Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 25, 1912, Page 12

THE TREND OF TEACHING SHOULD BE a TOWARD COUNTRY LIFE For the Bulletim) , dragged into llyn pitiless maelstrom eher thirteen or thirty: | of city life. We would much rather e Ui foiks leave the | they would stay on the farms, and 3 rotten just | come into joyous pos: on of all the O think, | advantages of wholesome, race-up- From What | 8 ind heard, that | building country life. SO er % handred and thirty= [ Let's begin with our country schools here B b entod to cure or pre- | and see if we can’t change them ffom t with rural con- hotbeds of disce i Thus fan, their Valle | gitions, into nurseries of interest in and testimonials, , country possibilitie AR e out” any = o | 1t has fallen to the lot of a woman | sehool superintendent out in rural Tow: o are | 16 put the thing in the cleverest Personally, | suspect that there 7% | ) cing 1 have seen. “Teach a| BN e e L vl tiaof the Alwec 50w child in terms of the country | funth ot supposs | life” 'That ls her gospel of educa. e T hakes off the farm | tlom which she is enforcing upon al ererybody WhY B o halt does 1t | the Sehool-ma'ams of her big county. duec to Beek the ity aophot e s | Thes use text-books. Of eourse; al- for the same reason. It this be 8% | ways will have to, more or less, thoush | SR M B e el Ay has had to prepare ene or two St $h¢ oubeat il have teih f, In order to get Ssemething e e e ividually dif. | Tealiy useable and useful. But the chii- B A dren are ajso encouraged and shown | S Sypiein | how to read the books of the flelds and " learn the teachings of the hills, A | But there will always be possible | il "\cho" chanced into one of her | o of classifieation, neverthes | schools at the opening hour, recently, found that the first morning exer me was in the indentification and history | .‘",‘”\"'_"“:;;('v““ mp- | of Mants,—mestly common weed Tt % Noad m““‘;\\‘h\'vh the children had gathered on R aiudics | thelr wa @ st wre insensibly prajudlo- | and_ fence-corners. They were not | % e olts by mistakes in our school | J0aded up with a lot of tongue-twist- methods: | mistakes In the prepara- | & botanical names, but each weed tion of text-beoks: mistakes in the se. | Was Identified by its commen name, Jeotion Of Subjocts taught: mistakes | t8 Pecularitiea of growth and color ethods of teaching, This particu- | Polnted out, 1ts history briefly told, its Phase of the discase can be com- | Origin explained, its character mude | bated only in the schools themselves, | lear—whether a pestiferous enemy of worthier plants or one possessing some use In itself, Even the littlest toddlers were as interested In this as And T w st to farmers gen- 1 of looking into this | ter a little mo n are e o e o rar a0t | 1t it had been a game. Those n the b A D ou¥® | fear of the long approaching teach- nintentional. | @°S desk could hardly restrain their ind mental habits which | babish impatience to show what they il lader to draw them city-ward, | bad picked and find out what it was. | 1t might be well for us to lend our aid | They began their real school work the to any intelligent movement caloulat- | VEry minute they left their own front | &8 6 CUEG that ‘srron, gates. The walk to schoel was not a " doleful thing but a chance for seme new and wenderful discovery. They didn’t “creep, like snail, unwillingly to school,” like Shakespeare’s unhappy schoolboy, but hurried there a§ eager- ly as if to a picnic, ly, into s nd it, the new demand | ] the common 1s a step in exactly that direc- When 1 w punishments school-houst » all the the school < -books we used city men, written dpoint and en from city, ching day, these | “taught In terms of Was it a lesson in All threugh the & youngsters wen the country life from business life. Practical. | Srammar? When the girl had defined & “sums” in the arithmetics, | ® lustration. were drawn from mer. | ®d_to give an example of one, she | didn't