Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-23

"Ay w you nOU urOp some OF
your studies, and proceed with what you
can attend to ?''
Its against the rules. Every one
must keep up with the class, in all the
branches, or go down into lower class.
We have now spelling, reading, arithme-
tic, analysis, physical geography and a
daily and weekly composition and some
have extra branches, sometimes as
summed by themselves, sometimes i'm
posed by the teacher, such as astronomy,
philosophy, algebra, or botany"
"Good heavens p exclaimed. why
don t they add geometry, trigonometry,
mental philosophy, logic, geology, paint
ing, archaeology, conchology, chemistry,
the dead languages, and Egyptian hier-
ogl1phics, by way of variety!'
"You shan make fun of our school, +"
said Lizzie, archly, playfully endeavor-
ing to close my mouth with her hand
for she is perfectly at home with me,
which always like to have young peo-
pie be.
"And how do the scholars like it?'
[ proceeded.
"Oh, the willing ones take it well
enough-lazy ones grumble. u
And, among the willing ones, are
there any that study late o'nights be-
sides yourself?"
"They have to-many of them
One of them will observe, in the morn
ing, " [ studied till one, last night; :"
another will add. " and [ till two, :"
while a third will positively boast of
having studied, slept, and cried, by
turns, till three o'clock in the morning.
There is Pauline O., one of the
brightest pupils in the school, she
studied until daybreak, one night last
week, and then she was unable to master
her questions in analysis, and had to
hurry off to school, at half-past eight
in the morning without her breakfast,
to get aid from the teacher, which is
never rendered during the regular
school hours. -
"And-how is it? do those willing
midnightstudents ever have headaches"
Headaches yes Sick. headache,
neuralgia headache, and every descrip-
ton of headache is as common in the
school as fever in charity hospital, +,
during the month of August! There
is hardly scholar but has it, more Or
less. Some Of the girls have the sick
headache so often that they scarcely
mind it, but keep on with their studies.
Indeed, many of them have more or
less headache almost all the time
"Studying with the sick headache !"
I muttered. Cruel criminal barbar-
Gus And cold feet is another preva-
lent symptom, [ presume. "
" Yes-I'd like to know how you
can guess so straight. y
"The easiest thing in the world,
child. You see, there is only just
enough blood in the body, as a general
rule, and when there is too much of it
in the head, there is too little in the
feet. The great secret of health, is, to
preserve an equal circulation of the
blood, and just in proportion as anything
disturbs it, it is cause Of disease. -
" Why, grandpa you have taught
me more physiology in two minutes
than [ have learned ou3 Of books in as
many years. -
" Well, and what do the teachers
think the result Of such course will
be p
II do not know they never say any
thing about it. u
ado they never tell you how injurious
it is to force a sleepy brain to labor,
when nature is striving for repose ?"
"Our physiology tells US that
=" True Here Gutter says (page 379).
The idea of gathering wisdom by burn
ing the midnight Gil is more poeti-
cal than profitable The best time to
use the brain is during the day =
Again, on page 374 he says, At any
time of life, excessive and continued
mental exertion is hurtful but infancy
and early youth, when the structure of
the brain is still immature and delicate,
permanent mischief is more easily pro-
duced by injudicious treatment than at
any subsequent period. And again,
on page 369 'The close student and
the growing child need more sleep than
the idler and adult And yet again,
on page 372: When the cerebal organ
has been temporarily debilitated by pro-
tracted intellectual efforts, it is inetfec-
tual to attempt any consecrated mental
exercise. Besides thousand similar
things that this and all other physiolo-
gists have said on the subject Do the
teachers ever tell you to exercise p
" Eyes but I'd like to know how any
body is to get much time for it. We
generally have to be there at eight, or
half-past, so as to get aid from the
teachers; at noon we catch the half
hour after dinner for the same purpose !;
then, if any one fail, he is compelled to
remain after school, to study and recite );
and after all that, he will have lessons
that will take him the night to get, and
perhaps not get them after all; but have
to go to studying again as soon as they
rise in the morning, or 60 before school
time to get aid. Beside"
"That's useless, besides being wicked
The pupil will gain more solid in
formation, such as will stick by him
through life, during the term if he alb
stain wholly from night study. u
Well, besides that, I was going to
say, Mr.. D, the principal, dis
courages the idea Of his pupils working
He says when child goes to school,
he should make business of it; that
the pupils should devote their whole
time to it, and not be required to work. !"
[ mused eco at half past eight in
the morning-33 hours in the forenoon:
study the half-hour at noon-3a hours
afternoon-7 hours in school per diem.
Then an indefinite number Of hours
of hard, unassisted study out of school,
sometimes till one, two, or even three
o'clock, A. NJ. Then go to bed, with
head aching with heat, and feet ditto
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