The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1921, Page 6

The | school graduates, and as a an i ‘f _ tional system is all awry. budget is ek As a » politeness called . music, about the world, the , ‘itime, are mostly wrong. E school teacher, and only a te silt ition, milk is also the best food after the has developed. Keep the Baby out in the fresh air and sun- shine as much as possible, see that Ris sleeping room is ‘quiet and well ventilated, and do not allow anyone ‘© romp or play wtih him in such a “way as to excite him. Is it customary and thoroly safe where eniy one lung i# diseased to put that Yung out of comminsion by the use “im order that the lung may hav chance to rest and thus heal? | In recent years, the treatment | known as “artificial pneumothorax” | has been employed to a considerable extent in various sanatoria. On the) whole, the results of this form of | treatment have been satisfactory ia} melected cases. | ‘The treatment consists in the intro. | ion of je nitrogen gas into y, thus causing the does not move during respiration, | and the tuberculous focus is placed at | rest. The gas is injected from time to time, for slow absorption takes place and the lung gradually tends to resume its original position. pi "A Seattle Froduct Brute strength speaks for itself in every part of the Vulcan. i FRANK WATERHOUSE &CO. PINE AT BELLEVUE | | BY mail, out of city, See perrmonth; 1 menthe, $1.50; ¢ montha, $2.76) year, 44.00, im the state of Washington, 44.50 for @ montha, or $9.00 per year. My carrier, city, 500 & month. — is Education, or What? 4 Editor The Star: Aga parent with * children in the grades, as a “nay om ) man having occasion to emplo educational methods and a taxpayer, I am convinced, from my first hand} knowledge, that our primary educa- | Asva taxpayer I find that the school ater than ever—greater greater per pupil. ' * As a business man I discover thas ' these high school graduates can spell no better, know nq more of grammar » and rather less of courtesy, | graduates of the country schools of my parent, I find that my children are getting a smattering of what is by save the mark), and fancy dancing Seattle Star Outside of the state, 800 per month, } | | | sands of able men have gone out of it! the last few years, not only because they could make more money elsewhere but because they felt a sense of the fu-| tility of the entire system as conducted in the average city school, So long as the majority of boys who | go to work at a trade at 14 are making more money at 30 than the lads who remained in school, so long will am- bitious young America “hate” Some of the curse of classicism has been removed from our colleges, and| especially are the agricultural schools | producing results, but our primary) and secondary public schools are not} doing their work, in my opinion, and the outpouring of new millions each year has not bettered them in the least. i igh student of , than the standards futile tests, pedagogic experimentation, i= hool. | an’ escaped theories 0” child rain’, geod excuse is worse’n none, REMARKABLE REMARKS There seems to ba in all walks of | life a general disregard of high moral! tude, and when the train had pamed Hishop William Cabell good fami THE SEATTLE STAR | SETH TANNER} otdtime mother lly & growed up some o° th’ modern and “art” And, too, I believe ow’ large < Brown, Kplecopallan, Virgins | spot left on the rail where the ant ‘ar’ : « : .) ° . | had been —@enator Heflin (den orat schools are wasting so much time wi While we had 200 breweries in| Alabama ( oh eet New York state before prohibition, Someta From the Congressional Record LET GKORGE bo It An to the people who would drag us into war for Yap you would not find them anywhere near Yap when} the war wis on— Senator Kenyon (republican), Lowa. } eee MR, HEFLIN’S ANT A little red ant placed himself on \ railroad track in the Weet. He stood up on hin hind legs and enid: 1 see coming in the distance a big | Passenger train, the Cannon Rall,! and I am going to wreck it. When | the engineer seem me standing on the rail he will be filled with dread and consternation, and when he blows the whistle, giving the danger sig- nal, the conductor will ery in vain to the passengers, who will scream with fear as they poke their heads out at the windows just before I wreek the train and destroy them all.” ‘The poor little imnorant, emo tiwtion! ant ,stood there for a mo ment, but the engineer did not eves! Kven a | conductor did not know he was there; the passengers were unaware of the little ant’s threatening att on there was just one little greasy see him on the long #hining rail. The} House cleaning time, house cleaning. time! The housewives are busily chasing the grime; lotures are all taken down from the walin, hairn and the ta are out in the halls, And upstairs or downstairs, wherever you fare, ‘The odor of suds and ammonia i® there, Commingled with perfume of chloride of lime; House cleaning time! Houne cleaning time! Mother te wearing a calico gown, A towel for headdress—and also 4 frown; And Willie in lingering out in the «treet, Appalied at the prospect of rugs he must beat, And hoping his mother won't ask him to serub; While father, dear father, stays down at hie club— For only 4 person with patience sublime Can tick around home when it's house cleaning time! Oh, dustpans and buckets and brushes galore; And mopa, brooms and scrubbing rags clutter the floor. You eat from the mantel or off of a shelf, And all that you get you must rustle yourself. The clothesiines are sagging with blankets and such, And mattrenses fill the whole yard, pretty much. The furniture’s piled in a sort of a heap; There's no piace to mit and there's no place to resp. And wise people flee to some far, foreign clime, And stay there til) afler it's house cleaning met TUESDAY, MAY ba | as Reporte TODAY'S QUESTION What is the state flower of Wi ington? ANSWERS GN. MASON, 1330 Bighth @ “Bvery really bewutiful Mower more or lewg to be’ found here.” M. D. MAY, 707 Union st: “When |I lived in Portland I elected the rose and I haven't gotten over it” CLARENCE H. JONBS, Central bidg.: “The rhododendron.” EK. C. OBBORKN, 619 Third ave: “1 can name it but I can’t spell it. It's @ beautiful flower, the.” W. R FARIS, 1913 N. 39th ot: “The rhododendron.” ‘a8 oe Ss eieminedll Characterizes our every transact and our t re are accorded every ure comers ate acl tesy conmistent with sound busts ness judgment, 4% Paid on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to are Cordially Invi ) termed calisthenics, and other smatter- | ' ings of arts and crafts, but