boy in the room, after a hurried, pitying glance at the marred face, quickly looked the other way; and the little one has never met with any but the kindest treatment, and has never been made to think herself different from the rest of the children. This is true politeness,

and is far removed from cruelty.

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Science To-day.

* An enthusiast may say that science is the key to all knowledge. It is easy to say that. But men of liberal educationmen who in middle life and in age contrast educational values in their own experience and in the experience of others, place nature studies first. Whatever of exact seeing, of mental acumen, of growth in language, of true reasoning, of pleasurable emotions have come to the children of the grades, it will be found on analysis to be the result of the stimulus of objects and their phenomena somewhere and somehow impressed.

The next decade must solve the fitness of the place assigned to science by our own psychologists-i. e. meritoriously first. If so, science teaching must demonstrate beyond question that continuous courses in science from the primary to the high school will develop in children as no other studies will, the following:

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An increased love for all other studies.

It is fair to say that argument can never settle the above points. -PROF. M. L. SEYMOUR, Chico State Normal School, in Western Teacher.

Noble Words and Deeds.

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise.

The tidal wave of deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares

Out of all meaner cares.

The Clouds.

BY A. W. Frederick, LODGE, CAL.

Highest of all,

In the thin, blue air,
The cirrus floats,

A vapor rare

As the frozen breath

Of an angel's prayer.

Like an iceberg of ink,

Or mountain-piled snows,

The cumulus banks

The sky as it goes-
And a kindling wrath

In its bosom glows.

With a leaden grief

From the moaning tides

The nimbus weeps

As it onward glides.

'Tis the rainbow-realm

Where the flower-soul bides.

Far off in the west,

At the dying of day,

The stratus is stretched

Like a finger of clay,

To close the eye

Of a friend passed away.

THE following was put upon the blackboard by Dr. Z. X. Snyder, at Martha's Vineyard, to assist in remembering the key-note of the great educational teachers :

METHODS AND AIDS.

Program for a School Celebration of Washington's Birthday.

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Patriotic recitations.

5. Our Flag. (Under this number there should be a flag drill, a history of our flag, or some other appropriate exercises.)

6. Declaration of Allegiance to the Flag.

7. Singing of "Belov'd America," "Red, White and Blue."

8. Patriotic quotations. (These should be brief.)

9. Semi-chorus, "Garlands, Garlands Bright and Fair." (While this is being sung, Liberty decorates the picture of Washington with evergreens and flowers.)

IO. Poem, "Crown our Washington."

He gave us a nation; to make it immortal

He laid down for Freedom the sword that he drew,
And his faith leads us on through the uplifting portal
Of the glories of peace and our destinies new.
Not with gold, nor with gems,

But with evergreens vernal,

And the flags that the nations of liberty span,

Crown, crown him the chief of the heroes eternal,
Who laid down his sword for the birthright of man.

Lead, Face of the Future, serene in thy beauty,

Till o'er the dead heroes the peace star shall gleam,
Till Right shall be Might in the counsels of duty,
And the service of man be life's glory supreme.
Not with gold, nor with gems,

But with evergreens vernal,

And the flags that the nations in brotherhood span,
Crown, crown we the chief of the heroes eternal,
Whose honor was gained by his service to man!

O Spirit of Liberty, sweet are thy numbers!

The winds to thy banners their tribute shall bring,
While rolls the Potomac where Washington slumbers,
And bis natal day comes with the angels of Spring.
We follow thy counsels,

O hero eternal!

To highest achievement the school leads the van,

And, crowning thy brow with the evergreen vernal,
We pledge thee our all to the service of man!

The speaker addresses the last five lines to the picture, by the side of which "Liberty "' is standing. At the close of the poem, there is a moment of silence, during which "Liberty" places a wreath above the picture of Washington. After which, amidst waving of flags in time with the music, is sung the

The foregoing program will be found available for the majority of schools. But it may easily be rearranged or abbreviated to suit any need which becomes manifest. A variation of this program may be found in the JOURNAL for February, 1894. One thing, however, should be striven for the carrying out, in an attractive and complete way, of the crowning of the picture, which ends the exercises.

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On the following page we present a portrait of the immortal Lincoln, whose birthday also occurs this month. Lincoln was born February 12th, 1809.

Hold, warriors, councilors, kings!-all now give place
To this dear benefactor of the race!

-From a poem by R. H. Stoddard.

Child-study.

G. STANLEY HALL, CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MASS.

We reproduce a topical syllabus for child study drawn up by Dr. Stanley Hall.

DOLLS.

The data desired are juvenile feelings, acts, or thoughts toward any object which represents a baby or a child.

I. Describe your dolls, and get children to do the same; whether of wax, rags, paper, pasteboard, rubber, china, wood, stone, etc., and give instances where clothes, pins, nails, bottles, vegetables, sticks, flowers, keys, button-hooks, etc., have been regarded as dolls in any respect, or in any degree.

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Feeding. What foods, liquid or solid, and how are they given? Describe imaginary foods, dishes, spoons, and other utensils. Is there any regularity or system in feeding, and are hunger, starvation, food preferences, or growth imagined?

3. Medicines, diseases. What diseases, pains, symptoms are imagined? How is sympathy shown? What drugs are given? How,