The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-13

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 Going to school in foreign countries is sometimes attended with peculiar ex- periences which are unknown to school children in the United States,
 In Stockholm. the capital of Sweden, for instance, it seems that the boys and girls do not always answer to sound of the school bell with their faces and hands nicely washed and looking clean and neat. This, of course, never hap pens in America, where boys and girls are not afraid of soap and water, or the comb and brush; but in far off Stockholm, sad to say, it sometimes does.
 As remedy for this, one of the great public schools in that city has its entire basement occupied by bath rooms, and when a~child appears in his or her seat looking unwashed and untidy, down to the bathroom that scholar goes. A boy, after being scrubbed and having his hair combed properly, is made to clean his boots and brush his clothes before he is al- lowed to go back to. the school-room and begin his studies and recitations. There is no escape from cleanliness in that school. If the scholar sneaks out of cleaning himself up at home in the morning, the sharp eye of the teacher detects him as soon as he enters the school-room, and orders him down to the bathroom.
 Another feature oft his school of the bath-tubs at Stockholm is midday meal, which is given to the poorest of the scholars, whose parents are so poor that they cannot provide them with lunches to take with them, or have to so out to work all day and would, therefore, not be home to give the child anything to eat, if he went home at roontime.
 Strange to say, this feature of the school is much more popular among the scholars than the bath-tubs, and the daily combing and scrubbing.
 Another school which is rather differ ent from others exists in China. It is school conducted by the missionaries, and is attended by pupils of all ages from the little fellows with little pig tails to grown men with big, long pig tails. Even old men attend the school and study side by side with the young scholars
 One of the teachers says that one day she saw a little Shinese boy raise his hands as signal that he wanted to speak to her. Upon being asked what he had to say, he replied:
 Grandpa is sick to-day and wants to be excused from school"
 Sure enough, the little pigtails aged grandfather, who studied by the side of his grandson, seated on the same bench every day, and reciting in the same classes, was absent. But he studied hard to catch up with his grandson, who was his rival for pro- motion to the next niger class.
 Iceland, that island away up toward the north pole, never would suit some children as a place to live in, for in Iceland there are few primary schools. Until recently there were none, and the few that have now been established have not made any difference in the EGICld dl pldll oL tuuCdtlotl Ill LuG lSldlus
 But every house in Iceland is a school house, nevertheless, and 8 child has to study as hard as if not harder than he roes in lands where schools are many. Every parent is supposed to teach his children at home until they are old enough to go to the high schools, and so, in every household, right after breakfast, school begins and lasts for a certain number of hours.
 You see, the climate is so severe up there that small children going to school in winter would be likely to be frozen to death on their way to or from the school house when the weather is bad; so primary schools are dispensed with, except one or two in Reykjavik, the only city on the island.
 But the children are made to study to so much benefit at home that in all Iceland there is not a child over ten years old who cannot read and write. Boys are so well taught as they grow up that it is not all uncommon thing to find laborer who can speak seven languages.-Salt Lake Tribune