TRAINING BOYS' MINDS.
EXPERIMENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR
ETHICAL CULTURE.
JTeUx Adler'a Plan of Teaching Children
, to Think. Observe and Clearly Expreaa
XhemselTea A Unique School atnd Its
; Methods of Instruction.
The workingman's school is especially
Intended to serve the needs of the chil
dren of the poor. Little ones from the
tenement house districts are admitted to
its free kindergarten at 3 years of age.
They go from the kindergarten at 6 into
the school proper, which carries ont
JTroebel's creative method on a higher
plane and with a greater minuteness of
detail. The pnpils continue m the school
until their fourteenth year. Thereafter
the instruction is to lie continued in a
. series of evening classes. Felix Adler,
the earnest ethical preacher, is its origin
ator. The school is carried on in accord
ance (with the principles which form the
basis of his philosophy, which teaches
its followers "to do right for right's
sake" without expecting a reward.
The school building is so spacious,
well lighted and cheerful, and the teach
ing so intelligent, progressive and inter
esting that the children of the rich might
envy the advantages offered to the off
spring of the poor. Here is a glimpse of
the way they teach: The room happened
into is the one in which natural his
tory is taught. Perhaps it is the big
windows and high ceilings that have
much to do with the brightness of the
room, or it may be the cheerful faces of
the forty busy children that gives the
place an exceedingly attractive air.
Each child has a wasp on his desk be
sides his pencil and notebook. All are
alertly attentive and actively interested.
The subject under discussion is the pa
per making wasp, and each eager young
ster is trying to find out as much as ever
he can from actual investigation. The
teacher is firing their enthusiasm by
adroit questions that provoke inquiry
and stimulate curiosity.
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION.
He has sketched an enlarged head of
a wasp on the blackboard. He has told '
them but in such a wisely suggestive
way that they think they have found it
out themselves that "the paper mak
ing wasp has three simple eyes and one
compound eye, and that in the com
pound eye are 3.000 little microscopic
eyes."' The teacher says as he dismisses
the subject of the wasp's eyes, "Perhaps
next lesson you may find out what the
wasp does with its simple and compound
eyes."" The class looked as if they were
sure they would.
3 - 'Now," he continued, "we have learn
ed certain things about this wasp this
morning, let us write about it What
shall we name the story?" he queried.
"The Story of the Paper Making Wasp,'"
piped out a small boy in answer. The
title was thus written on tli blackboard
in the notebooks, "Who has any
" ;41iing to say about it?" was the next
question. Everybody evidently from
the number of hands eagerly upraised.
One boy was asked what be bad to say.
I "He responded with alacrity. "It's body j
ain't so very long." "That does hot
-count for anything," answered the
teacher with quick directllfssa. "Can't
- -you measuref The boy was intelligent
enough to understand how vague and
jneaningless his answer was; so were his
" -classmates who were aching to tell: but
the first boy measured his wasp, and
gave an accurate and clearly expressed
answer. By dint of lively, keenly dis
criminating questioning a story was
- written about the wasp, which read as
follows:
'The paper making wasp is about one
half an inch in length. Its body is made
up of rings. The wasp has three di
visions to its body the head, thorax
and abdomen. The wasp has a small
joint which keeps the thorax and abdo
men together. Its body is full of hair.''
AIM OF THE FOUNDER.
As many of the pupils come from the
tenement hotise districts they have had
no opportunity to get impressions of na
ture, and are unfamiliar with many
simple things that a country bred child
imbibes with his breath. This need has
been provided for. In the picturesque
little village of Sherman, in Pennsyl
vania, provisions have been made for a
vacation colony for the school. Thither
almost all the pupils go in charge of the
principal, and spend the summer months
in the woods and among the hills, gain
ing health while they are storing away
knowledge to be used in their winter
studies.
The founder of the school has formu
lated a series of workshop lessons, based
on mechanical and free hand drawing.
His aim is to educate the mind first that
it may direct the hand aright. For in
stance, a pupil receives a model of a cone
from which he takes measurements and
then makes a complete working draw
ing. He then goes to the workshop with
Ids drawing, and with tools and proper
- material turns in his lathe a cone accord
ing to his drawing, which is a copy of
the original model in the drawing room.
