Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-22
PITY PATS PEA YER.
Life at School.

N
IDo not mean life at boarding school.
l mean life at a regular every day school,
in town or in the country, where you can
go in the morning and come away at
eleven or at noon, and 90 again in the
afternoon, and come away after two or
three hours Some young people. hate
this life, and some like 1t tolerablY well,
propose to give some information which
shall make il more agreeable all round.
MY first rule is, that you accept the
situation. Perhaps you do not know
what that means. It means that, as. you
are AT school, whether you, really like
going or not, you deferhfne toAu1akeA the
very best you can Of It, apd that YOU do
not make yourself and every b6tly' else
wretched by sulking md nerupnbliBs
about it-and wishing school was dOne---
and wondering why your fathers send
yCu there land asking leave to lQpkat
the clock In the other room, and so on.
Now here you are at school, will say,
for three hours. Accept the sit,tation
like man or woman, and do not sulk like
fool. sit '4n' ,tsW 80 l.h
To make the whole thing thoroughly
attractive, to make the time pass quickly,
and To have school Like natural part of
your other life, my second rule .is,odo
what you do with all your might IL is
good rule in anytbing in sleeping IN
playing, or in whatever You have In hand.
But nothing tends tolfmake sehoal time
pass quicker; and the great point as
will acknowledge, is TO get through With
the school hours as quickly as we fairly
can or J3I fDti JL 10 IAac 3HT
Now, if, in written. arithmetic, 1for rim
stance, you will start instantly op. .stSe
sums as soon as they are given out: u YOU
-, I'll thn OK
make clear, white marks, ifstead Ntsys, srthey,
fiabby, pale ones on the Slate Vt iSatNpiil
rule the columns for thess.neweTs astSoGc-
fully as if il were bank ledGor Nd,nSsssE
ruling, or if you will, WASH the fhfsrss
completely that no ves.iee Of eld,Ygrk u
there You will find that the mere enfrgy
of manner infuses spirit and c6iTectness
into the thing done. uall -,
Lessons are set for average boys"at
school ol-boys of the average laziness.U II
you really go to work with all your might,
then you get good deal of loose, time,
which, in general, you can apply to that
standing nuisance, the " evening lesson"
Sometimes l know, this is, prohibited.
When it is, the good boys ard QUICK boys
have to learn how to waste theTq extra
time, which seems to be apity. But1with
sensible master, it is a thing understood,
ludt III lS DtlttE lOI iF''NS "a Slbio ~ efNiNy
hard while they study, and never TO learn
to dawdle. Taking it for granted that
you are in the hands of such masters or
mistresses l win take it for granted that,
when You have learned the schooilesson,
there will lie no objection TO your learn
ing the other lesson, which lazier boys
will have to carry home.
Lastly, you viii ind yOui gsinia great
deal by giving to the school lessp all the
color and light which everyday affairs, can
lend to it. Do not let it be ghdstly
skeleton in closet, but let it come as lar
as it will into daily life. When you read
in Colburn's Oral Arithmetic,i ''thata man
bought mutton ut six cents a7p''rind, and
beef at.seven," ask your mother what she
pays pound now, and do the SUN with
the figures changed. s1a-., .e1,sfs-
My dear children, l see hundreos
of bows who can tell me what is thirteen
seventeenths of two-elevenths of i've
times e-half of bushel of wheat,
stated in pecks, quarts, and pintsi and yet
if l showed them a grain of wheat, and
grain of unhulled rice, and grain of bar
lev, they would not know which was
which. Try not to let your school ME
sweep you wholly away from the home
| life of every day.-R6r. ID. E Haze, IN
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