The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-06
BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS
Supplemental Reading for the Ambi-
tiOus Pupils of Butte.
BEST GRADE OF LITERATURE
The Plan Is Approved and Much
Appreciation Expressed by the
teachers as Well as the Chill
dren-A Good Move.

some very fine books have sust ar
rived for the public schools of Butte.
several times during the year the mat
ter or supplementary and library books
Tor the schools has been brought before
the board of education by Superin-
tendent Kern, but not until lately were
FUNDS available for that purpose. The
trustees have been anxious to supply
the much-needed books or anything
else the schools may require to the
extent the school money would admit.
but they wanted to be sure their ac-
tons were according to law After
much delay the list prepared by the
superintendent and his teachers was
approved by the state superintendent
and the books ordered. Only $3.50 couId
be appropriated at this time. but a
large number of handsome and inter-
esting little volumes were purchased
with that amount. The collection re-
ceived consits of 500 or 600 fresh. inter-
esting and instructive books carefully
graded and suited to the needs Of
teachers and pupils in the various
grades, from the beginners to the Sc
Nor class of the High school, An adj
dfional supply will be purchased by
the High school pupils themselves with
the money they earned from the course
OF lectures given last week
1nSfruC-
tors that no improvement in methods
or teaching can benefit a school more /
than the introduction of the right kind
OF supplementary reading. 1t makes
school life pleasure to the children 1
instead of a task and affords the sim |
pie and natural cure for indifference /
and listlessness in the lower grades so l
common at this time of the year. A I
majority OF the children read their text
DOCKS several times through during
the nrst two or three weeks, and IL Is 4
then that the anxious teachers desire
Just the matter children crave, to keen
them busy and interested. The hooks
are peculiarly we'll calculated to create
a taste and habit of reading in those
who find mischief for their idle brains
and hands. 10 - 4 'D''9
Heretofore the teachers have had to
refer the pupils to the public library
ana every day large number of school
children go to the library and draw
out the Juvenile books that have been
supplied through the efforts and skill
or Librarian Davies, who has done
fnucn TO aid teachers in this work and
even started the practice in the
SCHOOLS: Few cities have so able and
neVoteo librarian as Mr.. Davies has
proved to be, and his efforts are ap-
preciated. ~
The public school libraries coY9nrise
sets OF books covering the subjects OF
elementary. natural and physical
science, history. biography and Iitera-
'ure, travels and geographical descrin-
IONS stories of great Americans and
american life and adventure, old Greek
stories and fables, etc, a KNOWLEDGE
u which Is essential to even an ordi-
lary education. The stories and de- {
criptions so charmlngly told and illus b
rated make deep and lasting i'm
preston on the minds of children ana
ne history and biography thus learned.
'imost In play, clings to the memory
ar more tenaciously than any lessons
hey learn when older The trustees a
ave aimed to supply suitable cases FOR p
objections in each building, and for the
resent the books will be under the q
narge or the principals who will fur :,
lsh them to the children as instructed "
y the superintendent. 1t has been de-
ioed not to loan out the books for u
nildren to take home for the present "
.ext year the library fund will he a
bout 5000, which will add a sufficient d
lumber of books to the nucleus formed
this time to permit of freely giving
hem out to pupils. sne