Show THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Promotion by examination alone is out of dateMiss Hyslop insists that she earned her dinner The only thing new at the Eleventh school is a new pupil Please send all notices for this column to D R Augsburg board of education Miss Connells class of little ones call the receding line the runaway line Are you going to the National Educational Educa-tional Association held in Saratoga July nextThe The drawing classes did not meet Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday on account of examinations exami-nations A W Smith and F B Work were coasting the other evening No accidents occurred I Tho night school is to be moved to the I old Fourteenth ward building on First i South street The drawing classes did not meet Wednesday I Wed-nesday and Thursday in order to give the teachers more time I The partition in the Hunter building gave way on Tuesday and necessitated the closing of the school on that day i Our public schools should give to every boy and girl the knowledge of hygiene necessary for the preservation of health I Miss Rowe Fifteenth school and Miss i Sprague Fourteenth school help d to conduct con-duct services at Fort Douglas last Sunday O H Avey is the general secretary of I the Utah Teachers Reading circle Hand i in your name to him and become a member mem-ber The building committee will have the flags and staffs ready for a general flag I raising on Washingtons birthday February Feb-ruary 22 Physical culture is a recognized department depart-ment In nearly all of our best schools It is usually under the direction of a special teacher Misses Kimball Wilkins and Frye and Mr Foster attended the Browning club Monday last which mAt at Mr Holdens on East First South street Waltham Mass pays 1950 per pupil for tuition Chicopee Mass pays 5910 These are the extremes for cities of the size of ours Salt Lake pays 1079 Girls who skate run coast fence swing Indian clubs play out of door games are not those who grow up into pale sick nervous ner-vous women without strength enough to stand upright If lady teachers will coast they must expect ex-pect to walk more on one foot than the other the next day or to show an angry side to the face These are simply necessary neces-sary expenses The flagraising programme on Washing tons birthday will consist of songs recitations recita-tions essays and readings appropriate for the occasion The programme will be one hour in length W A Coney 17th school has become editorinchief of the InterMountain Educator Educa-tor J W Newman 13th school is business busi-ness manager A man of thought a man of action They will succeed I had to be away from school yesterday yester-day said Tommy You must bring an excuse said the teacher Who fromi Your father He aint no good at mak ing excuses ma catches him every time The InterMountain Educator comes to us clad in new garments with a nOv name new editor new ideas new hopes new ambitions It intends to prow It will grow Wo wish it well Heres a dollar for our subscription If the schools of Utah are to be represented repre-sented at the Worlds fair it is time to look a little out if we intend to make a creditable display Our educational display dis-play will be scrutinized more closely than that of any other state There are 12688973 in the elementary and secondary grades in this country These are controlled disciplined and 1 taught by 363935 teachers onethird of which are males and twothirds females 1327822 of the pupils are colored The attendance at the high school is now about one hundred and is steadily increas i j ing This school is rapidly growing in I popularity and when the excellence and thoroughness of the work done there becomes be-comes generally known there will not be room to accommodate those who will seek admission I To encourage economical and industrial habits in children many schools have opened what is called School Savings Banks They have proved a success Much of the money which the child earns or procures is worse than wasted but by this means it is saved and a habit valuable through life is acquired I A hair pin is the most useful implement II I I that a lady teacher has Shejisos it to I button her shoes and glovEsto start the peel of an orange model in clay putty J and sand She uses it as a fork or a pin I and in many other ingenious ways What is perfectly plain to a woman is often an opake mystery to a man The schools are crowded Over crowded There are two sessions per day in some of the schools But the dawn of a new era is seen in the Distance Its cloud now no larger than a mans hand grows larger each day It brightens and grows larger even as we look It will spread throu hall h-all the city until each ward has a schoolhouse school-house that will make us all feel proud and I gled that we had the patience to wait Good things come slow i After all that has been done to bring matters pertaining to the schools before I the public why is there still such a deplorable deplo-rable state of ignorance among patrons as I to the present conditiun of school affairs Can it be possible that parents are so absorbed 1 ab-sorbed in every other interest in life as to be utterly oblivious of the vital interest of educating their own children 1 Day after day the teacher labors on not like the I parent with the child nor the dozon nor the score but too often with nearly a hundred hun-dred children and no parent shows by w rd or visit either appreciation or interest inter-est There is great need of visitation by parents first that they to whom the schools should mean so much may know in I what manner they are conducted second that children and teachers may bo encouraged en-couraged and stimulated to better effort byj this evidence of interest Why need parents I pa-rents still be urged to visit the schools 1 Take this as an earnest urgent invitation and when a visit and a word of encouragement I encourage-ment will do so much to help both pupil and < l teacher give it and give it freely I The 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