read one number e speaking from or from hearsay st women's papers

ournal in a rather to get a number that the reading I simply be astongood thing.

th the magazine, ibutors such celean McLaren, Dr. d, Mrs. Sangster, ho are famed as ng literature. the styles, but we haracter in that. ylish gown. Wois about domestic as well as a good of such ideas de

hers' journals, and to be without the ng THE SCHOOL pedagogical works ther lines of readision of the facul

ble channel. The he better educator MAGGIE EVANS.

e?

re than fourteen announcement of state to be held ed that I was in

took in the other past years by the ages, and I asked they so different. - if not brilliant. from saying that ot suppose I shall I think the convoIth the teachers in s, and found little inion; there was I remember going d they all asserted -out $15 each and se who attend the saying, "What a

make a suggestion ra representative atoga meeting the nted, but not the propose that the o attend the state ; no commissioner ald be eligible, but ents, the teachers

road fare of the ake a report to the nd present matters ssed at the state e a body could as

mi

the exception of a few who run the meeting; so there
is no solidity, no consanguinity, no permanence. In the
convocation the same persons practically assemble each
year; I do not say this is wholly advantageous. I find
no fault that some commissioners and conductors of
institutes and a few others run the machine of the
state association; if they did not do it there would be no
meeting practically. And here I may add there should
be no institute conductors as delegates; these gentle-
men might be called on to speak, however.

Meeting two or three whom I had known I inquired
the special business and was told there was none! This
is just as it used to be. There are plenty of problems
to be discussed, but they need to be discussed year after
year. Discussion is what is needed. There might be
one address, possibly two; if so men of might should be
called on. How often the precious time is taken up by
some unripe person.

Candidly I do not think the state of New York is mak-
ing the progress it ought. We are still allowing per-
sons of small ability to do the great work of teaching.
We are still employing the ancient machinery of the
teachers' institutes when training schools are needed.
Teaching is an art all agree; but yet in 1902 they do
as they did in 1802-let a young man learn the art by
experimenting on the children. There should be train-
ing schools established during the summer, where the
beginners should be trained in six weeks.

This is but one of the problems that presents itself
when the matter is considered; that of supervision is
quite as important. I do not think supervision exists
except in the cities and larger towns. The state meet-
ing constituted as I have proposed might deal with
these important problems.
G. E. B.
Albany.

United States Army. Its organization, object, necessity, and
use. Divisions of the army, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
A day at Fort Sheridan viewing drills and parade, and noting
the daily life of a soldier.

The arithmetic for the eighth grade pupils, also in
charge of Miss O'Neill, was correlated to a great extent
with the public institution work, e. g., Insurance was
taken up at the time the fire department was studied.
Duties and Customs taught after the visit to the Cus-
tom House. Average rainfall computed after visiting the
Weather Bureau. Assessments and Taxes studied after
visiting tax department and assessor's office. Calcula-
tions on paving based on knowledge obtained in study
of streets.

The data obtained in visiting the different institutions also were utilized in providing an unlimited field for original problem work.

dent of Dayu less than twen

of a section ga road, earning spade.

The Atchiso but there isn't red tape to ma is to graduating GALESBURG, Clark, a gradua

has accepted t women at Knox Rural S According to inister of Educ Russia are held shepherd. They winter when the work. The repo effect is that in R herd is happier th the latter happier The moujik con who lives out at him less than the has fallen and t thing to do, being the winter to be the latter think o "outchitel," or so the villagers, who a him. The price var ($9 to $40) for the very long in Russia not so good as that family whose childr feeds in its turn the The school build often contiguous to jik, where pigs, he twice a day. It is teacher to keep his Ponomareff in his o no ventilation. At th weather all windo closed with clay or moujik cannot unde should be opened in In regard to the he itive. Each schola some pieces of wood When it is freezing t not come, and the pelled to remain unt ops himself in his to and stays motionless "khata," or school h

Such is the custom In the rich villages t stead of being a mart He strikes the pupi their ears and pulls 1 their teeth, for he is drunk. The official re cases in which chil thrown on the groun teacher's feet to suc gushed out from thei But what is most ex Ponomareff,is that the ters intrust the task of scholars. These ar group," or "the profe not above eight or ten they try to teach their schoolmaster sits do next" kabako."

