Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-02-19
ANNAPOLIS MD. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10. 1892


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The gain in school enrolment In New
Mexico in 1890 is 2s3 per cent. while tue
gain in population is only 2s per cent.
There are "a school children per / 900
population in Russia, and 49, school
children per / 600 population in this
country.
Throughout France gardening Is prac-
tically taught in the primary and ele-
mentary schools. There are about 2S,-
600 OF these schools
No college for women has so many
graduates in its classes as has the HRr-
ward Annex. There are 81 members in its
Graduate Club, and in the University Of
Michigan, among 1000 students, there
are only seven women graduates
The public schools in Dundee have de-
cided to make the highland fling and the
strathspey Of Tullochgorum and other
forms of dancing part of the curriculum.
Education in dancing, however, will re-
| quirs an extra fee, and will therefore be
optional
There are 4,2le teachers in the public
schools of New York. When "A normal
graduate gets her appointment she doe'
substituting for the sum Of $1.25 day.
When she gets school her salary is 940S
year, and at the expiration of IL years
Of meritorious service there shall be paid
q salary Of not less than $3.50.
vAssAR's PIN MONEY FUND
vassar is the only woman's college In
the country that has pin money fund.
Some good old New Workers donated
certain sum for free fund" not long
ago, to be used for fun exclusively. Every
year there are few girls in the college
who are actually psnniless. They have
sufficient brains to secure the free scholar
ships, and depend on their dsrning
baskets for the fees that cover incidental
expenses All through the year parties
are made up for lectures, concerts, operas,
readings, field sports, and excursions
about the country. These trips cost
money, and the girl who hasn't any may
draw ON the "Pin money fund" for ex-
penses and nobody but the lady of Vas
sar" and the treasurer will be the wiser,
Albany Argus.
now To DESTROY THE INTELLECTUAL
AND MORAL FACULTIES.
!. If a boy does his work thoroughly
and well give him harder work. If he
does not do this thoroughly tell him that
it is his own fault and that he is growing
Doth stupid and idle.
g. Impress upon him daily that the OBJ
ject of school work is to do better than
some other boy, or appear to do So
3. Do not allow the use of cribs, but
ignore their use.
T. When boy can do his mathemat.
ical work better than other boys of his
age, tell him that he should also be able
TO de his classical work better (his math-
ematical faculty will enable him to see
the force of this reasoning).
5. Tell every boy that he ought to spend
three hours ON his evening lessons, but
tell his father that they should only take
one and half hours.
9. II boy sends in better work than
you expect from him, tell him that he
ought to have sent in better work be-
fore.
z. Always tell every boy in the class
that he ought to be higher up than he is.
These rules, il fully and carefully car
risd out will turn bright boys into duh
ones in a short time, and successfully
confuse their ideas of right and wrong
London Journal Of Education.
WEIGHING SCHOOL CHILDREN.
In Denmark and Sweden it has been
the custom for many years to weigh aud
measure the school children every year.
Out of $4,000 boys and 5000 girls the
results were as follows: "In the 7tE
or 9Th year of life boys grow consider
ably in height and in weight, after which
delay sets in, which reaches its maxi.
mum in the 10th year and lasts till the
14th year, when considerable accelera-
tion of growth suddenly sets in. This
I acceleration lasts till the end of the 18th
year. Its acceleration is at first in height
and later on in weight, gaining its max
imum in the latter in the 10th year. At
the end Of the 10th year bodily develop
ment Of youth seems to end. In girls the
course of development is quite different.
The decrease in growth after the sth
year is not so great as in boys, and yields
in the 18th year to a rapid increase in
the height. The acceleration in the in
crease in weight comes later, but out
strips it in the 14th year In the 18th or
18th year the increase is but very slight.
The increase in weight, however, sinks
to zero almost in the Goth year, when
the growth in women may be regarded
as ended" A remarkable thing is that
boys grow faster than girls, in weight
and height, till the 11th year, then more
slowly till the 10th, and then faster
again. With slight variation, these rela-
tions obtain all over Sweden and Dem
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