SEPT 45 
But, after all, the principal thing is to win 
the affection and respect of your scholars. 
If they love and revere you they will do any¬ 
thing to please you. What a pretty sight it 
is to see children on their way to school, 
carrying bouquets for teacher. At home 
each one of us had a little flower-bed and no 
one else was allowed to touch a plant or 
flower that grew therein. Of all the flowers 
we had nine-tenths went to “ Teacher.” How 
we vied with each other to see who could 
pluck the first lily or rose for her! 
Another thing: teachers should be very 
careful not to show partiality. Of course, we 
cannot help loving one child more than 
another, but, even if we do, we must not show 
it openly in the school-room. I remember 
when I was a little tot, that a teacher in our 
school preferred one little boy above all the 
others. She was kind to all, but she made an 
especial favorite of this one. It was no 
wonder, either, for he was a sweet-faced 
little lad, and his mamma kept him always 
neatly and tastefully dressed. His smile was 
like sunshine, aud everybody, large andsmalb 
liked him. But to hear teacher say contin" 
ually “ Freddie dear,” or “Freddie darling ’’ 
all day long, to see her kiss him twenty times 
a day, and never kiss any one else, was more 
than the other boys liked. One day Freddie 
came in dressed in a neat little whit# 
pique suit, which with his bright little ribbon 
tie, made him look very pretty indeed. 
“ How sweet you look, dear ” said teacher 
as she patted him on the head. Some of the 
rest of us looked sweet, also, we thought, and 
I noticed several little red-lipped mouths 
pucker up with a spiteful look. The girls 
didn’t mind it as much as the boys, for they 
were all fond of Freddie, too, and liked to 
hear him praised. 
Now one of the older boys went off at noon 
and got some tar from the wheel-wright’s aud 
spread a thick coat of it over Freddie’s bench. 
When he came skipping in at the tap of the 
bell, he, of course, sat down in the tar. When 
he got up he was literally covered with it. 
His pretty little suit was ruined, and he look¬ 
ed a [dreadful fright, for he had gotten it all 
over his face and hauds,andeven;intohissunuy 
curls. Poor little fellow! He cried bitterly 
and the teacher was very angry. But no one 
would tell who did it. Finally one of the boys 
said “Does he look so sweet now?” The 
teacher thought, of course, that the one who 
spoke thus was the culprit, so she pounced on 
him and thrashed him with a stout ruler. 
But she had made a mistake, and the other 
boys hastened to let her know it. But the 
bitter feeling caused by this episode lasted as 
Jong as those same boys were under that teach¬ 
er’s rule. 
To impart to another, one must ^simplify 
things as much as possible, and if possible, tell 
it as if you were trying to understand it your¬ 
self for the first time. I remember when I 
tried to learn to tell time. My eldest sister 
siid to me. When one hand is in such a place 
and another haud is in such a place it is a cer¬ 
tain time. Well I tried to memorize it all, 
saying to myself. “When the large hand 
points to one and the small haud points 
to twc it is fiv6 minutes after two, etc. ” 
But I couldn’t remember them all, so I wrote 
it all out on a paper so that I wouldn’t forget; 
but I did. I didn’t know why, and of course 
couldn’t remember. One day mamma asked 
me to tell her the time. I couldn’t remember, 
and felt in my pocket for my little memoran¬ 
dum, but found it was in the pocket of another 
dress, so ran upstairs after it. When I came 
back I told her the time from my paper. 
“What have you there ?” asked she. 
“ The time,” 1 replied. 
“ Bring it here,” she said. 
I did so and she looked at it for a moment, 
then said, “ Can’t you tell without this ?” 
“No,” said I, “I can’t remember so many.” 
“ Come, let me show you,” said she, as she 
pointed to the clock face. “ There are twelve 
figures on that Dial, do you see ?” 
“Yes,” 1 replied. 
“Well, now,” continued she, “there are just 
five minutes between each one of those num¬ 
bers. Now, how many minutes round the 
whole face ?” 
1 counted up, five by five, till I had gone all 
around, and then said, “Sixty.” 
“There, you have learned that much, have 
you not ? Now, if there are sixty all around, 
how many are there in the half ?” 
I thought for a moment, then replied, 
“Thirty.” 
“Well, then, from the figure twelve down to 
the figure six, you have thirty minutes, and 
six is half the face, so there are thirty minutes 
in half, and thtn, of course, there are fifteen 
in quarter.” 
I understood perfectly, but Mamma con¬ 
tinued, 
“The long hand points the minutes, and the 
short haud points the hour. When both bands 
are together at Myp]ve, it is twelve o’clock, 
From twelve down to six, we say in counting 
the minutes, so much after whatever, figure 
the little hand points to. From six up to 
twelve we say so many minutes before or to 
the figure the little hand is nearest to.” 
I never had any more difficulty from that 
moment, and not only that, but I understood 
it so well that I undertook to teach all the 
rest of the children how to tell time. As soon 
as I saw why, the thing was learned. My 
sister was indignant one day when she heard 
me tell my aunt that Mamma had taught me 
to tell time. She exclaimed angrily: 
“Oh! you story-teller! I showed you months 
before!” 
