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My oldest boy, at seventeen, came to me for sixty 

 dollars to put into a few country telephones. This 

 was a perfectly natural outgrowth of his training. 

 So we took in our neighbors, and during the next 

 five years he strung us on lines of communication. 

 The first rural telephone systems were being just then 

 established, and he very naturally became identified 

 with one of the most beneficent movements of the 

 age. 



The entomologist was like all the rest of them, 

 only that his dealing with minuter stuff made him 

 more persistent. It is astonishing to one who has 

 been educated only with books to find how much in- 

 teresting material there is in the garden and field to 

 one who has been educated in shop and laboratory. 

 We who have worshiped only books look with won- 

 der on those who worship tools. A boy who puts 

 under his pillow at night a new tool, instead of the 

 latest novel, has a new sort of probability ahead of 

 him. 



You will surmise that drawing is a very needful 

 adjunct to the studies that we have assigned to this 

 room. Nothing like enough has been made of the 

 pencil and the hand in education. They should al- 

 ways be busy to help note the peculiarities and the 

 minute features of anything that comes under obser- 

 vation. The pencil is also a great educator in the 

 way of teaching patience, accuracy, and fundamental 

 truth. It is a serious blunder to form a habit of half 

 way investigating, and therefore of falsely judging. 



