Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-29
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN,
Edited and Conducted by
IT. f. LANGENBA UGH.
LOUISIANA.

his Office for three years. The State
Board of Education consists of the State
Superintendent and six Division Super
intendents. The Division Superintend-
ents, of which there are six in the State,
are appointed by the Governor upon the
nomination by the State Superintendent
There are Parish School Boards which
correspond with the County Boards in
other States, and are made up of from
five to fifteen members, which is one from
each Jury ward. The Township Boards
consist of from three to five members,
chosen by the people of their respective
parishes. The School Fund consists of
a two mill tax aud interest growing out of
the Free School Fund acquired by the
sale of lands granted by Congress. The
two mill tax is distributed to parishes and
towns in proportion to the number of
educabIe youths. The interest on the
Free Schoo, Fund is paid to townships
according to the amount of the same.
Additional funds are raised by special tax
levied by police parishes.
Teachers are examined by the State and
Division Superintendent, who grant GER
tificstcs good for one year; those granted
by the State Superintendent being good
all over the State. Teachers make their
contracts with the Boards of Division.
School age from 6 to 81 years. The
branches taught in the primary schools
are Spelling, reading and Writing in the
grammar schools-reading writing, ariih-
metic, grammar, geography, history, mu-
sic, and drawing and in the high schools
and normal schools, such branches as the
Superintendent and Directors may de-
termine All branches taught are set
forth in the rules OF the State Board. but
are not specified in the law. Where the
Boards fail TO establish and conduct
schools, the Division superintendent
are obliged, by law, to establish and con
duct them.
The State Constitution and the laws
under it requires schools to be open to
both races-white and black; but when
the negroes found that there existed no
legal bar to their ad mission to all the
schools, they voluntarily went to schools
by themselves; thus the schools for the
traces are separate by common consent.
SEcRETs.-If you are in possession of
any knowledge that you do not wish gen
orally known, do not impart it TO any
person. 1t is only safe. absolutely safe,
as long as you keep it. Be exceedingly
careful in the selection of those whom
you would make your contidants, if you
must have somebody to help you TO pre-
serve your secrets. As a rule, the truest,
safest and best coniidants are the mother.
father, and teacher, for the reason that
they. above all others. are best qualified
to :zDpart true sympathy and wise coun-
sei. Exercise great prudence in permit
ting others To make you their confiden-
tial friend. 1t may appear very compli-
mentary to be chosen to help keep Heo
pies secrets, but it may become very
disagreablc honor. 1t is generally safe to
decline TO be the repository of anything
which you are not at liberty to use or re-
port at your discretion. If your friends
cannot trust you that far, they should
not endeavor to impose burden which
they find is too heavy to bear alone.
THE HANDs.-Most women covet beau
tiful hands, and exert themselves to take
care of these necessary members, that
they may possess the fairness requisite to
perfect beauty. Yet the "wild Irish
girls have the most beautiful hands. Eng
lish girls have too fleshy and plump
hands. The hands of the American girl
are too long and narrow The fingers of
the German girls are too short, and
palms too broad. Next to. the Irish
girls, the daughters of Poland deserve
the palm so far as beauty of the hand is
concerned. The hands of the French
Italian and Spanish girls may be called
Indifferent, though there are more beauti
full hands to be seen in France and Italy
than in Spain. The Parisiennes bestow
a great deal of pains on their hands, and
the consequence is that superficial and
inexperienced observers will believe thai
they have finer hands than the women o.
any other part of France, or any Other
country.
MATERNAL LOVE. - The unbounde6
and undying love of the natural, unso
phisticated mother has been wildly mani
tested, and as readily recognized in every
age, and under every variety of circum
: stances, from the earliest period to tn,
present time. Indeed, from its ever appa.
rent and ever varying manifestation. W.
may well imagine It to exist in embryo
anterior to birth, and thence TO strengthen
with her strength, and finally enable he
cheerfully and lovingly to meet all tn,
requirements of her children, and to pa