HOME AND EDUCATION

...The method of using the siphon is shown in the illustration...

...I thought that I couldn't bear to have him away from me for the summer, but when I thought he was likely to waste so much precious time doing nothing I came to it, and now it will never be so hard again...

...The arms of the siphon should be parallel to each other and the distance across them should be about one and one-fourth inches...

...Up to this time he has had no serious view of life, but contact with its realities in the place he filled set his mind working in a totally different way...

...Even the little children have seen the life of far-away lands as the picture-books cannot show it...

...To the stranger out of the Past the women teachers are even more astonishing than are the children of To-morrow...

...For a number of years John has been skimming along over the surface of the studies offered in the high school, and adjusting his efforts with more or less nicety to just grazing that point...

...On the contrary the children experience the early stages of it every day...

...So much stress is laid upon a diploma— the certificate of graduation from a high school, business college or university is in so many lines of work accepted as the evidence of needful preparation—that it is often worth while for a young man or woman to make the effort to secure it even though some useless ground has to be covered...

...All his life he has received from his brilliant, thoroughly educated and devoted mother all the knowledge she could ingraft...

...She says: "I am coming to be of your opinion that a college education is not a necessity for everybody...

...But in nearly every family with a number of children of school age, there is an Individual case not so easily settled, and it is a comfort to us mothers to know that other mothers have problems like ours...

...Temperamentally fitted for a life of action rather than of study, he probably could now take up to his advantage some line of work leading to a future occupation...

...They have the charm of great actresses...

...YOUNG people who go to school "to satisfy their parents and appearances" are not uncommon in high schools and colleges...

...It is furnished as a theatre, with a small table on which an electric lamp is set...

...But when they have absolutely lost all interest, when school has become a place to dawdle and waste time, is it not better if we have any such as these to deal with, when school opens this fall, instead of urging them to further effort to an "education" to give them a chance to learn something of the "realities" of life...

...If e siphon is rinsed in c -d water immediately after being used, there will be no difficulty about keeping it clean...

...It should be bent out a little at a point opposite the end of the short arm, for convenience in catching the cream...

...He stayed by the job until it was done, and has the opportunity of going again next year...

...Above all they must distinguish the signs of apathy, and also the symptoms of exhaustion, from the results of healthy nerve exercise...

...If, after being broken, the glass has a sharp edge likely to cut the hand, hold that part in the flame until it begins to melt...

...Indeed when we get together and compare notes, we find often that the question perplexing us is more or less typical and one with which educators re wrestling for a solution...

...Women of the Hour Mrs...

...If bent while in the flame, it is likely to be too soft to be correctly shaped...

...It had so much of valuable suggestion for me that I take great satisfaction in passing it on to our readers...

...It is in close touch with the life of fields and meadows —to which, thanks to a perfected system of transit, every child can be restored daily—just as the schools for older boys and girls are in close touch with the trade centres of the city...

...Of this League, Mrs...

...They have to know when to stop...

...He has come back with the belief that he wants an education for the use it would be to him...

...It betrays itself in the brightened eyes of the pupils engaging in mental work that stimulates and tries their powers...

...The amount of cream that can be removed, will, of course, depend upon the length of the short arm...

...Nothing, it seems to me, is worse for a boy or girl than to have as their highest ambition not to fall below the passing mark at school...

...Owing to the narrowness of this siphon it can be filled with the cream itself, which is a saving of time and trouble...

...With his home training he has had the advantage of books, travel, contact with- the world and people, and probably entered the high school with a grasp of things that in itself constituted a liberal education...

...Ordinarily such siphons must be started by being filled with water...

...It is, in fact, so simple that it seems to complicate it to write about it...

...To remove less cream, it is necessary only to hold the siphon in the hand with the end of the short arm at the point where you wish the separation to take place...

...He is an active, alert, energetic boy, quick to learn—also to forget, I fear—but he can do anything that he sets himself to do, and I believe he will study hard now...

...A. Stan-Best of Evanston, Illinois, is President, having come to that office from the Presidency of the Drama Club of Evanston, which in two years' existence has aroused so much interest that it has grown in numbers beyond all the clubs of that much-organized city...

...If the tubing is dry, there is no danger of breaking it by heat...

...To break it at any point, make a small scratch and then apply a little force as you would for the purpose of bending it...

...Their voices are low, penetrating and musical, and have a racial quality, too, quite distinct from that of the voices of other lands...

...When the liquid has come to a level inside and outside of the tube, close the long arm by means of the thumb, invert the siphon, put the short arm into the bottle and remove the thumb...

...IMADE a little device a few days ago which seems to me to be better and simpler than anything I have ever been able to buy for removing cream from bottled milk...

