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About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1879)
PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1879. Finding Fault With Teachers. The entire human race, among civilized people, are addieted to one pastime—that of finding fault with the teachers ef their children. It seems to be utterly impossible for parents to help it. They enjoy it They practice it continually, and everybody expects' them to do so. Teachers themselves do not look fot anything else. They chaige it in the general account to profit and loss, and do net lose any flesh on account of it, except when they are very new to the business. In fact, no thin- skinned person ever ought to choose the vocation of teacher. One needs to have his cuticle calloused. You go to school, perhaps, and fit yourself for'a teacher. Almost all the young girls we meet now-a-days, who are in the schools, are fitting to be teachers, and sometimes, in thinking it over by ourselves, we wonder where all the children are to come from whom they are to teach. You come out of school with a tolerable good knowledge of the 'ologies; can tell whaB zone Terra del JFuego lies in, and can bound Europe, and perhaps draw a map of Italy, bearing in mind the while that it is shaped like a boot. You can ask for bread and butter in French, ajtd can say thank you in the same language, and you know the meaning of sic transit gloria mundi, and of E plu- Tibu8 unum. You are armed with a diploma tied together with blue rib bon (the cheapest kind of blue ribbon we Jiave observed is generally used), and j erhaps your name went into the local paper at the tail end of a vale dictory poem delivered before the ad miring towns-people I where your school—-where yriti | graduated—was situated. ■. These odght to be credentials enough. \~ So you make up your mind you will take a school in the country, Beginners generally take schools in the country, partly because it is easier * to obtain theip, and partly because they fancy~ that country” schools are not so bad to teach. And the last notion is one of the most erroneeus you can indulge—and we know it from experience. Very likely your school is in a aparsely settled neighborhood. The ncheol-house will 'be set down in a piece of swamp land, or else perched on a hill so stony that not even a rag weed or a mullen stalk can grow there by way of ornament. Country districts always build their school-houses on pieces of land which are good for nothing else. Land in the country is plenty, but it is not worth while to waste it by using the best of it as sites for school houses ! Of course not! Children can study just as well in one place as another. Don’t make any differ ence to them. And as for trees, good gracious! what good will trees do anybody who is getting a geography lesson, or ciphering in the rule of three ? say the old folks, entirely ignorant of the fact that the rule of three is a myth, which the modem arithmeticians leave out, or call by some other name. The school-house is put as near the • center of the district as possible, and by thus locating it, very likely the nearest house will be half a mile off, and if you do not “ board round,” you will have half a mile to walk after your dinner of beef and potatoes, and ' rye bread. The school-house, if it be in New England, will be painted red. If it be west, it will be soma shade of yellow; if it be south, there will be no paint at all, and perhaps no school house either. Red, with white trimmings. Do you know why? Red is the moat economical color. It ia cheap, in the first place, and stands well, the know ing ones tell us; and if there is any thing abominable, and a blot on the /airest landscape, it is a building of a snow ball on it ? You are stuck draws the same contrast in Horatio people do not have the habit of writ any'kind painted red. ing and communication. There is, You paint! Your nose is and Hamlet. When you get there you will see up! The culture of to-day is often only for instance, no newspaper mail at all that the clapboards have strayed off horrid ! How you do primp up and another name for refined selfishness. as compared with ours. There are n© some where, ar a good many of them, stick on the gewgaws 1 They say Men seek it as an end instead of a large business establishments Hooding and what remains are covered with that dreadful Charley Jtffflss is partial means, not perceiving that in spend it'whole continent or the world with to you, and he as good as engaged to cabalistic initials, cut out in “ trying” ing all their years on the perfection circulars. In fact the circular is not another girl ! a new jack-knife or scratched with of the telescope they are never able to known here in our sense. Finally, of And you may consider yourself for the point of a nail. How eager the children will be to tunate if at the end of your school watch the courses of the stars. It has the quarter of e million people here, see the new achoolmarm ! The entire there is enough of your character left its dialect and its watchwords, and there are vast numbers who never force in the district will be out the to get out of town with, and all this becomes the test of social position send or receive a letter. I doubt if first day; no matter how they may time you have been trying your best and the sign of a man’s cosmopolitan the amount of business to this office training, instead of being the free and is one-tenth that of ours. As an illus play the truant afterward, they will to please everybody. If you are sensitive you will give vital medium by which he brings tration of the different habits of the all be there on that first day. They will take your measure in the up teaching; if yeu are not you will himself into closest contact with life, people, among the wealth of rooms in first ten minutes. They will appraise go on, and in a year or two will be to meet its requirements and dis the building (and there are so many your dress and your brooch, and your iron-clad, and you will keep school to charge its duties. When culture be that they seemed at a loss sometimes rings and the lace around your neck, please yourself, and then you are sure comes merely a matter of fashion and I think to know how to label them) and they will decide as to whether of pleasing one person in the world.