The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-13
THE WISDOM OF YOUTH.
BuIPs-Eyes Made by Young Ideas
While Learning to shoot.
From the Canadian Magazine,

tIOm the N'duduidH AhdSdAlh
The school room of early days was grim
in character and restricted in quantity.
The boy was excusable who called his
poem on the departed teacher, THE Loss
of a WhaIer" Probably the best story of
genuine humor associated with the rod is
that told of the boy whose master hearing
a noise behind him, turned suddenly, and
selling the boy whom he suspected, pro-
ceeded to give him a severe whipping.
The more vigorously the blows were ad-
ministered the more heartily the boy
laughed. At last the irritated master
shouted, What are you laughing at,
sir?' II was laughing at the joke on you
Ha! ha! ha! you're whipping the wrong
boy"
1t might naturally be supposed that, next
to the physical affection periods, the most
unlikely time for humor to come into a
school would be during the religious ex-
exercises is some times disturbed, how
WHO made your" asked the primary
teacher. The little girl addressed evident
ly wished to be accurate in her reply:
length of a short baby-"and l growed the
rest
The word altar occurred in the scripture
selection. What is an altar?" said the
teacher. "a place to burn insects" re-
piled an honest boy. who were the fool
ish virgins?" brought the answer from
a little girl, Them as didn't get mar
A teacher said to her class: Whom do
you especially wish to see when you go to
heaven?' "Gerliah" was probably the most
candid answer she received. There was
no hypocrisy in the boy who longed to see
the great giant who had been defeated by
young David.
The religious teachings of home and
school seem to give flavor to answers on
very different ubjects-especially when
religious teaching is a matter of memori-
zing words not understood. The girl who
said, Republican is a sinner mention
ed in the Bible" and the boy who wrote,
There are good many donkeys in the
theological gardens had evidently re-
ceived a religious training.
The wards His Satanic Majesty" oc-
cured in the story read in one of the Toron-
to public schools. How many know who
his Satanic Majesty is?' said the teacher.
Several hands were raised, and the first
pupil named promptly replied: 1.-The In
When hygiene was taught in the form
of notes dictated by the teacher to be
repeated orally by the pupils, or written
down to be committed to memory, the
answers given to this subject were often
very amusing. A young temperance ad-
vocate wrote: Alcoholic beverages
greatly obstruct the breaking down of
the body" and succeeded saying exactly
the opposite to what he meant. A con-
structive anatomist volunteered the SEN
tence; THE eyes are set in two sockets
in bone which turns up at the end, and
then becomes the nose" One of the large
class that ventures to give general re-
marks at an examination a substitute
for accurate knowledge wrote the philo-
sophieal statement; The spine is quite a. an
equally profound answer; when you
have an Illness it makes your health bad.
as well as having disease" The girl
who wrote the following had doubtless
| associated with very selfish people: THE
body is composed chiefly of water, and
A few answers relating to other sub
jects will close my examination depart
ment." Prose tells things that are true
right along just as they. are, and poetry
/ alOnRP
is round straight line with hole in the
middle" Things which are equal to each
chief products of the United States is
earthquakes and volcanoes" The rapids
OF the st; Lorenzo e.i Is caused by the canoes
occupation is gathering Austrich feath-
ers.' 1.-The two most famous volcanoes
of Europe are Sedan and Gomorrah"
"Climate lasts all the time, and weather
life of scanfity'' John Locke's works
Of thought Julia Caesar was quite a
military man on the whole by the
Salic laws no woman or descendant of a
woman could occupy the throne" Co
lumbus knew the earth was round because
he balanced an egg on the table," "Al-
fred the Great reigned S72 years, he was
distinguished for letting some buckwheat
cakes burn, and the lady scolded him"
If anything were needed to prove the
repetition by the class of oral statements
made by the teacher, as a substitute for
teaching, the fonowing should be conclu-
sive: A word with whose meaning the
child is not definitely acquainted is merely
a new noise TO it. Even If it is familiar
with the meaning of the language it is
often liable to confound the words used
with others similar in sound. "Johh, give
an example of a noun" said the teacher.
and John, after meditation, gave organ
grinder" "Why2' Because he's per-
son plays a thing" Queen Mary mar
ried the Dolphin" Mrs Browning wrote
poetry to the Pottery geese" This was
not complimentary to the Portuguese NOR
to the teachers method of teaching liter
ature THE organs of digestion are the
stomach, liver, spleen, and utensils "
THE heart Is a conical shape bag" THE
blood is purified in the lungs by inspired
air.
these answers We're not very clear Tn
fortunately, there are many pupils who are
trained to repeat answers CORRECTLY and