Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-11-06

OF tno CerfOrS or a teacher K NINA
ton.
The following letter gives some in
formation on a matter with which not
many persons are familiar. The let
ter is one. of those pleasant exper-
fences that sometimes cross the path
way Of a aver tired newspaper mar
My Dear Gath: In running over
your very readible articles in a re-
cent issue of The Devils Lake Inter
Ocean, I noticed your cry for a word
to designate the typewriter operator
from the typewriter machine. Now
there is a word, "typist," which is
defined in The Century Dictionary
and C%yclopedia as Zone who uses a
typewriter. AS this is very good
authority, perhaps it will fill the need.
Yours very truly,
-. Mrs. Anne Torrey.
TX
"Say, I have changed my mind
about school teachers since I read
your note on their trials the other
day." said a patron Of the city
schools. Il used to complain aoout
the way they acted with my child
len and supposed they were entirely
at fault. I nave three children and
they not only worry me, but cause me
to make many mistakes when provok-
ed that l feel ashamed of afterwards.
Then when I think that a teacher
has forty or fifty Of those children to
deal with it is evident they have ten
times more trouble than 7 have. It is
reasonable to suppose that they will
make some mistakes, but if the mis-.
takes of a parent in the management
Of his children were subject to review
by a higher power would there not be
a merry war; And would not the
power of the parent be very much in
jured if the child should know tina
every time he imagined himself in
jured he could have the parent re
p%rimaned?
Does not the same reasoning appl,
to the teachers? I have concludes
that so long as the teacher tries t
educate my children I will give then
a ready helping hand
X X
We dropped into the Office of
pleasant county official the other day
and there found one Of those profes
sional men who live by milking til
proverbial COY while one farmer pull.
t on her horns and another her tail j
an attempt to settle the ownership
the animal-we mean the cow, IL,
the lawyer. The conversation turne
y upon the pecularities of the people
9 different sections of the country.
q is peculiar, yet none the less tru'
IT that in the older settled portions O
the country, you can almost tell whe
IS you cross the state line because of ii
Is difference in the customs and habi
of the people. This at first seer
n unreasonable, but when it is lemer
o bered that the original states were Sc
9r tied by people with peculiarit;es al
customs different from those of 9th
ID states, and when it is further reme1
s, bered that these people have prese1v'
e these peculjarities almost as in Il
a original, it can be seen why the
sectional characteristics are so mar
Or ed even at this late date. In the We
~ the mingling of all these ideas a,
~ customs aas produced the frogressi'
is society that makes the country t
high water mark of enterprise.
in *x
Down at Jim Hills depot the 9th
g. day some persons were discussi:
u some of the features of the state eal
Ut laws, while n or two were discr
sing other features with the first 3,
e. liable Of that word omitted. T
an feature that was most condemned v
as that which allowed a non resident
is come into the state. pay a tax of {
70 for the privilege of hunting, and til