The Jersey City news., 1902-03-01

taking his part against lawful school au-
thority, says Motherhood"
/ In what odther country besides free
America is ii true that the school teach
! er Furnishes a rebellious boy. whose great
est need is just that punishment, at the
| risk of her own professional reputation
| future success and present situation: !:
| Well she knows that the indignant parent
! of the boz on whom she lays her nand
is more than likely to bring a lawsuit
against her, which, although she will
probably be acquitted. VIII bring her
more discomfort than ought to be borne
IN ore short life.
i "Oh, but the teacher was wrongi'
/ Well, she might have been wrong; for
even public school teachers are not infal-
| lible but the effect on the pupil whose
naughty willfulness is thus set up against
! lawful authority is more harmful than a
| dozen mistaken punishments.
| If all the fathers and mothers would
recognize this, as some blessedly do, there
would be more hope for the future Of
Z, America. In no other country do we hear
of the teacher having this kind of trou-
BILE; and in no other country is the spirit
of irreverence so rife.
| Rules for the conduct of teachers are
promulgated every year at every county
| institute. We teachers wish sometimes
that there would be parents Institutes for
the PRONUNCIATION of rules like this:-
| l. Do not believe everything child says
about school. They are prejudiced little
| observers. favorable or unfavorable. The
| best of children cannot tell the teachers
motive and often misrepresent her ac
1 ix.- I'D
/ children, ii is much more likely to hap
pen with bad ones. who have, to say the
| least, peculiar temptations 10 detail
events not with the strictest accuracy.
i q Do not say to the child anything de-
rogatory to the teacher, even If you think
the teacher is wrong. Every vestige Of
good that might be done him through
the school year may be swept away py
/ one sentence from the parents lips. 1t is
not for the teachers sake that silence
should be kept 1t is for the sake of the
child, and the kindest thing you can do
for him.
g. If you do not know what to think
go to the teacher. Talk it over with her
You will find her more than ready to
! coma two-thirds of the way. and glad to
/ receive any suggestions from you.
Go during the session and visit the
school, if you can, but don't take her
time to talk over your Johnnie then.
That is the time the teacher must give
to the whole school She has no right
to devote it to any one. Wait till school
is out for the aforesaid conversation, and
she will be very glad to go over the whole
matter The additional help your john
| ME will receive when teacher and mother
! pull togehtre will be worth ten times the
trouble
/ A. (But this is useless rule, for it will
not be kept Do not say to the teacher,
ssMy child is so nervous; he must not be
! treated like the others. Every teacher
knows that every mother feels just this
way about her child The worst of it
| is that it is almost always true, for ner-
vousness is the crying American sin But
she has fifty pupils, all nervous, and she
must treat them all alike 1t takes all
the Judgment skill, tact. and knowledge
of human nature that mortal can pos
sess to rightly manage her little king
dom, and any help the mother can give
will be greatly appreciated.
"God makes everybody learn, but the
learn comes s-l-o-w-l-y," says our 4-year-
old, with an infection on the slowly
| that lengthens it into hundred years al
least Il wish I had eighteen brothers
and sisters, But eighteen would be q
pretty lot. l believe they would take al
the high chairs, and all the beds, too
The teacher has to learn, like every
body else, "s-l-o-w-l-y'' Moreover. She
has a pretty lot" of children to manage
No worker in all our land does more i'm
pcrtant or more faithful work; no one
has need of more consideration or gets
less. May the day speedily come Wnei
this shall be reversed, and the hard'
working representative of the pedagogy
cal profession, from the kindergartner te
the high school teacher, receive the more
honor because they labor with otner peo-
pies children.
Womans crowning glory may De her
hair. saws the Baltimore News, but her
most cherished possession is her COM
nlexion. She burns her .'crowning glory
with curling irons, imprisons it in al
sorts of curling devices and Ill treats II
n numerous other ways: but her COM
n,exion receives the tenderest care-in
fact, it is sometimes ruined py klhahsss'
rovelv woman is right in tbs direction
fas she is in most others), for the com
n,exon is to her what the background Is
to the picture.
good complexion is indicative OF :
certain strength of character, tor u
means that its possessor is temperate IN
her diet and that she doesn't permit ner-
self to be beguiled into keeping late hours
that is. not frequentiy-even BY the
most fascinating book or play
OF course. we are all acquainted with
few women--usually very young ones
who do all sorts of foolish things anq
SIN have good complexions. simply pc
canse they were born with them Sew
eral years may elapse before the ineascre-
tions practiced by these unappreciatiVe
n,artals have any apparent results; pul
when the blemishes do make their ap-
nearance. it will probably take seVefA
more wears to remove them.
This IS particularly tru Of errors ano
irrerularities in diet, which produce tha'
worst enemy of the skin-indigestioh. ohe
n,ust be afflicted in this way for quite
while before the entire system becomes
poisoned. but when this does occur ana
rough sallow skin is the result, a mucl
I1anger time will be required TO remedy
ave evil than that in which 1t was pro-
a.ced3 The wise woman will be careful y
tar selection of food and will shun pastry
sweets and pickles as she would poison.
while external application can 90 very