Plymouth weekly banner. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-08

you would watch and improve every op.
portunity to help and assist the little girl
of your childish choice. Did you never
think. "well, if was only old enough l
would make that little girl my wife," but
grown TO manhood, and thrown upon
your own resources, she was forgotten, or.
may be. she is inhabiting her narrow
home in the City of The Dead.
The happiest moments Of my life was
when attended school. and dare say it
is the case with more than nine-tentbs OF
your readers. No care on my mind, no.
thing to think of to give me any trouble.
and why should not be happy? When
did you ever experience happier times
than at the command to dismiss FOR noon.
when you and all the rest would break
out with shrill scream. "let us play
ball, let me choose up. my first choice. I'll
take Tom. I'll take Bill" and so on till
all the boys were chosen. and the poorest
last. Then toss up wet or dry" for the
corners, and with what Joy we would cry
out. "our corners!" Then the excitement
that would follow TO win. and when
beaten the excuse we would offer. If
only had one Of your hands you would
not have beaten US, and when the teacher
would call 10 books each one would strive
to be in first. Then would come the
( routine of the classes to read and spell.
and soon the day would be spent and we
would be on our road home, where we
would meet our kind parents at the door
TO greet us with smile. How happy to
meet my mother with polite bow and
hear her say. well. you must have pc.
lite teacher" Perhaps our teachers nov
a-days may not think it necessary TO in.
iroduce manners into their schools, but ii
should be taught as much as any other
study. True, it is not study, but pe-
likeness inculcated in tie young mind is
not soon forgotten. 1t is much nicer to
meet little children with a polite bo,c
than to see them passing along talking
and halloing-paying no respect to man.
ners. politeness. or anything else, How
much better and nicer it sounds to hear it
said, those little children are manneriy-
they have learned politeness il nothing
more. When | went to school that was
part Of my instruction. My schoolmates
are scattered all over the world-some in
one place and some in another; some in
lucrative circumstances and some pinch.
ed by poverty. How often do we hear
the remark when reading or speaking of
an accident happening to any one. why.
knew him in my youth; we have been
schoolmates.' and probably you had not
thought of him since you left the part of
the country you went TO school in. but
how wildly your imagination would run
back 20 the time when you were school
mates together, and you could RENE M Der
just how he looked then-wnat a kind,
good boy he was-how all the children
loved him, &c.
There is a great moral responsibility
resting upon school teachers. more. prob.
ably than most persons admit of. ooh,
any one will do for school teacher that
can read and write little," but let me
tell your readers child re mem bers exam
pies set and taught at school es much as
those taught at home. The future pros
perity of the child depends MS much on
the training it receives as on its own re-.
sources. Ii is true some children are,
and al rays will be, unlucky. bu. they can
Improve their luck by the right attention
20 morality and honesty, and if there are
no examples afforded them they won't be
very liable to take them Of their own free
will. More anon. d.