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THE D.aiLY EXAMINER, CHARLUT'TETUWN, JANUARY 19, 1900

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EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

Edited by Inspector McCormac.

INT... IDUCTORY.

In the last Annual Report ov the Schoole

of this ProviocelI made the

suggestion

!that the teachers have an Educeatioval Column in one or more of the Island weeklies in which the latest and beet

ought on theory and practice, together with other matters of professional interest, could be promulgated.

Realiziug that if there is anvthing that is more essential than aaother to the up- lifting of our schools ic is the arousing of a more general interest in public education and the securing of public attention to the particular needs of our schools, I bave un- dertaken the editing of an Educational Column io some of our leading aewapapers, I hope that I will have the co-operation of the teachers as well as of others inter~ ested in the cause of education, for with-~ out such co-operation the Educational Column can appear but seldom. Schcol Superintendents, in some of the most pro. gressive countries, conduct Educational Columns in local papers, and, of course, receive valuable aesistance from the rank and file of the profession. I think we have a wide-awake, progressive lot ot teachers in thie province and they can teach each otber something. Let us have an inierchange of ideas in this column. 1 think that 1 am taking upon myself an extra burden in undertaking the manage~ ment of this columa, but if the perusal of the articles which from time to time appear herein shali help the teachers in their work and make them as well as the gen- eral public more zealous cause of education [ shall fally compensated for the “midnight oii”

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be more than

I shall necessarily burn while preparing these columns. G. J. McCormac NUuGETS.

The following sentences spoken by Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler in an ioforma! talk tothe students of the University of California are just as applicable to pupils in common scnoois acd therefore worth repeating: “It is what goes over into Spinal marrow, into real lite, that makes us; aod what we are going to get out of our university life is not bits of knowledge, not maxims and rules for getting this orthat; for learning ‘his or that, for attaining this or that; but, after all, it ie this one thing which we talk eo much about and uoderstand so imperfect- ly-it*s character. As I grew older I came less end less to respect men of bril- liancy, and totie to men for their char- acter. * * * In auniversity,or else where in the world, heart is more than head and love is more than reason.”

Inspire in your pupilsa love for home and country. No boy who loves his bome and parents and to whomit is a pleasure to reepect aad obey h's parents, will ever briog grief tohis home or dis- honor to his family. The love of country is interwoven with the love of home. The Jove of home makes stronger the love for the government that protects the hom».

Every echool should have a set of the emaller weights and measures, the pound, ounce, quarter, the foot, inch, yard, the pint, quart, gallon, etc., and these should be constantly employed ia teachiug the tables. Children will thus see the rela- tions between the different multiplies, and acquire some definiteidea ofeach. For lack of concrete teaching it is c_mmon enough to find young people who ca... _at their tables correctly, but who yet cannot tell whether the playground is a pole or a fur- l4ng, and whether a scuttle of coal weighs a pound ora quarter, The dimensions of the roow, and of ite deors and windows, should be obtained by actual measure. meats in which the pupils take par’, and the distances to certain w?!! known gpots should be familiar and coostantly em- ployed as etandards of comparison.

No child should be allowed to erite with the left hand unless a physical defect ren ders the right hand uaeless.

Maps hanging onthe walle should be rolled up when oot im use, If this be done they wiil last much longer.

The half yard and quarter squa e yard ig ordinary tables of long and square s.easure are a fruitful source of difficulty to child- ren, especially in schools where the com - pound rules are studied before taking up fractions. Teachers may avoid this diffi- culty by omitting, in the tables,“‘rod-, p les or perches,” linear or square, and eubsti- tuting ‘‘chains,” when the tables wil] run thus:

1 chain. 1 furlony.

22 yards 10 chains

484 square yards

1 square chain 10 square chains

1 acre.

Writing on “ The Education of the Imagination,” the Fionish author, Vase- niugs quotes some amusing examples of the breakdown of purely formal knowledge when the imagination is left undeveloped. “If there are nine spar- rows On atree, and you shoottwo, how many remain behind ?” is a trap which almost invariably catches the precocious ariihmetician who is quick at figures, and who promptly auswers “Seven.” Again : If one man cao build a wallin 10 days, work- ing 10 hours a day,in what time can 6,000 men build the same wall? The clever boy answers “in one minute” and does not realize thatth 6,000 men would be very much io each other’s way,

A QUAINT OLD fCHOOLBOOK.

“Tbe Federal Calculator, American Schoolmacter’s Assistant, and Young

Man’s Compsnion,” isthe title of a quaint mathematical volume published in Troy, N. Y.,in 1802, the author being Daniel Hawley.

