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TEACHING NORTHERN NEGROES HOW TO WORK
IN OHIO, A SECOND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
HAS BEGUN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
ANOTHER .TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX PORTLAND. JULY 19. 190S.
BY W. FRANK M'CLURE.
OHIO. Pennsylvania. Indiana and
Michigan are just waking up to the
fact that the negroes are moving
up North in amazingly large numbers and
that the problem ol their education along
natural training lines can no longer be
confined to the territory south of Mason
and Dixor.'s line.
The statement that there are 400,000 ne
groes In Ohio and 600,000 more In Penn
sylvania aione will be news to roost res
idents of these states. The past decade
has witnessed the greater part of this
Influx and tt Is Increasing in size with
each year
Over 4flno colored people have come into
the capital city of Columbus. O.. wllhfh
Iwo years while In Cleveland, Cincin
nati. Toledo and Dayton they are seg
regating in similar proportions. Even In
places like Akron and Toungstown their
numbers are by no means small. Thosu
who come into the Middle West are said
to be chiefly from North Carolina and
V:rcinia. The majority of them tare
wholly unprepared for the duties which
conlront them upon their arrival.
To educa.0 these newcomers along man
ual training lines best adapted to their
life In the North Is the object of a
"Tuskegee," established at Urbana. O-.
by those who have been studying the
problem presented. This school is re
ceiving Its students chiefly from Ohio.
Pennsylvania. Indiana and Michigan thus
far, but those who desire to come from
other Northern states are Just as wel
come. At present, in fact, 11 states are
represented in the student body.
.
But little has as yet been written about
this Industrial school and Its work, but
It is now beginning to attract wide at
tention, especially since its activities are
about to be Increased and the extent of
the work greatly enlarged, upon a wide
acreage of farm land recently acquired.
For two years now It has been a char
tered Institution. Prior to that. It was
run by the Individual efforts of E. W. B.
Curry, a colored man, now president of
thrt school and wiio has rightly been
styled the "Hooker T. Washington of the
North." Jt Is now known as the Curry
Normal and Industrial Institute. It is
nnnsectarian. On Its board of trustees
are prominent citizens of the territory
in which It Is located, Including two ex
State Representatives.
The "Booker T. Washington of the
North" Is 36 years of age, is the son of
a Baptist preacher and is a graduate of
Ohio Wesleyan. For a time he studied
law. Not only is he well educated, but
be is decidedly' practical. Also his life
has been one of self-sacrifice for his race.
With him are 12 teachers, who are also
earnest and consecrated to the work this
school is doing. Professor G. F. Rtch
ings, the school's traveling representa
tive, was connected with Tuckegee as a
lecturer for somo time and for 25 years
haaebeen interested In negro education.
Like Booker T. Washington, Mr. Curry
feels that the hope of the colored people
In the North, as In the South, lies in
their Industrial and moral training. It
Is the purpose of this school to demon
strate the value of the negro to the
country and humanity through a process
of Christian, Intellectual, moral and in
dustrial education. The Curry school
makes no pretensions toward being a col
lege. It Is true that the public schools of
the North open their doors to negroes
In all the classes, of literary training.
At the same time, however, it is
claimed, that natural prejudice closes
nearly every door where the negro
might use this literary training. Mer
chants do not hire colored salesladies.
Pianst of Dobson", by Cecily Hamilton.
SI. so. The Century Company, New York
City.
She surely is Irish, Is Delia Massingberd.
a London shopgirl, who is a revolutionist.
She Is the central figure in aa enjoyable a
romance-comedy as we have had for a
long time. The story has already been
dramatized In London where It has oeen
received with flattering success, and now
It Is announced that "Diana of Dobson's"
will be seen in a New Tork theater this
Fall. It deserves all the good things one
can say of It
Diana came ot the class that "breeds
revolutionists the class that knowing It
self gentle by birth and education finds
Itself lacking In the means to maintain
the one and gratify the other and realises,
as perhaps no other class can do, the
sheer, brute power of money."
