The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-07

in the several District grades were as
follows:
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This shows that but $1,000 out OF 27. ncOt 10
white children who attend sc..,ools Get
higher thar the j grade, and about / to
IN advance to or beyond the d grade.
How high is the attainment of the F
grader They learn to write passably
well, read as high as McGuffy's Third
Reader, and receive some drill in the
simple calculations of mental arithme-
tic, with probably addition and subtrac-
tion on the slate. Such is the utmost
extent to which half Of the children of
Cincinnati, who attend school at all, are
educated. About one-third do not get
beyond the H grade-the A B @ and
primer gradel These may be handed
over to the list of totally illiterate.
This would swell the number in the
city who do not attend at all or do not
get into the second grade to AZ, ,0O0-leav-
ing but M,00O out of a total of $4,000 un-
der 16 years OF age who are getting much
beneficial education, and making our
contribution to the barbarism of the
next generation $4,000, besides that por-
ton between IS and 21 who have no ed
ucation-12 1900 more-giving total Of
10000 barbarians out of an aggregate
school enumeration OF S7322l
Very slightly more than one-fourth OF
our children in school, or one-eighth OF
our total enumeration under twenty-one
get to or beyond the D grade Of the Dis.
trict schools. What are the attainments
of this grader Very fair penmanship,
fair reading, no grammar to do any good,
primary geography and arithmetic to
very limited extent. We speak only OF
those studies that are most necessary to
life and success. They learn some music
and drawing; but these are mere mock.
cry where so very small portion Of our
school children get beyond the District
schools. To give some idea OF the
extent Of arithmetical education in
our District Schools we will refer
to late recitation in the d (highest) J
grade to which we were spectator.
Remember that this is very near the close
Of the year and arithmetical drill is car
ried on in some shape even from the II,
or lowest grade. The problems of the
recitation had been wgitten ON the black
board some time before recitation, of
which we give the one that occupied
nearly the whole time-half an hour, we
believe: If you sell 9quarts of cherries
for 7 cents per quart and lose 1s cents,
what did you pay for the cherriesP
Not one Of that large class of boys
could so through the solution without
stallingt Probably all of them could
work it correctly on their states; but in
spite of all the drill in numbers from the
Il grade upward the demonstration of
this simple problem was not familiar to
single one Of them. Many of them had
a pretty clear idea Of it. And yet how
small fragment of practical arithmetic
is compassed by this probleml So much
for the arithmetical achievements oil
more than four-ffths of all our children
who 20 to school at ALL
We are not to be understood as reflect
ing on the teachers og the administra-
tion OF the schools. In several LATE
visits to them we have found only first
class teachers. The fault is in the sys-
tenn and the method. The schools should
be so reconstructed, and the method so
changed, that all those who get no high.
er than the D grade OF the District
schools will acquire double the amount
Of practical education which they obtain
under the existing order of things.
The new gloves are purely Quaker
in style-long, plain, in all shades OF
gray and brown, without stitching or or
nament of any kind. Three buttons are
usually adopted for street wear, four for
reception and six tor evening wear.
There are evening gloves, however,
which exhibit as many as ten buttons,
DuC tQcSe are eACepLiUuulS luOSt lduloS
are contented with six. Last year in
troduced the Quaker drabs in kid-gloves,
and they Immediately found favor with
the very best authorities on taste and
fashion. The light shades are equally
suitable for day and evening dress, and
keep clean and neat looking q long time
with little care. This year all the new
shades belong to the mode family
cream, pearl, gray and palest shade Of
drab are reserved for evening or day
full-dress receptions; almond, cedar
brown, grey and wood.brown, to match
all the Shades in costumes, for visiting
purposes, and black or Quaker-drab for
ordinary walking wear. The English
Isle thread, finished the same as kid,
and long upon the wrists, only to be had
| In soft drab, gray and stone colors, are
already 10 great demand, and form a
useful summer glove for those Who car
not wear kid in warm weather. The
new riding-gloves for gentlemen are OF
goat skin, pale buff color, stitched IN
seams which look like cords with darR
blue or scarlet silk. Summer driving
gloves for gentlemen are very nice. They
are of English Isle thread, In the usua
shades, the inside made of kid exactl!
| matching in color. The combination
renders them light, cool and durable.