The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-02-15

During the meeting at the Presby'
terrain church last weel, the Evangel.
list asked all those who had been con
verted before the age of 20, to rise
80 got up; and all between 20 and 30
z got up; 30 and 40 got up; 10 t.
SOL. Lew Wallace says that Ben
Hur when he first took the four wild
Arab horses to train them for that
chariot race, the vivid description OF
which has brought him the applause
of the literary world, talked to them
and fondled and stroked them so as
to first of all understand their tenn
peraments or the moral nature of the
horses. And it is said that he called
out the greatest speed of one through
gentleness, of another through praise
and fattery, and still another through
emphatic and vehement ejaculation.
It is certain that he not only knew
brute but human nature as we'll when
he said, cit is needful that I make
the acquaintance of thy Arabs, I must
know then by name, o sheik, that I
may speak to them gently. Nor less
must I know their tempers, for they
are like men,-if bold, the better of
scolding, if timid, the better of praise
and fiattery."
Therein is the key to the study of
the moral nature of children. If you
would understand childhood, study
the child. If you would call forth
their greatest attainments-if you
would have them active their highest
ambitions-if you would elevate
them to high and noble plane of re-
ligious and moral station, study very
carefully the the moral composition
of the child, and that once thorough
ly understood, the proper direction
must be of easy application.
Did you ever think that children
have rights? Rousseau, with all his
vagaries and oddities, was the first,
to rescue the individuality of the child
and made a tremendous plea for a
more natural, q more humane educa
ton. He was :banished for writing
his educational romance "Emile" and
his book was burned. Has the par
ent or teacher the right to injure
child's soul, break his will, make him
grow up a coward liar. murder
his faith? Remember that children
have rights as well as men and
women. II might be we'll to allude
to the fact that multitude of privi-
leges, or rather indulgences, can ex-
list with total disregard to the
child's rights. Remember that the
child has rights.
Many hopeful signs are in the
educational atmosphere. The mother
is learning the connection between
sterilizea milk and a vigorous baby,
between correct habits of eating and
sleeping, and good digestion and
quiet nerves; and the teacher that
law governs brains as we'll as
stomaches-character as we'll as
nerves.
THE PHYSICAL.
The first notable studies in physic-
al measurment made in this country
were made by Prof. II. P. Bow
ditch-who took weight and height
of 24,5O0 Boston pupils. he found
that until the age of II or II boys
were taller and heavier than girls.
The girls then begin to grow very
and for the next few years
surpass boys in both height and
weight. The boys, however, soon
overtake and pass them and remain
taller and heavier. He found the
children of American parents, taller
and heavier than children of foreign
parents, and urged that mental effort
be reduced during the period of most
rapid growth. The sons of non
laboring parents are taller and
heavier than those of laboring par
ents, and urban life less favorable to
stature than rural life, and greater
growth from May 10 November, than
during the rest of the year. Measure
your pupils, making note Of height,