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Show ADDRESS IS ISSUED 10 COUNTY TEACHERS Caiity Biperiatoadeil smith Writes an Open Letter to His Helpers. County Superintendent Rmith han addressed ad-dressed an open letter to the teachers of Rait Tjike county, who are under his jurisdiction. In which he dlecnssea entertainingly enter-tainingly the problemx which confront the instructors of youthful minds Requisites for Success. Mr Smith says thnt the prime requisite for SUOSSMBl on the part of the tescher. after a due amount of scholarship, scholar-ship, are Interest In the work, an atndlng faith In childhood, an Inexhaustible fondness fond-ness for teaching, a never-falling supply Off good iense, and genial manners, devoid Off affectation and sham The importance of discipline also Is discussed at some length. Hejrardlnic reading) by sight. Mr Smith quotea an efficient educator of earlier days, who nays Quotos From Educator. I in not like the work. a It appears neees-sar neees-sar under modern methods to do It- Fifty-three Fifty-three pupils from five to nlno years ar enrolled en-rolled Half of them at ths end of thirteen nvnthi' sch line do not kn-. at lshl th.' Is,' In.'. of etc. when nx-ii with other wom lo not know one. fourth of the alphabet (some of them r.ot over four lttfrs. cannot spell 'cat and such slmpl words, and have no sense whatever of applied nflimlSS. yet I am 'ip"ted ., trsrh them to read with shoe per. Prf. rstrl card hoard, needlen and bright yarn, broom splints, tooth picks, bite of bright c.l-ored c.l-ored papers and the appliances meant only fee klndergartrers Judge for yourself how It wuM U- fen t(-lay t.. lay aside an ability to read for the memory of what you could learn between li and nine In spending your time in working gay yarns through holes already al-ready mid, and In building pictures of dogs, iwbleh word you could not spell) In cutting papers, etc Every average child should J able to read readily In th third reader at th end of thirteen thir-teen months' schooling All average minded old-ttme children four family of six among them) did that, and I know children are tus bright today as th- n He fltats In the Union doss mors for Its children than t'tah. and yet as It was In A 's. and was at 8 's, and waa at 0 the pupils cannot read or spell be cause their tlm has been taken for ologles and Isms long before th time for such things and for kindergarten exercises long after they had pa!-! kindergarten age. In adopting too ii,u-h of the nw we have not held fast that which aa g'--1 of ih" ..Id Half of my pupils are from humble h..n.i and will leave school without being able to rend In th third reader. Discontinue Fixed I-cssone. In thle matter. Mr. Smith sas he bSs lleves It would be a good Idea to rtla-OOntlnue rtla-OOntlnue the reading of fixed li son and et i-iti-s, nnd have puplU read from a variety of book |