1

The St. Petersbur which gives this sum marett's report, says 1 the minister of public

merous commissioners nito, every part of Rus of the winter

Anil

kice,

open for inspection duri

were very popular.

newly elected presi- the Illinois legislature by President David course, with games taught t Baylor university, at Waco, Tex., Felmly, of the State Teachers Association, Mrs. Anna J. Murray, sec twenty years ago was a member for enactment. One of these laws permits National Kindergarten Tra ion gang on the Santa Fe rail- school boards to pay for the transportation in Washington. Manual tra ning 65 cents a day with his of pupils in districts containing more than and classes in cooking, cl four square miles, thus enabling commu. "corn shuck mat" making nities to unite for the consolidation of country schools wherever the people wish Another law provides for a larger state school fund, to be distributed suborder to equalize the burden of public stantially as in the state of New York, in education and make it possible for every for higher ones. community to maintain a good school. Á

Atchison Globe says it's funny,
isn't half as much ceremony and
to marrying these days as there it.
uating.

BURG, ILL. Miss Hannah B.
graduate of Smith College ('87),
Epted the position of dean of
Knox college.

แ

Professor D. Webster D mond, Va., conducted a reg standards of the race and a negro ideals" in which arouse dissatisfaction wit

Education in Ala

third law is to authorize the district owner-
ship of text-books wherever the people
limited amount of state aid to all districts into the curriculum of the s
want it. The fourth law provides for a Basket weaving is to b
that will establish and maintain a school dustrial training, supported
library. Finally, there is a law granting byterian board, in Sitka, Ala
state aid to approved high schools, some- dressmaking, cooking and
what after the plan in operation in Minne ence are already well establis
sota. It is believed that these laws will of the school. Boys learn
pass, tho an organized and watchful fight boat-building, shoemaking, c
will be necessary to secure the victory. About eighteen model cotta
were built by the graduates,
pied by them and their fa
houses are furnished prettily
most of whom have been tr
school, are excellent housek
New York State Scho

Impending Changes in Phila

delphia.

ral Schools in Russia. ing to the report of the Russian f Education school teachers in e held in lower esteem than the . They are hired only during en the boys are not needed for he report of M. Ponomareff in hat in Russian villages the shepappier than the male teacher, and happier than the female teacher. pujik considers the teacher a man out at his expense, and he pays than the shepherd. When snow n and the boys are without any- The manual training schools of Philao, being unable on account of delphia are said to be the most popular to be of help to their parents, high schools in the city. Hitherto they think of their education. An have had no buildings especially erected 1," or schoolmaster, is hired by for their purpose, and have been considers, who agree to feed and to pay erably handicapped by the shortcomings has completed plans for the ch State Superintendent Char price varies from 10 to 50 rubles of the makeshift buildings where they ized by the legislature of 190 for the whole winter, which is have been housed. The city councils has in the methods of distributi in Russia. As to the food, it is specified that $200,000 of the money ap- school money. The same 1 od as that of the shepherd; each portioned for the use of the board of edu- creased the state appropria ose children frequent the school cation shall be expended for a manual support of the schools from s turn the schoolmaster. training school building. The building $3,750,000. committee of the board of education, however, think this sum quite inadequate, Education for Hondura as a suitable structure without equipments would cost $250,000.

A college was established in 1899 by Dr. Joseph L. Jenc ican, and while rather liberal ion for boys little was done fo government of Honduras ha priated $100 a month for the women and has also given a accommodate some two hund This, with $5,000 obtained scription and some help from United States, now puts the working basis.

