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Show THE REVIEW. 4 TAe Review. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Editor and Manager, ANNIE M. BRADLEY, 241 E. South Temple St. SUBSCRIPTION : One Year, - Six Months, Entered at - . $1.00 .50 the Post Office at 8alt Lake City as Second class matter . SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898. Acting on the petition of the Salt Lake Womans Club to the City Council praying that an ordinance be passed prohibiting expectorating in public buildings and conveyances, the Sanitary Committee has recommended that such action be taken by the Council. The ordinance recommended is similar to the one in effect in e Sacramento, Cal., where the is posted in all public places. Attention is called to it by a large red cross on the card, which is the insignia of the hospital corps. The following notice precedes the ordinance, which is signed by the Board ordi-danc- of Health; NOTICE. This ordinance is intended to provide against the spread of contagious diseases, particularly consumption, and in view of this fact must be observed. The ordinance declares that no person shall expectorate on the floor of any street railway car or other public conveyance or public building, or on any sidewalk in the city. For violation of the ordinance a fine of $5 is imposed, with the alternative of five days in the city jail. At the bottom of the notice is the instruction: Please use the cuspidor. The Salt Lake ordinance will affect all paved sidewalks. Probably the greatest problems before the boards of education of today is how best to direct and arrange the school work that it may be of the greatest value to the thousands of children coming within its influence. The best education that it is possible to give to the masses is that which will make industrious, sober and self reliant citizens. A strong organiza tion of the school board is one of the first necessary steps, and of course the school elimating of politics from the board will mark a great advance in the character of our school system. We are so apt to assume that individually we are powerless, and accept isting conditions as beyond our trol, cut it is certain we shirk ex- con- indi- vidual responsibility which we are brave enough to assume would do much towards the elevation of the ideal, and success would soon be at- tained. The State Federation Education Committee made some very excellent suggestions for the various clubs to work along during this year. How many of the Utah clubs are striving for the correlation of the educational forces in their community? We should be glad to know along what lines you are working, and your experience may be suggestive and stim- ulating to other club members. Dull PapilS. The bright active pupils of any school give the members of the board of education but little trouble in the daily round of school work, but when you come to the dull pupils, then you have a knotty problem, one that puzzles the tact and skill of the best teachers, principals, and superintendents, and as a last resort the problem is presented to the board either by the superintendent or by some fond parent who is sure, in fact very positive, that their child is being discriminated against, and they are sure that the teacher is not efficient, and many other things they are sure it never occurs to these individuals that possibly a great deal of all the trouble is right with their own child. What to do with these dull pupils is one of the unsolved problems, and it will always remain a hard problem until someone can convince parents that much of the fault in the is in their own child. Somehow, parents never realize when they are making their complaints that in that same room, under the same teacher, there are from forty- of-Someh- non-advan- ce five to fifty-fiv- e other pupils, about the same conditions surrounding them as around their child. The great majority of them are making rapid strides forward under the same teacher that they are condemning. When some of these things are better known the problem of dull pupils will begin to solve itself and parents will not blame the teacher for holding back an entire room because their child is dull of comprehension, and it is not right that forty or fifty other pupils should be held back because there are some North dull pupils in the room. Western Monthly . The Arena for February. The Arena for February is brilliant Our Party Leaders and the Finances, by Hon. George W. Julian, debates the question from the point of view of the Monetary Commission and the advocates of the gold standard. The reply, The Finances and Our Party Leaders, by the editor of The Arena9 takes the and aggressive. opposite view. Hon. Walter Clark contributes an article on The Revision of the Constitution. James R. Challen, the True Reasons for the Apparent failure of the Bimetallic B. O. Flowers article, Conference. The Corporations Against the People, is one of the ablest contributions. J, M. Fester, a new contributor to The Arena , Secret Societies and the State. Mrs. Fanny D. Notes on the Bergen contributes of a Theological Development Child. Dr. William R. Fisher reviews adversely Camille Flammarions recent article on Psychic Forces. Zoe Anderson Norris, in a sketch entitled, A government Rat, is a keen satire on the distribution of favors in the Department service at The Editors EvenWashington. ing, comprising a study on Delusions about Liberty and Priscilla, a sonnet; also an editorial review of Paul Laurence Dunbars poetry. The Arena Company, Boston. 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