The Forrest City times., 1897-09-17

cigar makers Slf. ms tflail itduS i"t u+tt'" minutes and rests ten. IlIe managers say the men work better when listening than when talking.
 The overworked teacher of crowded country school who has but little time from the regular work to read aloud. will see the intellecis of his students percepti- bly quickened if he give part of Friday evening to reading. and this will contribute a little to break up the common notion ! that the chief aim of education is to learn Arithmetic, and that the man who under 1 stands Book keeping and Shorthand has ascended the heights of business know!- edge.
 The teacher must not keep 10 stories or juvenilia too closely or too long. Some of the most beautiful productions of mod be readily grasped. But this reading to pupils is designed to induce them to read for themselves. Ii instead of exclusively adhering to the readers in the sixth grade, lessons were assigned in some periodical
 like Harper's Round Table. the teacher would see growing love for reading and l 1 follow this plan of using a weekly periodical Tn my own school. and have ob- served good results.
 As most homes do not have books. they must be thrown in the way of the children at school. As our country develops it will be possible for every school to have few we'll chosen books. The very sight of books leads to an interest in them. ex cept in the case of professors childYsn, who rarely take college course though raised within the shadow of the buildings.
 The probable explanation of this is that the learned father insists on the children reading books that are interesting only to specialists.
 ! You know that in college course. l,e- sides the study of English in class. certa n standard works are required in the way sf ! parallel reading. The system should h : adopted in the higher grades of oul' schools. The. reading as parallel, in the eigth grade, uf Lambs Tales from Shake the study of one ef the plays in the ninth grade. And this supplementary reading to be done out of school. will not crowd the course. There is no better introduc- ton to literature than Scott's Novels, and 1 they should be offered 10 children as soon as they will accept them.
 l l am using this system of parallel or 1 supplementary reading in the Jonesbore Training School. for this season. aud have adopted Scott's Old Mortality for the first term. t;oldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield for the second and .Macauley's Life of Sam uel Johnson for the third. On themes taken from these books, the work in Eng be done.
 1 The last point shall make is that an excellent way to induce young people to l read is by excited curiosity, and to be practical, 1 shall. without apology. take an example from my own experience. (which, after all, is tiie only field where we are masters.
 When l was quite young and in the pri- ! mary school, found in my old blue back Speller sentence to this effect. as well as l can recall it.: "Brutus lifted his sword, dripping with the blood of Cesar" I took it to my mother and wished her to tell me about it. This she did not do. She said My son, this refers to play of Shake speare, the grea test of writers. You can not understand him now. but it is one of my fondest hoW $ that you may some day take the pleasur>. ill him that do.' From this unsatisfied curiosity. sprang my first interest in Sha6 eSpeare. and long before ever attempted to read him. watched the big volume on the center table, gazed at the pictures, pressed veIbena wreathes between ills le .ves, and dreamed of the time when 1 Was to learn of it's magic con tents. One day 1 brought the book to mother ana uf sired her to select a play for me to try. But Is was too hard. l put the book hy. but did not relinqnish my hope, ansl one or two years later at. tackled the gr~,at volume with better sue cess.
 Ky such wise guidance. many children may he broue ht to love the best auth OTIS. The teacher Nrhb has no enthusiasm for literature cau iCt thus arouse the cnri. sty of the child. who should lear Ntera ture upon as fairyE nd, manklnd's plea iure ground. the realm of gold. goodly king dom which Is hts to enter and possess. -s-
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