Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-03

soend Il. A vacation ought to be, In all
that pertains Thereto rest. Il should
not be q season OF relief from one set of
cares merely to afford opportunity 70
shoulder others. 1t should be a change
and q rest complete. In all orderly
households the carpet cleaning and
pane -scrubbing are done and over with;
the winter woolens are stored and pro-
tected against the ravages Of moth and
dust; the spring sewing was finished
weeks ago and the summer outfits have
been purchased. Now, before the ad-
vent Of the canning and picking and
preserving season, there should be both
physical and spiritual refresh ment,
courses of study, Browning classes,
scientific lectures and the club work
which has become part of every wo-
mans life, should be laid aside and for
gotten. Only such literature should be
sought that will add solace to a ham,
mock, and luxury to a shady porch and
an arm chair.
American women do not spend half
the time out of doors that they should.
In this, their rosy, healthy English sis
ters set them wholesome example.
Time should be devoted every pleasant
day to a tramp, long or short, in the
woods and field, where they are access
sible, in the streets if they are not. If
the children are an excuse for remain
ing at home, they should be taken
along rather than that the mother stay
indoors all day. A pleasant day for =
walk is suggested, but it should not be
limited to fair weather. The benefits
of fresh air and exercise once realized,
the pleasures of tramp in bad weather,
httingly array ed for it, will come like
o revelation.
A walk in driving rain under proper
conditions has an exhilaratioR that o
stroll in the sunshine can never i'm
part. As so to the tired people, the va
cation should he as unlike the ordinary
daily routine as possible. This holds
good especially in the case of teachers.
There should be an oct of Legislature
prohibiting teachers meetings and in
stitutes and conventions in the summer.
They should have three months in
which to absolutely forget the shape of
the earth, and the multiplication table.
Teachers are accused of being
one-idead. How can they be anything
else, when not even in their vacation
can they get out of the school-room at
mosphere? The needs of the teacher
suggest the needs of the pupils. There
is pernicious habit, which inconsid-
crate parents encourage, known as
making up" grades or studies. The
child who has been in the classroom
nine months in the yearshouid have ab-
solute freedom from books when school
is out. 70 set them at work bringing
MP deficient per cents is cruelty, and is
worse than useless. We are beginning
to learn that all minds are not alike;
that some assimilate more rapidly than
others; that some assimilate more
quickly than others. 1t is foolish and
dangerous to force the slow mind. If
the task assigned it can not be mastered
in one year, give it two. All teachers
know how necessary this is, and all
have seen the hopeless dullard of the
first year, absolute master of the situa-
tion, the second, and furthermore, what
he finally acquires, in his own way and
time, he retains.
The rest is needed for the slow, and
it is just as necessary that the quick,
brilliant child should be held
back. If the books laid aside next week
are not opened until next September,
both mind and body will gain by the
relief from study.-MGrp Fl. KrOUt, in
Chicago Inter Ocean.