hesitate and stammer in blind | mental search for some subject out of | | a text-book. She simply glanced out of the window and remarked, casually and naturally: “It is a fine day and the farmers are picking apples.” Was | the subject arithmetic - The lad wasn't | asked what the net income would be from a six per cent, stock costing om market $97, bul something like or allied businesse nd out how much ake if we sold ten seven | vard for to cal- | r cent, on | 1 the bank | ¢ r n and so on. | s interested in it he was ) take his | ¢ this “if you catch five muskrats and | winter ,and sell four of | 25 one | one mink th the sk for 35 | how for cents much money | Any boy who lives n a muskrat { brook can see the semse of arithmetic as that, and can take erest in it, too. cents d one will and for § u have We were ta percentages ¢ ght a whole lot about ntile profits, but were put wl ourse in per never | permutation We were | wledge of | ad - chief | t never | s of our undaries of the potato and grass beits in | e. We learned how peo- | ‘yprus or Asia Minor fought | >ut nothing about our nd cutworms. We ymebody else, in consider th and a4 parr I like that heretofore quoted phrase about “Nature's infinite book of se- | crecy.” And yet her secrecy is worn | only as an outer garment to make pur- | suit more attractive and discovery more cnchanting. Her mystery is not morose and repelling, but tantalizing and tempting. Nor is it ever without coquettish willingness to be unveiled | by the right hands and to the right eves at the right tim St weetheart better courting direct and in pe of the world, raised | 8DY texi-boak proxy. 3 ¢ how | Who never makes peaches | We learn her less: cticut. nor e worth | n than by a teacher if anly were grown ri So | hold up both hands and stamp approval with beth feet for any at- tempt to get our young folks to study her at first-hand and learn from her in her own schaol. 1t is not only that | they will learn more things werth | knowing in that way, but that they will know that which they know ma definitely and certal and more impaor decy will be to i tion's res Universai The great business s the olde honor of the bige farming, t e and t import- business in all the world, was nat, those old text-books, considered thy of furnishi example f us { item of instruction | home and tr I the mm—: nd love for the comp: POts of Cityar- s once got | is marening to the pver- ng rhyme of nature's siately will be mueh less likely to be lured into foliowing the raucous dis- cards of a eirens calliope. That bgy who has early come ta feel, in the tides of his cwn being, the mfnite and eterngl pewer of malure remenaous ebb zad fi wil be much iess likety o Gad ey o0 i (he swirl and em- branglement of the brawiing market- alace. pres- | haok .‘{’ P, warp true tender That the iy to study na- narily, come to love heri ad deliberately choose we farmers | ks would do? | | BAKING POWDER | Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made fromRoyal Grape Creamof Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE } Having purchazed (e Josanss: ggonsy o Ge isle C, | E. Whitaey cad wade cailsfecioy suesgumes e sent his, companies, the businces will ke ¢a i irazs Brief Si_gtg News ¥ to school, from road-sides | | |elms along the highways for the de- “compound sentence® and was ask- { employes of the New York, New Haven | pearance and modes of life differ to | place to bury ihe dead, but owing to t Aie er The boy who has amce got his eyes ed to the glary and of his | T ceuntry-bern inheritance wom't | ket bring less than one-fourth the re- | i Dajayment i Swert That Calls Isn't it worth our while to do what | lfes in our power towards en-| couraging the scheols along this line? THE FARMER. Torrington.—A large band of gypsies has been encamped near the Driving park, New Haven—Mrs. H. B. Bigelow,| {wife of fermer Governor Bigelow, who | |is living with her son, Framk L. Bige- low, 205 Whitney avenue, is very ill Granby.