The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-01-12
7 Concerning Night schools.
Editors of the Register:

Editors of the Eegister:
The night school project has now
reached q successful Issue, and. after a
great deal OF agitation on the subject,
Wheeling can now boast night school,
or to speak little more accurately, a
number of them, located is the differ
ent wards, as is witnessed by the
nightly attendance Of the youth Of our
city, who do not hesitate to avail them.
selves OF the golden opportunity to &C
quire an education. Such institutions
are a valuable acquisition to any man
ufacturipg community, and cannot
fail to be productive Of much good. 1t
has always been a mystery to us why
euch progressive work has been al
lowed to lie dormant for 60 long time
when it ought to have been taken up
in earnest years ago. There are many
gentlemen OF means and position living
to-day who can trace the foundation Of
their success in life to the direct result
OF attending a night school in their
youth, and there is many a young man
at the present time buugering and
thirsting after knowledge, who will
hail with glad delight the avenue OF
learning thus thrown open to them, to
crafty their most laudable ambition in
this respect. Then how much better it
il for them to improve their leisure
hours in acquiring useful information
that will prove beneficial to them in
after life, than it is for them 10 hang
around the bar rooms with which our
city is 80 plentfu!ly supplied, smoking
and drinking and learning ribald songs
that utterly unfit them TO become good
and useful members OF society. But
while mental culture is highly indis-
pensible, bodily ailments should not be
entirely neglected, as so many peo'
pIe are prone to do. for when
the body is TOO much over
worked or Frustrated, the brain is
not capable OF the severe mental e1er-
ton it would otherwise be under
more favorable circumstances. Then,
az some persons amidst the hustle and
excitement of this work-a-day world OF
ours, forget :hey have got such an inn
portant mem be as body, until they
are forcibly brought to the realization
OF the fact by some insidious disease
which cannot be shaken of, and are
obliged to confirm to the time honered
maxim that IAN ounce OF prevention ls
better than a pound OF cure, and to
learn by experience, (Which by the way
is a hard teacher, that the body can
not be trihed with with IMMUNITY. Seven
o'clock is considered by the majority
of pupils triile too early to commence
the opening exercises, and considering
that they are obliged to work from six
in the morning until six in the evening,
a half an hour OF recreation is consider
ed by them as matter OF no small in
significance, hence we trust it will not
be deemed an objectionable intrusion, if
we suggest to the proper authorities
that half past seven would be more
reasonable hour than the one they are
now adopting. 1t will give the pupils
a little opportunity to indulge in athletic
exercises, which pastime, if not carried
to exceea, is very desirable, and it will
also give them a little more time to
properly masticate their food, instead OF
having 10 bolt it down. as under the ex'
istiug arrangement they are compelled
to do, which practice physicians all
agree in saying fpersistently followed
in will ruin the strongest digestion.
Very respectfully, c, E. Ii.