The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-21
TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

The Device Adopted By the W. o. 4. U. Of
Oakland. Cal.
The beneficent effects of agitatiMg the
question Of teaching Temperance in
public schools is not confined to the
States which have secured the scientific
Temperance instruction law. Through
efforts in this department the subject
has been brought to the attention Of
parents and teachers all over the couin.
try, and this can not help being bene-
fetal, for it has caused an arrest Of
thought upon vital subject, and think
ing thereon has led to grand results.
Thousands of children are being taught
Temperance at their mothers Knee, or
in the family to-day, because the w. c.
7. U. has educated the conscience of
Christian parents along this line. In
hundreds of schools the effects of alco-
hol and tobacco upon body, mind and
heart are being taught because, through
the same agency teachers have been
convinced that, as employees Of the
State, to whom is, intrusted the train
ing of its future citizens, they are in
duty bound to teach those things which
shall guard them against the worst foe
threatening good citizenship.
In many schools outside the favored
eighteen States this teaching is SYSTEM
atically done from approved text
books. In others, where the introduce
ton of textbooks is not possible, ex-
cellent work is done through oral les
sons, for which the teacher makes
special and careful preparation with
the aid of the best authorities. Again,
much has been accomplished by plac-
ing Temperance books of reference in
school libraries, and encouraging
teachers and pupils to use them. The
latest device for introducing Temper
ance in public schools comes to us
from California. The Oakland w. G.
I. U. have published set of arith-
metical questions which are given to
teachers to be incorporated with their
class questions. We give a few from
those designed for each grade. If they
do not teach scientific Temperance"
they do set children thinking conce1n-
ing the benefits OF practical T ompcr-
ance.
l. There are 1T5.00O sadoose In the United
States. and 49,. 200 public schools; how many
2. There arc about Co., druDkards in tho
United stntes: How many cities of 4O.!,O0 in.
habitants each would these drunkards SoTm?
.. a. If a family spends ID cents day for
beer. hov much Is expended in weeks2 o.,
How MANY Ioaves OF bread, at 10 cents LOAF,
could be bought for the same money!
4. a. A smoker spends 20 cents a day for
cigars; how many dollars will he spend in one
half a year? N.) How many books At $2
ees% 8 ee Ssy w1h hs 6a1syf Is
beer bill for 6O days, taking twaguarts daityS
d. How many pairs of shoes at 81 q pair, will
this money purchase?
9. A young man. now 2l wears OF age, began
tn smoke cigarettes ut the nge Of IA, and
smoked 10 cents worth daily. How many
books worth 81 each. could he buy with the
money spxilt?
Z. A poer man, seventy years Of age: was
money spent for tobacco since he was twenty
years Of age. providing he spent an average
OF $40 year. how much would he have had?
8. A teetotaler and whisky drinker started
together on journey, each with hts his own
horse and buggy. The distance was 700 miles.
The horses each Travelled at the rate Of milts
an hour. The teetOtaler made the journey in
~ days. The drnker stOpped three times q
day ut the saloons on the way for his dram,
losing on. an average Of fifteen minutes every
make the Journey
O. al In early times schoharie. County. N.
", was bought of an Indian chief for a barrel
of whisky. II the Indian drank one. half .
low the whole county? o. As the county
contains 25B,0J0 acres and the whisky was
valued ut 81 a gallon, what was the price per
acre.
diameter. and Is feet deep would II take to
contain the 272.0O0 900 gallons of liquor con-
sumed in the United States laso year.-UldOn
Signal.