The Cordova daily times., 1919-11-15
School Teachers

teaches things to people when they are young. The teacher comes to school at 8:30 o'clock and when she has gotten enough children for mess in her room she teaches them reading, writing, geography, grammar, arith- metic, music, drawing, cooking, board saving, crocheting, deep breathing, bird-calls, scientific eating, patriotism, plain and fancy bathing, forestry, civ ics. and other sciences too numerous to mention. When school is out, she stays behind with five or six of her worst scholars and tries to save the state the job of reforming them later on.
 After that she hurries home to make herself a new dress and snatch a nasty supper before going back to at tend a lecture by an imported special ist on the history of tribal law in Patagonia, which the superintendent thinks may give her some informa- tion which may be useful in her school work some day. A great many lec- turers roam the country, preying upon school teachers, and some of them are very cruel, talking to them so long that the poor things have to sit up until morning, when they get home, to get their daily test papers cor rected.
 School teachers salaries range from S3O a month up-but not Tar enough LID to make them dizzy. On her salary the teacher must dress nicely, buy herself things for her work which the city is too poor to get, go in twenty-nine lectures and concerts a wear. buy helpful books on pedagogy, nav her way to district, county and state institutes, and enjoy herself dur ing three months vacation whlch her salary takes every year. In adol- tion the teacher is supposed to hoaru away vast sums of money, so that when she becomes too nervous ana cross to teach, at the age or io UT thereabouts, she can retire ana i've bannilv ever after on her income Philadelphia Bulletin.
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 General Items
 Miss Wrights room had red-letter day last Wednesday. The pupils went lover the top in three things spelling, perfect attendance and 100 per cent enrolment in the Junior Red Cross. Hurrah for Room No. 8
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 The first week in December will be Good Speech week, and the school IS preparing for it by planning posters, slogans, etc. We know 1t will De very hard for most of us to speak correctly all the time, and it will also be a good deal of fun to catch each other using slang. For each slip Ill sneech we will be fined penny Katherine Boyce.
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 The bookkeeping class has taken up the business forms that accompany the Miner and Elwell journals and ledgers. Some of the forms included are: One check book, twenty deposit slips, one pass book, promissory notes, twenty-four receipt forms, one set of envelopes for filing special papers and file for incoming papers and a file for outgoing papers. This makes the work very interesting, and in connection with it we use one of the desks for bank, to which we go to deposit money and cash the checks of our firm, the pupils taking turns as cashier-Leona Churchill.
 The high school class in penman- ship now write to the time of snappy fOX-trOts and dreamy WaltzeS. lhe girls are capable of keeping better time with their feet, it seems, and Miss White is often obliged to remind them that what we can do with our feet we can do equally well with our hands.-Leona Churchill.
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 Eleven cases of eye trouble were discovered in the vision test made last week by Miss Wegner. Not all or these are serious, but notes have been sent in every case to the parents, in order that measures may be taken to determine more thoroughly how great the trouble is and relief be afforded, as both the general health and the school work of students with defec- 4.-xa o,,o,irbt ara likely tO he affected.