Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-05
LOOK AROUND YOU.
Good 4dcice from Prof. Hasbs,osseas Of the
Neac Jersey Normal School,.
From Golden Days

Neac Jersey Normal School.
From Golden Days.I
Soon after the first railroad was built
on Long Island an old Dutch lady, who
had never seen or ridden in steam car,
told her daughter, one bright morning,
she thought she would take a ride on
that road, just to see how the thing
worked. Accordingly she went, and,
after having ridden out several miles,
returned much pleased with her trip.
an reply to her daughters inquiry,
well, mother, what did you see?" abe
said, "Oh, nothing much but a hay
stack, and that was going the other
way" Now, my young friends, you are
disposed to laugh at this answer OF the
old lady, but do you know that there
are great many people who trsvel
through this world and never see any
thing much except hay stacks, and they
are "going the other way?"
am going to talk with you few
moments concerning the Importance Of
cultivating early in life the habit Of
close and careful observation; the habit
of noticing things around you with
thoughtfulness. I said a short time
since to one Of my pupils, young lady
who would graduate at the close of the
term, and one who is a good scholar:
How long have you occupied that
room of yours in the boarding hall?"
NEARLY three years"
at has one large window, has it not,
with large panes of CLASP"
Eyes"
@How many panes Of glass are there
in the Window"
She was surprised that she did not
know.
@There are many trees in our school
grounds, mostly deciduous, and very
few evergreens. Among those immedi-
ately around the school buildings, are
the fir or pine more abundants" I
asked, and again she was surprised to
find that she did not know. She will
not soon forget that object lesson.
When I first began to teach school in
the country I said to a bright boy one
pleasant spring morning, who had a
long mile to come to school every day:
well. my young man, what did you
see this morning on your way to
SCHOOL,"
Nothing much, sir"
1 said: Tomorrow morning I shall
ask you the same question"
The morning came, and when I called
him to my desk you would have been
surprised to hear how much he had
seen along the road-cattle of all sizes
and colors; fowls of almost every
variety; sheep and lambs, horses and
oxen, new barns and houses and old
ones; here tree blown down and yon-
der a fine orchard, Just coming into
full bloom; then a field covered with
corn Or wheat; here a broken rail
in the fence; there washout in the
road; over yonder pond, alive with
garrulous geese and ducks; here he
met carriage and there farm wagon,
and not only had he seen all these and
many more things in the field and by
the wayside, but, looking up, he had
noticed focks Of blackbirds going
north to their summer home. He saw
the barn and chimney swallows flying
about in every direction; there he had
noticed kingbird making war on the
crow, and here little wren pursuing a
hawk; yonder he had seen robins fly.
ing from tree to tree, and over there
the bobolink mingling his morning
song with that of the meadow-lark. In
a word, he had seen so much to tell me
that I had not time before school to
hear it all. A new world had sprung
up all around him; earth, water and
air were now all full of interesting OBJ
jects to him. Up to this time he had
never learned to look and think.
Things about him had not changed in
number or character, but he had begun
to take note of them. How many OF
my young readers have ever watched
the insects creeping over the ground or
up the trees? What do you know
about their ways? Do you ever watch
L. ..> o-.,, OF at sunset, When tnoy
are golden with the rays of the setting
run. How many objects there are In
sir, e.rth and water worthy OF our
c.o-o,t study, If we would only learn
to take note OF them! Wherever you
50, my young friends, always be OBJ
serving snd thoughtful.
HKX SIGNAL FOB THE Feast.