Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-10
Boston Globe.

DOSOH utOOC.
!. George r. Beath, Arcola, H., writes to
know ''the value of a silver dollar of 1878
with eight feathers in the eagles tail"
1t is worth what you can get for it, Mr..
Beath. Perhaps the better way would be
to forward it TO me and l will do the best
l can with it. There being but eight
feathers in the eagles tail would be no
drawback. Send it to me at once and I
will work it off for you, Mr.. Beath.
Tutor" tucson, Ariz, asks what do
you regard as the best method of teaching
the alphabet to children"
Very likely my method would hardly
receive your Endorsement, but with my
own children l succeed by using an
alphabet with the names attached, which
l give below. | find that by connecting
the alphabet with certain easy and in
teresting subjects the child rapidly acquires
knowledge of the letter, and it becomes
firmly fixed in the mind. use the follow
ing list of alphabetical names in the order
given below:
A is for Antediluvian, Anarchistic and
Agamemnon.
B is for Bucephalus, Burgundy and Bull
head.
C is for Cantbarides, Confucius and Casa
blanca.
D is for Deuteronomy, Delphi and Efer-
vescent.
F is for Fumigate, Farinaceous and Funda-
mental.
G is for Garrulous, Gastric and Gangrene.
II is for Hamestrap, H~oneysuckle and
Hoyle.
l is for Idiosyncrasy, Idiomatic and Iodine.
J is for Jaundice, Jamaica and Jeu-de-
esprit.
X is for Randolph, kindergarten and Ku-
Klux.
L is for Lop-sided. Lazarus and Llano
Estacado.
NJ is for Menengitis, Mardi Gras and
Mesopotamia.
\ is for Narragansett, Nepolitan and Nix
cOmarOus.
o Is for Oleander, Oleaginous aud Oleomar-
garine.
Pts for Phlebotomy, Phthisic and Parabola.
Q is for Query, Quasi and Quits.
Risfor Reiuvenate, Regina and RequieScat.
S is for Simultaneous, Sigauche and Saler-
atuS.
T is for Tubercular, Themistoclcs and
Thereabouts.
L is for Ultramarine, Uninitiated and
UtOpian.
V is for Voluminous, Voltaire and Vivi-
section.
W is for Witherspoon, WoOdcraft and
Washerwoman.
y is for Xenophon, Xerxes and Nmas.
y is for Ysdle, Yahoo and Yellowjacket.
Il is for Geological, Zanzibar and Xucatecas.
In this way the eye of the child is first
appealed to. He becomes familiar with
the words which begin with a certain let
ter and before he knows it the letter itself
has impressed itself upon his memory.
Sometimes, however, where my children
were slow to remember Il word and hence
its corresponding letter, | have drawn the
object on a blackboard or on the side of the
barn. For instance, we will suppose that
ID is hard to fix in the mind of the pupil
and the words to which it belongs as IN
initial do not readily cling to the memory,
| have only to draw upon the board a
Deuteronomy, a Delphi, or a Dishabille,
and he will never forget it. No matter how
he may struggle to do 80, it will still con-
tinue to haunt his brain forever. The
same with u, which is n very difficult let
ter to remember. | assist the memory by
stimulating the eye, drawing rapidly, and
crudely perhaps, a Geological, 4 Zanzibar
or a Zacatecas.
The great difficulty in teaching children
the letters is that there is really nothing in
the naked alphabet itself to win a child's
love. We must dress it in attractive cOlors
and CANDY plumagc 80 that he will he in
voluntarily drawn to it.
Those who have used my method say
that after mastering the alphabet, the
binomial theOrem and the rule in Shelly's
case seemed like child's play. This goes
to show what method and discipline will
accomplish in the mind of the young.
Fond Mother" Braley's Fort, asks;
"What shall | name my little baby
That will depend upon yourself very
largely, Fond Mother" Very likely if
your little girl is very rugged and grows
up to be the fat woman in the musuem, she
will wear the name of Lily. When 4 girl
is named Lily, she at once manifests n
strong desire to grow up with a complexion
like OthellO and the same fatal yearning
for some one to ~strangle. This is not al
ways thus, but girls are obstinate, and it
is better not to put a name on a girl baby
that she will not live up to.
Again, Fond Mother" let ME urge you
to refrain from naming your little daughter
a soft, fabby name like Irma, Geraldine,
Banddoline, Lilelia, Potassa, Valerian, Ro-
setta or C~astoria. These names belong to
the inflammatory pages of the American
novelette,. Do not put such a name on
your innocent child. Imagine this in
Scripion on a marble slab: