BOOKS SHIRLEY'S TWO-PART SONGS FOR INTERMEDIATE GRADES. By John B. Shirley, Supervisor of Music, Upper Troy, N. Y. Cloth, 8vo., 112 pages. Price, 25 cents. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: American Book Company. A book of simple songs for two unchanged voices, intended for sight reading by pupils beginning with the third grade. Both music and words have been selected from a wide variety of authorship. The music is bright and entertaining, and serves as an excellent means for the cultivation of two-part singing through actual sight reading. The harmonizations are simple, and yet harmonically rich in effect. THE METCALF-CALL READERS. Edited by Robert C. Metcalf and Arthur Deerin Call. Boston, New York: Thompson Brown Company. You Can Weigh Exactly what Weigh My pupils are among the most refined, intellectual women of America. They have regained health and good figures and learned how to keep well. Each has given me a few minutes a day in the privacy of her own room to prescribed to suit each individual's needs. following scientific, hygienic principles of health, No Drugs-No Medicines are quick, natural and permanent and because Be Attractive-well groomed. The schools seem to be awakening to the fact that good, expressive oral reading whom you come in contact is permeated with Radiate Health so that every one with is one of the most valuable assets that a your strong spirit, your wholesome personchild can carry away from school with him.ality-feels better in body and mind for your Of late the ends sought in teaching reading very presence. have been so various that the value of good oral reading has been somewhat overlooked. This series of books, consisting of a primer, and a first, second, and third reader, has been edited with the avowed intention of securing good oral reading by daily exercises based on models of good English. The material, therefore, has not been chosen for its value as a means of word study or of imparting information about various sub-figure and poise. jects, but as offering the best material for developing good oral readers. Each book has been prepared by a teacher of experience and most attractively illustrated. Their excellence is apparent on the most casual examination. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP. By Dr. Georg Kerschensteiner. A teacher's reading circle book. Cloth. 133 pages. Price, 75 cents. Chicago, New York, London: Rand, McNally & Company. Improve Your Figure-in other words, be at your best. You wield a stronger influence for good, for education, for wholesome right living, if you are attractive and well, graceful and well poised-upright in body as well as in mind and you are happier. 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Don't wait-you may forget it. I have had a wonderful experience, and I should like to tell you about it. How can we help the many boys and SUSANNA COCROFT, girls who early enter the world of work to bridge the chasm that lies between the Miss Cocroft's name stands for progress in the scientific care of the health and figure of woman. elementary school and a successful career in life? This question which every progressive educator and every thoughtful citizen is asking has a new and interesting answer in Dr. Georg Kerschensteiner's BECOME A PRIMARY EXPERT "Education for Citizenship," which has The most advanced step in your professional career will be taken on the day when you decide that you are recently been translated for English and going to do your work better than like work is done by the great majority of teachers. Not many primary American readers. Dr. Kerschensteiner teachers are highly efficient; few are eagerly sought for the best positions; but the one with a reputation above speaks out of a long and enviable experi- you not wish to advance to the ranks of the expert? the average can have almost any school of her choice without a contest. We have abundant proof of this. Do ence as director of the public schools of Munich, where the experiment on which he bases his conclusions has been carried out with a marked degree of America knows, as well as Germany, that "character is the only abiding possession of men and nations," and it is to be hoped that this book, presenting as it does a practical way in which sterling civic character may be built up, may be cordially received and widely read on this side of the Atlantic. success. THE CENTURY IN 1912 lege Men and the Bible." These papers "WE HAVE HAD OUR LIBRARY for nearly four months, and it reaches the children in their daily home-life, a true example of which I will relate," says Miss Gertrude Thompson in telling her experience in securing a free school library. Send for this interesting little 16 page illustrated booklet telling how one of the volumes of her school library reached into the hearts of one poor family." The booklet is sent free. Address Educational Publishing Co., Boston, New York, and Chicago. חחח f Children in double row. I All face sideways and slide right foot along. 2 Face round again and point with left hand upwards. 3 Take imaginary crumbs from left hand palm upward, and scatter them out with right hand, looking down. SECOND VERSE 4 Throw body back from waist, without throwing head back: both hands firmly closed 5 Pick up from ground, and draw closed hand back on a level with ear, in act to throw 6 Left arm horizontally before face in defensive attitude. 7 Point upwards with left hand. From Action Songs. Book I. Words and Actions by May Gillington, the Music by Annie E. Armstrong. Published by J. Curwen & Sons, Snowball Game MARY A. STILLMAN (To be played with a soft rubber ball) Music from the Portuguese CHORUS as if making and throwing snowballs while the child in the center sings We're Eskimo children who live in the snow, Chorus One child in the middle of the circle holds a rubber ball. The other skip around the ring while singing four lines; then stop and motio CARNECIE COLLEGE HOME STUDY-FREE TUITION Carnegie College gives Free Tuition by mail to the first applicants from each post-office. Normal, Teacher's Professional, Grammar School, High School. 