This plan it is proposed to pursue ac
cording to the age and ability of the pu
pil, from the simplest cons traction of a
triangle to the construction of a steam
engine.
From the workshop where mechanical
drawing is the basis the children go
into the school atelier, where free hand
drawing cultivates the sense of harmony
and beauty. Little children of 6 and 8
model simple forma of leaves, scrolls
and various architectural - forms in clay
They are led upward from a simple
modeling .of a square to the intricate
work of the features of , the human face.
It is hoped that this process will awaken
the art instincts of the masses. America
can produce no great artists, architects
or sculptors until the whole people have
the true art feeling. . .
In all probability there is not another
school like this one in the United States,
and it awakens the keenest interest' in
its friends and sympathizers, who won
der what the outcome of the experiment
"will be. New York Times. -
A Good Many of a Klud.
"Behold mer laugla a recent bride
returned from her wedding trip and
busy establishing herself in her new
home, as an intimate friend came in
upon her, "among my tea balls." 'The
friend fechoed the laugh when she looked
about. From ' chandelier, candelabra
and cornice, on cabinet, easel and lamp,
hung by their slender chains these per
forated globes of silver; they swung
from picture frames, glistened in cur
tain folds, twinkled among the brasses
of the hearth, occupied on all sides un
usual niches, where in a spirit of jest
their embarrassed owner had placed
them.
"I don't know," Bhe said, "what could
have developed this remarkable unan
imity of purpose on the part of my
friends, but when the wedding gifts be
gan to arrive, it simply rained tea balls.
I was delighted with the first, contented
with the second, not so well pleased with
the third, sorry at the fourth, angry at
the fifth, sixth. and seventh, amazed up
to the twelfth, and paralyzed after that.
What, ' dearest girl," she finished
tragically, "am I to do with twenty
three tea balls, by actual count?"
Which points a moral concerning wed
ding gifts. A casual acquaintance, a
man especially, shopping with generous
intentions toward a coming bride, will
be wise to select nothing of which but
one only is needed in a household.
There are so many other things' choice
ought not to be difficult. A piece of
Wedgwood, Doulton or royal Berlin; a
bit of bronze, marble, brass or the French
and Viennese gilt; an etching, a rug, an
artistic screen or pieceof tapestry these
are only the beginning of the list of
things which are prized by the maker of
a home and of which too many can
hardly be possessed. There is an aroma
of taste, too, about wedding gifts that
is too often offended. The more formal
friends should offer articles of adorn
ment and decoration rather than, of pro
nounced utility. Relatives and inti
mates are not so restricted. New York
Times.
Susceptibility to Dlseas.
, Of several persons who have been
equally exposed to chilly weather one
takes a fatal cold, w"hile the others are
wholly unaffected. When scarlet fever
or diphtheria enters a family it is a rare
thing for all the members to be attacked.
The great majority escaped la grippe
during its late prevalence: And the
same is true of epidemics of every kind
and degree.
This difference is mainly due to differ
ence in personal susceptibility, inherited
or acquired. Ttisease invades the body
at points where its life forces are weak
ened. Such a lowering of the vital re
sistance may date back for generations.
This is one reason for the astoun diner
mortality of infants, so immensely be
yond that in the young of some of the
lower animals. Many persons who start
with small power of resistance carry it
through life."' Their only hope is con
stant care and freedom from exposure. "
. But of those .who reach adult age the
greater part may be supposed to have
inherited an average measure of physi
cal souiiuness. Whence their suscepti
bility to disease? It comes from physi
cal transgression, either positive or nega
tive. -
Slftep, for instance, is a fundamental
condition of high health.' Nothing can
make up for a deficiency of it. Lack of
food does not begin to equal lack of
sleep in its power to depress vitality, and
so to render the system liable to any
prevailing disease. Still insufficiency of
food is a great depressant, and may ex
ist where it is least expected, for the
food must be such as to supply the daily
waste of all the tissues brain, nerve,
bone, muscle and fat besides furnish
ing heat forming fuel. Many a person
who sits at a luxurious table is not half
fed. Youth's Companion.
The Dominie Didn't Sing It.
There is a big Baptist church, colored,
out in the northwestern part of the city.