"I sometimes feel I feel tonight" Di
ana says "as if I would give my immor
tal soul to live, just live for a week."-
Diana was the daughter of an Irish
physician who at his deatb left her only
his blessing and his debts. When we first
make Diana's acquaintance, she is 3S
years old and a "saleslady" In the hosiery
department of Dobson's departmental
store, where she Is paid the magnificent
wages of S65 per year, for 14 hours' work
every day. She was supposed to keep
the 127 rules which Dobson's managers
had evolved for the government of clerks,
and she is so perverse and tired of the
Industrial struggle that lie wishes she
could break each of these 127 rules, in
turn.
One evening, a letter Is handed Diana
from a lawyer stating that she had inher
ited through the legacy of a distant cou
sin, the sum of J1V0. to spend as she
liked. "Whoop-ee!" says Diana. She
had long hated the head duenna and chief
-scratch-cat of the store, a Miss Prlngle.
and says: "I should like to smother her
and dance on her corpse." On the par
ticular evening referred to, Diana Is so
elated over her good fortune that she
breaks one rule by falling to extinguish
the gas In her room at 11 P. M. In walks
Duenna Prlngle. .
"MIm MMilnirberd." raid ttie (lueses. "th
first thin In the morning I shall make It
my builneps to Infmm Mr. Pehsen "
"D n ilr. Dubson." said Diana, heart
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puMic'rhlsdoVm
teachers in mixed schools. ThereforeUducate thl coiored opleVo'Je
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Then while the girls sat stiff and Miss
Prlngle reeled, she strode across the room
and turned the gas up higher.
"And the same remar4" she added, ap
plies to yourself. Good night."
Now, as previously remarked. Diana was
Irish, and Instead of wisely Investing the
J1500 so that it could return her two or
three per cent, she determines to be a
"born lady" for one month and plans to
go to Parts, dress like a fashion plate and
live on the best. She has the fun Paris
gowns, a trip to Switzerland, and meets
two .lovers one Sir Jabez Grlnlay a for
mer employer of hers but he doesn't know
it and Captain Victor Bretherton. a born
aristocrat, a lord's son. Diana's sharp
tongue is often in evidence. Once in dis
cussing business with Sir Jabez. he tells
her:
In every healthy state of society ths
weakest goes to the wall, because the wall
Is his proper place. If a mm can't keep
his head above water he must go under;
If he doesn't know how to rule he must
serve; If he can't rsise himself out of the
ruck. In the ruck he's got to stev. irg
no good whining about it, that's life. And
It's Just that which makes success all the
more worth winning, the knowledge thst
you've fought your way step by step, inch
by Inch, from the bottom ot the Udder to
the top.
Diana finds that her supply of "fun"
money Is running low and Just as she tg
about to flee from the hotel and return to
the weary grind of shop life at London
Captain Bretherton says that he loves her.
To test his sincerity, she confesses that
she is not a rich woman traveling for
pleasure but a London shop-girl on a va
cation. The captain's love weakens. In
stantly, Diana's Irish blood boils and
she reproaches him for never having
earned a penny for being a lounger and
spendthrift. "Tou'd go to the wall in
six months If you tried to make a living,"
she sneers..
The scene changes to London, and sev
eral months pass. A ragged man and a
shabby-genteel woman meet by chance
one morning, along with other unfortu
nates, on a bench along the Thames em
bankment. The man was Bretherton.
who for the first tlma la his life was
really trying to earn his own living, and
tha woman Diana. Both had nearly
starved in the struggle.
"Diana," said Bretherton, '1 remember !
if
V
telling you once that my income was a
miserable pittance, hsrdly enough for me
to live upon. I've found out my mlstako
since then. It's not only enough for one
to live upon; it's enough for two."
- Then Bretherton heard something be
tween a laugh and a sob. and her hand
came out of her pocket and lay in his.
"It will be the blind leading the hllnd.
then and the end of that is the ditcn,"
said the Plana.
