Show sc BENCHES AND DESKS the attention of berlin pedagogues gues has i lately been directed to a subject of con sid erable importance to the well being of the rising generation dr parow who is the originator idas of the movement movement in question has been for many years the tho director of an institution at bonn and has given it as the result of his experience that a very large proportion of the cases of deformity among niong young persons arises from the lm improper roper construction of school bench benches es an and tables such asiat a statement ement from such an authority certainly deserves vory very serious co consideration As the proportion bet between mind and body is very variable long legged dunces dancel and short legged geniuses necessarily meet in the same classroom whereas all ail the benches and tables are all of the same size whether mother the bench be to high or to low the position is uneasy and produces fatigue after many hours besides this the tables are too far from CA th benches and when a boy is whitin writing he is obliged to lean forwards and b bend his head over his copybook copy book this posture has hag two ivery ivory bad results it contracts con cou tracts the breast thus thua interfering with respiration an and d prod producing u in t time timo im 0 a narrow chest and it sen son sends d eln ein the tile blood to the head which besides other othor unhealthy consequences produces shortness of sight dr parow proposes to remedy the defects by introducing fa ro I 1 acin benches of different heights into the came same classroom and by placing them much nearer the table in order that the boys may bo be able to get their places placer the tables are to have a leaf which turns over on a hinge and can bo be turned back when the boy has taken his seat berlin correspondence 1131 oni ing star sta A LOBSTER factor factors factory to prepare 5 lobsters per day is to Q be started at sullivan ul maine M at ne the fisherman only get two cents and a half for the lobsters so that the business of preparing them for iii market arket must be tolerably lucrative |