Show Educational Matters lb lldiiii Ml Most of us accept the house Ay as a fact which has little relation to other lads Where It come from in the tptlne or where It goes to In the fall Are e icstlons which are Mldont asked and trill more seldom answered olu we meet wilt a reMonahte degree k of success In keeping them ant of out IIOIUM we are content mil our alien lion II I given to miller which we deem of more practical value If we are led to devote n little time lo really thinking about tiltS the result usually In I ihal we conclude they arc unavoidable evils which we will rave 10 endure beeausc we have no means of exterminating them Mote thought coupled unit in telllgent observation would lead to a modification of thin view Modern rematch ha demonstrated that most of the disease which Illicl in are caused by germs of minute an mils or plant wInd han been taken into our bodies i Ihe I germs may bo nhaled with the Air we brcall or they ma > bo In the lund and water which we use In almost every case the germ det olop and multiply In null especially In flirt mulling from the rapl I decay ol anlma and tegctablc matter It Is i a unlvenull admitted tact that persons writ I comtmmi lie where little attention so given lo clcanllnns are especially I atihjeet in lh ease and cspecll r lhocdlea whirl I are usually ratted contagious I nndeplj 1 lIt IUTrl rfNt rll d demlc This mill which I ito dangerous because of Ito furnishing a breeding place hoc the germ before mentioned lonns the natural food of f lien and ot ruiiite eating It they desir y all uf Its dangerous propertie III thus eating and destroyniK filth wherever they lint it limo act as benefactor of nun It I lleli are especially I I numerous II means that they find a plenlllul supply of food nnd however disagreeable ilievnmv be we may comfort ourselves with the thought that the disease germs tthlcl they are starving to death would do us much more harm that Ihe lien possibly cnn A better plan however thai Imply Indulging I In tint rtllectlon wouk be lo join the II f es In I their self iniposeil dull as scat emers and clean up the prtmlse and thus at one Mroke get rot 1 of the danger of disease and ol the Die It Is I not only in their mature state that file net as our Irlends but they be eta their Lood work HS soon an they are hatched tour the egg j I oaI lay their eggo around liable Single flits some lime lay between one and two hun Ireil iCSS lI In a day lug eg hatch In about non day anu the yom k lly begins ito tile I as a smooth footles round while warm It has a vorauous appetite and by the 1I ahrll in I one day lursftl has become be-come too large for It ta skin which burst and peal oil At the end ol the teconi day it sheds ita skin again Three or four dlYs later lie I little worm begin to contract In length and to auiime a barrel Hike shape Ito skin now become be-come dry and Inn unit I most of the functions of life are suspended N itur alms call this condition Its fat stile It lemilns In this < uescuu state toe about a week lly Ilia time a wonderful wonder-ful change has taken place 1 lie mouth ban undergone a complete transforms lion the digestive system has been changed the bud > has been separated into three welt defined parti und 10KI and wing have been developed and in short a worm Ins been metamorphosed or transformed Into an Insect An a perfect Insect the 1y nuylive lor several r iJ II r weeks undo lew nlwavs manage to live all winter and lay egg In the spring for the next ecneritlon 1 I The student will bo Interested in it doie examination of Hie II although It f has but one pair ofwhi n which are fully developed It has back pair which are rudimentary VIIOUS explanations hive been given of the lly f ability to walk on vertical ollthcd i surlace The truth seems lobe that the hairs whlcl are found on the cushions of In feet are hollow und that through these hollow hair a humid Is allowed 10 o > cipe on to the smooth surface and that this lluld by mean of capillary attraction enable he lly to adhere whatever Its position may be C A U IIIIINI University Utah Teseiciing or ace relic The masUry of a foreign 1 language I never easy hether 1 t the niturai or the analytic method of study II I used there Is I entailed n vast deal of work on the teacher and much cireful study on the I pupil This Is especially the case with a dead language because here hot two reasons the natural method generally Ir onsidered the easier hum the pupil though perhaps not to elliclI o time analytic Is I out of the question tint few teachers are Ilicrmclvcs fluent speakers of the hnguue Its ocaUilvy and grammatical structure do not adapt U for every day conversations such as interest and nmuii the stu Ictus of a living language Hence the trammiti cat method must be made the basis of the woik This II neceuarily the cute with thin 1itln the most general studied of all the deid language The lalln ls a language of Inllecllons I crthing in it depends upon these The mean ng of a sentence may be in ImiifitJ by file position ol lii wordslt mutt be ittrniiinrJ entirely by their form For I example the simple lenience I The boy el love hisilslcr may be expressed ex-pressed with eijual correctness any ol the following lorms Ihitr lotoitm nmal utter amal loiouiit Sonovwi analfufi or 6 IJIIIUIY aunt Slice puce is always In the nomlnitlve and jiaitmn < the accusulitclhe meaning of the sentence cannot be mistaken mid a decided advantage Is allied by placing words that part of the sentence where they will