The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-08-21


will tell the teachers what TO look for
at the Museum, and tomorrow at 10
O'Clock he will show such teachers as
wish to see it through the Museum.
The morning hour, 8 to 9:45 will be
devoted to the consideration of school
government, under the direction of Mr.
Townsend. DR.. Lyons will meet his
class in physical geography for the
last time this evening.
The summer school was all broken up
yesterday. DR.. Dresslar has gone. But
the work that he has done, the impulse
he has given to more earnest work, TO
child study, toward high ideals, will re-
main.
The lecture yesterday morning was,
as announced, on the educational value
of ideals. Our bodies adjust themselves.
TO the ideas in our minds. We all know
how it feels to be frightened before an
audience, and we know, too, that our
limbs tremble and our mouth gets dry.
If our ideas are haZy our action will be
hazy. Why do man and wife come to
look alike? Because their ideas and
ideals have been the same for years.
If we can only get our boys and girls
to think of noble things, to have high
ideals. they will grow to the realization
of their essentials. You may plan to be
a lawyer, a teacher; you plan this for
the good you may do in that way, not
for the thing itself. If you can do as
much good in another way, it is just
as well not to be a lawyer or teacher.
Bad thoughts write themselves on every
limb, every feature of the man. Ideals
regenerate. If the Christ ideal is in the
thought. ChristIike deeds will naturally
follow.
A series of pictures in the Fliegende
Batter show sculptor at his work.
First he stands at the door, beaming,
as q dray brings in large block of
marble Next he is chipping away the
marble and the chips lie all around him.
Third. the chips are knee-deep, the
block is quite small, but still he chips
away Fourth, he sits on stool with
microscope, still chipping at the al
most invisible stone. What was the
matter? He didn't know what he was
trying to do. He had no clear ideal.
The sculptor can throw the chips away
and get another block. But don't want
anybody to throw my child away.
The lecturer then gave an epftome of
Hawthorne's Great Stone Face, lken-
ing the stone face in the story to the
ideal toward which Ernest grew.
"To test the drawing power of
thought, place pane of glass level
upon a table. Put three round, smooth
balls upon the glass, and another pane
of glass upon the balls. You readily see
that it will move easily. Now fasten
q point to the upper plate so that 1t
will scratch upon blackened paper. Put
your hand upon the upper glass and fix
your attention upon the corner of the
room. The mark on the paper will show
that you moved toward that corner.
Watch vibrating pendulum; the pa
per will show that you yibrate too.
Another experiment showing the direct
ing power of thought is easily per-
formed as follows: Fix your eyes on
a bright light in dark room. Shut
your eyes. Turn your head. When
YOU open your eyes there will be
found not looking in the direction in
which your head is turned, but toward
the light.
"A lady went to see Bishop Vincent
and asked him why it was that all three
of her boys had gone to sea in spite OF
everything she could do to prevent IT,
He went with her to her home. AS
soon as he stepped into the parlor he
said: There is the cause!' What was
il? beautiful picture of the deep blue
sea, with a majestic ship sailing forth
upon it. This ideal had been before
those boys minds more constantly and
oil no
grown to it.
"A Western boy furnishes me with
character and life / love to study. He
was poor. his nobility, his education
did not come from the poor books he
read by the fitful freight. He had in
him the, ideal of a helpful, noble man.
He worked out his ideal and became
Lincoln.
Our ideal as teachers must be to fit
children for the noblest life. To this
end fit yourselves for the noblest lives.
Go to college if you can. Go anywhere
to get nobler ideals We invest in town
lots. in plantations. Let me tell you a
better investment Invest in your
selves"
After the lecture the people crowded
around DR. Dresslar to thank him. A
little later he school was called to or
der again, and he gave lists of the best
books in the science, art and history
of pedagogy. The school, after this,
went to the front steps to be photo
graphed in a body, and those who had
not previously enrolled did so now.
DR. Lyons, last evening, spoke chiefly
of clouds and rain. Clouds are of three
kinds-cumulus, cirrus and stratus
named from their shapes, the cumulus
being of a piled-up form, the cirrus
hairlike, and the stratus in layers
This much all physical biographies
give. But most do not tell why they
have these forms. When the earth is
heated the hot air breaks in some places
through the upper layer of air. AS it
goes up the moisture condenses and
forms clouds. These clouds naturally
have a conical form. The stratus is
night cloud formed by the cooling air,
the heat radiating from the upper side.