The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-06
merrop oF rEAonINa M sREDEE

ing the common branches are shown IN
the Swedish sehOoIhouse. Foreigners
i'd geography, for instance, there j. q
blackboard upon which il painted an
outline Of Sweden simply the eoaat-line
and the rivers being depicted. In place
Of towns there are only little iFON pms
fastened into the board az the point |
where these towns should be located.
Accompanying the board is little boz,
containing a large number Of Oblong
blocks, each half an inch in length.
Upon one side OF the block is printed the
name Of some town. On the opposite
side of the block is a small hole, fitting
exactly the pins on the blackboard. The
pupil is required to select block from
the box and place it on pin which
should rightly locate the town printed
on its face. Any one will see how greatly
this simple apparatus relieves the tedium
of study. The pupil finds in it not adry
and difficult task, but an interesting rec
reation and amusement.
In maps, I noticed one set which are
worth especial mention. Tine first, by
means of different coIorings, showed the
location Of high and low lands in Sweden.
The second showed by the same means
the various elevations of the country !;
the third, the water-masses; the fourth,
the river systems; the fifth, the cOmpar-
alive fertility of different parts of the
country; the sixth, the density of popu-
lation; the seventh, the political divi-
sions; the eighth, the pOst-rOads and
railroads. These maps are furnished to
every school at government expense.
q Among other features that I observed
= was a series of colOrea prints, illustrative
of the manners of life in the different
provinces. These, however, were ratbel
. used as adornments for the walls than q.
a special study. Anarrsngement for pun
> fving the air in the schoOl-rOOm was to b
seen in the shape of a brass box abOu
~ one foot square, containing pine-taT. I
specimen of the stove in general use
g exhibited. 1t stands twelve feet higl
- and contains three tunnels, the hea
. passing up one, down another, and fnall
- up the third in the middle.
- DR.. c. J. Meijerberg, principal of tn
\ Stockholm primary soOels and swedis
= commissioner to the exposition, told m
- that, in his thirty-five years Of exper
- ence in teaching, he had found that II
- hardest part of arithmetic for a child I
. understand was the counting from one
- ten. Ofcourse, the pupil can master II
mechanical process in a short time; bt
to understand the relations of one nur
Der with another-Why six should
greater than three, or why nine shOu
''' follow eight-that was what he W.
trouble worst to explain? In order
facilitate the matter, he had made
'eE continuance which Is here on exhibitiO
ne It consists of q board on edge, With gQ'
III of holes running across. Beginning
nc the right hand, there are ten small hole
'eA representing the first ten numbers. /
" the left of these are ten more holes,
" larger size, to represent the tens; al
7t still further on are ten for the hundred
~ Accompanying thisapparatus are bundl
'.' of splinters, each bundle containing on
- two, or three splinters, all the way up
Is ten. The pupil is required to expire
' 10 one hundred and twenty-three, for e
III ample. He puts single splinter in t
uA right-hand hole of the hundred place,
Els two package in the second hole Of d
Oh tens, and a three package in the thi
lgs hole of the units. This involves do
ts' BILE process; first, selecting the rig
~ number Ofsplinters; and, second, Putti
cA them in the proper position. Of eOuI
An the whole affair is of the simplest Gu
hO struction, and is only designed as an
Oh ercise Of the mind.-P hiladslphia q
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