Show 0 TEACHER OF STORY TELLING has provided for the employment of a teacher of story tell telling telling ing lag in the public schools It may ma look looka n a good deal like a fad but there is ismore ismore more reason in the new work than in of the old departments that have hae been grafted on the public school Ilc c in past years earS I If the person per n employed for the task cf teaching the art of telling stories be competent for the place much benefit A vilt it Hi result In the first place the man maner cr er woman oman v who can tell the history of oftIe tIe tLe tl a United States in pleasant little to pupils will get more of the filetS farts remembered l than will find lodge ment by any other process To most mosi mO L books are made up of noth 14 ii i mire mure than words words The imaginative mind of the child catches ith difficulty the message of the ther rented r page But it is th the almost uni rule of childhood that they will willi ill i r r all at the essential points in atry a try that is told by a living narrator tt f the narrating be well done Imagine the big things of the nation i tV tto signing of the Declaration the I acting of the constitution and its Lct c fr t the Missouri compromise and andt t Lr f train of evils that followed its re reIl re reIt It Il the tio t lf battles of the civil chill c war and tr fH tonality of the men who took I 1 eminent part in them These are but butr r r g of ot important phases of his y v get but vague i tV tiec mind of the grade pupils and andr andt Sit r t there is not one incapable ble of grasp Tg rg r and retaining them if they were I r lr told Ma Massachusetts sai is wise to note the thee e Involved in the Odyssey ant and the Iliad Those e stories stoles were well told arc and they will never be forgotten Jy y pusses possess the personal quality II There Hl re is the magnetism of a living nar nari i it jr in their passages And if It the for tor fortune tunes tune s of those distant characters can cant t br fixed in the memory by personal telling tell telling telling ing how much more clearly would the history of the nation real rest in hr the tho mem memories ories of pupils when told by an adept in the art of or story telling I i |