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Show i. kkitii San -rHK rran-isc- VKKNOX.) o Fxam- - offered to send tlu twenty brightest child :en in P incr has 1 Stale of California to the World's Fair. The competition is open to all school ehildien over the age of fifteen. I low will the twenty brightest children bo selected? Hy competitive examinations. The question is will those who are the brightest child-rci- i l:e the ones to carry off the 1 lit ' coveted prize? number one scholar? It is not always the brightest of ill! the constestants who comes oat ahead in a competitive school examination, Neither is it the child who bears the proud distinction of being the "number one" pupil of his class that is the brightest, of his dav ami genera-tion- . What is a It is quite safe to say that no child in a public school was ever "number one" for more than the statement that to a teacher such pupils are perfect treasures. When a voting woman has in charge forty or more children which must be carried bodily over a certain amount of the course in a given space of time, she has no time to exploit geniuses or to admire any straying She from the beaten track. "number one." look back through my must keep her Hock together and As close-cu- t school life, I can well remember have them browse on the grass in the straight and the girls who were at the head of our different classes. They were narrow way until she can drive all good girls, ana ins whom in them through the gate which is Hut she mv childish breast there waned a called "promotion.-wild tempest of disgust and rage; knows that the "number one,1' not because they were "number while being a satisfactory scholar, one'' but because their goodnos is not always the brightest pupil made our badness seem all the in the class. It does not always follow that greater by contrast, the same children will hold the They were such nice children. Hist rank all through the school They were always in their seats on time. Thcv stood no danger course. Hut when they do, they of being late because they had are in the higher grades what thcv were in the lower ones. stopped to look at a procession or of to read the papers displayed in a They do just what is required and no more. They never They were never them refereness than reported for running in the yard. look up more for the morrow's those They were never taken out of line. lessons.assigned make no excursions They little They were regular-goinwilds of the machines, mental hoppers that among the tangled As for ever reading received all the grist brought to dictionary. so their intellectual mills ami ground a line ahead, of becoming feel it out in line shape. They worked interested in a subject as to to turn over the page hard in school. They sat up impelled late to do their examples. They and see who won the battle, or side lights on the any gaining to on home at Saturdays stayed issue at stake. why, that is not could lessons. their They study not not come out to play in the after- to bethought of. They dare noon because they had to practice waste the time. hen ( 7b bv Conttntftff.) or to write a composition. pupil to lose some important bit of information for which he will be called upon later. His failure to remember what he never knew will cost him the credits without which he cannot be "number one." In some classes the. competition is very close. In the end it does not always pay to be Who KI.1ZA NUMBER 2 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 15, 1892. VOLUME IV. a month at a time, who did not gain the honor by patience, plodding industry, and without which factor the others are almost nothing, pertual good behavior. For the children must be ranked more or less, and their reports made out on their answers, written or oral, to the questions given on past lessons. Now, a moment's inattention, or the mind preoecu-upiewith another subject, itself suggested by the topic under discussion, may cause a bright d I shop-windo- w. . g it was necessary to learn a lesson by heart they were in their ment; they were letter-perfec- t cle- as As to the meaning? Ah, well, we will not dwell upon to tin- - text. f SrHSCliliJK FOH TIIF FAULK. IT IS IU T that. Surprbe need not be created by .50 A ! VKAII. '. "' - |