Sometimes, too, from far below, Then it is, the flowers run Up and up to find the sun, Till straight through the snow one climbs, (At close of song, Mayflowers, among Snowflakes and Sunbeams, peep up prettily at little Pilgrims, holding up their flowers.) Lora (as all search and she finds them) Oh, oh, here are the flowers! Bless their dear little pink and white faces! Other little Pilgrims (as they discover Mayflowers) Pink little sunbeams White like snow, Sweet as the sweetest Things we know! Mayflowers (as they hand flowers up to little Pilgrims) And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They the true-hearted came; Not with the roll of stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they came, And the stars heard and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roaredThis was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair, There was woman's fearless eye Lit by her deep love's truth, There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas? The spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They left unstained what there they found Freedom to worship God!-Mrs. Hemans (While Pilgrims and Indians march from stage, Wind, Snowflakes, Sunbeams, Trees and Mayflowers sing:) A Song to the Pilgrims (See music in PRIMARY EDUCATION, Page 587, November, 1918. End with elghth measure of music) Here's to the Pilgrim Mothers, In days of Auld Lang Syne. In days of Auld Lang Syne. We may be like the Pilgrims, If we do our best, If we do our best. Here's to the Pilgrim Mothers, IS THIS YOUR CASE? Do you have a feeling of general weakness day in and out? Is your appetite poor? Does your food fail to strengthen you and your sleep to refresh? Do you find it hard to do or bear what should be easy? If so, take Hood's Sarsaparilla-this great medicine revitalizes the blood, gives vigor and tone to all the organs and functions. To rouse the torpid liver and regulate the bowels take Hood's Pills. Spend a Delightful Summer Traveling WANTED: Teachers desiring profitable employment in vacation or after school. Apply immediately to HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN COMPANY, 2A Park Street, Boston, Mass. AND GO BACK TO YOUR SCHOOLROOM NEXT NURSING COURSE: Three years, in FALL WITH A WONDERFUL STORE OF NEW A NICE BANK ACCOUNT Other teachers who closed their school year The Palmer Method of Business Writing in to learn, ambitious to make good, free PLUS If you're between the ages of 25 and 35, to travel extensively, and have some normal Seventy-six teachers were selected from six Don't answer this unless you are a live, keen, ambitious young woman, actually interested in hard work and willing to spend the whole vacation with us. Tell about your education, about your teachin; experience. Give your age and any other information that will help make your application stand out from the mass. We will carefully train those selected at our expense, furnish them with everything needed free of charge, take care of their railroad fare from their school location to their field of work and pay all railroad fare as they move from point to point throughout the summer. We will pay a salary while they are getting started and give each of them an opportunity to earn at least $50 per week. Write! Find out if you are qualified. S. J. Gillfillian, Garland Building, Chicago, Ford Educational Weekly Shows How Barrels are Made The Ford Educational Weekly, No. 177, 'Hooping Up," takes you into a forest of oak trees and you pick out just the tree from which you want your barrel made. Then you watch as the tree is felled, sawed into sections and split ready to be sent to the factory to be cut into barrel staves. These barrel staves have to be stacked and weathered for nine months and this is just the beginning of the barrel, and you sit and watch it grow until it is completed. It is most fascinating to watch barrels growirg step by step as the staves are arranged in iron hoops, through the steaming and drying rooms, the putting on of the iron bands, the making of the hoops and the painting of the barrel. You see the special machinery is employed to fashion each part and then to assemble the parts. Thr final process of painting is also done by machinery and the uncolored barrels are whirled so rapidly into the machine and almost immediately thrown out painted in variegated stripes that it almost makes one dizzy to watch them. cluding medical, surgical, obstetrics, contagion, and children's departAllowance eight ($8.00) dollars per month, and ment. Physical Education For Women Summer Camp Session If you are seeking an opportunity for professional advancement and a vacation in the great outdoors under Girl Scout leadership, come to THE ISLAND, Gull Lake, Mich,-the Lake of clear waters. sunshine and sandy shore. Accredited Girl Scout Limited Registration. Address PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Removes Dandruff-Stops Hair Falling Restores Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair 