The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-24


dom Of a Milton. the eloquence OF a
Webster or h quiet humor OF an
Irving The u object OF learnins
to cad is to enable one to understand
the thoughts which are represented In
script and printed language at sight
and TO give Intelligent oral express.on
to those thoughts. The first aim
should be to lead the child to attend
the thought OF what he is going TO
read. as well as the words by which
IL IL represented. IL is impossible TO
do This by the alphabet process or Ly
any other which does not Introduce
him to the sentence very near the
outset. All instruction in reading
should make II Impossible for the child
TO attempt to read before he has the
thought well lodged in mind. Unless
this habit Is established from the first.
II will take a long time TO acquire
that fiuency in reading which will
enable the mind to grasp the sense n
advance Of u%tterance and control Il
in sight reading. The aim should con-
stantly be TO make good sight readers.
for no great progress Is being made
when a selection must be studied sew
eral times before 1t can be rendered
naturally and intelllgently."
Miss Lsngston- Eugene Field.
Miss Anna f. Langston. representing
the Blaine school. said. on the subject
OF Eugene Field"
Il rave no doubt that the famous
duel between the bingham dog and
the calico cat was suggested by the
presence OF those very quarrelsome an
mails within his study. as cats and
dogs, like women inc men. are apt
to be somewhat fractions and irritable
when excessively stuffed IL was.
doubtless. the look Of pugnacious stub
bornnese on the Bingham and calico
faces which bespoke the latent combat
i~veness. n suggested the probability
that:
The air was Uttered an hour or so
With bits Of Bingham and calico
And also that:
The Bingham dog and calico cat
Wallowed this way and tumbled that.
Employing every tooth and claw
In the awfullest way you ever saw
Then l have an idea II was VIVA
Professor Baker In the book called
The House. speaks OF as his wife's
possession Of the seven devils of or
der and method that the professor
found so detrimental to his conveni-
ence. which adds the concluding lines.
Next morning where the two had
sat,
They found no trace of dog or cat!
And some folks think this very day
Ihat burglars stole that par away
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: They ate each other up
Il have been asked since choosing
this subject IL IL could be made an ed
ucational subject. Fellow teachers. IL
we could acquire in any way-beg. bor-
row or steal-Eugene Fields under
standing of the child mind. our ef-
forts in behalf Of psychology and
child study would be greatly rght-
a.Al A. -. ~ - "a
we can inspire ourselves and our pu-
pills with the love of books. which was
a chief characteristic of this great
man, our influence in the educational
world would be untold. He declared
that he wrote Seem Things at Night
more to solace his own feelings han
to dellneate the eufferings of child
hood. Yet how clearly, our memories
whisper. does he portray the miseries
of the child h sees in the jark
things of ~indefnable shape. and
Il" Sometimes they are black as ink,
an other times they're white
But the color amt no difference when
o see things at night!'
Eugene Fields books abound in the
quaint and unexpected. both in pa
hos and humor. How our hearts go
Little Bow Blue
" The little toy dog is covered with
dust,
But sturdy and staunch he stands:
And the little toy soldier is red with
rust.
And the musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was
new,
And the soldier was passing fair
that was the time when our Lit
tie Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there
Books. books, books: give me ever
more books, for they are the clskets
we find the immortal express
SONS OF humanity-words, the only
things that live forever"
Miss acknowledging.
Miss Jennie Robinson. representing
the Franklin school. said. on the sub
ject OF Language"
Language, as 1t now exists. means
embodiment of thought in words.
II is thought expressed, as well as the
says Language n thought
are inseparable. Words without
thoughts are dead sounds: thoughts
words are nothing There are
two general theories for the origin of
spoken language-the theory of divine
origin and the theory OF human or
lgin. The theory of a divine origin
tSShiiiNE A-aA Db GtNf ll4l a IAN /
guage when he created him. by wnlch
he could Immediately communicate his
IDEAS and thoughts. The more e
orally accepted theory for the origin
1f language is that IL Is a natural cut
of mans mental and vocal
Man was gifted with power
" thought and feeling. and the fac
llty Of expression. He al moved by
his desires and impulses TO embody
lis thoughts in vocal utterances. These
were made partly by chance.
i'ded. perhaps. by the imitation Of the
,ounds of nature. The historical or
gin and development OF the English
language is well known. II being a
composite tongue. the basis Of which
: the Anglo-Saxon. with about one-
.hird Latin. a s%prinkling OF Greek 2nd
few words from other tongues. In
in language includes learn
to talk. learning to read. pronun-
photography. reading. lexicol-