Telegram-herald., 1888-11-23
FROM AUSTRALIA
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Readers ef the tglEesss HgRALD viii re
member shss about year sgo. Miss
Amsn3a Stout. = tesoheF H. the city schools
conceived she IDEA oi making TIE study q
geography more effective by having hsr
pupils sHtes iut0 correspondence With
other children il foreign lAnos. TIE ioss
VAS carried oat successfully '. ana tf0n time
10 uins Mas stout has received parcels Of
letters. some ir0D Iceland. some from Ger
maay sn1 0thers flulA AusirAiis. "hleh
have been distributed among bel scholars.
VINO ia turned have a1swsres ibsn. Tie
children IN OOgh countries are benefited ~
TIE interchange Of iuess ana are brought 10
TesiiZs that youth ls youth ins world over
BelOa VIII oe found several interesting
extracts iron the last iofelsu bulge. rs'
ceiysd by M Is Stout. the iettsrs having been
wHtten by pupils u ne Fin lers State
School. GeeiOlg Australia q. Hanson,
one o. the teachers IL tie school, 80 sends
n little note. 10 ~Dich he speaks as follows
in regard 70 some methods used % the
schools of that country
In the .chnol paper which l send you,
ou page l5S YOU vii see Result Questions
lou psrhEps have 40 acquaintance. proe-
tlcai / mean. with this Moloch 81 ours. ths
Result system Ii = through tie nre %
these questions. with Others adusd. that Ouf
unfortunate children aud teachers have
10 pass under The supervision OF
our Government Inspector, ia or
der that teachers mey gain IN
3 certain percentage of half the Lxed salary
attached 10 this class. As. for instance,
after examining every child last year the
inspector found our passes were o4.uiJ per
cent, lmOre than the third declined place,
so being III b. class man am paid
tls5NSs .C49 per cent. Oh the te2 this year.
Next vesr. by bad lack might have 10
take 20 per cent and work just a. hard
bnt the Result system cannon De dealt with
on halt sheet OF paper.
a l3-year-old boy writes.
Our chief games al school are cricket
and football and OF cold morning we
have d fine game OF football! 10 warm Us up
] am 10 the sixth class. and have been ~
il for about thIes years. There are about
sixty boys IN my class. and We do a grest
many things. Do You have drill2 and If
you do tell me something about il. We
have drill but i suppose II is lot different
from you"
Australian boys delight in practical Jokes.
as the following letter will show.
in West Gee Dng there is a large factory
called The Fair View Rope Works This
place is watched Dy man al night in case
| a hrs should break out One night some
of the boys VINO worked there managed TO
| get holi of the watchman's dog. IA large
| black oDe). and covered il with whiting.
| They let the dog loose and il ran after
| Paddy. Paddy became frightened and ran
away. Oh course the boy knew his master
and ran alter him. Th. incident gave
Paddy such a fright that he would not
keep watch at night for q bit
In regard TO holidays, a boy writes:
| We seem 10 have more holidays than
| you Besides the Christmas New Year :
and Easter holidays. we have three days in
| July called the Midwinter holidays. Tne
| 2ith OF May is our Gracious Queen Victoria :
birthday. There is a great excitement
| then; We have bonfires, crackers and FIRE.
works of al descriptions. The 9Th OF
| November is the Prince Of Wales birthday
aud II is just a repetition of.the Queen $
! birthday Last year we had more than
usual holidays, on account of Our Gracious
Majesty the Queens jubilee. We got a
week for this and on the 2lst OF Jane the
| city OF Melbourne was iiluminsted
We now have HOLIDAY; now
national school holiday which we did moi
get before. namely. the 26lh of January
called Centennial Day which is kept in
| commemoration OF the landing Of Euro
| peens on these shores
In letter sent from Miss stout's school
an inquiry was msde in regard TO the com.
| plexiOn of the Australian children TO which
small boy cutely answers:
LAS regards US some one inquired whether
We are blondes or brunettes / suppose
your nation * not intermixed very much
with the German Tor about As much with
them as We are with the aborgines which
is not at all and that you are therefore pre-
cisely the same people as we"
"A young girl writes: An aunt Of mine
and two cousins have been travelling in
Europe and have just returned 10 Australia
on their way to England. They went all
over North America AMI strange 10 say
they did not cav about New York I bsv,
always thougbt 1t was such grand city.