— taste it becomes also a disease. Taste there is one set apart for the public and refinement elevated into ends un and common use of any one who your hair curls naturally, or is put up A. Y. Weekly. fit one for the active work of life, dis wants to write nis letters or address on hair-pins, and they know very The Melancholy of the Age. gust one with the slow and imperfect them, or do anything of the kind at soon if you or they are to be boss steps by which humanity rises to bet the office. This room all brilliant (pardon the word), and they are not In the profoundest-sense there can ter things, and en 1 in ennui and dis w.th painting, had in it four small slow to act upon the knowledge. ' be no such thing as over-education. appointment. tables, ink, pens, blotters, etc., two By the time you have kept school a Our faculties are framed for a con The men who are most frequently seats to each table, and fyas, in fact, a week everybody in the district has tinuous arid eternal developmeut, and cited as victims of the melancholy of charming little retreat. Just one seat said their say of you. Opinions differ. our life here and hereafter is a, j>er- You have scolded at Mrs. A------’s petual unfolding of that which is al the age strikingly illustrate this was occupied. Jn Philadelphia or children, and pulled their ears, and ways growing wider and yet never truth. Who that reads Matthew Ar New York or Boston one hundred stood them out in the floor. No striking its limits, and always grow nold, for instance, does not feel that chairs would be kept pretty well fill parent is willing to have her darling’s ing deeper and yet never finding its although, even in his prq^p, he has ed. Even in so purely democratic a ears pulled. She cannot speak well depth. Education is not only the charmed language into a surrender of its rarest felicities, he has severed matter as postoffice accommodation, of the person who does it. She says natural and healthy occupation of a himself from that vital current which both for people at large and the men you are a cruel, savage woman, and man’s life, it is his work and his re flows in the veins of Shakespeare ’ s whe serve them, we have something no more fit to have control over ward for eternity. Over-culture can men and women, and makes them to learn from the Monarchy.— Phila- children than a she wolf! And you not, therefore, be the cause of that contemporaries not only of each other dslphia Press, Roman Letter. shook poar little Bennie! and left melancholy which is hardly less char but of ourselves, and which keeps the marks on Thaddy’s ears that staid all acteristic of this age than its frivolity; All the Gold. night! and made Sarah Jane stand indeed, tho two are symptomatic of " Pilgrim’s Progress ” at fresh in human interest to-day as in the year out in the floor for half an hour, for the same disease. A cubic inch of.gold is worth $210 when it was penned in Bedford jail ? all those great big Jackson boys to — a cubic foot, $362,880; a cubic The difficulty lies not in the* scope Knowledge must be made man’s laugh at! The idea! And she’ll and thoroughness of education, but in I yard, $9,797,762. This valuing it at speak to the committee, or her name I its partial application and its distor- minister aijil servant, not his master ; $18.60 an ounce. At the commence isn’t A— ! And she’ll see if things | tions. Men forget that they are and every unfolding of a man’s mind ment of the Christian era, there was must be matched by some external cant be different ! She wishes they niany.si<je<]) and• that they can only then in the world $427,000,000 in could have a school once where the keep themselves in health and vigor activity in order that he may pre gold. This had diminished to $57,- serve the balance ef his nature. teacher knew what was what! by a training and activity that shall Christian culture adds love'to kAoWN 000,000 at the time America was Mrs. B—’s boy has not been whip unite all their powers in harmonious discovered. Then'll begau to increase. ped by the teacher, but a more heart action. It is a perilous thing to edge, and by ever-widening sympathy Now the amount of gold in use is es rending fate has befallen him ! Billy destroy the balance of one's nature, to enriches the life of the world, and so timated to be $6,000,000,000. y Yet marks its own growth by increased Brown has pushed him down and develop the body at the expense of all this welded into one mass would happiness and intelligence hi that torn his trousers, and the .teacher the mind, or the mind at the expense be contained in a cube of twenty-six society which it was meant to serve. never did anything about it. Not of the heart. feet. This, in the case of a man per —Christian Union. she! And Billy Brown said “ by ishing from disease, would not of it Of course knowledge does not al- thunder,’’ right before her, and she ways find immediate and fruitful use, j self avail him bo servtceabty as some Rome’s Palatial POStOfflce. never corrected him 1 little shrub growing by the wayside, and every educated jr.ind holds a The building is a spacious pile ©f which was especially calculated as a The moral part of the community great mass of information upon which are outraged because Sani Prince it never draws in any direct way. confiscated convent property. A con remedial agent in his particular case. brings a pack of cards to school. Much goes simply to lhe enrichment vent in Rome, I should say, means Consumption Cured. Where in the world is the teacher, of the mental soil. Nevertheless it is what we commonly call a monastery. An old physician, retired from practice, that she does not seize ’em and bum certainly true that the connection be You enter it on either side by hand had placed in his hands by an East ’em, and shake Sam Prince in the tween knowledge and action is so in some hallways, possibly fifty feet high naving India missionary the formula of a simple bargain ? True, Prince’s father has timate and peculiar that he who certainly forty, whose sides are adorn vegetable remedy, for the speedy and per cure for consnmption, bronchitis, walloped him off and on for the past weakens or severs it inevitably dis ed by immense panels of oil paintings manent catarrh, asthma, and all throat and Inng ten years without effect, but what do torts his own nature and mars the —emblematic pictures of the genius of affections, also a positive and radical cure nervous debility and all nervous com we hire a