The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-25

glass doors and in sections with adj
justible shelves with two and three
compartments for books, making a
complete and moderately cheap case
for home, Office or school, which NAV
be. enlarged at small expense. easily
moved and handsome case for the
money.
There are many kinds and grades Of
sectional book cases from the cheap
elm or ash to the costly mahogany.
but the Danner cases are finished in
the very best manner and fully guar
anteed by the makers.
Our laws wisely provide that school
boards shall expend not less than ten
dollars each year for each school de-
partment for library books, vet but
few seem to understand there is such
a law in North Dakota. for it is safe
to say that very small per cent of
school districts expend this minimum
amount for library books each year.
The school district that has a good
library makes its mark by sending
into the world better men and women
than does the district without a IL
brary.
Good books may be bought cheaply
and as reading maketh a full man.
children should have the privilege Of
reading good books.
How to Seat the New School House.
In our rural schools where all sizes
OF pupils attend, the proper seating is
one of the most difficult problems It
is very injurious to child's future
welfare to be seated all day long.
week in and week out for several
months each year upon seat so high
Its feet do not rest squarely upon the
floor. 1t is equally as Injurious to
have the desk too low or too high.
These troubles have in measure
been overcome by adjustable seats
and desks but school boards scarcely
ever buy them, nor do teachers call
for them
1t seems to have been a we'll estab-
llshed custom to place the smallest
pupils in the front rows and the larg-
est in the rear. BY this manner of
seating where No. seat is placed
behind No. 8 desk the seat is too
high for the desk. To overcome this
there is one school desk company that
makes what is called "divider DESK
which has a seat on a No. 3 desk to
conform to a No. desk. Even this
plan has not worked altogether salts
factory.
The better plan is to build the
school room large enough to be seated
with five or six rows of single desks
and put all one sized desks in each
single row, putting the smallest in
the sunny side of the building. Our
city and village schools are all fol-
lowing this plan and few up-to-date
country schools are doing so now.
The seating with double desks seems
not only to have been from a point
of economy in price of seating but
more especially to crowd as many
as possible into the little dingy room.
No greater mistake could be made.
The school room should be spacious
enough to give at least breathing
room. To huddle forty children into a
room not larger than the farmers
kitchen is criminal
tbs poor economy to cut down the
size of the room to save the fuel bill
at the expense of the health of the
children.
If it requires house 1Sx30 feet to
house a family of five or six it is not
reasonable to suppose that forty
school children should have room
at least. 20X30 feet-more would be
better. Country school architecture is
greatly in need of Improvement
Arthur Stringer, the author, is an
enthusiastic farmer, and has fine
fruit farm at Cedar Springs, Ont,
where he spends his summers.