River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-14
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promptly. We are glad to know that
some have done so very fully.
ONE lady last summer taught school
five days i'll the week. attended the
meeting of the Juvenile Temple as
Supt, on Saturday; Superintendent of
Sabbath School on Sunday, and large
one too. She is not rusting out.
We found several schools nearly de-
populated or closed for the day on ac-
count of meetings, circuses, potato
bugs, berries, ETC., and when practical
bic gave them second call, and in
one instance with no better success.
MIRIAM GRAY, Trenton Prairie school
taught orthoepy and drawing and had
written work in primary arithmetic.
We are glad that her term has been
harmonious. But the school continu-
ed too late to have full attendance
at the close of the term.
MARY VIM. Evenson district, Ellis
worth. developed a good degree of
natural aptitude for easy discipline.
Oral geography, map drawing, printing
and industrial drawing, showed that
she had no fears of hard work when
it benefited her pupils.
RESOLVE that next winter you will, in
some way, directly or otherwise, teach
your pupils to read writing. 1t is
painful to see an eighteen year old
girl OF boy who has never read COM
position nor had drill in language
work, stumble and hesitate in trying
to read good writing.
LET not district clerks be tardy in
making out their reports. There are
some districts that will have trouble
soon with their treasurers, even if
both are honest, because the affairs
are so loosely kept, it will be hard to
give an account OF all money received
and expended. Require report and
full financial statement. Some have
not done it for years.
ARE there no district boards that
have to bear the reproach of expelling
written spelling from school, when it
should have disgraced the teacher in
stead? Are there no clerks who
have been asked by the teacher, in eff
feet, to prohibit it because there was
too much work in the exercised If
you are an old fogy, or lazy, do not be
ashamed to own it or else become
what you should be.
EMMA STIRRArr required her pupils to
put the words they spelled into SEN
fences, which is an addition to the
work generally done in spelling. which
we shall try to have generally adopt
ed. A word that one cannot use,
should never be spelled and then pass
ed. A tool of which the mechanic
does not know the use, is of little
value to him. Good work in reading,
printing, re-reading with primaries
and map drawing, all showed good
grasp upon the foundation principles
of the science of teaching. NO. 2, Oak
| Grove.
Tr gives very unfavorahle impress
sion to find no semblance of a pro-
gramme in writing, unless there is
some palliation in the fact of the
teachers having been there before.
TO say you have changed it is no ex-
cuse for it's destruction unless you
form new one. 1t is the plan, not
| the details, that shows whether the
| principles of forming it are under
stood. 1t is not vital to an observer
| whether there are six or four reading
classes, but the arrangement, even
| with three, shows all that is neccSsa.
ry. If you are ashamed of it, say SO
and change it.
| TEACHERS cannot do better than to
study sanitary science during the fall
especially in localities where shallow
wells abound, and diseases of mala
rial type occur. The early drought
and later heavy rains have seriously
impaired the purity of drinking water
in many places. Typhoid fever is con
/ sidered preventable disease. Organ
| ic matter in state of decay in water
is the source of many diseases. 1T
presence is not always perceptible tx
the sense of smell, but typhoid fever;
point to it with certainty. There i:
a probability of diphtheria in abund
ance later in the fall and early in thu
winter, among children. Look up thu
causes of these, avoid them yourself
and teach children to avoid them.
VIZ have seen May farmers fail be
cause they knew some other trade o.
profession and tried TO follow both. 81
school teachers frequently fail of tn
highest success because they try t
follow, at the same time, othe
branches of business. We refer t
other labor during term time. For
generation, however, it has been not
ed, that those who were studying 70
other professions during the interva
between terms have had good success
Why! Because the mind has thu
been kept active and they hav
been enthusiastic in intellectual pun
suits, and their pupils have, as is eve
the case, caught this enthusiasm, an
| studied with great zeal. He who il
spires his pupils to work does all tina
/ is required of a teacher, moral inf
! ence aside. But to study profession
j devotedly during term time, and t
: teach a school that shall be a success
] in all points, is more than one need
! expect. One half of one is less tina
one.