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Show BETTER INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE Salt Lake, April 17 That the present pres-ent Salt Lake School children, when they become men and women, will be able to talk the English language better than their fathers and mother even though the latter are well edu cated, Is the opinion of A. C. Mnthe son, state superintendent of public Instruction. Mr Matheson bases his opinion on a visit which he and G N. Child, city grammar grade super visor, made yesterday to the Lincoln, Fafayette and Grant schools Superintendent Matheson was espe clally pleased with the training the teachers are giving their pupils in oral work. He says that much of the routine parsing of former days is being be-ing dispensed with and the children are taught to use nouns and verbs as correctly when speaking ;is when writing. He says that the fundament als In arithmetic are also being strongly presented, and that the aver age child i3 becoming more speedy and acurate in figures than formerly Both Superintendent Matheson and Mr. Child speak of what they term the 'spontaneous patriotism " of the boys and girls. At the schools visited patriotic songs were sung and the students rendered "The Star Span gled Banner" and other songs with enthusiasm, and there was no sign of mechanical training. |