—Mrs. Clifford Henry Dem- ing of Granby announces the enzage- ment of her daughter, Miss Grace| Deming, to Arthur Roys Beebe of New Haven. . Meriden—The committee in charge of the reception to be given Mayor | | Donovan, May 29, met at the Elks club | house Wednesday evening and madled | 500 invitations for the affair, Suffield.—Tree Warden Dr. Frederick T. Muriess, Jr., has made arrangements to have men from Hartford spray the structien of the elm tree beetle, Norwalk.—Mrs. B. F. Andrews and daughter, Kathleen, have returned | from Porto Rico and arrived in Nor- walk recently to spend a few months with Mrs, Andrews father, William B. Byington. Waterbury—To lay the within ninety days and to dedicate the home in a year is now the hope of Waterbury Masons who are erecting a | new temple at West Main street and Park place. cornerstone | | Danbury.—A large number of local | railroad men are planning to take part | in the big clambake to be held at Wesiport, June 22, to be given by the and Hartford lines. Bridgeport.—For the first time in | seven years Chief Engineer Edward Mooney of the Bridgeport fire depart- ment is off duty because of iliness. He has been advised by his ph remain in bed for a few days. AI:EUTS OF ALASKA. Where They Came From—Hoemes and Customs. The word “Aleut” in the Eskime language means “other ules,” or peo- ple, and such they are, for their ap- such an extent as to warrant their be- ing called “other people.” There were two found among them whese birthplace was believed te be Kamchatka in Asia, and it is almost these peeple came from | is certain that nerthern Asia. Their appearance more of the Mengolian, and in artisti work they have much the same skill | and crefismanship as the 'Japanese. The Aleut is superior to the mative race. He is cleaner of habit than the Eskimo and more willing to work. The tribe’s ancient dwellings, now long grown over with grass, represeni- ing the of stone impiements, when excavated were found to be large, | roemy houses made of sod, built above | the greund, and usually of more than | one reom. Whalebone was eften used for parts of the framework. The cem- etery of the community was not in a common burial ground, but in a room | of the heuse espeeially constructed for | that purpese. The corpses were bur- ied in a sitting pesture. Certain caves were used also as 2 e of skulls with fractures them, it is presumably the warriors | who died away from home who were | so byried. A few had the distinction | of being stuffed with moss and made | mummies and placed in caves. | af ihe efferis | there are thai and new fe 0 can offer an explanstion for the sirenge | burial rooms, the eave burials and the | woss siuffed mummies, | upy ihe istand penin- | sula of Alaska and numier about 1,000. Three hundred are well cared for ai the seal isignds; the balance ha nothing left but fish, a few fox and | the basket ipdusiry. The time was | when they were employed to kill seal: | slso their iribe supplied the men that manned the sea-otter boats and killed that mest valvable of furs. These furs are practically a thing of the past and the government has pro- hibited both the whites and the patives from killing sny of them. This is not adding greatly to their troubles, for these fur aeimals of the sea are now @ scarce as to be of little benefit te the Aleuts amy mere. 'The dasket in- dusiry is now their chief suppert. The bagkets, thopgh ke finest in any mar- ions sell to them | be cost. | price, and Provis w© e s cents for & pound of tea, 20 p and sevem chcipineg ! am gel Gw @xi, a% @askn i : i @ Be- o ke Rovase (F B Wew ligure of S22 [l Lee weeks B ke iy A R, gt & ) Eevadaias VRIS pRowuess i il humting Hork, ¥ Ew kerinle @DSLackS O he Hogot: 1ted callt for perves of steol, amd i ¥ PR o pothing W (he Gistressral comuiry. The fearzame clope Wells, sowe~ owh with turd whd mesks ppal il but the sleutest l ROONM 21, SRANNON BUILDING, GCOR. WAIN AND GKETUCKET 8TS. o