Teachers' Retreats

The International School Teachers' Home association was organized with its principal object to provide retreats or homes of entertainment for the teachers of the United States and Canada where they might go during their vacation period, which is often four months, to spend the time in a new climate, with new people, feel the touch of enthusiasm that comes by 'the touching of elbows' with others in the same profession from other states, and to be able to do this at a cost that the average paid teacher can afford.

The retreats, within easy reach of any teacher, are at Eureka Springs, Ark., Chautauqua, N. Y., Monteagle, Tenn., Denver, Chicago and Goderich, Ontario.

Eureka Springs is now in operation and many teachers are there, resting for the winter.

The others will be open by June 10. The cost to members is not to exceed $3.50 per week. The retreats are managed just as first-class hotels, with a landlord or manager.

The general office of the association is at Eureka Springs, Ark. Solicitors are being appointed in every county [...] to enable the teachers to take advantage of these retreats.

The solicitor in Travis county is Miss Pauline Trueblood of this city.

One provision of the association is that a teacher must be the solicitor.

This association meets a long felt want and affords an opportunity to many and many an educator who has felt the need of a summer's outing, but whose purse could not afford the $5 to $8 per week necessary for entertainment.