The Monitor-register., 1896-11-20
GLEANINGs.
Local

Local.
Inc special feature of the local Union
lor fourth.day afternoon, 25th inst At
. o, ciook' will be Thanksgiving Service ),
70 De conducted by the President, Eliza.
beth Broadway. All are welcome
on the 1lth inst, after the opepino
services, in which was sung "Christ for
the World" and the business of the
the hour disposed of, the following selec.
lions were read by Elizabeth F. Smell.
oaker from the School Physiology Journal
In place of the topic of the day. which
was to have been presented BY Mrs J.
w. Humphreys.
An Open Window.
An open window! What blessing NAV
come In and what tribulhtions NAV take
their flight through an open window!
Gan you imagine the joy and hope
which came in at the window of the ark
when the dove alighted there bearing the
olive leaf in token of the re.appesrinp
earth
But it is not our intention to preach a
sermon.
Ihere was once school-room which
had as many windows as ordinary school.
rooms have. but they were always closed
Miss c., who presided over that room,
was conscientious, cautious little woman
who really thought that she was doing
the children great service by protecting
them from the air.
This teacher rode two "hobbies," one
named mo Cold Air in the School. ROOM
the other Thorough Work Regardless
OF Conditions. But her ride was
always uncomfortable and distracting.
for these two ''hobbies'' did not travel
we'll together.
In pure desperation, she one day con.
hded to her principal that in spite of her
most earnest efforts to be thorough in her
teaching, her class seemed to be growing
more and more stupid every day.
During an intermission, not long after
ward, the principal passed through the
room and finding Miss G.. absent raised
window. On returning to the room
Miss G. at once noticed the unusual
occurrence and stepped to the window to
close it, when her attention was attracted
by voices just outside. Some of her
boys were sitting on fence under the
window and were evidently discussing
their school work. She paused with her
hand on the sash, and this is what she
heard: = sssss5.ss
81 amt no fool" Bert was saying.
"but fellow can't learn fractions when
his head feels like a Jack. o.. lantern. She
kept me till Ave O'Clock last night
explaining common denominators and
things, but my head felt so funny that
couldn't tell thing she was talking
about and then this morning she got
furious cause didn't know it all.''
"My head feels funny, too. and get
awfully sleepy" piped little Joe. 81 wish
she'd let us do our 'rithmetic out doors.
l feel all right out here.''
Il hate the stuffy -school.room, any
way"
Miss G. heard no more. Her hand fell
from the sasha new thought had come
to her through an open window. "Was
that why her classes were increasingly
stupid in spite Of her lucid explanations"
She raised all of the windows and went
into the office to "think it out" Then
and there she met with not exactly a
change of heart, but with a radical
change of hobby. The windows were all
opened until the children came in. and
were raised again during the physical
exercises which she introduced into the
middle Of each session of school, and
were ever after left open during the inter-
missions, when the children were out of
the room.
She found after trying the experiment
for time, that nervous irritability, Der.
verseness and tribulations, of many sortr,
as well as wholesale stupidity, took their
flight through those open windows, while
ambition, clearness of thought, and calm
nerves, came in to make her labors easier
and to bless her pupils.