The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-10-12
DOlNGS IN THE SCHOOLS.

Literary exercises occur on Friday
afternoon in the 9Th, 7th and 6th
grades. Also in the High school.
They will be of interest to all visitors.
The High school foot ball team
visited Madelia on Saturday and played
good game, but were beaten to
nothing. The Madelia boys are COM
ing up here and our boys will retrieve
their reputation.
Supt. Kenaston made thoughtful
talk to us this morning on "Work."
eve all admire the sturdy oak that
resists the storms; the bicycle rider
who goes like the wind the ball player
who wins over strong competitor;
the orator who wins with thought and
speech. Skill and victory come to
none of these without paying the cost
in days of toll. So in the world of
business professions, and life success
and victory are won only by tOiling
early and late. and nightly. This is
eminently true in school. Hard work,
and hard work alone will win. 1t is
not less hours in school, but more; not
less study but more application and
less wasted time that we all need"
Reading is the subject for all meet
ings of teachers for October.
The drawing is exceptionally good
in some grades. 1t is more practical
and more from nature than before.
Most of the grades paid their
tributes to the poet Oliver Wendell
Holmes today.
The attendance at the Normal
High school musical recital last even
ing was large.
All grades are pressing for more
practical, modern, real study and
teaching.
Miss Keysor had good article on
primary work in primary Education
published in Boston for October.
Nearly all of the school children
and students in the various schools
Of the city have been vaccinated,
with generally good results. Hereto
fore the place where the lancet and
vaccine points have been inserted has
been on the arm, between the elbow
and shoulder. The requirements of
fashionable society now make it nee
eSSary for some of the young ladies to
expose their arms in the ball room or
reception room, and the scar left
from successful vaccination does not
tend to add any charm to rounded
and alabaster arm as nature nodded
it. In order to avoid this disfgure-
ment, many of the young ladies and
little girls have been vaccinated upon
the point of the shoulder, where the
scar will not abtrude itself upon the
public gaze in future social functions.
But not all of them have even risked
the point of the shoulder, for fear
that fashions may change or some
Quiet reason, So we dIG lulOIulou ny
the local physicians. No small mum.
Der of the young ladies have declined
to be vaccinated upon the arm OF
shoulder, but have joined in a new
fad or practice of being vaccinated up
one limb. This has it's advantages
besides the future social consideration
The arm is an unhandy portion of the
anatomy to be sore, as it is exposed
to Earring, and it's constant, use can
hardly be dispensed with. On the
other hand, very little Inconvenience
is caused by the vaccination of limb
We are inclined to commend this
change in the location of the applica.
tion of the vaccine points.
Charles p. Cooper is erecting a
$4,000 residence at the corner OF
Pleasant and Record streets He eX-
poets to have it completed SO that he
can move into it before winter. 1t
will make him a fine home.
The citizens of Good Thunder
have forwarded $47.55 to the Hinckley
fire sufferers.