The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-01-09
Nducat,onal Notes.

Educational Notes.
State Supt. of Public Instruction will in
augurate a new system OF institute instruc-
ton. Several counties will be grouped to-
gether and long term of regular normal
school work held. These who remember
the long institute held I'm Ow0sso In 1859
will realize the wisdom of this move.
Over twenty-five visitors were recorded
at the Ow0ssO central school building dur
ing last week.
Prof. +. nj. Hopkins, well known in
Shiawassee county school circles, Is among
the political luminaries at Lansing.
The cold, unsympathetic, stern school
masters who delighted I'm being like the cen
turian of old. have largely passed away.
The following by Col. Higgins0n contains
a lesson for teachers:
s. q. HOughton and JOS. A. Thompson,
two former Shiawassee Co. teachers way up
In the front rank are teaching graded
schools respectively in Bay and Lapeer
counties.
Morrice school is to have additional books
for its library, which had very respectable
start under Principal McKone.
Miss M. s. Lake of Morrice teaches this
winter at Pioneer, Missaukee Co.
A. j. Warner, of Shaftsburg. deserts Sh-
awassee and teaches In Ingham county
this winter.
The questions for the second examination
in Page and Swinton for the members of
the teachers reading circle have been pre-
pared and teachers will soon receive them.
Clinton county schools are to have Chi
cago d Rock Island R'y maps. Shiawassee
county has the Burlington Route.
Sec'y Dewey says that there will he an
increased number Of applications for second
grade certificates at the Spring examina-
tons.
THE CHILD's NEED OF SYMPATHY.
The child demands sympathy, compan-
iOnship, love. Here also the instinct of the
higher quadrupeds shows in touching way
the same demand. The dogs desire. even
more pressing than the desire for food, and
often displacing it, is to be with his master.
III his master is within doors, the dog wishes
to lie at his feet; If he goes to another room,
the dog must 90 also and establish himself
there; If he goes forth to walk or ride, the
fOur-fOOted friend bounds along in bliss,
OverjOyed to traverse miles of country
which he would never visit alone. An oc-
casional friendly word contents him; but
without cOmpaniOnshp he can do nothing.
Strange that we recognize this instinct i'm
the animal, and often ignore 1t in the child!
Every child needs cOmpanionship; to have
some one to whom every little Joy may be
impaired. Some of the most conscientious
and devoted parents who ever lived have
been those who never kissed their children,
and the same habit of repression still shows
itself in some households i'm regard to all
communication with the young. A woman
of genius, not now living, once told me that
she did not know how to tell time by the
clock until she was eighteen, because her
father had undertaken to explain it when
she was twelve and she was afraid to let
him know that she failed to comprehend
him. Yet she said that he had never i'm his
life spoken to her one harsh word. 1t was
simply the attitude of cold repression that
frOze her. After his death she wrote me,
''His heart was pure-and terrible; l think
there was not another like it on EARTH" On
this point i fear that she was mistaken, and |
that the race of such parents suryives.-T
w. HigginsOn, in Harper's Bazaar.
The following letter is self explanatory:
am troubled with a school visitor, and
want to know what to do. The visitor is
CdiOW yOuth wiz oiOiHo hiuioCll III IlS
Sunday clothes, red necktie and oils his
hair. He Ostensibly comes to visit the
school, but really to spark" one of the
school girls. The youth Is the son of a man
whom it is best not to offend because he is |
a citizen of influence. School work Is dis
arranged and the case has degenerated from |
that of visitor to nuisance. A poetic |
turn of mind has been induced among the |
pupils, not original but fervid. Biographies |
and other books are filled with doggerell !
stanzas such as the following:
If you love me as 1 love you
No knife can cut our love i'm two.
The same vein is continued in another re-
frain as
My love for you shall ever flow
Like water down later" row.
These samples are sufficient although |
they might be continued almost indefinitely. |
The trouble begins with the visitor who is
not subject to the control of the teacher,
and while he may not mean badly is sadly
lacking in the sense of propriety, and is
sentimental rather than sensible. Almost
every afternoon that red necktie comes in at
recess and is seated among the boys, grow
ing holder is soon on the girls side of