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farmer has no servants, but " hired help," and 

 the help eats at the table. More than this, the 

 farm boy runs his own errands and waits on 

 himself; and all men are equal. 



(n) The farm boy has a family life. He 

 is essentially a home boy, not a street boy. 

 You can fill in the picture. 



THE NEW SCHOOL 



A prominent school man said to me recently, 

 " Practically no one goes from the high schools 

 into the trades." This may be because so few 

 of our youth go through the high school, or 

 because high schools are not in direct vibration 

 with the trades. My friend meant to infer the 

 latter. 



No doubt education should be supremely 

 natural, and it can be natural only when it 

 makes use of the forces and objects in the 

 neighborhood. The principal of an old acad- 

 emy told me that he was planning to teach 

 dairying in the school, both as a scholarship 

 study and as a means of aiding the industry of 

 the community. I asked him how he could 



