather - encouragethe'; girls. - to : formu-' late'- their .views,: steadying., their. standard* rather than • violently 'substituting her- own." AH , this means that the leader -'must; .take!- pains • with, her ■ lesson befoi;ehand,- and not trast fc the ideas ..that '.may .or ' may.'not come to hor on thOi spin-: of' the moment.- , Talks on subjects -of the day' are; much appreciated at .-mothers' meetings; :-and : -here : again wo believe that such' pamphlets as those' on Boy- and ' Qirl ' Labour" and" "Working Womon and 'the Poor-law," also published, by .the Womeh's: Industrial Councu, would be found very useful.