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Show THE DESERET EAGLE, 106 A.t the Dn.iicH'Xiiiie- - HY .J. M. UKKKXWOOI). Jov Yoiuig 'People. manv uninviting things for future use in emergencies. The chances A HERO. are that these apparently useless ' EVEN THOUGH A DOG things, stored awav in this out-o- l By Hjdlmar H. Olson. will be needed E was a poor, miserable outat the most critical period in the cast; wretched, starving, and At history of the individual. nearly dead; and, as he came slicking once and suddenly it may be that down thu street, people s opped and there will be a grand illumination lookdd at hiiii a moment: then tney e-way-place, lor something like twenty work- years we have been in frightfully near the danger line in recommending reading lor children and young people. At bursting forth from this darkened reaction a was against recess from these the outset it knotty in in then methods vogue the repulsive rules, and teaching English Literature, abstract statements. by a desire to provide, While I believe in reading, literature." so called "children's much safe reading, vet the in attained be to The objects fixed up with the regulation well as desirable were both cases quack prescriptions, are ruining when but as highly praiseworthy; thousands and tens of thousands motion the latter was once set in of children mentally every year. in a onward it has kept going The intention of the (lout-ritin till at ratio constant geometrical is all right, but in most cases it is not it if is doubtful present it is one of misdirected zeal. It than good. doing more harm This brings us face to face with of same is the experience the real phase question, namely, how so often repeated of carrying by much outside should the reading enthusiasm an idea beyond its average child, attending school, legitimate sphere. do? deli-nition- re-ent'orc- s, ed nos-tru- ms II went by without one word for little dog. Urn poor At last, Just as the shades of evening were beginning to fall, a little gin came, walking slowiy down the street. When she came near where the dug was lying, shivering on tiie sidewaik, she stopped. 0 mamma," said the child to a matronly lojkiug lady at her side, 'Must sue the poo.' little doggie hjw jold he looks; can't we take him home and give him something to e. ?" "No, my child," answered t je lady, "we can not have such a c eature following us around." "But, mamma, if we don't give him will surely something to eat, he starve." "Come, come, Annie, we have no lime to waste on such cemmou street dogs; it is after six o'clock now, and if we are not home soon, our dinner will be cold." "But when we are An observer of educational home, why Much reading diffuses the can't we take the going dog with tendencies has not far to look in energy of the child, and very Well, bring it along; I think we bavu of a sort see that anv direction to much of that which is recom- something good at home to give him." " Thank you, mamm i," aud then tnis miscellaneous reading, outlined mended is not worth the effort put little member of "Bind of Mercy" bv teachers and committees, has on it. The real danger is one of patted the dog's head. very largely taken the plaee of mental dyspepsia. The limits of The poor creature leaped around ia its manifestations of delight, for it close persistent study in the the present article will not permit now knew it had found a friend. To put this common any extended illustration of this After frisking around a little while thought in another form, the ailment; vet the existence of the it became quiet and followed at the subjects that the pupil's attention' disease is sullicient reason to (ittle girl's side. As tney approached State Street, should be focused on, are put The they were walking swiftly across when, suggest remedial agents. children's the into person swimming and floating just as athey were in the middle of the reading books are forced to the down a river in a swift current, street, team of runaway horses came dashing toward them. front, and through them all leani-in- r is not his a of Tae Utile giri and her mamma had always good judge is to be had. Mere is the real The literary cur-re- failed to hear the runaways, and now own velocity. were right in their track ! When a child starts to danger. so called, drifts too much they once the little dog picked up school, he should be taught how toward the hazv, the dim, the All at tiis ears, gazed a moment at the approhow to be so be industrious, polite, uncertain, when it is substituted aching horses, and then ran, barking, and most of all, how to studv for that exactness which should in front of the little girl. "O mamma the little dog is going whether he likes it or not. lie u-?- " text-book- s. back-groun- d, nt always characterize the teaching mad," she cried. must do manv things whether of mathematics, the sciences, the "Run back to the policeman or else they be pleasing to him or other- languages, and other departments we'll be bitten," cried the excited mamma. wise. He needs to stick awav in of exact or probable thought. Just t'len the horses swept past of his mind. Tin Srton ,fottnt(fl. an unused corner l.'iem, a little faint moan was heartf ml - |