A man standing, at the intersection of
Vermont avenue and T street might hit
it with a stone without overexerting
himself. The pastor of that church is a
good deal of u vocalist, and nothing
pleases his congregation more than, his
excellent renditions of gospel hymns.
There was a meeting in that church one
evening, and everything was moving
along very pleasantly when the pastor
said: "Now, we are going to take up a
collection, and if the amount donated is
satisfactorily large I will sing for you
sing anything you ask for."
The congregation then shelled out its
contribution. It must have been "satis
factorily large," for the pastor stepped
to the front and said: "111 sing now.
What shall it be? Express your prefer
ences." "Annie Booney," said somebody in
one of the rear seats, and the preacher's
wrath was momentarily shrouded in a
burst of laughter.
"I'll 'Annie Rooney you," shouted the
offended shepherd, but the joker had de
parted with . sensible alacrity. Wash
ington Star.
A Sneak Thiers Disgust.
A traveling salesman for a New York
jewelry house left two sample cases in a
railway coach Monday on the way from
Oswego to Syracuse, while he went for
ward to smoke. When he retarned the
cases were gone. A trainman reported
that a passenger heavily loaded with bag
gage left at Phenix. The salesman took
the first train there, and with police aid
found the man in bed at a hotel and re
covered the cases intact. The thief had
opened one case, and finding it contained
only a large Bible concluded he had
robbed a book agent and disgustedly went
to bed without examining the other case,
in which were $525 in cash and $700
worth of jewelry. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Right Rev. Dr. Stanton, Anglican
bishop of northern Queensland, Austra
lia, is a particularly muscular Christian.
During the strike he helped non-union
men to load- a sugar ship, hands being
scarce, while earlier in his episcopate he
horrified one sheepfold of his scattered
flock by walking from the wharf to the
hotel, carrying one end of his trunk while
a black woman carried the other.
The successful merchant is
the one who watches the mar
kets and buysto the best advan
tage. .'
The most prosperous family is
the one that takes advantage of
low prices. -
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- and Fresh Oysters. -
Convenient to the Passenger
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On Second St., near corner of Madison.
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Orange Cider, and the
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SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for
the countyof Wasco.
O. D. Taylor, plaintiff, ts. Thomas J. Freden
burg, E. L. Smith and L. Francisco, defendants.
To Thomas J. Fredenburg, the above named de
fendant. In the name of the state of Oregon you are
hereby commanded to appear and answer the
complaint of the above named plaintiff, filed
against you in the above entitled court and
cause on or before the (irst day of the next regu
lar term of said Circuit court, to-wit: On or be
fore the 9th day of February, 1891, and if you fail
so to appear and answer, lor want thereof the
plaintiff will apply to tne court for the relief
S rayed for in his complaint, that is to. say: for a
ecree foreclosing that certain mortgage, made,
executed and delivered by you, to said plaintiff,
on the oth day of September, 18, upon the
south half and north-west quarter of the north
east quarter, and the north-east quarter of the
north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight in
Township one, north of Range ten, east of the
Willamette Meridion, in Wasco county, Oregon,
and for a sale of said real estate, according to
law ; that the proceeds of such sale be applied
upon the costs and disbursements of this suit,
and upon the costs charges and expenses of such
sale, and upon the note mentioned in said mort
gage, said note being for -KX).uu and bearing
interest from the oth day of September, 1XK8, at
the rate of ten per cent, per annum until paid,
which note is now overdue and unpaid, and a
reasonable attorney's fees of $40.00 as provided
and stipulated in said note, and for judgment
and execution over against the defendant,
Thomas J. Fredenburg for any amount remain
ing unsatisfied after all the proceeds of such sale
properly applicable to plaintiffs demands have
been applied, and also that said defendants and
each of them and all persons claiming by,
through or under them, or either of them, be for
ever barred and foreclosed of all right, title,
claim, lien and equity of redemption and inter
est in said premises, and for such other and
further relief as shall be equitable and just.
By order of Hon. Loyal B. Stearns, one of the
Circuit judges of the Fourth Judicial District in
Oregon, dated December :2Sd, lxuo, this summons
is directed to be served uqon you by publication
Dated December 26, 1 K90.
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Its Objects
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developing our industries, in extending
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