Show manual training the introduction of the tha mechanic arts arta into the B Y academy is a comparatively new ner fei feature fure ana is proving a great success many provo people have but a very imperfect idea of the advantages to be reaped from the adding of practical theoretical instruction iia every century and aimont every decade gives us a new definition for the word education and a new standard a 0 excellence ILU all reaching out toward perfection this culmination of ideals will undoubtedly be reached through the of manual trai training ning it is not in the education cultivation or development of ZUT one pirt part of a human being that br brings in gs the tha best ro re aits sulta nits it is ia when mind heart intellect and body are developed develop cd consistently and harmoniously together we al know people who with fine natural ability are doomed to walk a very narrow track for or want of enough book I ook learning of knowledge to 0 o inake the gift bifia s ot of nature and available they foil fail in life for the want of the definite ideal then there Is the educated failure may mayall all be pardoned ed for the sm sin of calling book learning kearnin 9 lone alone education who witti many fire fine theoress falls fails miserably and contemptibly for want of power to apply those theories to priA practical icid work teachers blame parents blam blamo o nat kattire tire blame society any anything thing and everything but their own system of dev l and their own powers of train lua in this latter case while parents b ame teachers and association aril anything thing but the their own rack of 0 capa capacity cily to understand the needs 0 of their child chil d and thair their slothfulness slothful nesi and in not best irine i to d dj for each one tho exact thing which each one it is wonder wonderful al what the human mind will sometimes sometime reach inspire 01 oilme in obstacles oppa opposed sed to its ita develop development men ts and we wa point ta 0 such men as abe as self made men and almost ome the and 11 hard r desage of their childhood lives as essential to their greata greatness ss no greater human beings mistake was ever made respects like jilce animals trees are ra in some if 1 have a p plants lants and flowers you yon young colt coll of 0 a particularly fine breed hat you expected giedt things thinea of would YOU ever work it starve it beat it and finally turn it out to hunt bunt it il is a livin living in a snow storm certainly not neith neither er wohld you expose your fine fruits and flowers to frost and snow enow to the tha arvinea dryings winds winda or the ravages of animals yet with good opportunities we treat our children inthis in abia manner and expect them to be good citizens oar academy has haa already done much toward and perfecting Derf acting the system ol of education w we e are all proud of it and grateful to those who ate brought about these desir able results but the great design of its founder will not be reached until the manual training idea is app plied in aviary avery depart department deparamo mo nt where it is possible poa aible the class in mechanic arts arta has been established in the academy but bat one emester apmeyer and several hundred dollars worth of elegant furniture has bag been completed and placed edin in the academy for use teh of course coarse does not in elude clade mip mistakes takes evera object made is first drawn acara tely to a scale is in s strict conformity comfor mity milty to principle ei st and the instructions combine the best features of shop work and the regular manua manna I 1 training scho olIt requires the carmoni bara oni oui working together ot of brain and muscle the closest attention m most perfect knowledge of the subject many ot of these articles were ornamented wi carving bass basa relief fret and scroll baroll work there are also some signs in in the most advanced pup Is of origin clity and individuality though it itis is too early in the experiment to expect much of that yet halkine Talk iniz of mistakes perhaps there is nothing that Ahat gives young people a pat last etti estimate mate of their own powers the work that their parents have done for them and th the a amount of brains invested in common affairs as to attempt to dreste create something from om the raw material and especially is this true of their mistakes E J |