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cliildren's ideals. Those of the youngest children must be good and 

 kind, with desirable possessions and marvelous powers. As the 

 children grow older, the last two attributes are suj^planted by 

 courage, freedom, wisdom, and truth, while the ideal of children 

 of sixteen must add to these qualities altruism, patriotism, and tho 

 ability to lead. In the case of the girls, however, a divorce is 

 evident between the ideals adopted and the line of life best suited 

 to the interest of the race. The girl of to-day demands freedom, 

 strength, independence, activity, and recognition. Can we not em- 

 body them in the person of " brave ladies," as our ten-year-old girl 

 expresses it? Surely, among the " Pioneers of History," enough 

 women have played a part brave, strong, patriotic, and wise, so that 

 material exists for commemoration. Far more than a " Woman's 

 Bible," which appeals only to the mature, do we not need a 

 " Woman's History," which shall become a factor in increasing this 

 three quarters of one per cent who desire to become wives and 

 mothers — which shall present ideals embodying the most attractive 

 virtues, and still permitting of a home? 



This study proves that our instruction in history and literature is 

 emphasizing goodness, truth, wisdom, bravery, patriotism, and the 

 ability to lead, the characteristics we most desire in our children. 

 Ethical instruction, then, in our best public schools, is anything but 

 lifeless and impotent, as is taken for granted in much of the popular 

 discussion. Morality is inculcated by the most effective method 

 possible — most effective because best adapted to the child's demand 

 for virtue embodied in a human form. Jesuit self-extinction, 

 Chinese filial piety, emphasize the power of suggestion no more 

 strongly than do these children's papers. When teachers and parents 

 shall have the wisdom to consciously select and present to children 

 those ideals into which they ought to grow, endowed with those 

 qualities naturally seized upon by the developing soul, the cause of 

 moral education will be immeasurably furthered.* 



State Normal School, Mankato, Minn. 



A BRONZE statue in honor of Marcello Malpiglii, the famous doctor and 

 microscopic anatomist of the seventeenth century, was unveiled in Septem- 

 ber, 1897, at Crevalcore, near Bologna, Italy. The Royal Society of Lon- 

 don sent an address of congratulation. A memorial volume on Malpighi 

 and his works, edited by Dr. Vallardi, is to be published, and will contain a 

 note by Prof. M. Foster. 



* The writer wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness for the papers used in making 

 this study to Miss Etta M. Tilton, superintendent of San Mateo County schools; to Miss 

 Mary Hanchett, principal of the Seheffer School ; and to Miss Laura Hand, principal of the 

 Van Buren School, of St. Paul, Minnesota. 



