Elegant Gifts for Close of School. D HAT teachers are unusually quick to appreciate any new thing of real merit is again proven by the extent to which they purchased and the manner in which they endorsed our Souvenirs during the fret year. Nearly 10,000 teachers purchased them for their pupils during this period! The custom of giving pupils some little token at the close of school is an excellent one, and teachers everywhere observe it. It has been, however, difficult to secure appropriate gifts-something attractive, which would be kept, without too great cost. The want is supplied by Our School Souvenirs They are neat, novel, attractive, and as they contain the name of school, date, teacher's name, togetl er with names of pupils, they will be highly prized and always kept as real Souvenirs. These Souvenirs consist of two cards tied together with silk cord. On the face of first is printed the name of school, town, teachers, date, officers, etc., as desired, in the brightest gold letters, and on the second the names of the pupils. Heavy embossed cards are used and the Souvenirs are gotten out in a highly artistic manner. Where two cards are not sufficient additional cards are attached so as to accommodate all the names without crowding. OUR NEW PHOTOGRAPH SOUVENIRS NOW READY. Price List. 15 or less $1.00 16: $1.05 21: $1.29 17: 18: 1.33 1.37 19: A new feature, which will render them much more valuable than ever before, is now provided for our Souvenirs. It consists in copying and transferring to the title card of the Souvenir the teacher's photograph. Those ordering Souvenirs with photograph should send a cabinet-sized photograph from which to copy, and make extra remittance of 25 per cent of the regular price for the number of Souvenirs required. There will be no change in the photograph, and the picture on Souvenir will be an exact copy of original, but reduced in size. We can, of course, furnish them with or without photograph, as desired. Photographs have always been considered a most appropriate gift for close of school, but they could not often be used on account of the great expense, especially where the school is large. Now that you can procure good photographs in connection with the most appropriate gifts ever devised for presentation to pupils (our Souvenirs) for a mere trifle, none should fail to take advantage of the opportunity. Much more satisfactory results can be given if a cabinet-sized bust or half length picture is sent than if a full length or smaller card size. Many will find a picture of the school house a very attractive feature for the cards. Number to Order. Order at least as many as there are officers, teachers and pupils to be printed upon them, and as many more as you wish. State definitely the number you wish, and send, plainly written, the matter you desire printed on the face of first card, together with the name of each pupil. Be sure that names are correctly spelled and plainly written. When to Order. Orders can usually be filled within two days of the time they are received, but should be sent in a couple of weeks in advance, if possible, so as to avoid any possible delay. Photographic orders will take more time to execute than those without. One sample Souvenir free to any address. TEACHERS IMPROVEMENT CO, Box 2003, Dansville, N. Y. 20: 1.10 22: 1.15 23: 1.20 24: 1.41 1.25 25: 1.45 Additional ones 3c. each. In ordering quantities in excess of 25 send $1.45 for first 25 and 3c each for all over that number Number of Souvenirs ordered must equal number of names printed Sent postpaid on receipt of price. When ordering Photograph Souvenirs remit 25 per cent in addition to the prices above quoted. TEACHERS' BOOKS FOR THE SPRING FAIRYLAND OF FLOWERS. I believe teachers will find the Fairyland of Flowers very helpful. I know from my experience with teachers, that it is just what most teachers need. Plant study is the easiest and most promising division of nature study and such a book will help teachers who know nothing about plants, if they will study the plants and not merely the books. The illustrations are unusually good. Busy teachers who want to correlate nature study with literature will find the poems and stories interwoven with the plant descriptions, very helpful. They help teachers to realize that plants are more than mere structures to be picked apart or analyzed and described. CHARLES B. SCOTT, Oswego Normal School. Fully Illus, qto. Boards, 1.00; Cloth, $1.25. A Year With the Birds. A THE TREES FLAGG Birds of winter, birds of the night, birds of the moor, sea and shore, birds of the pasture and forest and farm and barn-yard, are all treated of, and hundreds of species receive a detailed review. Silk Cloth. Illus Price, $1.00. A Year Among the Every tree and shrub is described here in a popular common-sense manner. In fact, it just such a book as a lover of Nature wishes.-Gameland. Illus. Cloth. 320 pp Price, $1.00. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Our Spring Offer By answering this advertisement this month you will get PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAFLET and THE HELPER FOR THE PRICE OF ONE PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAFLET has four pages of choice sight reading for first and second grades, prepared by successful primary teachers. It is published monthly. 