Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-10-21

have fallen, that the greater nimber of hours
given to work the greater the amount accom-
pished. If biography teaches one thing
plainly it is that our most successful authors
and scholars have not spent great amount
of time over their books, but that they first |
learned Herbert Spencer's educational dog |
ma, "the necessity of being good animal" |
Scott, Dickens and Thackeray have taught |
us that the most active use of the facul- |
ties Of the mind depends on good digest
len. There died in England several years
ego the most remarkable literary man of the |
age who was pre-emnently successful as a
nevelIst. poet, dramatisi and statesman
and IN all these departments exhibiting such |
perfection Of skill, and such profundity
of erudition as to excite the wonder of his
contemporaries and yet Bulwer at the close
OF his life confessed that he never studied
more than three hours day and even less
number while Parliament was in session. II
is related of Elihu Burr,t that be was more
than once obliged to give up school teach
ing and betske himself to his leathern apron
and his blacksmith's hammer, because be
could no, work long enough while teaching
to study with effect. Evidently we as
students have many Lessons to learn but
none more important than this, that the use
of the mind must be accompanied by the ex-
ercise Of the body that as Plato advised
"the mind and the body must be driven
not reverse Juvenal's maxim and have a dull
mind in a dull body. A physiological writer
says that the average expectation Of life tor
clerg,men is sixty years; LAWYERS. fifty
seven; physicians snd professors. ifty-.ix
and at the end OF long table he adds that
teachers Of primary schools. that j. schools
below the colleges. are not over beautiful
nor very long hved-a statement not vel
calculated 10 ti.l with hope and encourage
ment the Youthful Aspirant for honor IN
primary work. But .. there anything IN the
nature of the employment that should pro-
due such result lraehing oi itself, be-
,uni all controversy, j. the most tealihf4i
and eAhilrraing occupation lu Sh.eh any
man or woman cat engage. Whatever &C.
umeui.. % The hfa.ta arse, from tae ac-
companyIng circumstance and ihr msnner 10
which tbc ~ork ! earned nu- There j. uu-
other ptarner grraN hrwi4. q" me teacher.
Mrf' 'N' excessive nAip''eA'lon ~ ot-
tA'.' Deb srh"'l management lhInA 20 r."
sNs'rins "! iuufN''s :, "i me 4h.N accunI4-
'N'"h "i "T''rh exercises % a.
sort, o' iAr p'tr' y rNhminAi''n
papers '' thr records y hr mAl- RIP.
reports To be prepared. and score oi such
c'4'AteFh. nret''i'ics-or uui'ances II yoa
prefer 'n cai' them 'uch-ihe most = which
mus DC attended To oni oi 'etoo. hours at
tha' TINE "h'oA should be particularly the
teachers own Some Of these thing, may
he % n" ~ securing good "ork n TIE
school room; 50 lar let them stand hAi TIE
mass o' Mem should De rtI"En'ed TO TIE m
'efha! regions 20 when long ago have been
consigned The !eathern straps. hard wood
'ttuirs' h'fch rods ana al "tAer implements
o' med'rNai ignorance and stupidity. Add
10 'h's The practice oi detatn'ng after school
'he 'uH ana me Id!e' pFac'ie" 'rom "h'sh'
thtoIsh 'he 'eaeher CONSCIENTIOUS u.slie 20
oths ''' 10 d" e4ha' i'm" oil a''''h"leni'' IS
50 hard to break away. While teaching not
night from short walk had an oecaston
10 pass sehonl house from which saw Is
SUNG at rare intervals solIar! pupil.
mad through many boylsh reeollectIons sort
OF instructive sympathy with those foguish
de!nquents; but because OF later and sal
der experience pictured to myself the
confinement Of seven, eight, nine hours Of
ten, when the sun has set aud the shadows
are falling, she closes the door behind her
and, utterly prostrated by the large nervous
expenditure OF the day, haStens 10 her home.
After light supper fer which the stomach
furnishes no craving and digestion does not
wait upon appetite she returns TO her tasks,
records and marks and tests. until exhaust
ed nature can do no more and sleep that
snits up the raveled sleeve Of care" comes
to her relief But even sleep, great ma
ture's balm fails 10 soothe her troubled
rest. All nigh, long troops OF intantlie de-
mons march across the field OF her mental
vision. In her dreams she endures all the
petty annoyances OF the day. Inc anxietIes
that gloom her waking hours return with re-
doubled force during her i'ful sleep and She
wakes 10 her mornings work IN worse plight
than II she had been visited the night before
by the "horrors OF the nightmare and all her
nine fold, What wonder she Is fretiuI
what wonder the natural unrest OF childhood
is magnltied through her shattered nerves
lh'" great ofeacnes Oh 'chooi uecorum'
nat wonder hef Pupi's can nef cross anu
pee'l'h ai'u learn 10 o''i'Ae her anu "ha'
wonder 'n-' teachers Oh pf'ha'! scnoo.'
are not over heathlul nor very long iNed-