Show educational items ITI vis 1 I B Y w f 8 it idleness breeds vice children should be kept busy for activity is their nature jt is within the province of the parent and teacher to direct this activity aright land and if it bd not properly I 1 directed evil results will follow the children of our territory employed in some useful occupation should be kept in school well says a parent 1 I cant get in my boy to go to school he hates se school gool this shows a wrong bronw somewhere eltheria el either therin in or butil pupil proper proper growth of wind mind and bo body y de delights bights the surroundings of df the child at home may max not hod be such as to stimulate a love for intellectual advancement the gloomy bloomy prison like schoolhouse school house may ne e r repulsive epu apu asive to the very vety nature 0 of the chi child I 1 d or the teacher not un c child id nature and abd its law of growth I 1 crams I 1 instead of lot teach teaching ng the holidays are approaching and much money will be expended V for r tys and playthings to delight the chil chii children drell i too much discretion cannot be used on I 1 the part of parents in the selection tiou of 0 for their children BOOKS ani AXI TOYS FOR LITTLE one ONKS may be of such a nature that the children will reap most roost excellent aduca results or dr great treat harm that ot flit parent a r e I 1 nt little thinks of will follow b some gome 0 h ie toys are constructed aiming at the cultivation of the senses others tor for taxing the ingenuity others othen for cultivating the thel judgment memory etc toy books should lill fill the mind with pure cure thoughts and the imagination with natural in mental pictures where cd convenient nv alent a pl pla pia room should be provided ilav for foi gb ildren children little wagons balls blocks of many shapes and sizes with prints ot of animals letters etc bead beads of different colors blackboards black boards and chalk chulk toy towns slates and pencils paper tor tur cutting pictures out of clay I 1 lor for molding figures house burnil furni turi tury ture in miniature letters and map maps cut u in bec loc tiong the chin chinese i ese puzzle mc me chanilal ch anical tools of different kinds etc may maybe be used with excellent educational results parents could do much good by aiding siding in the games of their children toy books proper stories and pictures of art and nature can be made most interesting and instructive s t ruc rue ti tive ve to the little ones all to toys Is and und playthings should be kept under lock ana and and key only when in use and they will always remain new to ae the child sad is it to be weak and sadder to be wron wrong but it if the strong gods statutes break breal saddest to tb be stron strong economy emerson says economy consists in a wise expenditure of money it Is not spending none at all it Is not econ economy 0 my to have a poor school house it is not economy to have no suitable books or apparatus and it Is the poorest economy of all to have a TO poor r teacher onedith one with large acquirements acquire ments Is more economical than onedith one oae with narrow attainments one with skill is more economical than a raw hand band THE THY BEST bist SCHOOL that school is not considered the best in which the machinery of government is most prominent and the pupils behave like automatons exhibiting no individuality but a total absence of natural freedom i but where the spirit of investigation is rife where vh ere all are actively employed in legitimate work where a natural development of the best faculties of the mind is progress in where pupils ils lis understand that heV hey themselves uve have a great work to do and not many years in which to accomplish it there is the place to look for results which will be valuable and lasting hon ilon JV richardson ichardson Ji MAXIMS mas FOR folt TILE TUB SCHOOL schoolroom As Is the teacher so is the school be what you wish your pupils to be do nothing bothin 0 to ito lower a pu pupils pills self respect have no pets nor favorites it Is what a child does for himself and by himself that educates him justice must be the basis of all rules never punish pupils nor even speak to pupils when angry one chief thief purpose of instruction is to create and fosler foster a zeal for study politeness in the teacher secures po iro lit li tenes ess I 1 in n the pupil fe questions m should follow each other in a natural manner unite firmness and good goodnature nature zeal is indispensable 11 RIGHT AND WRONG clearly there is a power within us which god designed to enable us to distinguish belive between en right and wron wrong IN we e may may not make good usa use of it atia and accept error for truth but that does deep not disprove the great fact that the faculty exists young children can discriminate between good acts and bad acts and this power they seem ready to apply when proper occasions are presented if the good is constantly exemplified in the conduct of thoe those who surround a child and whom he loves his Ms sense of right and wrong must be quickened by the exercise it would receive would that all parents leit felt the great importance of this fact I 1 besides pains can be taken to point out good sc acts ts to a child acts of honesty justice kindness mercy gratitude patriotism life I 1 in n every nei nel neighborhood has incidents of this kind ai and ad history is full of them lethis let his conscience be kept active by frequent appeals to it and the child will grow dally daily in virtue illiteracy IX RN THE SOUTH gouth the number of illiterates in the south who voted in 1870 was in 1880 1 an increase about equally divided between the white and the colored |