SCIENCE 
IS 
KNOWLEDGE. 
Jst 
KNOWLEDGE 
IS 
POWER. 
A PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF 
HOME ARTS 
Vol. V. 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1882. 
No. 10. 
Give the Boys Tools. 
IVE the boys tools 
and let them cut, 
chix) and whittle 
to their heart's 
content. He will 
be a poor kind of 
a boy that will not 
use a knowledge 
of tools with ad- 
vantage to him- 
self and friends. 
The following ex- 
tract from a lec- 
ture by James 
Parton, the biographer, contains a great 
deal of sound sense on the subject, the 
remarks are intended more particularly 
for college students, but in a measure they 
are applicable to the condition of all boys. 
A knowledge of tools and their uses, will 
necessarily lead the young mind to inquire 
into the nature of the materials on which 
the tools a.re to be employed, and this 
again leads to other inquiries, and thus, 
step by step, boys may be led on to the 
acquisition of the most useful and prac- 
tical kind of knowledge. Indeed, parents 
should make it a point to see too it that 
their boys have tools and appliances of a 
kind they desire, and they should be en- 
couraged in their use and permitted to 
do whatever odd jobs may be needed 
about their homes. The advantages of 
being able to perform a good piece of 
work are incalculable to a young man, 
and must be quite obvious to every sensi- 
ble and thoughtful parent. 
Mr. Parton says : " The attempt, I trust, 
is about to be abandoned to educate 
human beings through the brain alone. 
The hand, the wonderful human hand, 
will perhaps soon resume its i^art in 
education. It is only by discipline and 
by labor that the world can be conquered. 
Tlie military cadet has an exceptional ad- 
vantage in being able to learn his trade 
a,nd get his knowledge at the same time. 
Three years ago I visited Cornell, and was 
told that nothing was more successful 
than the machine-shops. At Eton, one of 
the most aristocratic of the English public 
schools, the students, the year before last, 
made a five horse-power steam-engine 
which is used in their shops for turning 
their lathes. All the elder boys have 
