The following diseases may wi dered as infectious. Measles, sca pox, and hooping cough. The symptoms of measles are s the eyes and nostrils, sickness, heat of the skin and quick pulse. The approach of scarletina is shivering and heat, quick pulse, si and later, by red spots or patches chest. Mumps are known by painful sides of the throat, on a level wit Hooping-cough comes on like a with violent cough, in which a wa rated; watery discharges from th hoarseness and sneezing. The ch guid and out of spirits. symptoms of this disease are so evi description. A well-regulated school tends prove the health of those attending necessary to return to the care of who exhibits signs of sickness or cases of common diarrhoea the chil ately sent home. In inspecting the children for should be particularly observed; appearance of ring-worm or scald-h be kept at home until the disease peared, as both are infectious and most cutaneous diseases. Accidents rarely occur in a we but as there is a possibility of such where so many children are collecte a few simple directions for treatmen In case of a bruise or wound f cause, the part should be washed clean, and a piece of old linen or lint dipped in cold water applied. Sprains require the limb to be kept quite still and bathed with vinegar and water.* In case of a cut from any sharp instrument, slate or glass, bring the edges of the cut carefully together and apply a strip of common adhesive plaster. Should so unfortunate a circumstance happen as that of a child falling into a fit, from disease or constitutional causes, the children of the school should not be allowed to witness the painful sight, but the sufferer should be removed from the room, and exposed to the fresh air, with the clothes loosened. No restraint should be used in the convulsion, except to prevent the patient from injuring himself. In conclusion, we may remark that children liable to fits, defective in sight or hearing, or affected in any other way which would require special attention from the teacher, should not be in a common school, the ordinary duties of which are arduous enough without this additional perplexity. THE PLAYGROUND. With regard to recreation in the playground, let it be as unrestrained as possible; nature is the best gymnastic teacher, and little can be done to assist her. Whatever apparatus is introduced should be very simple, as scarcely any is free from danger. A dry floor under foot, a free circulation of air, and a constant gentle superintendence, which, by affording protection to the * His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin has kindly communicated to us the following note: Tincture of Arnica is now to be had at any chemists. For a bruise or strain (when the skin is not broken) six drops to a table-spoonful of water (five for a wound when the skin is broken), makes the lotion. A rag wetted with the lotion, and kept wet, to be kept on the place. There is nothing at all comparable to it for all hurts; but the bottle of tincture should be marked "poison." 1, weak or injured, secures the grea to each, are the chief requisites; witnessed a well-regulated infant aware how perfectly the happin group is secured. If we come to i we shall find that freedom and the craving for sympathy and soci the large number assembled toge panions whose age and taste suit of character find free play. Son place of leaders, while others are any one wishes to be an archite plenty of builders at his comman is a rider, and he easily persuades or, if he likes to drive, he may hav one place you may see a little kn would not for the world admit and club; while close by is a laug formed a dozen associations in th imitative faculty develops itself in cluding a very fair copy of the teac all) from which, if he be wise, he turn. It is true that, in the fi school, many of these different el collision, but constant moral train to associate together in harmony a peat, the less interference the better. No playground should be withou and, if possible fruit-trees. The mo ed by teaching the little ones to res not their only use; they give ple and cultivate a love of nature. T ratus should be carefully watched to the proper mode of using it be taug TIME TABLE. The time table should be so arranged as to bring those lessons which require mental effort as distant from each other as possible, and to secure frequent relaxation in the playground. Those subjects which require special attention should be introduced at the commencement of the day, before the mind is wearied or pre-occupied. The general time table is as follows:* 1. Don find another e horse, n! In es, who To their ch has re the ol, in es and Fon in f the ne in chem e re wers ord s is ses Ja nd DAILY TIME TABLE. Nine o'clock: School doors opened, Teacher in attendance, the children, as they arrive, deposit their clothes and bread in the baskets, which are placed at the respective class posts, and proceed to the playground. Where there is a monitors' class, it is taught at this hour. Ten o'clock: Children assembled in galleries for morning lesson. Half past Ten: Reading, the elder children in classes, the younger in galleries. ation. Half past eleven: March to playground for recre Twelve o'clock: Writing lesson. Twenty minutes past Twelve: Drawing. Twenty minutes to One: March to gallery for midday lesson. Ten minutes past One: Lunch hour. Thirty minutes past One: Dismissed to playground. * In Ireland the general school hours are from ten until three o'clock, while in England the children attend twice in the day; in the morning from nine until twelve, and, in the afternoon, from two until four or five o'clock. |