post haricaed CWR (0 uall ¢i Do CORRCR 0o of tae huating ceason, experioncing the sonsation of heart I 5 Dr.King 1 the mouth when called upon te face |put to an extra expemse of $600,000 the Stiff goine returning, however, after a day or so | of fog, to_the saddle. hunt regularly in Ireland, where reckless and brilliant horsemanship is t still spoken of. With the late Ba dleton to give her a lead, she ways in the first fight and stuck at | tc nothing. The famous happy-go-lucky | inve direetion, and on hospitality that marks the Irish temp- or two ons small amounts erament s exemplified in matters | have been voted, but never in sums of sporting, and epen house is kept b: lequate size, A noted English scien- those having accommodation in st, whe has given the subject some good hunting district. | attention, says that if t government Every Irishman is a true sportsman | would make a grant of $500,000 a year and the whole neighborhood turns out | o the universities for experiment he for a meet, those unable to raise a | would apply electricity not only te ac- mount fellowing on foot or driving in | celerating plant growth, but to dis- every sort of vehicie, some are ante- | diluvian specimens seeing the light of | da% on such occasions. | ready made in France and elsewhere he Irish colleen will dance all|in the use of Hertzian waves te dispel night at a hunt ball and turn up at a | fo if not conclusive, are at least en- distant meet as fresh as paint without | going to bed spirit with wit and repartee bubbling | p like a font, out all and there is little searching for gaps or gates when the horse and rider is up. matter of hunting, and Irish packs are | not by any means numerous, and may be reckoned dozen. Some only possess quite a re- 3 stricted number of couples, few hunt four or five days a week, | though bring the total up. The Meath hunts five days a week and is one of the fa- | mous huynts of the United Kingdom | Has built up a success- ful dental practice in thi.sWhy ? city in the last 8 years - THREE STRONG REASONS: 1st—+Absolutely Painless Dentistry !, roncstly D b L i Mo e BT strongest reason for my success. People come to me in fear an, trembling and go away happy—wendering why they doubted. 2nd—The Lowest Prices consistent with - good work, a set of teeth as low as $5. Gold crowns and bridges $3 to $5. Teeth without plate $3 to $5. Gold fillings $1; other fillings 56c. My pain- 3d—Perfect Work Guaranteed ;Y rain- fect dental work causes patienis to send their friends to me—the friends @eing likewise. In this way I bave built up a big practice. PEOPLE CAN RELY ABSOLUTELY UPON MY WORK. KING DENTAL PARLORS 203 MAIN ST, NORWICH, CONN, Over Smith's Drug Store. Poli's Broadway Theatr “THE RAVEN DOUBLE ROYAL GOLDy STAMPS WITH EVERIY TICKET TODAY’S GREAT PICTORIAL FEATURE | POE’S IMMORTAL POEM PRESENTED IN 2 REELS BY THE - ECLAIR COMPANY ALSQ THREE OTHER MOTION PICTURES CASEY BROS., SINGING USHERS BELL AND HALL, COMEDIANS GUARANTEED THE PICTURES IN TOWN 10c 5C patest Hours 9 A, M. te 8 P. M. Sunday, 10 to 1 She finds her nerve | annually by reasen of the prevalence One gas eompany alone fur- gas to the value of $15,000 ever the normal figure on a of fog. The suspension of In the The late empress of Austria used to | a her | s 2 day n appropriation for seientific persing fog and influencing weather in clouds and rain. The experiments al- ing. and several other agencies, | e~ AUBITORIU MAY 27, 28, 29 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT somus [JURPHY & FOLEY somvnse GEO. PRIEMROSE'S DANCERS Johnnie Murphy is a local boy who has just returned from a long tour with #he Primrose Act JOHN M. MURPHY, International Xylophene King THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, 2:reel feature taken from the Poem by Elizabeth B. Browning Thanhouser Co. DOAN=LINDISAY & DOAN COMEDY SKETGH at all, full of life and such as jets of het air, have been ap- d with moere or less success to