The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-12

m.ehaaIsn.-No. II.
nHInAIAH HoLREooK.

BIJosIAH HoLBEooK
ihe scale, dyideIs, and triangles are THE rHRrr
TOOLS" Tor juvenile mechanism No child over eight
years DID, either at home or al schools ought to be with
out them They may furnish instruction than ten
tines probably hundred times, their cost expended in
DOCKS They also give 10 books value which they
not possibly possess by themselves alone They render
DOCKS practical and entertaining and school places OF de-
hghuul resort They are the instruments OF sELF-IS.
sTRuonoN"
For young pupils inch scale. made OF wood, brass
or IVORY is convenient Many Others varying in mate
fia ienglh graduation, and use, may be had as
SONS should call for them The dvders should be fur
nshed with point pencil and pen. The triangle should
nave one ghtange angle OF sixty degrees and the
oher VIII be necessarily thirty degrees, as the three
giles oil triangle in all amount precisely to hun.
bred and eighty degrees Both the scale and triangle
should be marked with inches and parts of inches The
former should also contain the line OF chords and the
scale OF equal parts.
Such triangle is probably the most comprehensive lit
tie instrument that exists, that exist Ii contains
the elements OF the equatera triangle and square; and
those two figures together constitute the elements Of uni
yefsal mechanism, both oil Divine and human origin.
The entire simplicity with the boundess and endless
OF the three TOOLS fits them for training young hands and
eyes, and Tor nsuctng entertaining and refining young
minds, to extent much beyond any book or any mum
Der of books which be provided for them at the
great simplicity they can be made by the pupils
needing them. Several boys, not long since, made
dvlders of wood fitted with point, pencil, and pen,
which they found TO answer good purpose. By making
smooth and straight thin piece OF board, with inches
marked it, the scale is provided By setting pair OF
dvides with the points distant just six inches, equi
lateral Triangle with sides of that length, be drawn
in an instan-say on paseboard line drawn from
of that triangle to the centre Of the opposite
side will form two tranges precisely of the character
proposed The pasleboard, thus divided by lines de-
scrbed be cut by scissors into the very tanges de-
sired-each having right angle, angle Of sixty
degrees and one of thirty
The variety OF work capable OF being executed by
these three juvenile instruments is literally boundess
and endless, and applicable 70 every human pursuit,
whether connected with the hghes, departments of sci
the most common operations of the farmer me-
chanc, or housekeeper They also afford 10 the users
pleasure so high and pure and usefulness so init-
able both pleasure and usefulness constantly increasing,
as to afford safeguard against juvenile pleasure Of
an Immoral doubtful tendency than can possibly be
provided by attempted restraints upon the exubcnnce OF
feeling the energy OF action constantly and necessa
rily exhibited wherever the creatures OF God possessing
muscle, mind, and soul, TO be found. Ii is hence
proper here to express an opinion, founded upon very
long and very large experience, that better instru
mcns OF instruction or ot entertainment can possibly Cc
put into Young haI's than THE THREE TOOLS Tor ju-
venile mechanism Their uses, though slightly under
stood al first, will become manifest the they
are used
ExpERIMrNTs.-Several boys, much noted as truanis,
were not long since put in charge OF lady, who pro-
vided for them various kinds OF work. including both
using and making the scale, dvder7, and triangle In
that school not one was known tuant Their draw
ing and other work became the admiration OF then
parents many pieces of which contributed ior send
ing abroad to let their light shine These boys, on
being transferred 10 another school, where "BooK LES
soNs were only given, again became uants-raher de
sertes from school-,heir parents entirely failing TO Sc
cure thu cir attendance.