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Show A Change of Toxt Books. My oldest child 13 just 18, and my youngest has recently passed the fourth anniversary cf hiB birth. It is reasonably certain that no radical changes have taken place ia tUo earth's surface during the fourteen yer.ro which span the eight natal cpSc.'.cj already referred to. But I think tl:::t iu lhat interval every child I possess bus needed a new geography during the contLnur.nco of ccch scholastic year. And I am badly convinced that each geography is an "improvement" upon its discarded predecessor. Tho domestio pilo of text books seems to accumulate, and yet they are apparently useless. I am presented at the beginning of each school year with the same formidable list of books that are imperatively needed m this constantly con-stantly advancing scienco of geography. I am naturally a meek and uncomplaining uncomplain-ing man, and I have no doubt that 1 should excite in my own offspring a feeling feel-ing of pitying contempt if 1 attempted to bound" the state after tho exploded methods of ti-o "old sclicol," but I some-times some-times wonder in "civ artless Japanese fashion" why it is that whenever tho ficklo Mississippi river changes its mind, a Mr. Stanley discovers new rivulot in Central Africa, it is necessary to issue- a new soventy-tivo cent-ut-laS to accommodate accommo-date the fact. John Snyder ln Globe-Democrat. |