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The sparsely populated sections of eastern states still retain the small rural school, so the Rural School Problem is nation wide and is receiving attention in every section of the country. FAULTS OF THE RURAL SCHOOL A strong tendency to resent criticism and to point to illustrious men as products of the country school in rebuttal to arguments for its improvement have been noted everywhere. Supt. Brown of Edgar County, Illinois, addressing the Teachers' Association, met this argument in the following words: "Our candid opinion is that the great men and women of fifty years ago were produced by the home in spite of the school. The character of our grandparents was the result of home training such as no child in this day and generation is the fortunate possessor of." It is true that there are "abandoned schools as well as abandoned farms" and the wonder is that parents are willing to permit their children to suffer under the dis SCHOOL SUPPLIES advantages of days gone by. 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Address F. A. Stuart Company, 234 Stuart Building, Marshall, Mich. PRIMARY METHODS A course of forty lessons in Primary For Pupils Backward and FUN SERIES I Physical Culture FRIEDA NORMA BRETTSCHNEIDER T is as natural for children to move as to breathe. A cer tain writer on health principles has stated that people have been dying by the millions for the want of information that should be taught in every primary school. For example, the breathing of outdoor air is sadly neglected. Just visit the thousands of schools in this country and breathe the devitalized air supplied to our children. Are you sure that all during the day fresh air is coming in? Is it any wonder that we have an epidemic? Eliminate the foul air and you remove the cause. The Greeks fully realized that physical health and mental development went hand in hand, and the first two years of the child's life were spent almost completely in developing that most wonderful of all machines, the human body; and throughout his entire education, physical training was given great consideration. The following movements will prove advantageous if practiced daily. Twenty minutes a day will produce a slight feeling of fatigue at the close of the lesson, but will insure you that every muscle has been exercised. Children well spaced, good standing position, heels together, heads up, hands on hips. Extend right arm to right on first count. Return to hip on second count. To music or counts, begin: One, two, etc. Extend left arm to left on first count. Begin: One, two, etc. Extend right arm to right on first count. Return to hip on second count. Extend left arm on next count. Extend both arms on first count. Extend right foot to right on first count. Extend left foot to left on first count. Extend right foot to right on first count. Bend head to right on first count. Bend head to left on first count. Bend head to right on first count. Rise on toes, arms raised, on first count. Begin: One, two, etc. DON'T HAVE SUPERFLUOUS HAIR There is No Need Now. As Mrs. Jenkins and Others Have Learned, Through Famous Chemist's Discovery. FREE HELP TO ALL, There is no longer any need for any woman to be annoyed or humiliated by the presence of Superfluous Hair growths, whether on face, neck, arms or any other part of the body. A famous English Chemist of proven reputation, Professor A. P. Smith, B. Sc., F. 1. C., etc., has discovered how to solve the problem by means of the Tripose method which is being introduced into America by a reputable Society of Chemists. Among those with whom it has been eminently successful is Mrs. Kathryn B. 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The estimated cost of new buildings and shops for teaching domestic science and the manual arts - for even in our tropical possessions there is a demand for industrial education amounts to $407,700, and besides this provision must be made for the salaries of additional teachers and the payment of the regular schedule to all. About 20 per cent of the Island teachers being without proper qualifications, the Department of Education has been paying them very small salaries until now it is felt that a sufficient number of qualified teachers can be secured, which means paying the regular schedule. Most of the teachers are natives of the Islands and taken as a whole a remarkable body of workers and devoted to their task of applying a system of education to a very cosmopolitan people. The one Normal School in the Territory in Honolulu is now giving summer courses and trying in every way to assist in raising the standard of school work, but much is required. The little blind deaf mute who is coming to be spoken of as the Helen Keller of Minnesota, is named Vera Mavel Gammon. She was less than four when she became blind and in about a year after that lost her hearing. When placed in the State School, she was believed to be without the average of intelligence, though this proved not to be the case. Her teacher is Miss Blanche Hanson. Apropos of State Schools for the afflicted, one afternoon not long since, while sitting in a Los Angeles Park, my attention was attracted to a child that was acting peculiarly. She proved to be a mute deaf and blind from birth - a girl twenty-three years old though scarcely developed as much as a twelve-year-old physically. Her mother accompanied her and was talking to a chance acquaintance, a woman who had two deaf mutes. I joined in the conversation which finally turned on the State Schools which both mothers had patronized. 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