Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-07

Thought. Second LII CllltlVateS the intellectual
powers, perception, memory and the understand
ing and by cultiyating strengthens them. Third,
1t furnishes the student with the highest order of
useful knowledge and practical information, such
as may be daily applied to the teachers profess
sional labors and ayocations. Fourth, 1t tends
to broaden his views of life so as to appreciate his
position and reciprocal relations to all mankind and
thus inspires to the broad principles of philan-
thropy and the marshalng, concentrating and
directing of forces in the affairs of men, of state
and of the commonwealth.
That such an institution has been organized and
is now i'll active operation, and receiving the
support and Watchful care of many of our best
teachers is a thing in which the teaching faculty
of our grand old state should feel deep sense of
pride an institution upon which the friends of
education and the patronzing public should CON
graduate themselves, fornow even in it's infancy il
shadows forth a glorious, may say, golden age
in the school history of our state 1t requires not
the prophetic vision of Daniel of blessed memory
to picture the splendid future that awaits us in
this vital issue. II is not the fallacal dream of
summers day; but it stands as clearly defined to
the thinking mind as a realization of the present.
To do this needs the hearty cooperation of all
educators, the sympathy of educational friends,
and the support of the public.
1t is high time that the Arkansas teachers take
up the cause and plant the standard in every town,
hamlet and village, and labor to organize in every
county and every community, from the rolling
waters of the broad Mississippi on the east to the
border near the red man S forest home. 1t is time
each should account himself as one of the many
and join in the procession, OF otherwise lay down
his arms and withdraw from the contest.
The day of the SLEEPY Hollow genius has gone
forever, and his ideal school passed with him into
oblivion, and yet it would be safe to say that
there still may be found some fossils of that barba-
rous time in our midst. And shall we be idle
while such 4rehcs- remain in the land? s'As the
teacher 50 is the school," IT'S said then to reach
the school the most effectual way is through the
teacher Recognizing this maxim the Reading
Circle offers to us remedy for the old evil. Igno
rance is no longer plea, for the means are at
hand, the fountain free and flowing and all who
thirst for knowledge are asked TO come and drink
of its waters and be blessed. You are invited to
join the institution that you may be benefited and
through you the cause in which we are all engaged
may be promoted and that all interested in the
common pleas for education may likewise receive
a share of the fruits.
My fellow teachers of Arkansas, if you be
earnest in your VOCATION as do truly believe you
are, for the sake of the truth you spouse, you
cannot remain inactive and oblvious to the appeal
that is going up from every point of our broad
land and fair domain. The children from the
wilds and mountain Businesses are crying for help,
and are looking to you and to me for succor Our
brethren on the frontiers of civilization needing
help. Let us enroll their names among us. Let
those who have already fallen in line carry the
standard far and wide, and fight the battle till
every teacher shall have been enlisted. And then
will we, each one, be able to answer the question
in truth. While happy homes and a prosperous
land will attest 'what good the Reading Circle
has done me-"