Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-01-17

Harm, did | say, that amt strong enough
word 4; foul air has slain more victim:
| than intemperance." When say this,
tell you, am calculating upon mighty bie
ngures.
Teachers, ventilate your school-r room
and those complaints E" my head aches
| can't study htis forenoon | don't know
what ails me, but can't get this lesson,
| can't think, | can't control my mind. |
can't remember anything,") will cease,
and lessons will be learned, and the brain
of your pupil will receive its proper share
of pure arterial blood, to aid in remem-
berIng what he reads. and also TO trace out
the difficult solution, or developing orig
inal thought.
Should Physiology be taught among
the first lessons IN our common schools !?
1t should, Emphaticaly the first. Ply
siology reaches back to the nursery. Il
should be taught as soon as the child can
understand the words sit up, walk straight.
hold your head and keep an erect posi-
ton. You have pair of lungs under
your ribs that will get sick if YOU don't
breathe large quantities of good, pure air;
SO don't play near that low damp ground
by the side of that milI-pond, late in the
afternoon, or after sundown, for there is
at that time of day a bad, sickly, fever,
ague air, floating in the Atmospheric
Physiology should go with the child to the
school-room. here mention Jane Tay-
lor's first lesson in Physiology, worth ITS
weight in gold 10 the initiated II should
be introduced along with the 81 Reader,
every time before the Fourth, and then
followed up with other works; lastly,
cutters, which is sufficiently complicated
for common school at the present day.
A correct knowledge of the simple laws
that regulate the animal economy, is of
| Infinite value to the student about to en-
ter college. Too many of our Eastern
/ Seminaries of learning have sent forth
the accomplished graduate, and Invalid
with head full of Greek verbs aud He
brew characters but u body full Of chron-
ic complaints and sickly als. Too often
we hear, " The mind Is mJrO than the
body" This may lead 10 a fatal error.
The mind is cipher without body, aud
a good body 100.
Intimately connected, and associated in
every motion, or thought, are mind and
body. They do not act separately; they
cannot. The body first, the mind after
wards, in education. No one would think
of building a TWO story building without
underpinning, aud then carrying into the
upper story crushing weight; no one
would think of putting 4 strong horse IN
frail harness. Bot more foolish, less
wise, would that person be who would
strive to crowd into the brain of his frail
sickly, but ambitious son, the strong force
of a Collegiate Education. If the build
ing should fall TO the ground you can re-
pair il if the harness broke YOU can get
another; but you could not call back the
impaired reason, the shattered intellect,
The blasted hopes, the ruined fortunes of
your boy When read the circulars and
advertisements, sent out from the high
schools and colleges, and find Physiology
and Caisthenics, which should be under
stood before they go there, placed as
studies for the last part of the last year,
| am not surprised there is such a thing
as a graduated invalid or graduated fool.
The Board of Normal Regents, in p E.
scrlbing a co'.rse Of stulies for the differ
ent Academies to pursue, with reference
to qualifying teachers, have wisely placed
Physiology in the list of examining stud
les; but like the cow that gave full pai
of milk, and then kicked part of it over
they have recommended Cal.slhenics fol-
a finishing study. A certain man locked
his barn after the horse was stolen
{" Consistency thou art jewel" Ths
preacher. with as good proprie,y, may
preach his theory to-day, and then tel
ms congregation to repent OF their SIN:
next wear. or three or four years hence
A practical knowledge OF the laws OF Hy'
gisne IS what we now justly stand 10 neeC
of. Physiology has, until quite recently
been considered study of 100 high {
Grade 10 be introduced INTO eur common
schools. Our scholars are not quite "a
enough advanced, says one, We must creel
; before we walk, Very good. sir, bat VI
5 may as well learn 10 creep right as t
creep wrong Our scholars are neve
; TOO Young to understand when they ar,
> told not 10 stand IN a strong current OF al
> if they are IN vigorous preparation
They can understand the difference be
tween mois, and dry air. Here may b
/ permitted to say. The deloterlous effect
: of moist air is generally overlooked
The sensible, and even ;nsensibie perspl
ratiop. is almos, entirely checked whe
, we are surrounded by moist air. /
cold regions there IS much less nois,ur