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On this page are pictures of the Industrial Normal Training School at Tuskegee, Alabama.

Children must be trained by educated mothers if a race is to make progress.

The Chinese are slow to make progress in any way. They cling tenaciously to their old customs. Railroads, manufactures, and trade have been opened up in China by people of the White Race, who have given time and money for that purpose.

Describe the dress of the Chinese children in the picture on the next page. Describe the schoolroom. Tell how it differs in appearance from ours. Note the position of the pupil who is reciting. The Japanese are the most advanced in educa

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ences of any branch of the Yellow Race. They are more ad

vanced in some kinds of art than

The Negroes in the greater part of Africa are still living without education or good homes. In southern Africa a few schools have been established by people of the White Race for the tribes of Negroes, and they have taken up many of the customs of the Whites.

The greater number of people of the Yellow Race live in China and Japan. Find these countries. The boys of China are educated, but the girls are kept in dense ignorance. This degrades the race.

the people of the White Race. They are making rapid advancement in mod

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homes, schoolhouses, churches, and industries of

People are living and working in

the different White people. Arrange all neatly nearly every part of the world.

on a chart for the schoolroom or on manilla paper to be kept and added to by yourself.

In the same way make a collection of pictures representing the life of the different nations of the Mongolians, and of the Negroes. Arrange them separately in the same

way. The pictures

need cost little

or nothing.
Our magazines
and papers,
railroad guides
and advertise-
ments are full
of pictures rep-
resenting the
life of different
people of the world.
You need to keep your

eyes open and to strive to see which members of the class can make the largest collections with the least expenditure of money.

OCCUPATIONS.

Nearly everyone you know is working in some way for a living. Some people work with their hands, others with their brains, and still others with both hands and

brains. All kinds of work are honorable and necessary in the world. Even plants and animals have a work to do. There are no idlers in nature.

That which a man or a woman does for a living is his or her OCCUPATION.

Think of what your father is doing for a living. Think of the different people whom you know, and tell what each is doing for a living.

What occupations belong especially to winter? To summer? To spring? To autumn? What ones continue about the same throughout the year?

Some people are working on land, some on water, some among the mountains, some on the plains, and some in the forests.

Some are working where the weather is nearly always icy cold, others. where it is never cold, and still others where it is cold, temperate, and hot at different seasons of the year.

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A man's occupation is largely deter mined by the general condi tions which surround him. These general conditions

may relate to the physical, -as the sur

face, soil, heat, moisture, vegetable and animal life, or mineral deposits. They may relate to the social or mental conditions which surround the man, or he may be influenced by his love of adventure and travel.

The physical conditions will influence one to become an agriculturist, a manufacturer, or a business man of some. kind; social conditions and aspirations usually influence men to take up the pro

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There is work on the farm for every season of the year. There is much more work on a farm during the spring, summer, and autumn than in the winter.

How many of you have visited a farm? Let those who have tell us about it. Take paper and draw the farm. Tell whose land adjoins it. Indicate the highway. Tell to what place the highway leads and what places you would pass in going there.

Locate the house, barns, and other farm buildings. Divide the farm into meadow or grass land, pastures, woodland, plowed fields for grain, corn, potatoes, a garden with beds of vegetables, and

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is the most important of all occupations. Upon the farm or agricultural products the great masses of the people depend for food. Name some of these products.

People are farming in every country in the world, except where it is extremely cold for most of the year.

We find farms among the mountains and hills, upon the slopes, and in the lowlands. The best farms are usually upon the hillsides and in the fertile lowlands, bordering streams and bodies of water.

Compare the different modes of plowing in the world, from the pictures in other parts of this book.

What is the summer work on a farm?

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