receive their proper emphasis It will be observed Iron this that usoom Hal rule of grammatical structure must be understood belore even limo si npleit sentence on le the roughly mastered This fuel naturally lends to the lollun log general method of tcicl Ing he lout luage a method to whlen In tite ubstrael all teicher must conlorm First the tans of grinimtticil firm and I structure rcilven Including diclcnslan conjugation sntax etc secondly these laos are II lutrated by IIUIIrou Ijilln sentenceii which muit bo turned Into Injllsh I thirdly mlish 1 I sentence are translated 1 into 1itln and lastly to tin mote thoroughly limo knowledge ol the language the stu lent Is required to compose latin sentence of Ills own 1 he liril third and fourth processes will to tarn now appears be pnctlcally the irI i l h N tame with all teachers llut the second Is I most Important because the student Is I preparing lo read Iatimm 1 much more than to write It In this procen many teachers move been led ii mit lo n wooden unnilural way of conducting 1lln I translations a me thod which gives no room for cmliuilasm and Interest 1 but dei ends entirely upon dogged lor determination I and 111 lodding work While I thesa qua llts are express ly essential In the study cf I Latin It must I hun Inilttcd that Ihy are aiilslcd by a properly excited Interest In the mellKK referred to lie I sentence are fcntrally subjected to 1 word by word anal > in first And your suhlrcl then Its modifiers ihe preilicate Ito modifiers the object If there Is I oLe it mod fieri then put these together In the ngllth rule I Is I thinK but viviwciion The emencc die under the ofMralion In every instance 1 ne life which prontrly belnns u every v langu me lor even den1 UigUifr have lite In living moulli r t il 1 cannot pos bly survive tire ordeal ark long belore the pupil determined the reUilans I unrd to wont ha hon n corpse on his hand whlrh hu become more or less thlIIe to hlol14 loathtonicne being u maim i illy proportion prlrlon ala to the d tr fheuhy ol tranlallon llesldes the I lisim I hn formed grow with the proves ot the student and heco ne a necnwry element ol hia stuly of the language He Amis no > pponumi y to break niimeli of Ihe cut Ir ol millet IransUuon He must necessarily read 1 sentence through then go over It again mid again eiidw 1 vuriiiK lu fit ha various pan logethcr plo to goons at their meonlnx and vainly to mluse life mm I If tiuwooer the proper method of ludy Ia I followed Horn the first Iliac is in ron wi y the student Mould not I h < ofiie chic to tindtrsland a IJIIIH sentence sen-tence ol 0 nplexlly ptoturnon to Ills adtait tmenl with one leading The I method leletreil lo is thu c nasally ex I pla ned An1 I illustrated I Ito 1 I renlril Idea Uthr maittryul all t the ixmllileme nlnKsof r nasal word i an It IH I rAt or heard alms Hie surance that very succeedmit word 1 will throw light upon lit predecer > ri > until the mramnc of all ho I delnmmid iL > the 11 last word ol lh lenience lollliMtmte Fake the iimple let fence f > tnini tlImatiHtiH amMuwftr in mount lnMiti ftomtii may b l nominative nrnuu nllvc light In thrown mutt It by flu conneclbn by ft with the i accusative noun uuifuum I his con ncctlnn how tie nil ant that both word are accusatives I the object ol a transitive I I verb to follow Anilri from Its ending may be genitive slnciilar or nominative I or vocative I II plural rI Ills rl ait ol these I grammatical relations II I barred Irom the act Hut the word bs not let ol 1 1 from Ihe rest of tIme sentence by commas com-mas halo choice must not be made as 10t let between the otner two Hence w hlle name and muiie are olifeeilve ail id inly mean of a Iriend or IlIds nominative ttnfir means atwap0r in irenoorua can lute but Dna menitiriK In memory Tl ere Is but one w > rd 1 aiaitt concerning whose I mean I log the hearer reader loin I doubt 1 he list word laMil dispel this doubt lltlng lngulir In number II cannot have anon lam Ito utject TIme two decision are at unce firmed when lIon verb Is reached tint aimci u the genitive geni-tive I linnuUr ol hit iriend i anirilut Mitjt contains Its own ubj el and mean no held I lly Hits rocess I II uI al which Is I much more I ias ly rerformeJ r tlai described flue full meaning of tn I Inc i He neld In memorv the 10m and a-nd image of his friend has ben gmao tied In one reading ai quickly am the Komin woul I hive sdied u Lonlrait ltd with the oilier method fhroh I find > our subject mmtn and amid are both tried and alter a limo loundwintlng Then we fall Luck on the he of the verb labiM The mod fieri of the verb ns next found mitftr ond 1 la mtmorli these are Iran I lied T len we KO back lo immure and HjfinriH and tack them on lIme verb as bjerls lastly the awkwud lttetro structure Is I completed bv the addition oh the genthine anois quotli I lug vonsusm anml iimglnun The sentcille ito hurst teen had then hunted over timree or four time and finally himmereil together to-gether on thu ngllsh plan of construe Hon when one reading In lie lure ex presslte llln l order should luve served the purpose srve No matter how complicated hun sentence sen-tence this Ian of rei lime ean be followed fol-lowed True It will be slow and colt scluu at first but with Increase of practice the pro of imlUtion will become measurably natural and eaiy There I no ream in fact why the reading of lAtin should not become quite as agreeable and easy as the red Infol any of the 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