50c. and $1.00 at druggists. Hiscox Chem. Works, Patchogue, N.Y. TALKING TOGETHER Address Editor, PRIMARY EDUCATION, 50 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass. Making a Poster We have been asked how the finished posters illustrating the literature studies for little children are made from the outline patterns published with them. Directions have not been given with the patterns because the method used would, of course, depend upon whether the children were in the second or the fourth grade, their skill in using pencil or scissors, their ability in the use of water colors or crayon, as well as the materials which the teacher may have at her command. The posters which we publish are made by cutting the outline figures from different colored papers and pasting them according to the position. in the outline sketch. Of course white paper could be used and the figures colored, or the outlines could be traced on the poster and colored with crayon. If the teacher hektographs the patterns for young children, no difficulty should be experienced in building a poster even when the teacher herself lacks skill with the pencil. Why Teachers Leave The statement that more than a thousand teachers have resigned from the schools of New York City during the last few months need occasion no surprise. The public schools of the country, whether in city or rural districts, are having much the same experience everywhere. Nor is the situation. likely to change until the re-adjustment of wage scales for teachers has been made as drastic as that which has taken place in other vocations. A recent report of the United States Commissioner of Education indicates that the average rise in teachers' salaries during the three-year period, 1915-1918, was about 16 per cent. Since 1918 there has been a further increase which probably brings the total up to 25 per cent. But the scale of wages in all branches of business has advanced far more rapidly than that In the Cleveland and Chicago districts, which were selected by the Commissioner of Education for inquiry, it was found that public school teachers were quite the most poorly paid among skilled workers in the whole community. In New York City, where teachers are relatively better paid than anywhere else in the country, their wages are substantially the same as those paid to clerks and waiters, who require no special preparation for their work. There are said to be over 50,000 vacancies in the public schools of the United States to-day, yet never has the need of a full teaching force been greater than now. The schools are our chief agency for the Americanization of the people. and this is especially true of schools in the larger cities. If the next generation is to be 100 per cent American the schools will have to make it so. We cannot well afford, therefore, to practice false economy in this field of public effort. Schools must have more money and must find some way of getting it. Boston Herald Pre-Vocational Guidance In a book on “Boy-work," published in London, the author advocates some method whereby information concerning occupations can be arranged in a manner suitable. to the understanding of young people and communicated to them through the teachers in the schools, in order that they may have some definite knowledge of working conditions before they are forced to look for a post. The first step, says the author, is to collect and arrange the material in a simple and popular form, which can be readily under stood by the boys and their parents. A good way to present the data is by diagrams showing the occupations in outline, and giving the information a boy should possess before he enters the calling the main divisions, the methods of entry, the grades of work, the avenues of advancement, and some indication of the prospects the vocation offers. These diagrams would arouse the boy's interest and set him definitely thinking about what he is going to be.. Above all, they would show him that it is his duty to think about the subject, to learn about occupation, and to find out what he is embarking upon. The disadvantages of blind-alley and unskilled employment could well be illus trated by drawings that would impress the boys. Graphical methods could well be supplemented by reading books and pamphlets, which could be put directly into the hands of the boys. In addition to the information on specific occupations materials might be added on the necessity for the study of occupations, the importance of entering a skilled trade, the need of education and technica! training, and kindred topics. An important effect of giving the information thus directly to the boys would be that they would become active partners in the task of solving the problem of boy labor, and since the choice of work ultimately rests with them their influence would be far-reaching. The Guardian There rests a lonely farmhouse on a hill; Or torn the silent mysteries that creep Bestirs to life a thousand memories, Spreading their guardian boughs above it still. Oh, lonely little home that once was mine, How could we, one by one, desert thy door? PRIMARY EDUCATION DIRECTORY Eastern Teachers' Agency Telephone Connection The home that loving memories entwine, me! Eloise Burt ESTABLISHED 1890. Miss E. F. FOSTER, Manager. 