The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-05-01

one on whose solution most Of study was
expended.
Much has already been accomplished in
this direction. Every one Of the admira-
BILE normal schools of New York is obliged
to make a speciality of drilling the teachers
in hygienic physiology with special refer
ence to the effects of alcoholic stimulants
and narcotics. The same is true of Michi-
gan. Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island. Every child in those states must
be equally instructed i'll this branch Of
study. This area comprises one-seyenth of
all the school children i'll the nation, and
these laws have been secured in two years
of effort by the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. Since | began this article
M%issouri's Legislature has adopted the
J same law, and Massachusetts and Penn
~sylvania are almost sure to follow before
their sessions close. Nor is there a State or
a Territory in the nation wherein we are not
making strenuous efforts to secure a SINH
lar law. Mrs. Mary NJ. Hunt, of Boston, is
at the head of this department, and has a
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strategic points and skillful combinations.
In each State and Territory she has an
official coadjutor, who in turn has one in
each local w. C. T. L., so that 10, 900 lines
radiate from the headquarters Of our Ma
tional society to as many towns where our
local members are at work. But we do
not by any means wait for a law to be
adopted. We constantly petition local
educational boards and individual teachers
to use their influence for hygienic teaching.
There are thousands of schools to-day
where our new and complete series of text
books published by A. S. Barnes & Co,
New York has been regularly introduced,
and thousands more in which earnest teach
ers find opportunity, by oral and reading
lessons, subjects for essays, defamation,
and debate, to lay the foundation for more
systematic work. We induce persons of
wealth to offer prizes for the best essay on
the evil effects of ~intoxicants-22, 600 chill
dren have been thus reached in San Fran
cisco, Cal, and tens of thousands in other
States. Prizes are also given to teachers
in Normal Schools for similar essays, and
reference Libraries are furnished to such
schools. We have devised text book
covers ON which total abstinence arguments
are printed and which many of our unions
furnish free to the schools of their own
towns. The teachers conventions in many
States and counties nave adopted resolu-
tons declaring their adhesion to this Move
ment, and last summer the National Edu-
c~ational Association at Madison. Wis.
gave an emphatic utterance to the same
purpose. President Bicknell in his address
said: Two persons stand at the thresh-
old to protect the incoming generation
from becoming an easy prey to the devour-
er of health, happiness and heaven. The
natural protectors of our youth are the cit
adels for their defense. Formation. not
reformation. is now the educational watch
word which woman las proclaimed as the
signal to be sent to all her allies in the
world. and the two words. woman and
temperance, each the symbol of the good
and the true, shall be forever united"
Mrs. Hunt has arranged for a simmer
training school for scientific temperance
instruction to be held at Martha,s Vine
yard, which l strongly recommend to men,
bers of the teachers guild.
Talking with teachers on this subject
of scientific temperance teaching | have
found their sympathy almost universal, but
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over-crowded with duties that the practi-
cal difficulty is, how can We add this to
our cares or find time for the children to
take up another branch >" 1t seems to me
leading city of Massachusetts, made a con-
elusive reply to this objection when he
said recently in reply to the President of
the W. C. 7. T.: This subject ought to
be taught. If the schedule is too much
crowded already we will take something
ont and make room for this, because it is
entitled to the right of way
l believe this systematic instruction,
which both forewarns and forearms them,
to be the road out of bondage for the child
rem OF America. NO OtNef institution OF
the Republic reaches them all. Powerful
as are the forces of pulpit and press, the
former does not attract all ears, and the lat
ter is largely influenced by the saloon in f.
nance and the saloon in politics. But to the
schoolhouse door come white and black,
native and foreign born; inside its walls
are invested their formative years, and the
laws of their being, as set forth by science,
must appeal to their self-love, an attribute
upon which we may always confidently
base our calculations. The German, who
learns that the laws of nature takes sides
with total abstinence, will gradually cease
the cry of ''fanaticism.'' His boy comes
home from school and tells him that in
time Of pestilence and sunstroke the beer
drinkers pay forfeit and the total abstain
ers get off scot free; that these last are at
a premium with the life insurance COM
panies; that they win in the athletic games;
that they are the successful explorers and
victorious soldiers, and that chemistry,
physiology, and hygiene prove that this
must always be so. Mein Herr seoffed at
the crusading women, but the dignity of
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