The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
Notes ON Education.

NOTES ON
In the public schools OF Sweden tour
hours a week are devoted to instruc-
ton in the mechanical arts.
About a hundred of the public school
teachers of Texas visited the chief OBJ
iects of interest in the New-Orleans
Exposition last week. Commissioner
Eaton made an address before them.
calling their attention 20 the value of
the Exposition as IN educator.
The Indianapolis Journal hits on one
or two minor evils connected with the
meetings of educational associations.
Speaking of an approaching state
teachers meeting it says: There
will be the usual buncombe and peden-
try, inseparable from such associations.
Most of the male teachers will be
known as professors There will be
much windy discussion, and many
theories and hobbies will receive their
annual trotting out and airing But
the old reliables will be there, conserv-
alive and thoughtful, and many a
young college or normal graduate will
take his seat much more quietly and
less inflated than he rose. The book
agent will be there-the seductive
book agent, who captures some super
inteudcnt or school principal with his
sheer sociability, takes him to the
hotel, feeds him, smokes him, thea
tres him, presents editions de luxe at
a cost to his house of perhaps 50 cents
a volume, and finally succeeds in dis
placing some good textbook for the
new wares of the agent, and at a cost
TO the county of more than the teach
er's or superintendent salary"
''The Cumberland Farm School,
says The Nashville american, twas
founded several years AGO by Miss E.
i. Morgan, formerly of New York,
who has been q successful teacher at
Knoxville, Columbia and in this city.
She saw that under u present inefii-
cient system of public schools the
more sparsely settled sections of the
state could not enjoy even the mea-
gre benefits derived from that system
by the densely populated portions.
Attracted by the h~ealthful air and
charming scenery of what are known
as the Cumberland Table-lands, she
resolved to devote herself to building
up a school in the benefits of which
the children and youth of that region
might share-practical education, in
its largest and widest sense, being the
chief object in view. Miss Morgan's
early struggles were OF a most discour-
aging nature; help came slowly;
than once it seemed that her labor of
love must be abandoned as hopeless.
But for the outside aid already men
toned she could not have gained a
foothold. This she has at last sue
ceeded in doing-and barely this.
Her merits should have the hearty
sympathy and cooperation of every
friend of education in Tennessee. The
more influential citizens in her imme-
diate vicinity are already beginning
to appreciate her work. They pro-
pose to ask the Legislature to make
some substantial recognition of the
school, and petition with this object
in view has already been prepared. III
they do not obtain the appropriation,
it is hoped that they will at least be
able to draw attention to the school in
snch a way as. enlist q more liberal
popular support than it has hitherto
received"
Says The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,
1.-THE question of whether or no the
chewing of gum in schools and col
leges affects the pupil as to his studies
has been a mooted one since gum
chewing became so popular. 1t was
left for a Macon school teacher to put
the matter to u test and determine the
question. On Friday afternoon, as a
certain school was being dismissed,
she gave out that the class In arithme-
tic, composed of twelve bright pupils
of hoth sexes, would be divided on the
following Monday. Six Of the pupils
were to provide themselves with q
moderate allowance of first-class
chewing gum the other six were To
be gumless. Accordingly on Monday
morning there were six bright scho airs
Their jaws were working like so many
steam triphammers, and they were
eager for the fray. From the arith-
metic tine teacher selected twenty
nine problems and then the class
buckled down to business. The other
scholars stopped nudging each other
and looked e their biographies and
grammars at the dozen youngsters
who were to decide a very important
educational question. The teacher be-
gan TO throw the mathematical prob
lens into the class like so many jave-
Inns. The tolu-mashers warded of
the blows and held their ground. Be-
fore half the problems were given out
it was evident to the school that the
tolu-troublers had more gum in them
than they had been given credit for.
Finally the twenty-nine problems were
given, and on counting up the score
it was found that the chewers of gam
had correctly answered twenty-one,
while the gumless six had only eight.
This will probab Y work a revolution