Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-23


elements of character as well as to the
animal and vegetable creation. Careful
handling of books and other material
should beinsisted on: feeling of pride in
the possessson of books uniform, unsoiled,
undefaced by pen or pencil. should be
awakened. To permit pupils to whittle
away their pencils; to spear the floor
with their pens; to use more paper than
is reasonable, or to permit them to tear
their tablets into bits and amuse them
selves by scattering them over the floor,
is training them in the wrong direction.
1t certainly is training them in the right
direction to require pupils to keep neat
desks, and 1 consider it the duty Of the
teacher to inspect the desks OF the pupils
frequently, not in the absence of the
pupil, but in the presence of the school.
just as the military officer inspects the
quarters and accoutrements of his men.
One other habit which seems to me to
be of supreme importance is that of pro-
vidipg the proper material for work at
the proper time for that work. You may
not have many pupils who annoy you on
examination day with requests for per-
mission to borrow sheet of paper, or pen
or to sit with some one else who has a
bottle of ink; but if you have one such
case it is your duty to humanity to save
them from grown up borrower by cor
recting these habits of thoughtless de-
pendence, no less than to save your fell
low teachers from the charge of training
public nuisances. Instead of permitting
this form of annoyance, the teacher
should require pupils to provide their
own material or do without. Far better
would it be to have Johnny Jones sit
several days idle in his seat, miss his ex-
animation and thereby, it may be, fail of
promotion, if there were no other way to
teach him the lesson of self-reliant indie
selfishuess or stinginess. There are fire.
quently times when it is necessary for the
teacher as well as the pupils to give and
receive favors, and it should be the aim
to inculcate and cherish in all spirit of
generosity which shall prompt them to
grant such requests readily and ungrudg-
ingly. But my own experience leads me
to the conclusion that rather than to per-
NIT the promscuous and unlimited privi-
lege of asking small favors of their neigh
bors, it would be better to 60 to the other
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that pupils shall neither borrow nor lend.
Americans as people have long been
noted for their wastefulness of time and
money. With large percentage of our
population, the old saying, "come easy,
go easy" is the rule of life. Are we as
teachers helping to perpetuate this evil?
Are we making it one of our legionary
aims to so develop the best and repress
the worst, that strength of character and
the highest happiness of all may result?
We shall come nearer to the accomplish
ment of the latter, if we do not neglect
the teaching of Thrift.
Report of Wa-Keeney Schools.
For seventh month, ending April 8,
1892:
High school; A. d. Crooks, teacher
Enrolment, &c; per cent. of attendance,
S5.3; cases of hardness, II; pupils neither
absent nor tardy, Maggie BEEN, Arthur
Charvat, Walter Cross, Roy Marshall,
John Martin, Carrie Summers, Minnie
Whismore.
Grammar room; Miss Alma l.. Root,
teacher:-Enrollment, IS; per cent. of at
tendance. 85.3; cases of hardness, z; pu-
pills neither absent nor tardy, Bertha Mar
shall, Stella Sigler, Herbert Robinson,
Mary Charvat.
Intermediate room; Miss Mary o.
Shepherd, teacher:-Enrollment, 50; per
cent. of attendance, 84.8; cases of tardi-
ness, 6; number of visitors, 2; pupils
neither absent nor tardy, Bessie Damn,
Daisy Hoar, Karl Dieterich, Hattie Moe,
George Brown.
Primary room; Miss Elise Neuensch-
wander, Observation-Disclosures, 35; per
cent. of attendance, 81; cases of hardness,
6; number of visitors, 5; pupils neither
absent nor tardy, Ella Brown, Lena Diehl,
Ethel Damn, Ethel Hoar, Willie Lord,
Mabel Ufford, Ray Ufford, Chase Wilson.
The banner for the room having the
fewest cases of hardness during the last
month was awarded to the intermediate
grade. A. d. CROOKS, Principal.
Republican County Convention.
There will be delegate convention of
Trego county republicans held at the
court house in Wa-Keeney. Kansas. on