The Haslingden Gazette. — 1911-10-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

DISTRIBUTION BY MRS. NUTTALL.  The Aconington Naturalist Society this summer, as in several preveir) years, extended an invitation to the scholars attending the elementary schools of the town to take a ramble into the country and aft...mantis describe in essays their recollection-, and observations. Between 200 and 250 children from most of the )thools took part in the outing, and from the elldays sent in selection was made, and at the Ambulance Drill Hall on Saturday seeming some sixty children were presented with book prices. Mr. Ed. Haworth (president of the Society) was in the chair, and in calling upon Mrs. T. E. Nuttall to make the distribution, he pointed out that though it wai though. by some that the Naturalists were stepping into plaoes that would he better tilled by others, their efforts were only directed to till a gap. They desired to communicate and culoivale knowledge in thcor.N subjects that. would give the !greatest pleasure, pleaure of the mind- They canted to divert the a4tenion ot the children from aimless rambling about tie streets to an appreciation of the beauties of nature that would last throughout life. Mrs.. Nuttall said it was John Ruskin who said that the greatest thing a human being did was o me something anal then tell in plain intelligible language what he had, seen, and she took it that thoe examination papers showed what they had eon, and \Vae evidence of :hat which they told. She had read two of the papers submitted in their recent exansination, and 6.110 had been charmed with them. When they went about on those rambles their observation was trained, and through thas training they were gaining, not only a pure pleasure, but they were ale gaining an amount of self,dovelopment which was helping once more to mach to them, and ohrough them to others, another of Rill kin's favourite doctrines, that education meant to educe, to draw forth, to make the self of them bigger, greater, wider, and more intelligent. That in itself was a pure pleasure, a developmers, of the greatest force in them, the force of character. They might thus gain a trained, cultured observation. They were able to differentiate between objects and qualities, as they were a:so able to recognise general no-emblancs, anal all thin.' things tended to definiteness of character. They were thus early beginning to oultirate a love of the beautiful, and that was something which might increase with their growth, and so develop that in time it might be to them a source of pleasure, :happiness, joy, and encouragement, when their life was, perhaps, growing cold, and dark 'and dreary. Mr. Jame Holman, J.P., moved and Mr. Skinn,,r seconded a cordial vote of thanks to Mrs. Nuttall.  During the evening Miss .Halliwell sang charmingly, "0 restless sea" and "Coming thro' the rye," Mr. H. Lomax rendered "My old shako" and "Neptune." and an illustrated lecture 'has giimn by Mr. J. Ramon. During the evening a member of the audience returned the thanks of the parents to the Society for their genorosity. The prize-wiinerg, were -prize and special (awarded by the Mayoress, Mrs. A. S. Bury): Doris Hooley. First prizes: Lily Smith, Edith Salt. Second prizes: John Barton, May Sinr,h, John Lord, Daisy Edith Clarke. Alice Damen, Ethel Barrow.  Third prir.mr: Annie Butterfield, Emily Percival, Evelyn Hind ley, Elizabeth Whittaker, George  Entwistle, Jaok Horrocks. Lavinia Chapman, Alice Rushton, Ivy Miller, Mary O'Brion, Ruby Falknor, Walter Walingley.  Comolation prizes: Allan Holden, David Harwood. B. Riding. Rhoda Anderton, Fanny Williams. Josephine Shaw, Charlotte 'rambling, Jack Haworth, Jenny Birtwell, Gladys Parkinson. Doris Walmsley, John R. Gore, Bessie Hal'worth, Susan IV. Lund. Ernolyn Duerden, Ethel Calvert, Jessie Crellin. May Dean, Annie Hope,. label fitstwes, Nora Taylor. Maggie Dean, Sarah Ann Houlker, Roland Coates, Winifred Hope, A. Barlow. E. Harriecni. A. Harri.on, Arnold Haworth, Lily Simpson, Beatrice McCaffery, Ernest Lord, Doris Smith, Robert Spencer, Sin Clegg, Eliaaboth A. Rushton, Pho.be Staves, Gladys Alston, Wm. Critchley, May Hobby. Gertrude Iloyle.  Wtllian flouston, who shot his father, a contractor, at INlLayfield, Fife, on September 21,et, was brought before the !gird Justice Clerk in Edinburgh on Monday for trial on :he charge of murder, and, found insane, was ordered to be detained during his Majesty's pleasure.