The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-05-02
WE AND OUR NElGHBORS


For week the weather has been very
warm and post lenten festivities have
lost 60. Lawns on which the green
grass grows and the kind that girls wear
as well as bishops. are popular. The
New York papers report society, except
a small part that has stayed at home to
get married on its way to Europe or
Newport. The warm weather arrived in
the metropolis week ahead Of the rest
of the country. Even the weather is old
when it gets to Lincoln.
In London the trades people are growl-
ing over dull times, reason unseasonably
cold weather. The Englisa spend this
time Of the year out doors. They are
bound to tradition and il it is too rainy
to play out doors they will not play at
all. or course custom has suited itself
to the average, the usual. In America
there is no average. no usual. The
weather melodrama is always new.
just at present those abomlnable hot
winds are blowing. They are the black
beast OF the Nebraska climate. 1t is
well. BY this means the population is
kept from becoming too dense to support
itself. The only heart breaking melting
question is: what will the Summer
bes"
Mrs. Peattie, 10 the Omaha World
Herald. thinks that the nearsightedness
OF the contemporary child is due to the
blackboard, the varying size Of the
characters the teachers see fit to place
upon it and the pupils inability to draw
them nearer in order to focus the eyes
properly. II this be 30 an electric rem
edy is easy il not too expensive. People
are 30 in the habit Of working children off
for half price or no price. Of making their
dresses or bits Of trousers out of any old
thing. OF thinking airy salary too high
for woman who only teaches children,
that plan for the preservation Of their
eyesight will probably seem a great piece
Of foolishness. Any one who watches
the children come pouring out OF any
one Of the public schools will be aston
ished and appalled, at the number of
glasses set astride the uniformed noses.
There might be a little blackboard
hinged to every pupils desk and con-
nected by wires to the teachers desk.
When she wishes to impress an improv-
ing theory on the mind Of the school,
by means OF the blackboard, she may sit
at her desk, and write. draw or cipher as
the occasion demands and the figures
will simultaneously appear on the indi
vidual blackboards. OF course the me-
chanism and the wires must be kept
locked from mischievous hands. The
Juvenile mind lacks q moral sense.
Nothing delights it 90 much as destruc-
ton and especially destruction in a
large sense as OF a system To pull a
wire out and thereby set teacher" and
all the teachers in the building crazy
would delight even little Eva" In
spite Of the diabolical tendencies of
children their eye sight should be pre-
served to them in hopes Of an adult re-
pentanee. The electric system referred
to would be forever getting out Of order
unless boxed and locked. Every build
ing would require resident electrician.
Perhaps when heating is done by cleo
tricity it will be possible to get a jsnitor
with q university education. The time
is approaching when the mau who knows
the ways Of electricity as only "profes-
sors" know them now, will be no more
remarkable than the man who can read