Tue Microscope. Sat 
EDIESZORIAL,. 
HE Editor has a friend called Teddy, who of late has often 
come into the editorial den with a sermon or a bicycle, an- 
nouncing that too much printing ink is not good, and that when 
that viscous material gets into the blood the result is worse than 
blood poisoning, for it is always fatal. Teddy with the bicycle 
is welcome, for they mean a dash into the country among the 
purple Asters and the Golden-rod, with a little vacation beneath 
the reddening leaves. But when he comes with a sermon, that 
is another matter. The Editor has hitherto listened politely, 
but patience has now ceased to be a virtue, and henceforth these 
addresses shall be reported, and with no more credit to Teddy 
than he strictly deserves. Hereafter, anything especially good 
in this department will be from the Editor, everything else, par- 
ticularly if with a didactic and dogmatic tendency will belong 
to Teddy, and he must take the consequences. He was in the 
sanctum to-day without the bicycle. 
It is easy for every one to lighten his daily labor by putting 
into it what is called “ heart,” which of course means an active 
and intelligent interest that will surely inspire those around him 
to do the same. It must be work for the sake of the work, 
and for the sake of accomplishing something; the labor however 
distasteful wili then seem lighter and pleasanter, and the time 
demanded by it will pass quickly. It is the motive that cheers 
the worker, and lightens the work. 
““Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, 
Makes that and th’ action fine,” 
says good old George Herbert. 
There is a way too of taking advantage of every help, however 
small, to make the result more perfect and the labor easier. The 
type-writer is now as essential as the sewing machine; and be- 
fore many years the microscope will be as common as the piano 
or the cabinet organ. Even now almost every school has one or 
the other of these musical instruments, and every school without 
exception should have a microscope. 
If the teacher were wise he would not sleep another night 
without a microscope in his school, or without beginning to per- 
fect himself in its use. For him it will be a benefit, for it will 
