The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-02
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Regular Monthly Meeting Held
at Broadway School Sstur-
day Morning.

Inc regular uOHtuly iustituOC "
the teacher of Sedalia was held at thu
Broad way public school building yes
terday morning from 8 to IL o'clock
Among the tifty-seven members bu,
three absences were noted, and these
we're occasioned BY sickness.
The exercises of the morning WERE
opened with several songs furnished
by the children of central Broadway
and an instrumental duet by Mis-:
Jennie Signor and her brother Lee.
The institute then began an hall
hours study of Tennyson
selecting The Lotos Eaters and one
or two other poems which were read
and the passages whose meaning was
obscured by chosen references were
parsphrased.
Each teacher read a stanzs.
Rev. Marquis next favored the
house with an excellent address on
the possibilities for good that lie
within reach of the teacher fully con-
secrated to his or her work.
He enumerated the various discour-
agements incident to the profession
and followed with counter examples
which tended to show that after all
this sun a1d shade only contributed
to enlarge and strengthen the teachers
capacity for successfully coping with
the exigiencies peculiar to the vOca-
ton.
Rev. Marquis by virtue of having
taught for a large number of years
himself, was enabled to give much
valuable advice to those teachers of
less experience.
He spoke for about thirty minutes
and commanded the undivided atten.
ton of his auditors throughout his
address.
His speech was highly appreciated
and the BAzoo regrets its inability to
publish it for its readers.
The exercises were concluded with a
paper read and written disappointment
ent Smith, the subject being taken from
the poem entitled The Lotos Eaters
which had been read by the institute.
1t is a scholarly and highly inter.
esting production and it affords US
much pleasure to give it to our read
ers in full. The psper as read is as
follows
THE LOTOS EATER.
The story Is not wholly poetical.
The journey of Ulysses is not unlike
the prilgrimage that many make in
this world. 1t is not necessary to
trace the parallel in its entirety,
but life is not unfrequently compared
to an ocean voyage, and we think
quite appropriately so at times. If
we follow this story of Homer's hero
for a short time we shall find that it
was after the God whose hand formed
the thunder. and drove cloud on
clouds, blackening the heavens with
storms after the wide waste had felt
the sweep and strength Of the rage
of Boreas, after the giddy ships had
plunged here and there through the
roaring waters, with shrouds torn,
masts down, and sails furled; after
being Overwashed and battered IN
the bay, after sgain raising the mast
and putting to the sea determined to
take things as they found them,
trusting the ship and trusting the
pilot, with prov Of vessel and hope
Of heart pointing to their native land
that adverse winds beset them and
finally brought them upon the coast
of the Lotos Eaters, and here they re.
,eived an earnest, ardent invitation to
give over all thor ghts offurther strug.
,Ies and further hopes and by partak-
king of the fruit that nature SO kind
v and generously bestowed, forever
est under the shade Of
rees, within sound of whispering !
waves, within sight of the
manifold wonders of the deep, within
hearing of the music of aeolus wheth
II with main strength he lifted up the
waves of the sea, or stretching forth
he white fingers of the wind caused
II the folisge of trees to rustic
md to laugh.
Returning from the conquest of
ONE grand mental or moral UNDER
aking to the predestined environment
& oyarv human heino-fo tho fold ,f
very day duties. to the petty cares
nd endless round of humble toll,
low many are tossed about on the
ca of life as Ulysses was upon his
cean, and with clouded sky ard
rippled craft seek some harbor for
epairs and while there conclude, like
be hero, to raise masts and spread
ais again and to trust to the pilot
nd the winds for safe voyage to their
wn land. In other words, adopt al
,tsliafic view Thew find fhop,.olvea