So she had, but she hadn’t taught me at 
all. 
So it is in teaching anything, from the sim¬ 
plest sum of addition to the most intricate 
problem in Geometry or Mensuration. First 
teach why w6 do thus aud so. If one under¬ 
stands the rudiments, even though he may 
make mistakes in the work, he is sure to come 
out right in the end, and thoroughly under¬ 
stand what he is about. 
But the faculty of imparting is not given to 
all, and if you possess it not, you will never 
succeed as a teacher; so, if you are compelled 
to earn your living, you had better begin at 
once, and cast about for some other means of 
doing it. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
ELSIE BEE SAYS: 
That all kinds of fantasies are introduced 
in sugar-tongs. One of the most novel is in 
form of frogs’ legs joined to the fat, round 
body as a handle. 
That for half mourning, pansies are of luster¬ 
less black enamel with a diamond center and 
that the edelweiss, with its thick, furry petals, 
and with centers of pearls, is the latest 
flower brooch. The texture is marvelously 
represt nted in white enamel. 
■-•-• 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
September! The summer is over.—The 
kitchen which in many houses is a deserted 
shrine during the summer months, once more 
offers up its incense. Autumn is here, with 
its wealth of fruits aud its richness of flowers 
—its splendor of tints in this northern 
climate, and its garnering of the necessary 
food for the long winter. How the years go 
by! It seems but yesterday since I began to 
write for these columns with my little ones 
about my knees, and my hands more than 
full. Now the years have given to these 
children a larger growth, and to me a larger 
measure of care—the storms of many winters, 
and the weary dajs of many summers have 
passed over me, and autumn is here. 
There is a poem that often goes 
through my brain, and to-day I repeat— 
“ If you and I 
Should stop and lay 
Our life work down, and let our hands fall 
Where they will, 
Fall down and lie quite still. 
And if some other hand should stop to find 
The threads we carried so that It could wind, 
Beginning where we stopped, If it should come 
To keep our life work going—seek 
To carry on the good design 
Distinctively made yours and mine, 
What should it find ?” 
And the query was answered by the mem. 
ory of that finding: it would be disappointed 
hopes, thwarted ambitions, wounds made by 
those we love, sharper-than a “ serpent’s tooth” 
ingratitude and many bitter experiences 
But if we could leave a record of faithfulness, 
we need not mind much who gathers up the 
threads, “ She hath done what she could”— 
is a better epitaph than a whole oration. 
And so we begin September work with re¬ 
newed vigor. These are autumn thoughts 
that must come, but they do not daunt us, and 
the housekeeper stores up supplies for winter, 
and begins anew the autumn campaign with 
faith in the promises, and a love and confi¬ 
dence in those of her household, that sustain 
her through many weary trials. 
Teach the children to eat slowly and to 
thoroughly masticate their food. 
CANS FOR FRUIT. 
In the Rural of Aug. 18th., Mrs. Wager- 
Fisher gives us her method of preparing jars 
for canning fruit, which is all very well, if 
one wants to go to all that trouble, but there 
is not the least need of it, I never heat my 
jars a particle or prepare them in any way 
except to have them clean and t sweet, This is 
way; 
Place the jars on the table with rubber 
bands properly adjusted and covers handy. 
When the fruit is ready and boiling hard take 
the kettle to the table, take a jar in the left 
hand, hold it over the kettle and with a long- 
handled dipper pour in the boiling fruit 
quickly. Tip the jar slightly while filling so 
that if any runs down the outside it will not 
burn the fiDgers. I can hold a jar until nearly 
full, but when it gets too hot, set it on the 
table and fill even full, put on the cover and | 
screw it down tightly. I have put up ' 
hundreds of jais in this way and so far as I 
can remember I have never had one crack, 
but by the old way (like Mrs. Fisher’s) I have 
broken several. I hope the Rural house¬ 
keepers will try my way and save themselves 
a great deal of unnecessary trouble. 
MRS. N. E. BAKER. | 
GRAHAM BREAD. 
T wo cups of r sweet milk, one-half cud of 
sugar, one half cup of molasses,one teaspoonful 
of soda and one teaspoouful of salt. Graham 
flour to make a batter about as thick as for 
griddle cakes. Bake in a deep dish for one 
hour in a moderate oven. 
MISS ESTELLA MILLER. 
Fall bonnets show strings two inches in 
width, to be tied by the wearer. 
Ribbon bonnets are among the novelties 
seen for this fall. The frames are entirely 
covered with loops of ribbon coming forward 
from the crown The ribbon is from one to 
two inches in width. 
The new toques are long, oval crowns, 
pointed low over the hair at the back and 
very fully trimmed in the front. This style 
of head wear particularly adapts itself to 
the fingers and purse of the economical girl, 
who cannot or will not pay two dollars for 
materials and six for style. 
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