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Show Tke Miraculous Movies BY ELBERT HUBBARD. jv other day there was a smart X wedding In a western city. The ceremony was out of doors in a garden under the trees. There was a little procession from the house to the garden; then after a ceremony there was a banquet at a beautiful spot under the spreading elms. After the banquet thorc was a wedding Journey to the slioro of a little lake. Now the particular point was that every feature of this wedding was duly recorded by the untiring movies. One hundred sets of lllms wore prepared pre-pared and presented to as many guests and relatives, some of whom wero unable to attend. And It so happened that I was one of the guests who received a set of Hie movies, r put them in my cam.-cragroph, cam.-cragroph, called In the neighbors, and wo had the wedding all over again, even to tho playing of the music. I have the films. They nre mine to keep, and I can produce this wedding at any lime. Ten years from now it might be very interesting in case there Is a divorce bless my soul, Terose, how terribly sunburned tho back of your neck is! The value of moving pictures as a factor in education Is very great, and the extent to which they can eventually eventu-ally be used no mnn can say. The business Is still evolving, climbing, climb-ing, growing, aviating. From a mere plaything, whose business was to astonish as-tonish and produce "Ob's" and "All's," we now have something the pedagogue prizes. There was u time when children used to run away from school. Finally, wc heard of children running run-ning away and going to the moving mov-ing picturo shows. But now that the movies are being used as an educational ed-ucational adjunct, children are running run-ning away from home and going to school. The Montessorl system of education educa-tion is founded on the proposition that everything that makes an impression im-pression on the senses is educating the child. Impressions on the brain through the souse of sight Is the easiest possible way to' teach. In fart, it is the natural way to teach. There Is a fascination in motion Just note the crowds around any show window where something Is being be-ing done. Children want to go somewhere. They want to see things, and this constant desire for motion, movement, move-ment, new scenery, new Ideas, new sensations, is all a natural pan of the great evolution of the individual. The child learns through his senses, and should learn In joy. The thing that interests him. that holds bis attention, is the thing thut Is educating educat-ing him. . The use of moving pictures 1k being be-ing advocated in a groat number of schools, from the grades up to poet graduate courses. There was a time when a piano In a private home was considered the very height of lux my. Now the most modest cottage contains a serviceable serv-iceable Instrument. I can remember whet) the Remington Reming-ton typewriter was exhibited at Philadelphia Phil-adelphia at the Centennial exhibition. exhibi-tion. Operators were desired, and an advertisement wns plnced In the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia papers for men or women to run these machlnos. A postscript was added to the advertisement thus: "Only those who can play the piano need apply." It was supposed that the degroc of digital skill acquired In playing a piano was requisite In running a typewriter. Also. I remember one worthy teacher of Spencerlan penmanship who offered to race the typewrltor in writing out S000 words. A match was fixed. The day was set. The Spen-oerlan Spen-oerlan ppn-pushor won the prise, the lady at the typewriter having hail a case of nerves in mid-flight. We all said that the typewriter was a v.-!,y wonderful plaything, nnd the way the operator would print your name out on a slip and band It to you made us think we had ai'hlnvcd fume. Wo folded up the precious slip and carried It away to show to tho folks at home, proving to thorn Brother Jasper's dictum that "The world do move.' |