nool building is a miserable hut, iguous to the house of the moue pigs, hens and cows are fed ay. It is the business of the keep his school clean, says M. Another act of the councils which does -ff in his official report. There is not meet with general approval is the tion. At the approach of the cold appropriation of $10,000 for the use of a all windows are hermetically commission to devise a new school system h clay or glazier's putty. The for Philadelphia. One such attempt a nnot understand that anything few years ago provided that the board of opened in winter time. education should be appointed jointly by d to the heating, it is quite prim- the mayor and the judges of the court of ch scholar is bound to bring common pleas. This board was to be es of wood to heat the school. given entire control over all appointment s freezing too hard the pupils do of teachers, as well as the entire manageand the teacher, being com- ment of the school property. The bill was emain until the evening, envel- presented to the legislature, but died in a Schools for Japanese If in his touloupe, or sheepskin, house sub-committee on education. What motionless in a corner of the will be the fate of the present attempt is female schools of common A plan is on foot in Tol or school hut. yet uncertain. the custom in the poor villages. important cities and towns in h villages the schoolmaster, in- Alabama Pressing Forward. with a hope of three higher i eing a martyr, becomes a tyrant. Tokio, Osaka,and Sendal. T s the pupils brutally, tears off The Alabama educational association of the Meiji Jogakko holds th and pulls their hair and breaks thru its committee of legislation purposes tion should be made in educa , for he is almost continually to memorialize the legislature to grant in regard to sex and that ther The official report instances many suitable legislation along the following one sound principle in educati which children were violently lines : perfect human beings." the ground and bruised by the 1. A general law providing for a rafeet to such a point that blood tional division of the several counties of t from their noses and mouths. the state into school districts, and the is most extraordinary, says M. location of the schools therein. ff, is that those queer schoolmasthe task of teaching to the best These are called "the first "the professors," and they are 3. The erection and equipment of adeeight or ten years of age. While quate school buildings thruout the state. 4. Monthly payment of the salaries of teach their little comrades the ter sits down to drink in the public school teachers. ako."

For Education in HAVANA. At a cabinet July 25, Secretary Yero, of budget showing the amount educational purposes to be $3 The Fourth "R" Dis In a recent speech at the Hampton Institute Summer School rifle range in England Rudy Petersburg correspondence, expressed the opinion that " es this summary of M. Pono- Four hundred and fifty student teachers, should be taught the same as eport, says that on receiving it representing thirteen different states, have Such a course would not pr er of public instruction sent nu- attended the Hampton Institute summer rians. Everything should be s mmissioners to run over, incog. normal school this year. Enthusiasm has to shooting quickly." Mr. Ki

2. Local taxation of counties, cities, and ment of Public Instruction school districts.

dpads, sunbonnets, and hem- whom his attention has been called by the as large a variety of patches white aprons and towels, ham; teacher, and advises with her as to whether represent the required data. and shopping bags of knotted a child should be allowed to remain in then photographed and plate -kin rings, twine balls. school or sent home. The inspector dembroidery classes show quaint cides about re-admitting pupils who have à outline stitched on babies bibs, been absent on account of sickness. on towels, feather stitching, and Supt. Frank R. Page writes that the plan g on flannel, dainty little needle- gives universal satisfaction, that it relieves d pin balls, with tiny forget-me- the teachers of considerable responsibility, ther small flowers on the white and has already proved a precaution of There were doilies and center great value to the schools. Ewhite linen, magazine covers, ames, and sofa pillows of colored embroidered with wild roses, yellow and white, or with the ign.

illinery class, with a large doll on the teacher's desk for a model, ioned every variety of hat from to winter designs. Almost any is class will be able to make a erself, and some of them will be rn wages from the start in milops, instead of giving some of apprenticeship without pay.

hn is the instructor.

Acting-President John H. Hewitt, of Williams college for 1891-2, expresses in his annual report some doubts as to whether it was not a mistake for the col lege to permit students to substitute other studies in place of Greek for the degree of A.B. Some of the faculty think that Greek, as a study, has certain merits which appear to be lacking in any of the substitutes yet discovered.

Mr. C. Hanford Henderson, whose re-
cently published "Education and the
Larger Life" has received much favorable
criticism, has a summer camp for boys at
Chesham, N. H.

oys have made all manner of
Professor Arlo Bates, of the Massachu-
out of raffia, grass, braided setts Institute of Technology, is traveling
rush, luncheon baskets, work in Europe this summer and happened to
waste baskets, mats, brush broom be in Venice on the day that the Campa-
vall pockets, pincushion baskets, nile fell.
askets, hammocks and trays, in
or, green, red and striped.

E WITH A POTATO KNIFE.

66

Problem.

