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SHOULD THE NATURAL SCIENCES BE and spend their time studying ‘ dead 
TAUGHT IN THE DISTRICT SCHOOL? 
Our whole life is made up of a succes¬ 
sion of impressions. By the use of eye, 
ear and other organs of the body we are 
made to recognize them. Their sum 
represents our knowledge. Those re¬ 
ceived during childhood, having the 
charm of novelty, appeal to the curiosity years longer, until kind parents could 
and command attention, without which instill into their minds firm principles, 
there is no memory. Our available knowl- aQ d competent teachers create a desire 
edge is represented by the sum of those to ^ DOW more of life’s mysteries, many a 
impressions which are thought of a heartache would be avoided and many 
second time, which are studied until failures on the farm prevented, 
completely comprehended. We cannot one • " Children do not need critics as 
free ourselves of their influence, be it mucb as they do models.” 
good or bad. The character of the su, re that your child has good models 
impressions received makes or mars the when away from home? Can you find a 
life of the receiver. better one than her mother and the 
How important the duty of parent and minded nei £ hbor ’ 8 daughter who teaches 
teacher! These should shield as far as schooL . Im P rove the school and 
possible from those impressions which ee P ^ be cb ^ dren at home, 
lower and degrade, which create false dren who work on the farm durin £ sum ‘ 
ideas of labor, pleasure and the objects of mer and attend school only during fall 
life itself, and guide the young mind and Wmter are self-reliant and pass the 
into those channels which teach purity, egents examination in 
a love of Nature and reverence for God’s vfilage children who attend school all 
wisdom. Impressions are often but . 6 year 
dimly felt, or, if you will, scarcely under- > ts utmost ca P^ty, all individuality is 
stood lost and the pupils are all molded, if pos- 
At a recent meeting of our literary sible after one P attern; wbil * the “farm 
society I asked the question : “Suppose chlldr « n ” a ™ compelled to think, act, 
I fill a quart can with milk ; how full and handle objects. “But,” says one 
must 1 fill a second can with water to teacher * “ we have time to teach any 
show the exact amount of water in the more< ” A * irl asked me to hel P 
milk?” The farmers present had handled with her grammar lesson recently. 
milk all their lives, had read perhaps bh ® C ° Uld r6peat the ruleS like a parrot 
that milk was 88 per cent water, but had ?“ d Wlthout an Y more comprehension, 
lever stopped to think about it. Some ° f wbat U8e was [t to critici6e? When 
thought the can should be a quarter full, 18 old enou e b to comprehend the 
aone more than one half. They would 6ub J ect ’ she Wl11 learn more ab ° at i* 
aardly believe me when I said: “It must than in all the years before, 
oe within an inch of the top.” Said one: 1 ® rha P s a chan K e mi £ bt be made to the 
“ Then if a cow does not have all the a ,Tf. n ^ a ^ e 
vater she wants she can not give the W !* b y ° UDg children would not b « 
milk can she ?” possible to give scientific names and 
“Of course not ” theories; but they should penetrate the 
“ So much water in milk must make it my8teries enough to stimulate curiosity 
inhealthy if the water be impure,” one and become inter * 8ted in the objects 
adysaid: “ I saw our cows drinking in ar ° Und tbem - A love of uature once 
he barnyard yesterday, John ! We must f f r “ 18 never lost and our bri S htest 
lee to that ” students should be farmers. School is 
- What is the use ot so much water in " 0t “ J , cducatc; but 10 train P“P ils s « k 
he milk anyhow ? ” inquired a boy. knowledge and how to study. The aim 
.... . « of the teacher should be to create an in- 
“ Milk is the first natural food of ani- • . . , , 
, „ , quiring mind, and the curious facts found 
uals,” replied the Doctor. “The stomach in the natural sciences are the best me- 
8 WGak and the food must be diluted to diums to use. The habit of observing is 
orrespond. Some cows have been bred the most valuable one that can be ac . 
or quality until their milk is too rich quired . it is the natural way of learning, 
or their young. Plant food is always but is sadly neglected . 
a liquid form and nearly all is water.” 
Illustrations are often remembered 
What a shame that this body of intel- after the subject matter is forgotten. In 
Lgent men should have to go to a farm the Poultry Keeper were given illustra _ 
rs’ institute, or dig out of a bulletin, tions sbowing t he size and shape of the 
lied with long tables of figures, these embryo chick every day of its growth 
undamental principles which are the from start ti ll hatched. A good idea 
oundation of successful farming. The could be given fiome future poultry 
nportance of a knowledge of the effect keeper of the compo8i tion of the egg and 
f stimulants on the body and brain is the requirements of the chick, which he 
ecognized, and we have laws which could get at present only by costly ex . 
ompel the teaching of these studies. I perience . Would a Reader be less in . 
wonder if a knowledge of the effect of teresting than now, if it gave in plain 
bservation upon the pocket-book would words some simple facts in regard to 
e less useful. “ Eyes have they, but sucb subjects? .. Some boys wont take 
ley see not.” A worm is a worm and any inte rest in anything unless it’s a 
othing more, to be crushed at once. hunting sto ry,” said a discouraged 
o thought of the beauty in its exquisite teacher 
iloring, no thought of the object for Why not put some zoology into the 
hich it was created ; no thought of how Readers and give the poor boy a chance 
was born, fed and housed. Spraying till he gets older. Teach him all abou t 
as been tried, proved, recommended the bones, muscles and blood vessels, 
id urged upon the farmers and fruit and why wild animals are so agile. Show 
rowers; but not one in a thousand has the effect of food and of wounds. A 
lopted it. Why ? Not because they do friend was cut by a buzz saw and bled 
at believe in it, but because having no a steady stream. The man who went 
uowledge of insect life, it seems like for a doctor ruined a valuable horse in 
>me mysterious process beyond their his haste. Had he understood the differ- 
>mprehension. Where can they learn ence between veins and arteries he would 
tese things which are the A, B, C of have known that there was no need for 
te future farmer’s success ? There is urgent haste, and saved the horse, 
i hope for a large portion of the older “ Such subjects might be of value, and 
iople; but new conditions demand interest farmers’ children, but would 
:eater knowledge, and the children not interest city children,” said a lady 
ust be taught to meet them. teacher. This is not so—the town chil- 
“ When I was a boy,” said an old man, dren bought all of the newly-hatched 
we had big schools and older students, incubator chicks at the fair. They were 
be teachers were older, and more j us t wild over them, 
ature in judgment. Now children leave A lady who could not get all her pupils 
r the I n ion School at an early age, to be punctual, brought with her one 
morning a glass and an apple tree twig, 
languages, while the ‘living’ language The glass was filled with water and 
of Nature is ignored. Our teachers are placed on the desk where all could see 
young: children teaching children; ‘the the twig sticking out. She called atten¬ 
tion to a band of shining glue on the 
branch, but none knew what it was. In 
a few days the buds began to swell, and 
notice was given that at the morning 
exercise she would speak of the twig. 
There were no laggards after that. The 
wonderful effect of heat on the buds was 
explained, and the leafing and blossom¬ 
ing were watched with interest. At last 
Says one hoy noticed a change in the band, and 
from that time the result was waited for 
Can you be witb intense interest by all. When the 
worms began to eat the leaves, and the 
blossoms to blast, a little lecture was 
pure- given about poisons, and some Paris- 
green water was sprinkled on them. The 
effect was carefully watched and the 
The chil- spraying of foliage fer the tent caterpil¬ 
lar is no longer a mystery to those little 
chaps, if it is to their fathers. 
The natural sciences can be made an 
advance of the ally of good government and punctuality 
if one can not as yet give them a regular 
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