The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-08
AWAKE AND ARISE.
Also Some suggestions for school
Openings and Rccreations.

Also Some Suggestions for school
Openings md Rccreations.
Dear Friends Of the II. l.. C.-Awake,
arise! Come forth in all your wordy ar
ray and drive the ads from the II. l..
g. page Your lethargy has almost
caused them To usurp the major portion
Of the page and their Entertainments
are actually appalling. more especially
so when it is through no fault of their
own, but owing TO the negligence of the
members.
Morning Glory" from Bonneville,
Ind, lately wrote a letter to the club
asking some information about Opening
Exercises and Recreations," and no one
has answered it. Here are some meth
DDS used in conducting opening exercises
as practiced by the writer ca former
pedagogue). and which he hopes may be
Of assistance to Morning Glory and
others engaged in the profession OF
teaching.
The reading Of short stories and arti-
clcs clipped from the children's depart
ment of newspapers or selected from
juvenile magazines may be made an i'm
teresting and profitable feature of the
opening exercise The writer has several
scrap-books containing short stories and
descriptions clipped from the papers.
ana lneN nave proved especially inter-
esting and have been an unfailing foun-
tain Of delight for his pupils and he
might add for older heads, too
In nearly every newspaper something
OF interest may be founc and should be
preserved from the jaws of the waste
basket The newspaper is a golden
treasury Of useful information and
good thoughts. The careless reader
after a hasty perusal. consigns the
sheet to the waste basket and in so
doing very often throws away some
thing of value that If preserved i'm
shape for ready reference would be OF
interest and value at some subsequent
time. The writer does not advocate an
indiscriminate reading Of newspapers,
time is too valuable for that. merely
this, that such articles be preserved
until the time for their use arrives, and
be assured IL sometime will.
In many Of the weekly papers. es-
pecially the Chicago Inter Ocean, Louis
Vile Courier-Journal and Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, there are Chill
short stories or interesting articles ap-
pear each week written for children.
or course, with the meager salary paid
the teacher for his services he could
not afford to subscribe for all these pa
pers, but one paper supplemented with
either Harper's Young People. ST.
Nicholas or the Youths Companion.
would furnish abundant material and
more than repay the teacher for the
outlay.
If the school is so fortunate as 10 own
good library land every school should
have one) II may be drawn upon with
happy results. The library of the Rock
port city schools of this state where the
writer was engaged In teaching the
young idea" some two winters has an
excellent library which has been increas-
ed materially under the able supervision
OF Prof j. H. Tomln. IL now contains
several thousand volumes OF history
travel, poetry, romance, etc, for the use
OF the teachers and pupils and the num-
Der is augmented each year.
The teacher, IL he is prudent I'm his Sc
lections. will find that the pupils will
manifest a growing interest I'm the open
ing exercise. the first two results Of
good will be a decrease I'm the number OF
cases OF hardness and material change
I'm the amount OF time required for the
pupils to come to order after entering
the room and taking their seats.
Now this reading has a far better pur-
pose than the two mentioned. They are
results, but not the result 10 be attained.
To furnish the pupil with something in
teresting and instructive Is good, but
unless you can awaken the self interest
OF the child so that he will Of himself
seek these fields and find pleasure there
in. and have aroused I'm him an appetite
for the beauties Of literature. you have