Show EDUCATION oneff one of the most curious coni comi commentaries ment aries on the ways and means of acquiring knowledge is the mannor manner in which modern society learns its geography bit by bit front from the newspapers in roost most peoples minds the memories that hive have come down from their schoolbook days deal only with N ith the broad facts of continents countries livers and capitals all the detail that makes up if tire hie really valuable valti oble part part of geographical co comes to them through a reading of the daily journals lour nala that this is the fact it is easy to instance before the chinese ja ia panee ewas mas got fully under swing not one pet sort out of a hundred could have put hi big finger on corea on the instant or had any definite ideas of the yellow sea the gulf of bechil and j now not it is only a person that is very much behind the times that does not lot know all about these places lo in like mariner manner madagascar was as unknown save the broad fact that it was at an island on the 11 southeast coast it of africa inhabited by savages chittal Ch itral also now the seat scat of a very modern war was unknown name to every one who was not a map expel t but U t since accounts have day by day been printed in the papers the exact locations of each 1 spot mentioned tio in the telegraphic edi dispatches and ami the contours of the districts aud and countries themselves have become very nearly as familiar faini liar as the sidewalks ofner of ew york this popular education has bag been accomplished by supplanting the des patches that the hires midnight by carefully prepared esuna by accurate budgets of facts and geographical description and by ibell n ell executed pictures of native es customs toms costumes scenery and ethnological details in this work the world has been especially active in collecting and putting forward material from the latest scientific geographical and personal persona I 1 sources several years ago the herald of now new york was the leading paper of ArD america erica in point of enterprise it fitted out the stanley and livingston expeditions and sent a searching ing party parly to the polar regions but the herald plays second fiddle now while the world in fitting out excursions maling explorations ferreting out crimes crimes inaugurating retains and constantly searching every corner of the earth for something with which to interest i its hundreds of thousands of readers is much to be learned from th the newspapers of today |