6 Beacon Street, Boston. FICKETT TEACHERS' ACENCY A certain American Senator, deploring THE TEACHER'S the dishonest methods of one type of business man, once remarked, with a smile, "It all brings back to me a dialogue I once TEACHER'S EXCHANGE REGISTER NOW. of Boston, RECOMMENDS TEACHERS, TUTORS AND SCHOOLS. heard in a Southern school: Children, PENN EDUCATIONAL BUREAU 41st year. First class equipment. Operates locally and nationally. said the teacher, 'be diligent and steadfast, Madame Chipmunk As Madame Chipmunk strolled abroad, ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY The evening sights to see, She came across a pile of nuts Beneath a hickory tree. Away she sprang on nimble feet That lightly touched the ground, To make the glad report at home Of what she thus had found. has good positions for good teachers with good records Harlan P. French, Pres., W. W. Andrews, Sec'y, 81 Chapel St., Albany, N. Y. The Pratt Teachers' Agency 70 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK Recommends college and normal graduates, specialists, and other teachers to colleges, public and private "And now," she said to him, "you keep NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY The house and children straight, And I will go for them at once It will not do to wait." So to and fro throughout the night And then, exhausted with her task, And there remained all day to rest INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA We can give you promotion in lines of higher salary; better location; improved subject schedules. Photographs Free! Teachers Wanted! 50 Copies of your photograph (right size to use in making applications) free with an Agency membership. Great demand for teachers now from all sections of the United States. NATIONAL TEACHERS AGENCY, General Offices, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS M. E. N. Hatheway AN AGENCY THAT RECOMMENDS In 1913 You and I The New Year like a child behaves, O bright-eyed stranger, sweet and gay, we announced that there after we should have nothing to do with notices of vacancy; that we should THE FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES 2A Park Street, Boston, Mass. 2360 Overton Pk. Circle, Memphis, Tenn. (Teachers' Agencies Continued on 509 Journal Bldg., Portland, Ore. 2161 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Cal. 510 Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Next Page) TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, SUPERINTENDENTS Write us TO-DAY for a Free Booklet, "The Road to Good Positions." 6534 Western Reference Teachers Wanted! During 1918-19 we received official requests from employers in forty-three States and four foreign countries for 6534 teachers for Schools and Colleges from Kindergarten to University. OUR EIGHTH YEAR OF RECOMMENDING ONLY WHEN ASKED TO DO SO BY EMPLOYERS DIRECT. This is why OUR MEMBERS are usually chosen. They are wanted. No enrollment fee necessary. If you want a position with the Progressive Employers who depend upon our Professional Service for teachers you must use the same service they use. THE WESTERN REFERENCE & BOND ASSOCIATION, 387 Journal Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. THE YATES-FISHER TEACHERS' AGENCIES CHICAGO OFFICE: Paul Yates, 624 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago WESTERN OFFICE: John D. Stout, 911 Broadway Bldg., Portland, Oregon SOUTHERN OFFICE: H. D. Yates, Stahlman Bldg., Nashville, Tennessee The Lost Duck Once there was a flock of ducks, Their mother was a careful hen She hunted for the missing one She quickly called and called for aid And soon a man came round the shed, He lifted out the sorry duck And smoothed its feathers fine, And then the flock was whole again The flock that numbered nine. The mother tucked the runaway "C-luck, C-luck, C-luck, I know you are sad and sore, But mother is here to comfort you, dear, My Star No matter in what room I sleep, I always have a Star to keep He sends a smile between the blinds, I often wonder how he finds No room is dark when he comes out. Not one comes near the place. And as for Dreams and Nightmares, why And you will never hear me cry Every household should have its lifeguards. The need of them is especially great when diseases, the greatest foes of life, find allies in the very elements, as colds, influenza, catarrh, the grip, and pneumonia do in this stormy month. One of the best ways to guard against these diseases is to strengthen the system with Hood's Sarsaparilla-one of the greatest of all life-guards. It removes the conditions in which these diseases make their most successful attack. |