The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-08

DECENIBER VERSE
By Mary E. Todd.

DECEMBER VERSE
If we knew what hearts are aching
for the comfort we might bring;
II we knew what souls are yearnine
for the sunshine we might fling;
III we knew what feet were weary
walking pathways roughly laid,
We would quickly hasten forward
stretching forth our hands to aid.
II we knew what friends around us
feel a want they never tell,
That some word that we had spoken
panied or wounded where it fell,
We would speak in accents tender to
such friend we CHANGED to meet;
We would give to each one freely
smiles OF sympathy so sweet.
Blaming the other fellow always
fools yourself. Nothing goes out of
your life but to make room for some
thing better Let us see that we turn
everything to beautiful results.
A puzzling problem for parents is
what to do with their boys and girls
after they have completed the course
offered in the common schools. We
want right here to thank several of
the Seward county teachers for try
ing to keep such pupils in touch with
school life by giving them few OF
the branches, at least, of the first
years work in H. S., and reviewing
their weakest branches In the Ninth
Grade. Next year If crops are bet
ter they may be able to leave home
and attend school at Manhattan or
Emperia or the Barnes High School
in Liberal Just one year at Manhat-
tan would open a new world to the
common school graduates.
THE STATE TEACHERS AssO-
CITATION
The needs of the boys and girls
ON the farms of Kansas both fol
right training toward manhood and
womanhood and for right vocational
education, especially in Agriculture
we're considered essentials in guiding
the educational progress of the state
at the sessions of the Kansas STATE
Teachers Association which met il
Topeka on Thursday and Friday, No
vember 9-10
In the addresses by speakers from
within and without the state, in tbs
general discussions, in the spontan-
eous comments of teachers, and fin.
ally in the election of Henry Jackson
Waters president of the Kansas
State Agricultural college as the ex.
ecutive head of the association fol
the ensuing year, the convention
showed unprecedented interest In vo-
cational education in general and III
agricultural training in particular.
An unmistakable stamp of approva
was placed on the idea of training.
the boys and girls to be not only cul-
tured and good, but efficient and use
full. Everywhere in the sessions of
the association the thought of use
fuIness as a keynote of education
was manifest.
The new school laws have come
one for each district. Come and get
them soon.
Little Mary went into the country
on a visit to her grandmother. Walk
ing in the garden she CHANGED to
spy peacock, bird she had never
seen. She ran quickly into the house
and cried out: 20, Grandma, come
and see. There's an old chicken out
there in full bloom. Come quick"
Do you sing? Have you taught
the scale? How many new song,
have you taught your pupils?
The course OF study is wei
planned. II you have difficulty l.
meeting its requirements, look wei
to your methods of teaching. Yo
can do 1t if you will.
DO you know teacher that "nags
unconsciously? Have you heard al
follows: Now, you must stud:
more" "You do not seem to hav,
studied your lesson" "Have yoi
read your lesson over?" IF 20,
don't study now you will have to sta
in at recess, ETC., etc? Don't neg
1t does no good.
Parents, invite your neighbors and
visit the school. How does the
school room look? How can 1t bo
improved? Are the boys and girls
busy in the right way? Are they do
ing some THINKING or is it mere
memory work? Does the teacher
con6ne herself to the book or is she
resourceful? Your visit will bear
fruit.
Several teachers ask us whether
they should try to take the January
to secure a higher GER