66

Prof. Hugo Muensterberg, of Harvard
university, has received from the German
emperor the decoration of the Red Eagle
of the third class, as a sequel of Prince
potato knife boys make wagons,
ettles, tables, match boxes and Henry's visit to this country. Prof. Muen-
rames, and all sorts of boxes. sterberg is still a German citizen. A num-
ber of Americans whom the emperor
ittle out the pieces, put them desired to honor, in connection with that
with mucilage and brads, and
finished product with water occasion, preferred instead of decorations
Sometimes they carve a design only a photograph or some small souvenir
from Prince Henry, which has been sent.
face with their "potato knives."
going home they gather in the Kate Douglas Wiggin always goes to
room to take part in recitations, Europe in the spring and stays until mid-
songs and other exercises. Thus summer, but she never fails to spend part
of Americanizing the foreign of the year at her Maine country home,
and bringing them into harmony
Quillcote," on the Saco river. She has
pirit of our national life, is go. identified herself thoroly with the little
y by day in the common schools, village where she passed her childhood
and has done a great deal for the commu-
Unsolved Mathematical nity. She plays the organ in the old
church and sings in the choir. She teaches
in the Sunday-school, lends her house for
P. A. MacMahon, in a recent church and social festivities and gives help
Magic Squares" before the with open hands wherever it is needed. A
Royal Institute reminded his village improvement society is one of her
of the existence of a curious pet hobbies and each year she gives an
which, despite its apparent sim- entertainment whose proceeds go toward
as never yet been solved. He beautifying the village. She reads from
ed it to the attention of those the manuscript of her newest unpublished
ed to exercise their ingenuity and book and she presses into service the tal-
The problem is as follows: There ents of any friends who happen to be in
six officers of six different ranks her house party. The evenings would find
n from six different regiments, favor even in New York. Saco River con-
required to arrange them in a siders them record-breaking and buys tick-
thirty-six compartments so that ets lavishly, with a comfortable inner
ow, as well as in each column, knowledge that the bread will return in
ears an officer of each rank and the shape of park benches and river ter-
ficer from each regiment. En races and clean streets and other village
Lechearhes sur une nouvelle improvements.
Quarres Magiques," which ap- Miss Caroline S. Laidley, the oldest ac-
1782, discusses this problem, tive woman librarian in this country, died
no solution, and the late Pro- recently in Northampton, Mass., where
ley, writing more than a century she had been for fifty-two years chief li-
confessed that it was beyond brarian. The collection of about a thous-
s. Major MacMahon, who has and books belonging to the Young Men's
much to our knowledge of the Institute, which was put in charge of Miss
groups-a fascinating branch of Laidley when she was seventeen years of
ics, which has an important age, has formed the nucleus for the sys-
n many branches of physical tematizing of library methods in the
as not yet found a key to the United States.
Whoever can solve this problem
that it cannot be solved will
mortality on the lips of mathe-

A New Map-Making Method.
Professor William G. Ripley, of the

Resignations and C NEW HAVEN, CONN.-Pri Mather, of the Boardman m school, has resigned his po school is so close to the new that it is probable that the will be placed under one mar the classes so arranged in reduce expenses materiall schools may then be plac charge of Dr. Cushing, the the Hillhouse high school.

WALTHAM, MASS.-Miss bury has been elected to te English in the high schoo Helen Ober to have charge mercial branches. Miss Ob ate of Smith college. Amon recently elected to position schools are the following: Westcott (grad. Brown univ. M. Hill (grad. Salem normal G. MacDougal (grad. Bridge univ. and Rhode Island norr Miss Grace M. Hamilton Cora A. Crittenden (grad.

mal).

Beals, assistant in the high
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.-
resigned, and Miss Mary
Auburn, Me., has been ele

cessor. Miss Marion Lock

signed her place as teache
languages, and Miss Hen

has been elected her success
WARE, MASS.-Mr. G.W.
bridge, has been elected supe
schools in this town. He is
Harvard (1895), and he has b
of the Stockbridge schools
Before that he
two years.
tendent at Bellows Falls, Vt
GEORGETOWN, MASS.-
Cartwright will go to Walli
as superintendent, at an adv
The town is now to be joine
land and Rowley as a distri
a single superintendent.

CONCORD, N. H.-Prin. H of the high school at Woo has been elected to the high palship here, to succeed Mr. graduate of Dartmouth, an Woonsocket for eight years

a

Vacation School in The Edson vacation schoo about 300 pupils, has just sion with an exhibit which r credit upon Miss Sarah E principal, and her able ass departments of work have ing, in charge of Mrs. M. cane-seating, Messrs. Clare and Solon Mason; and Miss Clotilda A. Delaney. of work shown in the exh baskets, mats, brushes, napki hats, and various other toy girl made an entire child's d made aprons and hemsti while the boys learned can evinced their interest in the over 100 chairs during the t

nineteenth centu- valuable as the study of the history of any modern people. e to cause a great. So he has taken all the salient points in the relations of the ection he says that Jews to surrounding peoples and set them in a series of short been accompanied lessons suited for a single day's task. In many places he has of Jesus. These in- introduced the actual language of the Bible itself. The ce, and the law of general style is calculated to interest, and while the work e applied to present seems a little out of proportion, giving too large an amount of The Baker & Taylor time to minor details, its use in schools will bring a better acquaintance with the Old Testament. Jewish history really deserves a first place. (Edward Arnold, London; Longmans, Green & Company, New York.)

