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Show 29 THE DESERET EAGLE, SUNSIIINB IN THE SCHOOL 1100 M. BY J. M. II., NEW ( ALII IN Y, IND. The dirk, dreary days of winter through which we will soon pass, will threaten, oftentimes! to shadow our work with something of their own discouraging character. Then will we most need the inner sunshine which can come only from a loving and sympathetic heart. A bright, cheery disposition is 0113 of the most beautiful things in the world; and n j w lie re does it exert such important influence as in the teaching and training of young minds. We want our pupils, when they eater our presence, to feel that 'they have come into a wanner cliraite and a clearer sky." If we keep the sunshine in our own hearts, we will unc msciously impart it tiem, and the influence will be seen in tie study and in the recitation. School r 0111 routine is nectsiry and a good thiug. Yet we all know ihe need of introducing new and unusual objects of thought. While we are teaching orthography and arithmetic wjciti also taici oar pupil 4 to see the beauty that lives in stone and tree and 11 )wer and sky ; and thus place iu their hands a key which miy admit much of the linht and sunshine to their after lives. "For to a m in of deep emotions, Niture is a mirror full of shifting hinges; to an unauvei one, only a window though whina he can bee what ijg)iug on arouul him." It is our privilege to so direct and train the eimtious, as thit tieymiy recognize aad ipprop iie ttme imigis as they 1 t-- 3 are drjugat mirror. fjr.vardiu Ni.ure's our strcig-s- and brightest rays of light in the daily music lesson. Iu all our sc hools, the music hour is eigjrly welcomed as a We m ly ii id one of The Peculiarities ok s the Deaf o's 'uperintendent Walker in Kansas Iustitutiou Report.) -- muts may have some ptculiaiitits arising from the absence of heating, the too prevalent impression ot 1 lie thoughtless that they are essentially ahu )st a difi ?rent race from ihe balance ot mankiud is ludicrously erroneous. No more clearly can this fact be brought h( iqj than for a father or mother to imagine one of their now While deaf Duluth has led the West in adoping the free text-bosystem, supplying to free books ail pupils, rich and poor alike, excepting the High School, where it will probably be introduced before long. The cost of oooks last year was S3 cents per pupil, which would have been mire than double under the old plan. A large clerical force and considerable storage room is requisite to carry out this system, out tue experience of Duluth confirms that of our Eastern cities that it is the proper and a wise accompaniment of talkative children stricken with some of the diseases, and ihe free sc ool system. Ex. in time perarUing from the sick-bt- d Bait Lake supplies free text sound and well the with fectly excepti- books to all including the High on that the auditory nerve is destroyed. School and is certainly in th No above-mention- ed change has been wrought in tbe Vet. natur e of the child, and there need b no great cha ge in its deposition if it has pirents WjO are wise enough to He is t ;e best teacher that succeeds reatitwith exactly the same rules of in having his pupils do the best work with the othti for themselves. There is a stage iu discipline as are d children of the family. Therein lirs education when the teacher ntcet-saril, ihe "pecularity" of and must do much in tbe way of 1 xplanation it is utually "home made." That but even here the teacher wno bin ply it is natural and, one might siy, dinctsand leads the child to do the parental to allow more privileges and vvo.k for himself is the one who is ostow more caesses upon the afflicted most likely to produce the best As we child than upon the others of tbe thinkers among nis pupils, family, we freely admit; but we art rise in the grade this becomes more ilso compelled to warn parent aad more true, and with ihe advance that the yielding to this impulse pupil, the teacher ought to be t doing as much, yea, even more, to btcjmea more and more of a skilful injury to the deaf child than it would guide and less oi au instructor, until to select one of a family of children ihe auideiitslips from ins Lauds to equal in all respects and bestow or persue tue wo ii of the world without lavish attention upon it to the neglect eitner guidaLce or help wLalevei. jf others. In this case you would Our busings is not so uiuca to have a "spoiled" child, that iu all &;orge tae pupil wiih kuowhgt , not probability would bring sorrow to so njuch to puur instruction into him his parents as ha grew to manhood. as it is to make him sell htliriul and In the case of the deaf child who is strorg as a tnluktr Excnang pa 111 pert the same sveds are sown, and, in too 111 iny cases, alas, the tame The Philadelphia Telegraph sta.es fruit is giruered. The deaf, then, art that the holding of a convention lor not as a rule different from other?, the nomination of candidates for xcept as they are 111 ide so by parent, president and vice president cos s fronds, and the public. about fifty cents for each vo er in tue country, and the cost of counting the The uncertainties of life are illus- votescastata ueneral election is sometrated in the case of the governor-elec- thing like $ 1.75 lor tach voter. As of Washington. Once a happj there are eunt mini n voters in the er joying in the diecomil urt United States, the expenses of a nomiof the passenger left at the corner, nating convention are about $1,000 000 ; ii, and of t ie collating of tue results, whacking the 11 inks of his dois-careless abandon, and with no though: about $14,000 000. Tue cost of canvas but to make tim?, hi has gradual! ing by the two political ariiea is, drifted into politics. Njwt.e tous t.. pcriiapp, $10,000,000 mjre. burden of wealth, lie i hiuutel b) a (Jay, and iuomiii The United States now holds twenty-on- e preys upon Lim at uu v.. daie igu Jaw lims inaJe op oi nusoand and Herald. wile. In addition to these there are at least 108 American women wno pracT:i(! swiftest runner on earth is the tice law in the courts or puolish legal u-e- y deaf-mute- xpi-cte- 1 1 relax ition from study, and a time of raalenj jymeut. I influence is always f r good, when properly employed The tim j given to this nust beautiful of all arts must teud, to ennoble and purity the minds of our pupils. If we endeavor, by all the abundant means at our com nand, to drive away clouds aad dreariness from our school rooms, and to m ike them the abodes of cheerf u!n ss and contentment, we s'lall then havii the best possible coed itious for go)d and successful work, and be able to accomplish tie highest rood for those wiora we attempt to ostrich. teach Indiana School Journal. t car-driv- tflice-seeke- rs s 1 documents. d |