Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-05
W0man'S Christian Temperance Union
CONTRIBUTED.

The Audubon Local Union will meet
with Mrs. c. Overholtzer Tuesday,
March 10.
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE AND HOW TO
TEACH IT.
Believing that lack of knowledge as
to methods more than lack of DISPOSE
ton to faithfully teach this subject &C
counts for much of the present imper-
feet work. the following is submitted:
We will suppose the reader has careful
ly persued the companion lcahet en-
titled what shall be taught the chill
dren," and the standard for temper
ance text books" adopted by the Ma
tional Convention of the W. C. T. u, at
Nashville, In 1887, and is in full sompa-
thy with the plea there made for teach
ing the whole truth against alcoholic
drinks and other narcotics, with only
physiology enough in the lower grades
to make these and other laws of health
ineligible and from text book as well
adapted to each grade of pupils as mod
ern school readers are, such person is
ready for the question here discussedi
"How shall These Truths be Taught
to all Pupils in all SchOals?" School
systems are so varied that TO meet there
differences we would suggest the follow
ing gradations by way Of illustration.
We will suppose the schools are graded
and the plan of three leading sub-divis-
ions viz. Primary, concerning the first
three years of school life; intermediate
or grammar, the succeeding five years;
and after that the high school.
In the primary grade where pupils
cannot read, if this study is faithfully
taught, the teacher will give as often as
every other day an oral lesson on the
subject of not less than twenty minutes
length. These lessons will not be mere
goody goody talks, but studies of truths,
illustrated and attractively adapted to
young minds with all the skill of the
modern objective methods of teaching
The lessons will be carefully prepared
by the teacher before she comes to the
class and from some text book that is
not only as well adapted to this grade
as the text books for other studies, but
that also makes the temperance matter
the chief topic.
The faithful teacher will realize that
the first real object of these lessons Is
to impress upon their young minds the
reason why they should not drink cider
beer or wine and other alcoholic drinks
and why they should not use tobacco in
any form. She will in addition teacl
orally such other simple laws of healtl
as their pupils can comprehend with {
little relative physiology. The last be
cause they cannot understand the effec
of these substances without knowing
something of the simplar .faota of phys
ology. For instance, they must know
something of the stomach and brain
and the work of these organs befor,
| ehO1 Iul NOV NlNOI VI lOUdCC'
will injure them. Because the teacher
has herself ordinarily had no drill il
} this, as she had in other studies, we EN-
phasize the recommendation that sh,
should prepare these lessons from som,
text book, endorsed by the Nationa
Scientific Department of the w. c. 7
T., instead of trying to teach out of he
own general knowledge" or lack of il
Not only is positively erroneous teach
ing thus being given in many cases, w
fear, but the essential facts of scientin
temperance are not being taught an,
, pupils are thus losing the warnin,
against alcohol and other narcotic
which 1t Is the intention OF The law the
: should receive.
Continued next week.