Arizona republican., 1892-11-24

or DdSeIutlJ. luSlue Lue DdSeIneII, about level with the top of the ground, hollow, square passageway runs all around the walls. Supported upon brackets in the center of this passage way runs the iron hus which conveys the smoke and heat all around the bottom of the house walls. At intervals are openings from the passageway to the hollow between the walls. The iron pipe heats the air of the hollow pas sageway, while carrying the smoke around again to hue whence it escapes upward. Inlets of fresh air from the garden open at intervals into the hot air passage.
 Somesco's great idea is the porosity of his walls, both the inside and outside one. He will allow no paper or plaster Both are made of porous bricks, the in side one being covered with woolen tapestry hangings that can be taken down and cleaned. The whole house is so warm that constantly in all weathers it is possible to leave the windows open.
 A writer in the London Lancet says:
 Over and above all these considerations M Somesco maintains he has realized the ideal that dwelling should be like our clothes, only not portable, but permeable. It should be warm, because it should be made of mate- rials that are bad conductors of heat. Indoors we should possess means of counteracting the chilling effects of the outer air. We ought to nG... -f T should consider our house merely if 1t were an extra greatcoat. The coat. if porous, will be warm and healthful. One of the reasons, he says, why we are apt to feel uncomfortable when 1t rains is that the rain blocks up the porosity of the walls, and that, too, on the windward side.
 As for microbes, M. Somesco proudly pointed to the artistic drapery which covered the bare bricks of his porous walls. "These are" he exclaimed, "my microbe traps. If have any reason to believe that injurious microbes have been introduced into my house, know pretty well where to find them. It would take but little time or trouble tO unlock all this drap- cry, to put 1t into the disinfecting stove, and there superheated steam under pressure, with out injuring the cloth, would assuredly kill the microbes. Even without these artificial meth ods of purihcation, if the walls were porous, oxygen would go wherever the microbe went,
 
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 It is better for schoolboy or girl to enter life with gentle, courteous man. ners than to know the names of all the British sovereigns in their order; better even than to be able to repeat the battles of the American revolution. The charge is brought against the peoples schools that the pupils are rude and jostling; that they are harsh and discourteous in their manner to strangers and to one an. other. In the kindergarten training it is certainly not SO. There one of the first, greatest lessons is to learn the ap- plication of the golden rule. Kinder garten teachers are gentle, low voiced and kindly, and the pupils naturally fall into the same gracious ways.
 It is quite compatible with robust training and strict discipline that the public school teacher should have the gentle, low voice; the gracious, magnetic manner. The pupils will catch some. thing of the gentleness, and object les sons and stories should be constantly placed before them besides, to produce this result If there is no time, then leave out little of the mechanical drill ing and memorizing. At any rate a harsh, wooden manner, loud, hard, metallic voice, as dry of human sympa- thy as a stick or stone, is one of the poor. est qualifications for the public school teacher