teacher for if it isn’t to symmetry of his life. The mind has the railway and the telegraph. Once for plaints, after having tested its wonderfnl make the children behave ? its own laws of assimilation, the oper over the tesselated pavements of these curaaive powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his Johnny Green fell through the ice ation of which is quite as important fine arches you enter a grand interior suffering fellows. Actuated by this mo- and came near getting drowned. Such for a man’s spiritual health as is the court. So magnificent in the provis tivo, and a desire to relieve hnman suffer a teacher ! Smart hand in a school! operation of his digestive powers for ion of the room that this court or pla ing, I will send, free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, with full directions letting scholars go out on rivers and his physical health. The world ia full za is a beautiful square one hundred for preparing and using, in German, break through ice, and come within of mental dyspeptics.to whose diseased and fifty feet in length and breadth, French, or English. Bent by mail by ad dressing with stamp, naming tbie paper. one of being drowned! Nice woman vision everything has become unna lovely with fountains, flowers,statuary W. W. Sherar, 149 Power's Block, Roch grass, plats of grass and with a cover ester. N. Y. to trust children with ! tural and distorted. Nobody remembers that Johnny In the divine order man holds his ed corridor frescoed on ceiling and From all parts of the country reports Green has a periodical habit of break education as a trust, to be used for wall and paved with bright marbles come of the immense sales and increasing demands for that deservingly popular ing through the ice and getting near the benefit of the world in which he stretching all the length of its exter Sewing Machine, The Old and Reliable ly drowned two or three times every lives. If, like Goethe, he makes it ior. Around this court the building “ BT amdabd ,” the price of which the pro prietors wisely reduced to f20 including winter, and that his father is power the servant of his personal aims, how proper rises in three grand stories. all the attachments. and at once seenreed less to keep him away from the river, ever rich and varied the treasure com There are rooms and offices for ev for them a popularity among the people, beyond that ever yet attained by any but a teacher ought to mind what mitted to him may become by his ery conceivable purpose, and those for far other machine at any price, the conse she’s about! efforts, like Goethe he will bear on the accommodation of the public quence of whioh is, agents are leaving the high priced machines, and seeking ter You hear some of the complaints, some part of his nature the stamp of nearly always in duplicate—one for old ritory for the “ S tamdabd .” Knowing perhaps, and, if it is your first school, selfishness, and in some direction, un men and one for women. All these from experience that with the best goods you feel badly and you cry some, and consciously to himself, will miss the rooms are frescoed or painted, and at the lowest price they can outsell all oth er Machines, where the superior quality' you resolve to try to please every very thing for which he sought. The equipped with furniture of massive and low price is made known. This splen body. After that you never please moment a man begins to hoard knowl style and artistic design. So lavish is did Machine combines all the improve ments. Ia-farahead of all others in beau any one, not even yourself. You are edge or to acquire it for his own the embellishment that the corridor ty and durability of its work, ease an man- partial to some one’s children, and pleasure he sows in himself the seeds affords a wall of six hundred feet of 1 agement, and light running, is sensibly made upon sound principles, with posi partiality is the most crying of all of disease which may ripen into continuous pictoral design, much of it tive working parts all sieel, and c*n sufely sins in a teaeher. It is quite equal to melancholy or any other spiritual dis fantastic and quaint, and on the put down as tho very perfeeliot» of a -Ser viceable Shuttle Double Thread Sewing murder among outsiders. We all pay order. Study, thought and action theme either of the railread or tele Machine, in every particular, that* will for a school, say the indignant parents, must all be combined in a healthy graph wire, steam or fire. The build outlast any Machine, and at s price far- down below any other. I* is tbotonghly and one’s child is just as good as life; one fruitful source of unhappi ing has just been opened to the pub warranted for five yearn. Kept in order another’s, and entitled to just as much ness in this age is that they are di lie, and is daily thronged with groups free ef obarge. And sent to any part of the Country for examination by the cus attention! vorced. Taine, contrasting the por of esthetic Italians—which means the tomer before payment of the bill. Wo san The topic on all occasions is the traits of the leaders 'in the Renais lower classes as well as what we call prrdiot equally as huge a demand for them in this section »a others. Families school. What do the people not say sance with those of modern men, the educated—discussing with inter- desiring the boat Machine manufactured about you? ,You are partial; you notes the fact that the former, though estand animation the taste and execu ebonld write direct to the Factory. And enterprising persons wishing to seise the are cross; yriu are too slack; you sometimes hard and cruel, are always tion of the work. Chance should apply for so dnsimablo an To make the contrast fairly with agency. Bee advertisement in another haven,t learning enough ; you had no resolute and determined, while the ef this paper. Address, Standard business to ferule Betsey Baker ! You latter are often characterized by un the dingy discomfort of our Philadel part Machine Co.. Cor. Broadway and Clinton ought to have half killed Jim Cra^e i certainty and indecision. The former phia quarters it must be remarked Place, New York. Why didn’t you trounce that Evans were always actors, the latter are that Rome is a city not one-third as —Diptheria exists in fowls at Marseil boy for bieaking the stove by putting •ften only thinkers. Shakespeare large as Philadelphia, and that the les, France I