ef- fecting the same purpose within a Hm- ited a The problem is, of course, of world-wide interest, as witnessed by the many accidents constantly ee- curing on the high seas as a result of fog, to say mothing of the enormeus amount of time lost by vessels travel: ing at reduced speed te avoid such ae= cidents. The wild country brings | the dare-devil Irish nature, | blood of Irish | Ireland is not overrepresented in the | to number ; a couple of | Root-Bulkeley Wedlng Invitations. Dr. Edward King Reot and Mrs. Root of Hartford have sent out invita- tions to the marriagze of thelr daugh- Collins, and Morgan and but an occasional by-day may BREED THEATER —————————————— TODAY'S MAGNIRICENT FEATURE ‘WAR’S HAVOC' A Sensational and Spectacular Page from the History of the American Civil War. AMERICA’S SWITZERLAND” LAKE TOXAWAY, N. C. o el 375’000 lmvenfl“s Including 40 new Bathroems, Golf Links, 20-mile Lake Drive PASSACONAWAY INN, York Cliffs, Maine : Seashore and Country Combined A charming picturesque resort, directly en and overlooking the ocean, combined with every known Summer pastime GOLF, TENNIS, BiLLIARDS, BOWLING, AUTOMOBILING, RAGE, BATHING, FISHING, SAILING, FINE ORCHESTRA On direet line te Portland and the White Mountains Opens June 2Tth. For boeklet address HOLLAND HOUSE, Fifth Avenue and 30th Street, New York GEORGIAN TERRACE, Atlanta, Ga. Headquarters for tourists from all points of the compass HOLLAND HOUSE, 30th St. and 5th Ave. is the most delightfully located hotel in New York. GA- For a midmight supper, as for any other meal at any ,cfiu‘fine. vexy hatest thing in stoves—the best . that stove-artists can do—is a 'd e SRS ate, Exmhilm ‘Thek. L. Chagman Co. B | and the County Galway, the Blasers, | Gardner Bulkeley, Jr., son of former P EST THE/ RE IN W has four days a week. | United States Senator Morgan G. THE COOL AT TOWN e | Bulkeley and Mrs. Bulkeley, the cere- i The F & | mony to be solemnized on Saturday e Fog Problem. | afternoon, June 8,.at 4 o'clock at the It is said the London taxpayer is | Asylum Hill Congregatienal church, bl _ ot Bt M - Better Follow Anty Drudge’s Advice. Mprs. Newbride—‘Yes, but this is-the way mother wash- ol She always said to boil the clothes good and ong. \ Anty Drudge—‘“Yes, and your mother wore irts, and a poke bonnet, and did her sewing by hand, when was young. But I don’t see ing those :mxgs, Take my advice and usefiéwb-N soap in cold or lakewarm water. Thmhddx. white hands will last longer and so will y ” Every woman inherits certzin ways of doing housework from her mother as the mother did from her grandmother. One of these ideas from ancient times: concerns the washing of clothes. “‘Boil ’em, Boil ‘em goed,”” is the old tradition. = Until the invention of Fels-Naptha soap that was the only way to wash. Now, isn’t it foolish to keep on boiling clethes, and rubbing them hard, when a way to wash better in cold or lukewarm water with no hard rub- bing has been found? Clothes last longer with no boiling to weaken their fibre. REvery progressive woman is glad to get rid of the hot fire, steam and suds, as well as the back-break- ing work of hard rubbing. But there’s a2 nght way and a wrong way to use Fels-Naptha. Start right. Fol low the directions on the wrapper and you’ll have a better, easier, cleaner way of’ washing. Fer other reasons which are ex-' plained on the red and R Wrapper, Fels-Naptha is just as superior For all kitch- ' caidd | | e et e o o] SAY;, HOW ARCUE THAR | Deamaaat. s o, ; s — I CHFRRGEES i CONTRACE fRae (i 1510000 1 Ruggy |ikamas: el || Iflm;hu-"::’gn":l mm mn-u" ":_.uh L S HioosiieX o Mgty g =+ TN = | {8 g carmtd rmyy forrtasc Mll(::'— O 1 T e ccryy willl tobll ypau tirs e yyau saanves., || weatidi conedyy redeer yweu too themn. . Qadl! roe~ cor- tries pivomres Nec. 3700 armd’ lei's- get- togmther: C..M.. WILLIAMS, Wiee caar: st en tilee Kiri e (06— 1) 14: Hath 8., Nerwich,, Gomn.. . TEABIN FB e A Remed. / N e b e o RS iy R S R S T RV