Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-12-27
HOME EDUCATION.
PLAY SHOULD BE A PART OF THE
HOUSEHOLD SYSTEM.

Hereafter Education win sIean the Cu,t.
uro of the Whole Eody-Damago some
times Done in the Schoolroom
Atmosphere of the Home.
Children should not be compelled to
take to the streets for sport II shouId
be part of the household system IN
afford play, and TO do il as surely and sys-
tematlcally as books and food. We have
good deal yet to learn about play We
should have our hours for snort and re.
taxation When the whole household
join in games. As home education in
creases, and it must increase, these hours
Will be doubly necessary. | would not
allow child TO study or read over an bo1,r
consecutively Then let him play ana
exercise his body one hour AT what are
should've cease to play? If fools. we NAV
stop early in life. On wise people never
cease to love and enjoy games.
But the play room is not ALL This is
the age Of manual culture The rraudast
or innovations has occurred. Hereafter
education viii mean the culture Of fine
whole body-handcraft rs well as head
craft. 1t follows that each house that is
intended for a home should have its nro
vision for the education of the hand-a
workshop, tool room for every member
of the family to find his chosen occupa.
ton. II necessary, Il separate building
should adioin the house Where thpra
are tive children there may be five SEPARATE
occupations chosen One of mine prefsrs
carpenters tools and engineering another
printers and a third cares mainly for
horticultuYa,
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM FAULTY.
L am now advocating such household
appurtenauces purely on the score of
health. Our scho& system is a blunder.
No child should study from 8 till II: and
especially in rooms where they must Sit.
A child at study should, much of his time.
be on his feet, or reclining if he chooses.
and changing about. When you add the
books taken home for evening study. Won
have shown up our common method.
whereby, to perfection, we destroy the
health, vigor, beauty and character Of our
children Every one is damaged and the
majority are spoiled. | insist upon plav
as duty, as a part Of life, as in fact it
self part of study. A teacher Of plav
would be far more sensible than the piano
at So to 81 lesson.
How about dancing? As matter of
health it is generally of no advantage
whatever. 1t is no sooner acquired than
night is turned into day, and then the
play is carried to such extremes as to be
disastrous have watched this matter
from Il physicians standpoint, and object
totally to three or four hours and especially
to six or eight, devoted to hilarious dane
ing, and those hours the ones that nature
devotes to sleep. There is another point
| cannot overlook. 1t is the close contact
Of bodies in round dances-a contact un-
wholesome, purely from physical point
of view. The moral effect others may
discuss, but l object to any delicate per
son being borne so closely into the atmos-
phere of grosser, coarser oges. The phys-
zeal effect is not likely to be understood.
but it is seriously evil | do not. there
fore, care for dancing, unless conducted
as part OF home sport, as it is not likely
to be.
A GOOD MORAL ATMOSPHERE.
1t is, however, folly to talk Of a
healthy home that is not charged with
good moral atmosphere. | assure YOU the
moral atmosphere is as real and TANGIBLE
and efficient rs the physical; and those
who refuse or neglect to consider it will
suffer accordingly. 1t is impossible for
US to have about us, in close intimacy.
those of gross temperament and physical
sensuality, and not feel the effect on our
bodies as well as on our minds. This holds
good, Of course, Of our own relation to
ourselves. If we do not sustain a spirit
of self-control and manly aspiration in
our souls our bodies are diseased as a
consequence. Oue-h half of all disease is
the result Of umsanitary mental cOndi-
tions Uniform honor, good faith, man
hood, temperate desire, kindness, will
have powerful effect in sustaining Wig
orous physical health.
| have a brother physician who insists
that if all people would keep in the best
of humor for one hour before eating,
during meals and for one hour after, they
would never be troubled with any dis
orders of digestion, or with headaches
He is a trite Crochetv, but lie is not far
from right in his valuation of good TEN.
per as foe to dyspepsia. At meal time
it IS peculiarly Important that all should
be decorous and kindly. The fashion OF
haste and fret at our meals is an indica-
ton Of nervous irritation, and affects
digestion directly. But in all other ways
a house should be delivered from the de
structive influence Of immoral or immoral
udDlIS- Al IdDlLudI SCOlu Is uOL Only
disagreeable termagant, but a destroyer
of the physical health of her children.
The effect on moral character is tailed
by the effect on the features of the young
have supposed some to be more
sensitive to moral atmosphere than
others, but on larger experience
am satisfied that all are influenced in this
way, and to their serious detriment. The
art of building a healthy home is depend
ent upon the art of being ourselves pure
hearted and honorable, generous, just and
adaptable Maurice, NJ. D., in Globe
Democrat.
A Much Discussed Question.
One Of his children had produced a
dinner table sensation by offering a
grammatical correction of the language
used by the head of the house to the
effect that the phrase should not be 1T
is L" but should be ut is me-" A chal-
lenge of the accuracy Of this view
brought out the further statement that
the educational authorities to which
this child owed school room allegiance
had determined that 1T is him" and
at is her" were not permissible express
sions, smacldng of vulgarity, but that
sit is me" had become esta blished in