River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-03
Educational
N. b. BA n Err. A. H.. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERIxrEHDEsr.)

NCOtNIf SUPERINTENDEST.l
THERE is no scholarly .skepticism in
Boston,. Cook.
1T is no paradox to affirm that you
tend to purify mems thoughts and
feelings when you purify the air
they breath.-Lord Derby.
REMEMBER the Teachers Associa-
tion at the Normal School River Falls,
next Saturday. Also the lecture by
Pres. Parker in the evening 81 the NJ.
E. Church.
AlTIE RIDGMAN will commence her
school in the "Porter" district, town
of Trenton, April 23d. 1 think the
board of that district have acted wise
ly in engaging Miss Ridgman. Being
personally acquainted with her | know
her to be firm in her undertakings
which is the principal point in the
management of a school.
PERSONAL, practical. religion is eth
er killed or improved by the air man
breathes. Out door preachers get
many converts. Teachers who ven
tilate have bright pupils. the
stencil of dirty kitchen will make a
man backslide; of a close school
room will start pupils towsrd imbe-
cility. The brain is an epicure. and a
revengeful one. when Inis-fed.
SOME teachers review their school
and tie pupils in their term report.
We are glad to have them do so. We
give few extracts from one. Such
teacher, even if a lady, ought to
have been one of Napoleon's Old Guard
at Waterloo. Her success is sure.
''You seemed to think needed the
severe discipline which l received in
that place, and that it would be of last
ing benefit to me. 1 fear it was more
than | needed. Still | never turned
back until perhaps the last day. You
have felt storm in the air. even be-
fore you could see the clouds. So the
last week and the last day. Nothing
particular was done, but / wish there
had been. Then | could, l0ould have
conquered. do not wish to be tried
in like manner again
WALTER SMITHS Manual for Freehand
Drawing in intermediate Schools, is a
more advanced book than the Primary
Manual, but as it contains brief
review of the primary course, pupils
IL or 10 years of age can begin the
subject with it. 1t is scientific and
yet very plain textbook. 1t deals
with the first principles, instead of
pictures without plan. The style is
attractive and it will fill the teacher
with desire to know more of art.
We select two definitions to give an
idea of the strict accuracy of the
author.
An angle is the difference in direc-
ton of two straight lines which meet,
or only tend toward each other.
Surface has two dimenslons,-leng
and breadth. 1t is usually bounded
by lines, but is sometimes endless.
Drawing, as taught by this book, is,
we believe, the most strictly practical
of any branch. Price, $l.25. Books
to accompany, 45 cents. j. Ii. Am
mon, Chicago, Ill.
THE following subscribers to educa-
tional papers, mostly of recent date,
have not, we believe, been named in
this column. The subscribers to the
Educational Weekly must improve
rapidly if they digest its contents.
The NeV York Educational Ueekty is
also sound paper, and if it is well
read, it will profit. The others are
American Educational Monthly,
Libbie Mclaughlin, G. A. Carson, IL.
Lowater. New York Educational
Weekly, J. L. Rosenberger. Teachers
Guide, G. l.. Bowman. Educational
Weekly, c. w. Youngman,P P. Mcmahon,
G. A. Carson, A. Earthman, Hettie
Ives, j. l.. Rosenberger, w. j. Gray.
Wisconsin, Journal of Education, Ii.
Lowater, Fannie Thomas, Louie Burr,
Lille Mason. Annis Beattie. Fred Park
er, Inga Haugen, w. E. Denham, An
ME Spalding, Minnie Rogers, A. Ro-
o. A. Warren, Mary Dona-
hue, l.. d, Golf, Orvllle Wood, Emma
Watkins, Henry Holt, Sarah Bartholo-
NEW, L. j. Atwater, Kate Green.
National Teachers Monthly. G. A.
IL. S. Baker, G. G. Williams.
Common School, Annis Beattie
SIRE or no fire, seven or eight
hundred inches of ventilation, stem
perature about 60a F.''-R. f.. j., Ed.
Dept.
Although we might differ from the
author of the above quotations as to
the wisdom of SO low temperature
for the school room, yet we do not
feel disposed to seriously disagree with
him. provided that care and good
judgment give his rule a 1exibility
that will adapt it to the varying times,
seasons, and individual exceptions.
But as the SUNNI er schools are about
to open, we feel impelled to say that
those teachers who compel scholars,
whose clothing, after a one, or per-
haps. two-mile walk to school, is doubt
less damp with perspiration, to sit
motionless in fireless school room
and take cold air bath of go F., will
some day find a fearful debt standing
against them. Teachers that study
the physical welfare of their pupils
will find that nearly every morning in
May, and occasionally all through the
summer a little fire is rpouisitp TO ex-