12 single Leaflets, 6c. 100 single copies, 35c. 12 copies a month, ten months, September to June, for 50c. 100 copies monthly, 10 months, $2.50. Ask prices for larger quantities. Contents of Volume 1. Price 10c. No. 1--The Sun, Phaeton, The Snow. No. 2-Our Flag, The Boy Washington, The Man Washington, Joan of Arc. No. 3-Winds. No. 4-Spring. PussyWillow, Rain, Dandelion, Little Brown Seed. No. 5 -Little Dandelion, What the Flowers Wished, The Violet, Anemone. No. 6-The Frog, Snail, Crayfish. No. 7-September Aster, Goldenrod. No. 8-Milkweed, Thistle, Ants, October. No. 9-The Mayflower. New Land, Fruit, Thanksgiving, Squirrel. No. 10The Madonna, The Stars and the Child, The Christmas Story. Contents of Volume 2. Price roc. No. 1-The Snowflake Fairies, The Snow, A Trip to Contents of Volume 22: Half Number. Price only 5c. Volumes 1, 2 and 2% were edited by Mary L. Gilman, principal of the Clay school, Minneapolis, a most successful primary teacher and supervisor. Each volume is bound in manila covers. Volume 3 begins with September, 1897, and ends with June. 1898. It is edited by Bertha V. Taylor, of the Minneapolis public schools. Several of Miss Taylor's stories appear in Volumes 1 and 2. A sample dozen of different numbers of the Leaflet will be mailed to any teacher for 5c. We do not sell less than one dozen copies or enter subscriptions for less than one dozen monthly. The Helper IS: 1st. Just what its name implies, The Helper. It is a beautifully illustrated Next it contains Special Day Exercises for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Decoration Day, Arbor Day, Washington's Birthday. Lincoin Day; 25 patriotic poems, 17 poems on birds and insects, 24 poems on plants and flowers, 34 poems of nature, 12 poems and exercises for the seasons, over 50 miscellaneous poems and 30 pieces of music suitable for school. Next, it is an emergency helper, ever ready. Every teacher needs it and can use it every day. The trite saying "a long felt want" means all it ever meant when applied to The Helper. Those who have it recommend it, and it is seldom loaned, because each wants her own all the time. Our offer is a year's subscription to Primary School Leaflet and a copy of The Helper both for 50c. To any who prefer it we will send bound Volumes 1, 2 and 2% of Primary School Leaflet and a copy of The Helper for 50c. If you do no find the Leaflet and the Helper all we represent them to be we will refund the money. If we please you, you will tell your friends; hence this special offer. Do not make a mistake in our address: Mention this paper. SCHOOL EDUCATION COMPANY, 26 and 28 Washington avenue south, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a new Color Book by MILTON BRADLEY, designed for Primary Schools. With these books in the hands of Teachers and Pupils greater progress can be made in true Color teaching than has ever before been possible. MODERN METHODS for MODERN TEACHERS If you wish a live, bright, original, up-to-date teachers journal; one that is filled to TEACHERS WORLD will aid you. Ten large Natural History Supplement Charts free each year-Ten More than 50,000 teachers are using its plans and suggestions. ESTABLISHED 1889. Ninth year of increasing success. 48 Large Quarto Pages and Supplement. Monthly-Illustrated ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. One Sample Copy Sent Free. Primary Grades For Youngest Readers. Large type, charmingly illustrated. Boards, 30 cents; Cloth, 40 cents. Water-Babies. For Youngest Readers. Large type. Short sentences. illustrations. Boards, 30 cents; Cloth, 40 cents. ADDRESS For Intermediate Grades. 10 CENT LIBRARY. Black Beauty. Paper, 10 cents. Illus. Boards, 25 cents; Cloth, 35 cents. Unique Gulliver's Travels.. Voyage to Lilliput, paper, 10 cents. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, * VACATION * Cook County Normal Summer School, Chicago, Ill. Three Weeks, beginning July 5, 1898. OPEN TO ALL By Members of the Regular Faculty of the Chicago Normal School. THE HE. HOLT NORMAL INSTITUTE OF VOCAL HARMONY. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION opens Tuesday, July 12, and closes with graduating DECISION OF SUPREME COURT has confirmed my rights as publisher of the edition bearing my name as publisher on title-page, and secure valuable editions. Columbia Chainless "It has a clean cut symmetrical look that pleases the eye, and compared to which a chain wheel seems to be encumbered and complicated." New York Herald. 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Some pupils will dispose of only two or three, while others will sell as many as ten or fifteen shares. The subscriber is given a certificate of his subscription and his name is written in the blank space for that purpose, and the certificate is then signed by the pupil. This work has a good effect We recommend competent teachers to School Boards' FRED DICK, Manager, Denver, Colo. Teachers Bureaus. National League of State Teachers 30 STATE OFFICES. ONE FEE REGISTERS IN ALL FOR LIFE. Established 1885. Members of our League fill over 5,000 positions. Teachers of all grades wanted. Guarantees to recommend teachers, and plan their canvasses. For circulars and list of State Managers, write, FRANK E PLUMMER, General Manager, Des Moines, Iowa. BENTON'S HAPPY METHOD IN NUMBER. An Ingenius Method of Teaching Primary Number by a Primary Teacher. A Manual of Instruction for Teachers and Mothers Based on the Principles of Froebel. 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Hear the tread of marching feet, Nearing now the soldiers' graves, For they come with wreaths and flowers, All the budding flowers of May,Fresh with Heaven's brightest dews, Fit tribute for our Decoration Day. "Silvery Chimes of Patriotism" is a programme consisting of Songs, set to Music, and Recitals brimful running over with Patriotism and prepared especially for Memorial Day exercises, and other patriotic occasions. For convenience they are arranged in sets of 8 copies each. Place these in the hands of the young people for preparation, and you will not only have an exercise to be proud of, but one which will be appreciated by all. Wherever the "Chimes" have gone they have met with appreciation. Especially appropriate for "Flag Day," and other patriotic occasions in the public schools. Silvery Chimes of Patriotism sells for $1.00 per set of 8 copies. Sent postage prepaid. Address EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 50 Bromfield St., Boston. |