| Show SPELLING 1 NOW AND LONG ION aua albranch of study now new neglected ne ZD lecter old ezieb readers and Sp Iier bet be t ever used good ap p ilin elins will not come again until it IS 1 1 feives more attention maybe laybe it is en old story maybe there is son thing ot of the grouch in the tat ement but the recent recant failure ot of young people to spell correctly when they were applicants for teach ers license provokes the statement that students nowadays do not learn to spell it is not adoue a condition of the erade schools it is not alone a matter 0 of f hie bigl schools acho ois it is true of the orsi ties all of them so far cis as we have s seu been eu the handwriting of the graduates I 1 those hose who finish within chepa trev years are notably bad spellers speller 4 when A hen cords lilo lile separate aud and pid judgment mant are missed by more than 0 per cent ot of the graduates thore is 15 something defective le fecto with h the methods or t the he men and women who vilio try aua ana we believe it is the method forty years ago a man named me guffey secured the adoption id option by school a ant bonti geu crall of a series of readers arid and spelling book and counci dept with that selection aut went a I 1 fasl ion 1011 for spelling As to the readers men of wisdom lave have said that the me guffey readers kept the state of kentucky in the union it is certain the of patriotism aud and national unity which breathed breath cd through those books exerted a powerful erful influence on the minds ot oi the groi crowing jug children and though th ough them on the homes the spelling books contained a peculiarly culi arly selection of words they were vere in the main such v words a person of fair education would require in any ai denue of life trev did not include all but it is notable that william N and daniel webster built quite a fair fame edme without employing a single word not found in the McG mcgurie Mc GulIe uffe speller in addition there were some words or of what may be called rare use there were some of peculiar spelling and the boys aad eirls ot of that earlies day very generally were able to spell ari imi arii I divide every word in the book spelling tas the fashion every lay day there was at least one ezer exercise cise whon when all other studies wore were intermitted aud and everyone evry ev ry one spelled to the teachers pronouncing noun cing usually tilly it was twice aday just before the noon moon recess and seal again just before dismissal for the day bauh pupil was required not only to spell the vois v ord but to divide and aull pronounce by syllables that had bad the additional virture of aiding in the sense of dividing and as a result of it no boy or girl erl of those days ever divided a if you people will look over the love letters you received within the month you will probably find that through and strength th have been divided it they have teen been used our english spelling is 13 an arbitrary matter there is 13 no fixed rule why receive and believe should have their vowels arranzer arran zed bv br opposite is 19 one of the things that need not be explained pla ined but they so ampar and the art of spelling is simply a matter ot memory aho oftener a child spells a vord the less likely he is to miss it and the schools particularly the country schools of that day did much of goot spelling even if they not induct the little folks into the mysteries of bloyd it became a matter of pride no one stood higher in the general commendation than he or she who could pell every word in the book there were eveD evening 1139 events called bp spelling elling schools hold held in the country school houses bouse tand and they drew contestants from widely videly separated districts the conflicts of 0 the spellers are nerr ner r to be Iorg forgotten lor gotten otten sud and the victor at one of these affairs lives in the memory beneath a halo balo of mu mush b honor bodor good spelling will never come again aut il more attention is paid to it dud more time is devoted tu to it oral spell log ing audible spelling actual spelling of the words alone will make a pupil proficient in it and a better pro will be very welcome intermountain republican |