Trevor Hill, whose met with so favoral conditions in New e employers and a labor organization. ncludes incidents in The action is quick r will be likely to irrespective of the s of New York are ips never before has places, people, and the Horse Show, the ttle Church Aroundle's Sunday parade, Six o'Clock HomeA. Stokes Company,

Shaw, is one of the in recent years. It thrilling account is ton, led on by Cotton Roger Verring, the Spanish Main with herican." Then the hips is now Sir Wil. The story of the bit of romance that storical background. D. Nicholas Verring o the call of duty is t as was ever created. ok consists of lining (Doubleday, Page &

el dealing with the covered by the story trying to fasten his Napoleon does not it pervades the nars a deep historical zed and depicted the g the people. The empt of a general, r of an old, aristo

his wishes thru a continual stumbling o desires the maiden th sentiment is the h adventure in it to th historical matters he life of peer and s sprightly, and the mportant period of are by Frank T. New York.)

Goodyear's Sixty Lessons in Business and Marshall's Tablet System of Bookkeeping and Business Training are two recent publications for public schools and high schools that are awakening great interest. They are being used now in several hundred schools with most gratifying results. After an exhaustive examination by the Kansas State Text-Book Commission in competition with practical systems submitted by the different publishing houses, these publications have just been adopted for the public schools and high schools of Kansas for the next five years.

These systems eombine bookkeeping and business practice, forming a miniature business community of every bookkeeping class. The methods of accounting are simple and practical, making the study of bookkeeping interesting for the pupil and easy for the teacher. The methods of business training introduced in these systems are such as should be known by every high school pupil and by every boy and girl who leaves the eighth grade without entering the high school.

lelland, is a dainty eading near the allthe words of Christ any life are regarded hose that fell from re here treasured up friend-reverently, re treated with the ows close sympathy theme. The typo

most successful re-
features of Europe
Much of the infor-

Carpenter's Geographical Reader is the
cent attempt to present the physical
and the modes of life of the people.
mation was gathered first hand, so that the pages are marked
by an unusual freshness and vividness. The author takes the
reader thru every part of Europe and points out all the most
important places and things, the subjects being chosen both
with due regard to child interest, and at the same time to in-
struction. While it gives adequate attention to the scenic
side of the lands visited, it is also essentially practical in its
discussion of commercial and industrial topics. It devotes
more space to manufactures than to mountains, more to ship-
ping than to scenery and emphasizes the artisan as well as the
artist. The human side of the subject is fully treated, many
of the pictures being chosen especially to show the customs,
costumes, and industries of the people. Twelve colored maps
show every important town, river, and railroad line in Europe.
The illustrations, which are mainly half-tones, are all from
photographs, and many of them have never before been pub-
lished. (American Book Company, New York. Price, $0.70.)

The Rational Speller, words classified upon the basis of simi-
larity of form and sound, and arranged by grades by Supt.
Frank J. Diamond, of Tonawanda, New York. In making this
speller the author sought to avoid the usual errors found in
books containing classified lists of words--the arrangement
of words according to length, subject of thought, or part of
speech; the failure to make an effort to reduce the difficulties
of the subject to its lowest terms; the overlooking of the
rational implications of the subject; the introduction of
schemes of correlation that do not help the spelling and often
stand in the way of a more logical arrangement of the matter.

In making up the lists the author has kept in view the facts that the pupil's attention should constantly be directed to the part of the word that is likely to occasion difficulty; that there should be a judicious selection of words and that every possible aid should be given, by association and otherwise, to the memory; that plan should be adopted which will give the mastery of the greatest number of words with the least amount of effort. The dictionary arrangement of the book enables one familiar with the plan to find any word easily. The words are so arranged that the pupil is enabled to master whole classes of words by the study of a few, while the correct pronunciation of many words that are often mispronounced is shown by their grouping. Work by grades is so divided that the course each year will include a review of all the work of the previous years. (The Macmillan Company,

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