"Never mind." he" encoursged her; "even
the ditch Is better than the embankment
In November."
And so. In the wfnd of the morning,
they began life together. The world had
peed of neither of them, but they had need
of each other.
Miss Cecily Hamilton, the author of
Diana of Dobson s." is a Londoner by
blrth. It is related that her mother was
an Irish woman, and her father an Eng
lishman of Lowland Scotch descent, who
commanded a Highland regiment. Some
of Miss Hamilton's earlier years were
spent in Irish barracks. At her father's
death, which came Just as she finished
school. Miss Hamilton went to London
and has busied herself acting and writing.
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Of the one dozen volumes of this stu
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sometimes sold today as evidences of
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It had better be explained. In fairness,
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Now, on the structue of the older en
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Henry King Carroll. LL. D.. correspond
ing secretary of the Methodist Missionary
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professor of common law in tha Catholic
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D. D., president of St. Joseph's Sem
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Generally, volume one Insures respect
for up-to-date reading matter con
veniently arranged, and accessible, typo
graphical appearance, binding, etc. It has
a library-like look about it. "The Synods
of Aachen" begins the first page and
one of the most informing articles taken
as a specimen, and remarkable for its
condensation, is an account of the his
tory and literature of Armenia and the
Armenian Church. The concluding article
In the volume describes the Basilian
monks.
Good Citizenship, by the late Grover Cleve
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It is one of the great regrets of my
life that twice I had an opportunity
to hear Grover Cleveland speak in
public and that my excuse then was:
"I'm busy now; wait until another
time." It's only the other day that he
died, to the great regret of all of us
who were the sincere - admirers of
this misunderstood, patriotic American
statesman.
This little volume of 78 pages is a
comforting memento of the man and
the orator, giving, as It does, two of
his well-known public address: "Good
Citizenship," delivered before the
Commercial Club of Chicago, III., in
October, 190S, and "Patriotism and
Holiday Observance," delivered before
the Union League Club of the same
city on Washington's birthday last year.
These two addresses are marked
with that sagacious utterance and that
dignity and sanity so noticeabla In
most of the thoughts that Cleveland
has left us. He was not a prolific
writer or one who dashed off a col
umn while the printer's boy waited, so
what he left ought to be treasured ac
cordingly. His crisp, old-fashioned
English is a. joy to the student.
Mr. Cleveland was quick to recog
nize the self-complacency with which
we used to regard our National des
tiny, and on page It this thought Is
commented on: "Thus many good and
honest men are approached through
their patriotic trust in our free in
stitutions and immense National re
sources, and are insidiously led to a
condition of mind which will not per
mit them to harbor the uncomfortable,
thought that any omission on their
part can check American progress or
endanger our country's continued de
velopment. .... I Indulge In no
mere figure of speech when I say that
our Nation, the immortal spirit of our
domain, lives in us, in our hearts and
minds and consciences. There it must
find Its nutriment or die."
The last Dncheag of Belsarde), by Holly
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If you are a woman or a girl and enjoy
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of a pure love that was steadfast even
to the very gate of death.
Trimousette. true woman that she is.
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Trimousette, afterward Duchess of Bel
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retold, from Jonathan Swift, by James
Baldwin. 35 oents. American Book Com
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Have you not read of tha Liliputian
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naglan baby who cried to have Gul
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IN LIBRARY ASD "WORKSHOP
Frederic 6. Itham. author of "The Lady
of the Mount," la on a tour of the world.
At present he ts In Moscow, making ready
for the journey aoross Siberia.
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The newest novel' by May Sinclair. "Kit
ty Tallleur." has Just been issued In Lon
don, but thus far its publication In this
country la unannounced.
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In Professor Remark's "The .Sayings of
Jesus," recently published, the attempt is
made to deterenine ' exactly the source
of . Bt. Mathew and Ht. Luke and to
estimate its value both In itself and rela
tively te the Gospel of St. Luke.
