The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-23

KNIFE. and doing many other little achieve
ments lhat suggest practical ability. 1t is
not learning trade, but assisting eye ard
hand 10 accuracy. 1t is more than kinder
Rarteu occupatlon as carried forward in
schools with dwarfed programmes, but it is
| part OF good kindergarten work when
properly taught and just as available for
children of 10 or II years of age as for chill
dren of B.
AS described by lecturer on the subject.
"sfoyd" promotes independence, self-rel-
ance, general dexterity of hand aud deyel-
opment of touch. 1t trains children to
habits OF order, exactness and neatpess, ard
aecustoms them to care and attention. 1t
promotes industry, perseverance and pa
tenee, and gives general dexterity in the
use use OF TOOLS Less grammar and more
sioyd would be beneficial in public
scnoois, especially as so many professional
moE, upon leaVlug our universities, bluuder
as.ttrTociomsiy In speech and often in writing.
oioyd' would have done them good.
Ii Is one OF the strange things Of life that
Inc restaurant frequenter, especially one OF
eplcurean tastes, becomes stated with the
dishes, however tempting, laid before him.
and longs for home dinner with few dishes.
some OF which may remind him OF the far
OF days of boyhood when the appetite was
strong and the. taste simple. The late M.
Renan was never so happy at table as when
he had bourgeois dinner at which to Div
knife and fork. He always declared that
he liked dining at home better than any,
where else. because there at least he found
the wholesome provincial cooking of his
early days. He was fond of honey. and
believed that, like good wine, it grew the
better Tor keeping At one time
ne belonged TO several dining coterles,
such as the famous Magny dinners,
nj hnr Of
week to eat and talk. Had he wished it
he could, OF course, have been always out,
Tor he was one of the most -sought-f0r guests
in Partisan society. But he was intensely
domestlcated, and really most enjoyed the
little family supper parties which took
place constantly under his own roof. To
these homely banquets one or two old
friends were always bidden-that is to saw
their converts were laid for them whether
they came or not" Thus an intimate" re-
iates of the scholar. So he lived to good
age on the simpies that kept him healthy
M. Carnot, the President, Is an epicGre who
regulates his stomach by a weekly dinner
on soup and boiled meat-a dietary reminder
OF the time when he could afford little more.
The fool is very persistent who insists
upon writing Robinson Crusoe," "Plu-
tarch's Lives" or Shakespeare" upon
scrap of paper about the size Of postal
card. 1t Is impossible to suggest any more
useful occupation for the patient asses who
thus throw to the winds the precious mo-
ments of life. They generally make a pres
ent Of their idiotie labor to some celebrity,
who thanks them In phrase0logy not too
gushing. 1t would be interesting to fad
out whether any one, even with micro
scope In aid, has ever attempted to read
these precious connections OF penmanship.
Probably not one document has ever been
perused. OF what value could it be to the
d. r. .1nfo l. I'D
no use to the world. The silly exploit is
just about as useful as finding out, ike the
soh0olmen of the middle ages, how many
angels can dance on the point Of a needle.
Professor Garner is about to start
school for g0rillas in tropical Africa.
Seeing the success of our educational
system in developing bosses and boodlers
and multitude of office-holders who are
more anxious about rewards than duties,
the professor might have carried on his ex-
periments nearer Washington and other
great cities than in the Niger region. But
it is only an experiment. and his efforts to
provide a grammar ard lexicon for the
anthropoids will not affect his phian-
thr0Dic ambitions hereafter. With black
board and chalk he hopes TO make the
apes think more than is their wont. He
may find out their qualifications for the
higher mathematics, and If they do not go
far in that direction he can at least show in
a book how they fail But he had better
not resort 10 oyer-pressure with gorillas.
He may, therefore. refrain from carrying
out the suggestions of a critic that lie
should introduce the tonic sofia n0ta-
tiOn and select some works on shorthand
ada pied to anthropoid intelligence.
The dentists professional career is seri-
ously menaced by the fact that he is too
successful. He provides customers with
artificial bones of pearly whiteness, but he
has no skill in preserving natural teeth ex-
cept by stuffing them. But as dentition
tends the dentist will soon have nothing to
operate upon. 1t is said by Mr. Leon Will
liams that in half century the poorer
people of England will be toothless before
they pass twenty. Poor people do not
trouble the dentist much unless they are in
pain. Tie Americans are described as
having the poorest teeth from two causes.
They are very nervous, which may mean
that they shake the teeth out. and they are
much too fond of candy, which furnishes
acid corroders fatal to teeth. Yet negroes
eat vast quantities of sugar and generally
have excellent teeth. Happily mankind
may dispense with teeth as long as food can
be chopped up so as not to require mastlca-
ton. In this sense the numerous family of
hashes has been benefcently created.
BRUSH.