...There is no objection to this when the cream is to be used in preparing infants' food, in which water is always one of the ingredients, but when the thick cream is wanted for household use, even a small amount of water is to be avoided...

...It is a siphon very much like those that are on the market for removing top-milk for the purpose of preparing modified milk but differing from them in being so narrow that it can be filled by being dipped into the bottle...

...This spring he went west with an engineering party and did a man's work for four months...

...Yet the children are going to be made to work: "Fatigue is not unknown in the Schools of Tomorrow...

...At that meeting Louis K. AnsDacher, author and critic, who had come from New York for the occasion, said: "We have consciously applied a leverage of uplift to every other element in the theater but the audience...

...t perhaps to get their clothes in order...

...Every girl of fifteen has seen the homes of many nations and orders, and compared them...

...Quite recently a friend wrote me in a personal letter of her experience...

...There is little 'discipline' in the old sense, because now the natural discipline involved in all real work is allowed to come into force...

...Of the playgrounds she says: "Playgrounds are not confined to the roof-garden, the plots of grass, the flower beds and the ground in the rear...

...Of the means which she and the members of the Drama League are taking to create an interest in good plays, we shall sneak in later issues of La FoLLtTTr...

...If our schools offered the opportunity for study and work combined as Mr...

...for the effort and concentration required from every child in a lesson are much greater than was formerly possible...

...When this is four and one-half inches on the inner side, one-fourth of the contents of a quart bottle or one-half of a pint will be taken off...

...He had to get up at five o'clock and work hard all day...

...To bend it at any point, heat in a gas or kerosene flame until it glows...

...There is more order in the classrooms—but this order, like the discipline, is not imposed, it is incident'' Methods of teaching are thus described: "In the school of Tomorrow there is a dark room, which all love to enter...

...There is only one part of the whole building which is more popular, and that is the little room on the turret with its great telescope, where, on fine nights, children look forth on the whirling worlds of space...

...It should be first inverted and dipped into the bottle until the end of the short arm is just below the surface of the liquid...

...It is an imaginary school created for healthy city children under the age of fourteen...

...Select that which has a bore of about one-fourth of an inch...

...Best is a graduate of Smith College in the class of 1895...

...On the dark wall starts forth at a touch from the operator the life and movement of other lands...

...It is for this reason, among others, that teachers have to understand fatigue symptoms...

...They include the great municipal school gardens and also the free open spaces far away, where many a child has his own pets, and where every child plants and digs and even builds, gaining new experiences and making his own discoveries in peace...

...A convenient length for the long arm is seven inches...

...The cream will flow until it falls below the end of the tube...

...Now there is a great body of people, the Drama League, organized for the purpose not of uplifting the stage but of uplifting themselves to appreciate what is best and most helpful in dramatic art, thus encouraging playwrights, managers, and actors to make the drama a force for good and a source of wholesome pleasure...

...providing the siphon is allowed to hang on the side of the bottle, as in the illustration...

...They move with wonderful grace...

...William Thum so earnestly advocates or if the courses of study were less strictly standardized so that every boy and girl did not have to cover the same ground, parents and teachers would often be relieved of the necessity of making a decision as to whether it is best for children to continue in school under compulsion, or to go to work in the world until experience brings the desire or the realization of the need of further education...

...And to our whole nation do thou grant wisdom to create a world in which none shall be able to idle in luxury, but in which all shall know the health of wholesome work and the sweetness of well-earned rest.—Walter Rauschenbusch in the September American...

...Their dress is simple and beautiful, and nothing is so remarkable as their power—except their gentleness...

...We should recognize the practical as well as sentimental value of completing a course of study, and hold children as long as they can be induced to work...

...Consider, for instance, the boy referred to in this letter...

...A. Starr Best President of the Drama League of America THERE was a ^reat meeting at the Lyric Theater in Chicago on May 6 of this year when the Drama League of America had its formal opening...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT When School Begins AS THE time approaches for school to begin, mothers whose children are strong in body, up to their grade in all of its branches and ready and willing in spirit have no especial problem, exce...

...Miss McMillan thus describes the Teacher of Tomorrow...

...Whenever a child begins to find nature-work, history or geography at all dull he has only to pay a visit to this room in order to have his interest revived...

...It is surprising what a transformation the experience has wrought in him...

...then remove from the flame and shape...

...Schools of Tomorrow MISS MARGARET MCMILLAN, to whose visit to this country I called attention in our issue of June 4, by publishing a letter from Joseph Fete relating to her work in England, has written an inspiring essay on the Schools of Tomorrow...

...In fact, I have always thought that if a child went to school only to satisfy his parents and appearances he might better do something else...

...If properly handled, it is unnecessary to soil the hands or to get them wet...

...It is a simple matter to make such an instrument out of glass tubing which is for sale by all druggists...