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A London firm Is publishing the "Me
moirs of London in the 'Forties." by the
late Professor I?avid Masson. It contains
a paper on Carlyie. which caused a great
amount of attention on Its appearance re
cently In 'Blackwood's Magazine."
The Fall book season Is te bring forth
a remlnlscential volume by W. Telgnmouth
Shere upon "Charles Dickens and Hie cir
cle." It will presumably be published si
multaneously In England and America.
It appears that Oulda, at the time of her
death, had practically completed a new
novels and that the greater part of It was
then In type awaiting her final corrections.
Its title Is not yet announced, but it will
be published this Fall by Macmlllan.
- la Joha R. Speara "The Story of the
New England Wlialers," eome of the most
romantic and adventurous characters in
American history are dealt with In this
book, in which Mr. Ppears tells the story
SHI LB " " wwtug inuuairj. tX9 J
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partment for the training of nurses,
T ZTjAl
gives us the life stories of the men who
made New Bedford. Nantucket and Marble
head, Mass the men to whom more than
to any others was due the upbuilding of
the American merchant aervice in the early
days or the Republic.
"Joan of Garloch." bv Albert Kinross,
takes Its readers well over the world
from South Africa to England, then to
France, Italy. Russia and back to England.
Mr. Kinross will be remembered as the au
thor of that clever story, "Davenant."
David Balasco's and David Warfield'a
great dramatic success. "The Grand Army
Man." has been put in novel form by
Harvey J. O'HIggins, who has done his best
work on tho recasting: and the Century
Company will publish the book next month.
. . .
"Alaska, the Great . Country," by Ella
Hlgginson, Is neither a guide-book nor a
history, though It might serve either pur
pose better than some more pretentious
works, but rather an unconventional and
picturesque description of the country and
life of Its people.
There has been much speculstion as to
the authorship of that detective story,
'The Four-Pools Mjstery." published
anonymously last March. Now it is told,
on the authority of the publishers, that the
author is Miss Jean Webster, who wrote
"When Patty Went to College."
Two new "thought" books recently pub
lished are being translated Into German
and will shortly he published In Germany:
ur. yj. a. maraens livery Alan a King."
or Might in Mind Mastery, and Dr. Shel
don Leavitt's "Paths to the Heights." a
book based on practical experience in heal
ing without the use of drugs."
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Sir Charles Santley's recently published
book. "The Art of Singing and Vocal Decla
mation," has met with an Immediate wel
come from musicians. Sir Charles is known
to be a great teacher, an original thinker,
aa well as one of the greatest living sing
ers, and his book is full of invaluable coun
sel for the student of the art he has prac
ticed so successfully.
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"Angel. Esquire" is the rather striking
title of a new mystery atory by an English
man, Edgar Wallace, who has been a sol
dier, and later a oewipar correspondent.
His ingenious tale has to do with the ad
ventures of an inexperienced but plucky
girl who has to contend with three un
scrupulous criminals for the possession of
jnllllons strangely bequeathed to one of the
four.
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"India; Its Life and Thought." by Rev.
John p. Jones. D. T., reflects the author's
observation and experience in the course
of the past 80 years, during which he has
been a missionary In India. It is written
from thV point of view of a sympathetic
observer and student of Indian life, and
shows remarkable Insight into the problems
and tendencies of the present day in that
country. ,
About the end of this month, there will
be Issued an untechnlcai account of the rise
and progress of Mology, entitled "biology
and Its Makers" by Professor William A.
Locy. of Northwestern Vniversity. The
work is written around the lives of the
great leaders In this field, and Includes
some 120 illustrations, many of them rare
portraits of the founders of the science ot
biology.
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Mrs. Ketherlne Tynan hae contributed to
a series of books intended mainly for Roman
Catholic children, a new life at Father
Mathew, whose crusade for total abstin
ence was one of Ireland's most beneflclent
movements. Father Mathew was a delight
ful Irishman, who understood the art of
charity so perfectly that "he would rather
be Imposed upon 10 times than that the
twentieth deserving one should go away
unhelped."
