Middletown transcript., 1896-12-12
The Teacllers'
Round able
Conducted by A. B. srArD. Highlands, Del.
All teachers and friends Of Education
In New Castle County and the
teachers of Kent and Sus-
sex are Invited to take

sex are invited to take
seats.
A PRIZE FOR SOME SCHOOL BOY OR GIRL.
The pupil, who first sends the best an
swer to the following geography exercise.
will receive nice book. He must write a
full description ofthe " travellers journey
explaining and locating all terms in quo
tation marks. or underscored. He may
receive help from his teacher, but he must
state how much. When he sends his paper,
he must give his age. the name of school
and the name of his teacher. All papers
must be sent not later than Christmas.
A traveller left the Smoking Mountain
of Mexico, which is solfatara.n and
passed through country" which has
more volcaaoes iss proportion to its area
than any other part Of the s0orld. He
came to where they were building new
ship canal" and going down to the sea he
sailed to the Queen Of the Antilles" He
landed at the largest city " of the West
Indies. This city is also the : greatest sugar
market = in the world. Before leaving the
West Indies, he visited the island noted
for its lake of pitch"
After reaching the /" Triangular Con-
tinent," he sailed up the King of Rivers, +"
so wide that his ship was sometimes out Of
sight of land. This river drains a larger
area and discharges more water into the
ocean than any other river. It is noted for
its bores." The traveller passed from this
great river into another. ing canoe. He
went over into Little Venice" and wrote
his notes by the /" Lantern of Maracaybo." !"
In Ecuador, he ate oysters th1t had
groUm on trees. He saw a " tree peculiar
to the eastern slopes of the Andes. north Of
latitude 23o. He visited the highest city
in the world, and passed ".lake whose
wGters evaporate very rapidly. He crossed
a " desert" whose name can be remembered
by the number of " as " in it; and in pass
ing through the Argentine Republic, he
saw what is called " fulgurite." He did
not visit Robinson Crusoe's island home, /"
but travelling on south, he went through
the land of fire " to the furnace cape" )"
wish to call your attention to the fact
that the old Constitution of Delaware does
not possess line on the great subject of
education. The new Constitution certainly
will not be in keeping with the progress of
the times, should it not contain an articles
pertaining to education.
I take the following from the constitution
of state whose educational system is
good.
~ ARTICLE (?) EDUCATION.
SECT. 1.-The General Assembly shall
provide for the maintenance and support
of thorough and efficient system of pub
lie school wherein all children of this Com
monwealth above the age of six years may
be educated, and shall appropriate at least
Ia generous sum should be appropriately
each year for that purpose.
SECT. H.-No money raised for the sup
port Of the public schools of the Common
wealth shall be appropriated to or used for
the support of any sectarian school.
SECT. nT-Women twenty-one years of
age and upward shall be eligible to any Of
flee of control or management under the
school laws of this State
Something similar to theabeve should be
put into our new Constitution. 1t is my
intention to send out petition within a
few days for the teachers and other inter-
ested persons to sign. It will do no harm
to ask the Constitutional Convention to in
sert into the constitution, now under con-
sideration, an article on education
Let the members of the Round Table in
terest their friends in the matter. The
stronger the article on education, the less
attention may be paid to the judiciary; for
an efficient school system for our State will
mean fewer criminals.
May we have your names for enrolment
for the next number? I. trust that those
who are already subscribers to the TRAN
scrPT will not think it too much trouble to