The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-11

WAS WELL ATTENDED
Delivers Striking Address to a
Good Attendance Last Night
on an important
Topic.

cial hygiene authority, arrived In the
city Saturday morning. His first lee
ture was to the public school teachers
OF the city on the subject OF Ethics
and Pedagogy"
The doctor took the subject and
developed 1t from the standpoint OF
racial history, basing his remarks on
the great fact that every human
being, from infancy repeats the his,
tory of the race. He spoke OF how
man merged from the primeval state
into the state Of the savage, and from
that of the savage to that of the bar
barian.
In the state OF the savage, man
dwelt In caves, because he had not
yet developed to the place where he
could defend himself from the dan.
gers of the valleys and forestand the
caves served for protection. The
savage was fetish worshiper.
The barbarian inhabited the valleys
and forests. They made weapons OF
offense; built fortresses after a crude
manner. They were rough and ready.
cruel and vulgar. They spent their
time in killing game, carnivorous AMI
mails, and when they were not doing
that they were killing each other.
They were. crude and cruel.
Following the barbarian age came
the age Of chivalry. The golden age
OF central and western Europe, this
age eliminated when Elizabeth was
queen of England. Since that time
we, the great Ayrian race have con-
tinued to develop and we are bound
to go onward.
Taking the child and following his
emotions and mode OF living we can
further develop the fact that every
/ human being from infancy repeats
the history OF the race.
During his first three years the
child is busy trying to express emo
tions. The next age from four to ten
| is the age of the savage. The boys
have caves, they build RATS or ap-
propriate a convenient barn door for
the same. They cannot tell why they
do these things any more than the
robin can tell why she builds a nest
but nevertheless they do these very
things. The solution is recapitulation
4 They are doing the things that theil
forefathers did hundred of years ago
The savage was a fetish worship
per, so the boy at this time. He
/ comes to school with his pockets
1 bullying because of mysterious acqui
4 sitions and treasures. You no doub'
call it trash. traps or some Other
i such name, but to the boy these
I things are treasures. If you have oc
casion to take them from him, do mo-
make the mistake of applying any
other term to them other than treas
ures or trinkets. If you do you lose
the boys admiration. Take the OBJ
ject, whatever 1t may be, keep 1t safe
ly and then return 1t to him. Yor
will awaken all the emotions OF his
admiring savage soul-surprise, Joy
and love. II on the other hand yoy
do not respect his treasures, he will
first resent 1t, then hate, then re
4 venge, and you will lose the boy.
teacher who does not know these
great things. these emotions, does no,
/ know pedagoglcs.
The Barbarian.
From the savage merges the bar
barian-the age of the boy 10 to Ia
/ He is cruel and how7 Why. he ties
cans to the tail of dog. he pulls the
legs from grasshoppers, he leases his
sisters, etc He is vulgar, and 1t IL
| often expressed in terms that has tc
4 do with sex, but after all 1t is entirely
superficial: It Is innocent vulgarity
! He does not know the weight Of the
1 terms he uses. During the barbarian
/ age the human race lived without
1 doors. The man lorded 1t over the
1 woman--the woman was chattle. Lei
us look at the boy at this age. He
4 comes In the house, leaves the door
/ open. throws his hat in one corner
/ his coat In another, for you must re
member that he Is repeating history
his ancestors at this age had no coal
racks much more to say coats. He
calls after his mother. ma, Ma" not
because he wants to discuss any prob
lem with his mother, but Just to see
If she is on the job He Is simply a
4 plain barbarian.
This age is the grammar school age
and just the age when the boy Is mos'
dificult to lead. We must now have
lots OF patience and use a good meas
ure of love. The boy at grammar
school age Is pre-adolescent, but moi
SO with the girl for in most cases she
| has entered the adolescent period. Sc
here we find the boy one problem and
| the girl another problem. So, the
boy problem at this age Is not sex