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In "The Diva's Ruby" Mr. Crawford com
pletes the trilogy begun with "Fair Mar
garet" and continued with "The Prima
Donna" The three books tell the whole
story of Margaret Donne, tho English girl,
who becomes known to fame as a great
singer under the name of Margarita de
Cordova. The two preceding books in the
series have been the most popular of Mr.
Crawford's later works, and the present one
is perhaps the most dramatic of them all.
Count Tolstoy, while desiring to hold
aloof from responsibility for the -celebration
of his SOth birthday, August 28,' is not dis
pleased at the idea of an appreciative and
sympathetic recognition of his labors The
committee of the Tolstoy fund will proceed
to carry out the scheme. They propose
to xtrfioaxe an address of congratulation, j
As cooks and In housekeping occupa
tions the people of this race are in
demand by the thousands. Therefore
domestic science and systematic house
keeping Is being taught.
As cement pavers, coiored men have
attained a great degree of skill and
have been very successful. Also in
shoemaklng and harness making they
are skillful and make good wages. :
These branches are being taught and
emphasis Is also being placed upon
farming pursuits. Carpentry and .
blacksmithlng, dressmaking and milli
nery, laundry work, English, literary,
music and normal departments are also
maintained. A Bible school Is still
another" feature of the school's work.
In connection with the training of
nurses, lectures are given by able phy
sioians. e
At present this industrial and nor
mal school occupies a brick building
right In the town of Urbana. To ac
commodate those in attendance at the
school outside cottages have hid to
be rented, the dormitory room at the
school not being sufficient. On ac
count of the lack of room 40 applicants
were last year turned away. This
town property Is now to be sold and
new building are to be built at tne
farm and the number of buildings will
be increased as rapidly as money is
raised for the work. The first build
ings will be completed this Fall.
At present a goodly number of stu
dents are at work upon this farm,
where they are accomplishing much
useful work in addition to the train
ing which they are gaining. Tho farm
comprises 75 acres of good farm land,
and is four miles south of Urbana on
the Springfield pike. L'ibana. by the
way. is a city of about 8000 Inhabi
tants. Both white and colored citi
zens are much interested In this school
and the work it Is doing, and in its
own city it has many of its ablest sup
porters. The running expenses of
teachers' salaries are entirely met by
colored people.
As heretofore Inferred, the number
of students seeking admission is much
greater than can be accommodated.
There are more -girls than boys asking
admission, and many of these are will
ing to work their way through the
school. Some of them work in private
families outside their study hours. Tha
tuition is but 12 a month and for
board, room, heat and laundry the
charge Is 17.60 a month. There are
nearly a hundred students now at tue
school.
Tt-e school has its prinUng outfit'
and publishes a monthly paper In ad
dition to printing its own programmes
for commencement exercises and otlvr
printing needed. The students do this
work. There is a fair-sized library
and also two pianos, besides the sew
ing machines and equipment for man
ual training work.
Tho latest plan inaugurated at the
Curry school Is the organization of a
boys' movement, which took place on
May 20 of the present year. The ob
ject is stated on a pledge card in
these words: "To develop boyhood
Into noble manhood." The pledge
which Is signed by each member states
that said member believes in the final
triumph of truth, and that earnest ef
fort, noble living and consecration will
elevate the race to which the signer
of the pledge belongs. The member
pledges that he will support and reg
ularly attend the meetings of some
religious organization, that he will
neither make, buy or sell or use as a
beverage any spiritous or malt liquors,
will oppose loafing and idleness, will
be industrious and acquire honorable
means of making a living, improve all
educational opportunities, save earn,
lngs systematically and deposit a part'
of them in some financial institution.
to be signed by all persons who are in
sympathy with Count Tolstoy, and to pub
lish snd distribute as widely as possible
a cheap edition of his writings in English
since this, tt Is understood, would please
him more than anything else.