that in the vitals, the fundamentals, the truths of history, the merit of good books, the art of conduct, the knowledge of civics —those basic stones in the structure of education—my children know nothing. _ Indeed, what vague ideas they have eoples thereof, and of life terrestial, celestial and mar- A competent, experienced, sympa- _ thetic teacher is above price, but such that sort as we have receive no espe- i ‘ition; years of service, often Political pull, count for more than Merit, I gather from my observation. It has become almost a confession of weakness for a man to remain a public ‘spirits hang to the profession. Thou- and oration, is walking the earth with the rest of the flesh. gogues, means dead English, frozen speech, but the warm blood of the people keeps stirring in their daily contacts, and vision, imagery, quick expression constantly create new words and phrases thet in time become embodied in dictionaries, those ridiculous books play their ignorance and mumble over language. about pther worlds; we have no adequate basis of comparison. world can be made better, and how we, in the brief period in which we attitude toward the world as to get more of good oyt of it than he now is getting, and by that process give to it more good than he now is giving. is in @ burry, and it all moves in one direction; there are no currents |moving backward toward the cradle it is worth while to be sure that we get the utmost out of the play, and that we perform our own part in it worthily. jof the character of the world by helping to make it better fads, fancies and exercises that little | teaching effort is left for the real work} of educating the young as to the truth of life, the ways of efficiency and giv- ing a working knowledge of the few sciences that we all need, and, above all else, giving the pupil the habit of study aad the love of study for study’s sake; and no teaching that fails to do the last is teaching at all—it is futile cramming. At eight, I was reading and under- standing Ridpath’s History of the World, Dickens, Thackeray, much of Emerson, and at ten I knew my alge- | bra, my Latin and had a start on |Greek, and I wasn’t very bright at ) that, but I had competent instruction | }and it averaged less than three hours a day. Respectfully, A CITIZEN. few brave Concerning Abomination Known as Correct Speech Having run out of drive subjects before the entire pro- cession of weeks had become exhausted, some unconfined idiot mflicted Better English week upon us, and the nation was uselessly worried and harried and harassed by dull pedagogues who endeavored to dam the fluid flow of our jlanguage, and run it thru their dull little pipes of gram- matical and philological exactness. The most painful person one ever listens to is the person whose speech is exact, precise, correct; without the imagery : of slang, or the tang of the street. Almost every good thing in song and literature, in sermon good because it is common, vernacular; You know if one of these language sharks had been given the chore of writing “Carry Me Back to Ole Vi ny” what he would have done with it? oe “I desire to promptly return to the old Dominion state, ly known as the Commonwealth of Virginia; and further desire that not only may my habitation and domicile continue there until my decease, but that there after my mortuary be there established.” well on a banjo, one may surmise. That would go Or “Swanee Ribber”: “A considerable distance down on the inconsiderable stream known as the Swanee River, and, too, a consequential degree removed from my true habitat, my cacdiac organ keeps continually rotating, it makes not -|the slightest degree of difference where, nor how far dis- tant, I pursue my peregrination.” Preventives of tetany and mother's | Plano. Try it on the player Correct English, proper speech, in the minds of the peda- Crea pedants dis- he dead bones of What’s It All About BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON HERE |s 4 popular play, now on the boards in neveral cities, in which the tension of an overstrained trag. edy, which the spectators at different stages, accord ing to their insight discover to be burlesque, in re lieved by a character who pmerges at each moment of high suspense and asks, “What's all the shooting for?” Some such question needs to be propounded at fre quent intervais as one beholds the drama of iife. What is it all about? What kind of world is thia? There are those who believe it to be a bad world hopelessly bad. There are others who believe that the effort to make it appear good is the effort to Create perfection out of the sum of imperfections There are others who hold that it is the best of all poesible worlds. To me it seems that this may not be the most prof. itable form of the question. We do not know enough To me it seems that the first and most practical question is how the , Can Ket the most good out of it by putting. the most of good into it There can be no doubt that this would be a good world if we all | ~ agreed to be good and do good, and then stuck to our agreement. is not very much opportunity for any one of us to improve the entire world by any single effort that the whole world can feel and attribute to us There But there is a very good chance that any'one of us can #6 change his The question is too practical for us to waste much time over it. Life It would be interesting to know the occasion of all the shooting, but We can settle the question Try This on Your Wise Friend A’s money is 10 per cent of B.’s, and 15 per cent of ©’s. B has $100 more than C. How much has A? Answer to yesterday's: Four cows. we now have 200,000 bathtub and kitchen — breweries. Representative John Kissel, Brooklyn. eee I have counted 30 makew of auto Mobiles in Egypt, of which America furnished 79 per cent.—Ralph J Chesebrough, founder of American | Chamber of Commerce in Egypt see Home brew is the poorest and most dangerous brew in the world. If you are going to have beer, it ought to be made scientifically.—Dr. Harvey | | T. Wiley, pure food expert, | AN American boys and girls should spend a year of their lives on a farm as part of their education — Protons or Dallas Lore Sharpe, Boston uni. versity eee ‘Women for the greater part are) parasites, Apartment houne tite has been reaponsible.—-Dr, Martin J Stormeand, University of Southern California. eee Heat is the greatest antiseptic known and the heat generated by a kins destroyn the supposed germ.— Dr. Simon Louls Katzoff, physician and paychologiat Good apple pie; go to Roldt's —Ad vertinement DR. J. R. 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