River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-11-22
Educational.
III. =. BAKER, A. h.. Editor.
(CouErY uPERlETEEDESF.,

AND still the Normal Chart VIC
tins keep coming to the surface.
IDA X. HAWKINS is teaching in the
CoggshaIl district, Pleasant Valley.
FRANK NJ. NYE will teach in Alba
Webster's district, Pleasant Valley.
You will find much beauty in fake
of snow if You will examine it closely.
j. A. HURLEY will teach in the Rich
ardson school at the mouth of Lost
Creek, Ell Paso.
WHAT is the great incentive to obey
the rules of school! Is it the fear of
punishment, or the desire to please
the teacher? L.
The teacher who spends his leisure
hours in reading the latest sensational
story, can scarcely blame the boy who
reads the dime novel.--Er.
WHEN a young man thinks that the
chief end of his education is to keep
his hands soft, it is sign his head is
already soft.--Educationat Weekly.
WHEY you find a growing fault in
your pupils, look within and see if
they are not initiating your faults.
Try to see yourself as others see you.
WHY has a higher temperature fol-
lowed the late falls of snows Why
will pals of water placed in cellar
cold nights prevent freezing! Let
physical geographers think of this.
CHILDREN whose parents supplement
the school work by home assistance,
encouragement, and instruction. rarely
fail to become very creditable in
scholarship.
B. Ii. CoRcoRAN teaches in his own
district, Oak Grove. Although lately
formed, this district is equal to any in
enterprise. Improved desks, finely
finished room and district purchase OF
textbooks attest their interest.
w. j. MOORE has organized a debat-
ing society at the school-house in dis
trict No. 4, Ellsworth, which meets
every Thursday evening at $50, P. NJ.
At the first meeting the following of
fcers were elected to hold their offices
for term of four weeks:
President, A. Kelley; Vice-President,
w. j. Moore; Secretary, c. V. Bissell ;
Treasurer, Ella Durham. Question for
one week. Resolved, That the works
of art are more pleasing to the eye
than those of nature. Affirmative, w.
Durham; negative. w. j. Moore.
Programme for one week. Music, Ell
la Durham; select reading, Miss Lucy
Morse; defamation, Erastus Rice !;
essay, Glenn Williams; Grafton, G. V,
Bissell.
A PRIVATE letter from Charles A. Car
son, late principal of tie Maiden Rock
school, contains the following:
Il am succeeding beyond my most
sanguine expectations. at Alexandra
Minnesota. | know of no other town
of its class which has more brilliant
future. The bed of the st. Vincent
road is laid to this point, and cars viii
be running by June next. I am edit
ing a column for the Alexandra Post,
which is awakening unbounded inter.
est among the people. The town has
/, 200 inhabitants and will have five
departments in the school after thi:
winter"
CowARDLY punishments are always
iniudicious. Scolding is the worst Of
this class of punishments. 1t is the
rasping utterance of a chafed. coweC
spirit. The sour, whining threatening
dyspeptic keeps the school continually
irritated. The wise and sweet tenn
pered teacher or parent never scolds
never threatens, never irritates
These are the resources of sour, mear
coward. The wretchedness caused by
this base and criminal punishment
is beyond computation. Persons Il
whom the habit of scolding is chronic
should be excluded from the schoo
room. Educational Weekly.
Is not the above worthy of careful
thought. II. 5. B.
SrATIsrICs.-Of 6.152 children in the
county of school age, ALA have beer
in school one day or more. leaving
1868 who have not attended at all dur
ing the past year. 172 teachers have
been employed during the year to teach
schools requiring los. All but q
schools changed teachers every term
There are 9S schools in the county
/ The average wages of male teachers
has been $500; of female $3.50
500 children between the ages of
and Is have not been in school. or one
in six. Only one-half of those between
Is and 20 have been in school during
the year. 70 districts use Sanders
spoilers but only IA his readers. 9.
use Robinsons' arithmetic. Nearly q
districts purchase textbooks for the
pupils. The cash valre of the school
houses is $35. $50. The total amount
paid out for school purposes is nearly
$50, 900, or less than - per capita OF
population. 1t is about $50 per pu
pill in school. Of S20.250 for teach
ers' wages, 1920 have been paid tc
males. and SO, $3.50 to females. 19t
children of school age in River Fall:
have not been in school. IL cannot
receive instruction from defective in