"Mars: The Abode of Life." by Perclval
Lowell, LL D., director of the Lowell Ob
servatory, is specially Important because,
under the guise of a description of what
we know of the planet Mars, It virtually
breaks ground for a new science, which
Professor Lowell calls Planetology. It la
the discussion of the evolution of a world
as such, Mars being taken as a typical
example. The book will contain the first
complete report of the very successful ob
servations made by Professor Ixiwell last
year, and will be Illustrated by photographs
and drawings made at the Lowell Observa
tory. The Holts find themselves called upon to
reprint at once six books all dealing woth
American economics or history, the books
respectively being the fifth rrlntlng of Hsll's
'Immigration, and Its Effects Upon the
United States;" third printing of the first
volume of Oordy's "A Political History of
tho United States": and the second of the
second volume, which brings the subject
down to 1S28; the ninth printing of "An
Introduction to Economics," by Professor
Henry R. Seager, of Columbia, and the
fourth printing, of toth Doyle's "Virginia.
Maryland and the Carnlinas." and the two
volumes of his "Puritan Colonies."
I It Is known that elephants live to a great
I old age. This being the case, it is not sur
prising to learn that "Her Ladyship's Ele
phant," which Is only a 10-year-old tale.
Is In a flourishing condition, and ia being
sent to the printers for the 19th time.
As may be remembered, this story was
written by the late David Dwlght Wells,
who was practically in charge of our Em
bassy in London for a short period, during
the stirring daj-s of Cleveland's Venezuela
message. It gives an amusing glimpse into
the perplexities of an American Consul who
had to take an elephant to aid a "busted"
compatriot.
Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, of Fairfield.
Conn., Is not only a literary woman but
she Is a faithful rlend of all our brethren
of the air. the pretty feathered things
called birds, shot at by misguided people
In the name of "sport." She writes under
the pen name of "Barbara," and cne of
her new books this season Is "Tales of the
Months." which is being well spoken of.
Since Its organization In 1S98, Mrs. Wright
has been president of the Audubon Society
of Connecticut, and ahc is a memcer of the
Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames. New
York Zoological Society, and American Orni
thologists' Union. Her better known books
are: "The Garden of a Commuter's Wife."
"The Woman Errant," "At the Sign of the
Fox." '"The Garden, You and I," and "Grey
Lady and the Birds."
Puget Sound Historical Series No. 2. be-,
lng "Reminiscences of Seattle, Washington
Territory, and the IT. S. sloop-of-war .De
catur during the Indian War ef 1855-56."
and written by the late T. 6. Phelps. Rear
Admiral. U. S. Navy, has been issued from
the press of the Allee Harrlman Company.
Seattle, Wash. The sketch, price 80 cents.
Is reprinted from the first series of United
Service Magazine, and is edited by Mrs.
Alice Harrlman. It tells of m&ssacres. fights
between the early pioneers of Seattle and
Indians, and the general making of history
of a troublesome time. The descriptive
style is modest, and the pamphlet deserves
a place among pioneer literature of the Pa
cific. Coast.
e
Children will be interested In "The Won
derful Houte That Jack Has," a new book
by C N- Millard, supervisor of grammar
grades, Buffalo, N. Y., public schools. The
author's aim has been to present the gen
erally recognized Important facts about the
rare and building of the body in a way to
Interest and Impress children sufficiently to
help In forming daily habits most likely to
Insure future health and usefulness. The
child is familiarised with the offices of
food, air and water In body building, and
he is also Impressed with the fact that
health and strength are not due to luck,
but to the wise use of these common
things. Throughout the book much use Is
made of the fact that more fun, better
looks and Increased power to do generally
aceompaany good health. Technical terms
and physiological facts are omitted unless
a knowledge of them Is necessary to im
press the Importance of establishing correct
bodily habits. Questions that will induce
intelligent word study snd stimulate full
topical recitations are arranged In the hack
part of the book. The work Is adapted to
the fifth and sixth school years,