The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
MARIE CORELLI'S STYLE
SHOULD BE AVOIDED

oHVuLD Dc hvVIDID
miss Laura esfag garty, in Her Ian.
guage Lesson, Condemns 1t as
Artificial and Cautions Teachers al
the Institute Not to Train Scholars
in This Direction-Vigorous Eng
lish Desired--Lectures by Prof.
George Hull and DR.. Thompson.
The readers hereabouts and admir-
ers. perhaps. of Marie Correlli, the
philosopher-novcist. will likely not
brook the suggestion that she Is arti-
fetal or tends to ii in her style of en-
tertaning, interesting or instructns
q them This was the opinion passed on
her style or tendency, ut the Carbon
dale city teachers institute yesterday
by Miss Laura -. HngartN, of the
teachers training school ut Buffalo, in
the course of her lecture on elementary
T.. language.
Miss llagarty is an earnest advocate
of the use of pure simple, vigorous
English, This is the leading thought
of all her talks. No matter what phase
she Is dealing with, she finds or crc-
ates the opportunity of vigorously eX-
pressing herself on th! point. Perhaps
some might call he" a crank in thia
regard. bus Miss ilnsarty would smilc
araciousy in recognition OF what she
would receive as complimentary. At
The forenoon session Yesterday. Miss
llusarty got into an aside, rs ii were,
when Sh" reached the discussion Of
iNOdrru writer's: that il. the popular
novelsts of today.
do not train your children towards
thn urtinrial," she said with increased
. 'arucStncss. This is The tendency OF
niudcrn writer's. W" observe 1t in the
NoWerN lHnSuag" ;hat fills their pro-
Guctionm. t'ndor this head We find III"
Marie cor"li typn Listen 10 this. she
exclaimed with Il change OF voice that
indicated her feeling. Il recall tins
from curvlli's BHrrubas IN the scene of
Christ before plate. With plate as
her subject. she says:
Slowly lowering his hands. he
dipped them III the shining bowl. rims
ing them over and over again in the
clear. cold element, which sparkled in
its polished rccCptac" like an opal
against the fire
After reading this" Miss Hagarty
resumed. Nv" will turn To the Bible
and reed the description OF the same
scena ,'ila;e took water und washed
his hands This is what We should
aim at, this beautifully simple Ian
auase, vigorous ana strong. liuskin.
whose pure type we admire credits it
To his reading of the Bible
Miss lIasarty had something inter-
sting to say Of the criticism OF OVER
al,
schools; that there is Il danger Of eye
strain wading through SO much matter
In answer to this, Miss IIaaarty re-
piled that in no place were children
cared for as in the public school room.
There is no city where the physicians
are not Interested where there is not
closest attention To the ventilatins sys-
tenn, to the light and To the careful
seating of pupils. Teachers seem to
look after the children better than their
mothers. Mothers sometimes overdo
their care ut littl.. ones. The school,
however, seems to have struck Il happy
medium. As Il relief however. from
amy possible oVercrowling Of written
work Miss Hagarty advised black
board exercises. and warmly commend.
ed them ior their happy results in diff
ferent directions.
In her afternoon lecture. Miss Has-
arIy pointed out the Important intil-
"hce that stories exert upon the young
mind. For example, the hoy Who will
read Charles Dudley Warmers Hunt
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