The daily sentinel., 1912-02-14

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man, one of the Sons of Veterans, and
MI. A. p. Hoyt, a veteran, addressed
the school children. In the other
rooms throughout the school system
where addresses were not made the
children took part in appropriate ex-
ercises. They have learned to salute
the flag in way that is beautiful
and inspiring.
The children are showing great in
terest in the preparation of the fine
entertainment to be given at the Au-
ditorium on the evening of February
23, to celebrate Washingtons Birth
day and in honor of the old soldiers
The usual routine program of the
High School Faculty meeting was
varied Tuesday afternoon, when ped
agogiCal work was taken up by the
teachers. The superintendent has as
signed topics to the teachers in math-
ematics. Methods of teaching alge-
| bra and geometry were discussed.
Miss MCGOWAN presented her plans
OF teaching and gave an excellent
method of explaining positive and
negative algebraic quantities She
considers that the best means of elu-
cidating this difficult point is to use
as an illustration the money which
man has and the money which he
owes.
Mr.. Hirons. president of the Frank
| lin School, was the next speaker. He
endorsed Miss McGowan's methods
and gave some of his excellent ways
OF presenting the subject He always
/ takes a little time at the close of each
recitation to give the pupils an n
sight into the work for the next day
This is great help to the pupils and
they appreciate it. Mr.. Hrons en-
phasized the pacticaI value of higher
mathematical training.
Miss Carrie Lindley, head of the
department of mathematics and as
sistant high school principal, closed
the discussion. She told how to keep
up interest in the class work. She
believes in letting the students study
together occasionally, helping one
another. Miss Lindley often gives
outside problems to her classes and
/ introduces variety and surprises. She
makes the class room pleasant place
much like a little social gathering in
a home.
/ Wednesday morning in the assem-
bly, room of the new high school Dr.
! Riley ID. Moore addressed the students
on the subject of health. His talh
was practical and well established on
scientific principles. lie stated thai
there are two forces of nature, con-
structive and destructive. The con-
structive force builds up health and
the destructive force causes disease.
The conditions of heridity and envir-
onment are also involved, but good
health depends largely upon regular
habits of eating right, breathing
right, sleeping right, clothing right
and thinking right.
The doctor says that If we divide
foods into positive and negative class
es, we shall find that the positive con-
tains mineral and generally grows in
or near the ground; the negative us
ually grows on tall, hollow stems and
on climbing vines.
Most people eat too much negative
foods, such as rice, bread and cooked
potatoes. Raw potatoes are mineral
in their natural state but cooking
destroys the mineral. People should
eat more spinach, cabbage and let
tuce; speaking generally, more green
vegetables.
The Doctor referred to FletCherism
and its wonderful results obtained by
mastication. : MIR. Fletcher believes
and has shown that after the food is
properly chewed before it is swallow
ed the rest Of the alimentary canal
will do its work properly. DIR. Moore
told and showed the students how to
breathe properly, always through the
nose. IF you want to be master of
anything" said the Doctor. you
must first control Yourself" A shall
low breather is a shallow thinker.
There is less excuse for tuberculosis
than for any other disease. 1t near
ly always is the result of wrong hab-