Amorg the general problems at the close of the work are 9 number that seem peculiar at this day, Among them are these :

“Ao ancient lady, being asked how old she was, to avoid adirect anewer said: I have pine children, and there are three ears between the birth of each of them ; ne eldest was borne when I was 19 years id, which is now exactly the ege of the youngest. How old was the lady ?”

“A mao, driving his geeee to market, vas met by @ man, who said ‘good morn- ing wth vour buodred geese.’ [I have uot @ hundred geese, says he; but if I ad balf as many as I now have, and two geese and a half, besides the number I aiready, Lsnould bave a hundred.

How many had he ?”

The last three pages of the book are ‘ken up with what the author ealls ‘““sopi-s,” amorg them being these:

**When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.” “Malice seldom wauts & mark to shoot

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at ‘Better unborn than untaught.” “He who seeks truuble never misses it.” “Kings, as well as ucher men, must die.”

MENTAL ARITHMETIC,

Mental arithmetic does not receive in our schools the attention which its im- por:ance demands. Too much dependence i8 put upon the dull work of the slate, tou i:ttle upon the uaasided and alert reason of the pupil. The object of mental arith- metic is to encourage readiness, quickness aud accuracy in dealing with figures, to promote sleriness ia dealiog with simple probleins, and to anticipate by means of rapid aud varied oral practice with emé!l numbers, the large problems which have afterwards to be worked out on the siates. Such oral lessons should be so varied as to furnish as many different forms of exercise as possible in concrete as welles abstract numbere, and in frac-

sures, A good exercise is to occasionally wriie a long co-umn of figures in the eight

tional paris of money, weights acd mea- j

surrounded by the youth of the place, of which he always bad # large contingent, and with them the remembrance of bim shell always be a green spot in their memory. Ino his home he was kiod, affec tionate and induigent. To his bereaved family we extend our sincere sympathy | for the irreparable loss they have sustain. ed. He wae followed to his last resting place on Sueday afternoon by a very large concourse uf people of ali classes, thus fully attesting te the esteem in which he was beld by all who knew him. Alberton, P. E. I., 16th dan’y., 1900. [Watchman, Guardian, Herald and Summerside Journal) please copy.)

It is our painful duty “to “chronic’e the death of one ef our ancient pioneers of Middleton, Mr. Patrick Mulligan. He was in his 75th year, and was in full enjoyment of health up te a few days before his sad dem ise He was stricken down with paralysis about a week before, and on Wednesday the 10th ult., 1ortified by the rites of the Catholic church of which he wae a practical and consistent member, peace- fully breathed his last. He left an affectionate wife and one son to mourn their lose.§Hie funeral took place Friday morrivg to St. Michae!’s church, Kinkorat and was attended by a large concourse of people.

To his sorrowing friends and relatives we tender our heartfelt sympathy.

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UNDER THE FLORAL BELt.

Young Islanders Wed in Boston—

New and Interesting Features of

the Ceremony.

Sosron, Jan. 10th, 1900.—The people of Prince Edward Island will undoubtedly be happy to hear of a pretiy home wedding which took place this evening in Cambridge, one of the Boston suburbs. The contracting parties were beth frem the picturesque isle inthe Gulf of St. Law- rence. The bride was Miss Eunice Matilda

of the scholars and require them to name in quick suecesion the results of each ad- d tion as the teacher points to the several figures in any order. The mode of con- ducting the lessons in mental arithmetic compels att ntlovu, trains the reasoning aud shou'd always occupy a large portion of the timeduring weich the urithmetie cla. is under the direction of the teacher. When we studied mental arithmetic (mental solutions) when we solved prob leins “ by our heads’ not by oar a ijatee, arithmetic was the teacher’s +tronghold. It may be saidthat we now work every- thing on the slate, spitting, guessing and rubbing till we spit and guess tho answer, An old criticism in arithmetic «us taught in our schools is that the work being done is Only the guessiog ofs0 many riddles, that tne child learus the rules in order to perform “a set of eums” and having learned “the trick” ke Lastens ‘to cipher out” all the problems under the formula in the same way. There is more truth poe ryin this criticiem. We want iers theu dexterity in manipulating figures anu fiading answers and instead a betier understanding of principles. G. J. MoCormac, St. George’s, January 13h, 1900.

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OBITUARY.

