River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-20
Educational.
IN. y. BAK Err. A. h., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

CONE before your school with clea
hands not less than a pure heart.
THERE is an octagonal tower, eacl
side of which is ten feet. Required tn
length of its diagonal. Arithmetica
solutions only desired. ii.
THE teacher who is not learning
something all the time and does no
look over his lessons, gives his pupils
drink from stagnant pool DR.
Arnold.
Miss ELLA HAVEN last Monday begar
a fall term in the Weld district, tow
of Troy. The people are fortunate il
securing teacher of very fine scholar
ship. She was educated at Knox Col
lege, Galesburg I'll.
ONLY forty-three cases of corporal
punishment were reported by one
teacher during the summer term, from
a school with slightly self-willed pu'
plls--and teacher. He leads the adj
vance in point of steady, everyday
work.
IT is especially noticeable that those
occupations which are the most health.
full furnish a large proportion of the
insane, while that class who are en-
gagged in pursuits requiring higher
mental activity are hardly represented.
Farmers. housewives and common L.
borers furnish the great majority Of
inmates of asylums.-Dr S. NJ. Dari,.
liz is not very unaccountable fact
that we have had to blush for the in
competency of nearly every teacher to
whom we have gwen, upon the urgent
request of the board or district. a To-
cally limited certificate, Even when
such ideas are advanced as, sit is a
cheap teacher or no school, and IF
you do not we shall hire her any
way" it has not always turned out
well.
THE fact that with an experience of
thirteen years we have never found it
necessary TO strike blow. leads us
to ask an advocate of the rod, the fol-
lowing questions: Can he whip child
without showing the least angerl Can
he refer us to a boy or girl who has
been made pure and noble by being
publicly whipped! Why is the sub
ject of abolishing the rod agitated
1t must be curiosity to see teacher
who cannot touch child S heart with
out appealing 10 his back. P.
As an example of what is meant by
primary geography, as lately given in
this column, we have some maps from
Mrs. NJ. l.. Maxgood's school, No. 8,
Gilman, giving all creeks in the dis
trict, the location of each dwelling, the
amount of each mans clearing, indi-
Gated both by figures showing the
number OF acres and by shading; each
mans name printed upon his land, and
the section numbered. 1t is a part of
written examination by pupils eleven
years old from which we select.
On the S. E. Il of the S. L. a, Sec. 2,
is an oak tree, "a feet in circumference
feet above the ground.
EVERY school room should. in the
winter, have large dish of clean wa
ter upon the stove. Health and econ
omy both demand it, We give reasons
briefly without explanation: When
the air is very dry the top of the room
is very warm and the bottom cold.
Make the air contain more moisture
above and this is largely remedied. In
dry air the body feels the cold more
than in moist air of the same temper
ature asindicated by the thermometer.
Hence if the air is moist the room is
comfortable 10 degrees lower than
otherwise. Dry air is hungry for
moisture and evaporation takes place
from clothes, etc., filling the air with
impure vapors. Moist air is a better
conductor OF beat. In it the parts of
room distant from the stoves are
nearly as warm as those near to it. To
prove this, place kettles of water upon
the kitchen stove, allow them to boil
and do not increase the fire. Notice
the change when they begin to evapo-
rate.
The certificates issued last spring,
and those to be issued this fall, con.
tain besides the usual marks, the
teachers experience, attendance at
Institutes and associations, education
al papers taken, and school advantages
besides common. District boards will
do well 10 examine them closely, and
| let these facts have a bearing in the
selection. The items given show
whether the applicant is abreast OF
the times, or from lack of ambition, is
working with methods in vogue be
fore Horace Mann lived.
QUERY. Why does not the work in
/ the Journal of Aug. 70, begin with the
subdivisions of a section, and pro
eeed from that work up through ranges
5ase lines. principal meridians. etc.
The other work has begun with things
near and visible, and proceeded toward
those distant and less easily grasped
Answer. A careful perusal of my
articles on Primary Geography viii
bring to view the plan of the work
somewhat as follows: For the foun
dation of subsequent work in Physical
and Political Geography, commenced
at home and branched out until the
entire surface of the Earth was built
up; but, for the work in Mathemat
ical Geography, considered the Eartf
the unit hence started with that and