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Show School Notes. Siipt, Brown paid us a short visit on .Friday hist, lie has promised to spend throe days in our distrfctin tho near future. Wo have a larger number of beginners1 iu school than any previous year. Our primary teacher. aro doipg mosV fxcellent work in stnrting these classes,1 also) thoy hauc remarked upon tW brightness of the children which indiJ eaten that the home to an extent! performed ;t vork in preparing children for stdriy. Another beginner's elapajwillbe organized at the commence-ment commence-ment of the third term Patents, please come to school to see your children at work thero. While we nppret'iate tho many advantages derived from the beet and sugar'industry in our city, wo regret that so many of our boys are preyented from an early start in school thereby. It is certainly neeessaiy that children work at manual labor and that, ap thoy grow up, they should be taught to provide pro-vide themselves eotnc of necessities and tako p.irt in tho fntrily support. But, there is another side to tins question"." We believe that manyyoung men, at an age which marks the turning point in their lives, have been kept uut" of 'sdll6'6f for two or three mouths in tho fall to work on the farm and hs a consequence when they come to tchool were discouraged dis-couraged by comparison of their own advancement with others who had been regularly at school. A great many of theso young picnaoon find it. convenient to discontinue their school work and, before they havp tho advantage of a thorough public school training .which 111 pari prepares them, to meet practical affairs 'i'lf life and' gives them a taste for hiihjrcuUojtheyaroti?tftwn'up9n the world to work atu dieadYanlage by reason of neglected opportunity. 13 per cent of the graduates from tho schools of this county last year was boys and 87 per cent girls. At tho present writing writ-ing there aio twenty-six girls enrolled in our 8th grade and nino boys'. Wo expect other boys to join the class and tuist they will see the necessity of doing so in the near future. |