Pasced away to his eterial reward, on Friday, the 12th inst., after a short, but severe illness of typhoid-pnenmonia, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. John A. Reid, merchant tailor, of Alberton, in the 71st year of his ege. He was fortified by the last rites of the church of which he was a devo'ed member by the Rev. Dougald McDonald, of Tigaish parish, who drove adistance of twelve miles fthrough a ragiog snowstorm. The deceased was born in Irelahd, county of Kiikeapy, snd came with his parente tg Charlottetown when ovly ten years o'd, At the age of 19 Le west to the city of New Yerk, where he remained 16 years, and from tbere he came to Alberton,where | he bas resided for nearly thirty-six years.

As citizen he was highly repected; as a m-rohant te‘lor he was seucceseful. His honésty, faithfulness and perseverenee brought ilsows reward. In eduoational

matters he took a deep interest being almost constantly a member of the Alberton Schel Board.

He was hospitable and chariisble. The poor and needy always found in him a fried. His social nature was of that genuine character which never flagged ,and 4@ vever appeared happier than when

Consumption is contracted as well as in- herited. Only strong lungs are proof against it.

Persons predisposed to weak lungs and those recovering from Pneumonia, Grippe, Bronchitis, or other exhaust-

ing illness, should take

It enriches-the blood, strengthens the lungs, and builds up the entire system, It prevents consumption and cures it in the early stages,

Jardiae, daughter of tke late Wiiliam Jardine, ot Head of Hil boro. The groua was Mr. Percy Lee Ceffin,of Savage Harbor. ‘The happy couple were united in marriage at eignt o’cleck, at the home of the bride’s brother, Mr. W. F Jardine,

27 Dudley St., by Rev. Scott F,. Hershey,

of the First Presbyterian Church, Co um- bus Avenue. The spacious par'or v

beau.ifully decorated with potred ferna and cut flowere, and in the centre of the rcom was a large and beautiful floral bell. to the strains of Mendelssoha’s

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Stewart, of Cardigan, P. KE. I. ceremony the couple stood under the floral bell, which “wasQilluminated with vari- colored electric lights that were set to form» the letters ‘J’ und ‘C’, the respective initials of the bride and groom. When they had been made one the letter ‘J’ sig- nifying the maideo name of the bride slowly disappeared and left the letter *C’ stioding out plainly and shining with re- newed vigor.

The bride looked charming and was attired in delicate white muslin with along train, her bair wae ornamented with orange blossoms and a white eatin knot. She carried a large bunch of bridal roses, She was attended by Mies Laura M.,Douglase, who wore white muslin trimmed with pink, and she carried 2 bouquet of roses. Mr George H. Jardine, brother of the bride, acted as best man. | There were abou fifiv persons present, and the gifts received by the happy couple were numerous and exceptionally ccstly. They comprised silverware, pictures, and other ueetul aswell as ornamental household articles.

After the ceremony tbe guests sat down tea very inviting supper, after which » fine voesl andinstrumntal gonoert war given. Among those who contributed u the pregramme were the Mieses Sarah, Effie, Alioe aud Annie Douglas, who forn- ed a quarteite and sang many pieces ina very charm'ng manner, amoeg which | were “Just Oue Girl,” “Mousa,” “After- ward:,” aad “Where the Sweet Magnolia Grows.” They were accompanied by Miss Annie Setwart as p‘anist. The others wio helped out the programme ) were the Misses Edna = and Ida Clark, Mies Emeline Jardiae, Misa Christina Gunn, Mr. W, H. Jardine, Mr W. L. Douglas, and Mr. Wellington Claik. Miss Loitie Clark on the piano and Mr, Hope Jardine ag violinist, render: ed some very pleasing duets.

_ Mr. H. P. Ames, of the firm of Hutch- ings & Ames, Brookline, delivered a very pleasing and appropriate speech in which he made plain the fact of tue day uot only being the bride’s wedding day but it was also her birthday. This aceounted for the | two cakes, one a birthday and the other ibe wedding cake. He explained tbat in the birthday cake had been placed three articles, viz., a ring, a bachelor’s button. apd @ penny.

To each guest would be given a) pieee of the cake, and to the ones who would find in their shares the articles mentioned fortune of seme kind wasto come. The ring carried with .t¢ marriage, the bachelor’s buitoa a life of single loneliness, and the penny jriches. Mr William Clark was the fortumate wioner of tbe ring. Miss Effie Douglas cspiured the penny, and Mr. Hope Jardine was the winner or loser, as you care to losk on the rubjectof marriage, as he got the bachelor’s button.

At 11.30 c’elock the newly -married couple were driven in a closed carriage to their future home, 45 Frank Street, Cam- bridge, amid a shower of rice and aa up- roar of well-wishing voiges.

(Island papers please copy.)

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