seem to sniff the twangy salt air mingled with a pungent odor of tar.

The artist tells his story with strength as well as truth, for the drawing, pose, action, construction are in accord with that which is of the best in art.

The second picture, "Lessons In Boat Build

"AUTUMN."-V. E. Van Camp.

ing" (Henry Bacon), while embracing some of the elements of the first holds another phase of seaside life-one in which serious purpose is suggested. Who among all the classes of toilers would like this old seaman disclose so perfect an absorption in his occupation, and still typify absolute leisure! No hurry, no lack of thought will enter into any "piece of work" which he may undertake, and what finer example can man set for impressionable youth?

The lad is learning the lesson of necessity and desirability of the avoidance of "off" lines in material dimensions, and that fine, true work is the result of honorable intention-the only foundation for true success. The artist has shown a man very primitive in many respects, but "exceeding great" in those qualities which make "a man all man."

Though the composition of the picture interests through disclosing the use to which a boat no longer seaworthy may be put; the personal touch in the belongings of the "cubby-home," and the exactness of representation of all else in the composition of the picture, these are as nothing in comparison to the lad's attitude of respect, and grateful acceptance of that which the old man gives.

In using first one and the other of these pictures there is to be developed acute observation of details of composition through questioning as well as the bringing out of the thought as suggested

above. Encourage the pupils to relate any of their experiences at the seaside.

America may well feel great pride in this artist, who through training and hard work in his native and foreign countries is able to give example of so fine a combination of material and moral elements in his work.

As "Autumn" (V. E. Van Camp)-is presented remark,-lets name this little girl. Where is Nancy? Not in the woods, only at the edge. Do you see the path along which she has come from home? Why doesn't she hurry back? All her indoor's work is done so she has time a-plenty. Why is she looking into the water? See those objects floating on the water? Yes, they are leaves which have fallen from the trees. Sometimes Nancy makes believe they are boats racing -it's great fun to try to think whether the red or brown one will reach a certain place first. Once Nancy saw a fat spider sailing away on a brown leaf, and though she doesn't exactly like spiders she reached out and drew the leaf and spider to safety. Nancy loves this place, and whenever her strong brother is told to fill the kettles with water she is sure to come with him. Just now he is hunting for the trees on which the nuts are most nearly ripe. It is almost time for the frost to help open the shucks and make work for the children and squirrels. You "should think Nancy would wet her feet," Judith? Elsie thinks not "because Nancy is wearing her rubbers." I don't think Nancy has on her rubbers; those are just comfortable slipper-shoes that have thick soles. Nancy is careful where she walks

Enjoyment must be judged by its effect. Nature is always cultural and vocational. Worry means ultimate nervous prostration. Education should face forward, not backward. A pension scheme must be absolutely reliable. Be sure that everything vocational is educational.

If you are not in an educational war zone you are in luck.

Get your house in order, for you are likely to be surveyed any day.

Camp Fire Girls afford an excellent opportunity to save a wayward girl.

Schools of education and teachers' colleges in universities are expanding more than ever.

A schoolroom thermometer that is not regularly and frequently consulted is a waste of good money. Get the most of the best out of life and heip your pupils to get the most of the best out of their lives.

Every child in a rural school should be taught to use the Babcock tester, and should actually use 1 in school and at home for testing milk.

Teachers' College, New York, enrolled 5,625 in the summer session this year. In 1902 there were 643; 1901, 2,973; 1912, 3,002; 1913, 4,530; 1914, 5,625.

Unless all signs fail Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, superintendent of Philadelphia, will be elected governor of Pennsylvania by an overwhelming majority.

Virginia has had eight wonderful years of educational progress materially, scholastically, and professionally under Joseph D. Eggleston and C. Stearns.

Never forget the influence of circumstances

upon a child, and seek to know how far they are responsible for the dullness, indifference, mischief and maliciousness of to-day.

Harvard University has opened its model school for children. The plans involve the establishment of a kindergarten class the first year and the addition of other classes in subsequent years. Both boys and girls will be instructed.. The board of management includes the heads of the uniersity department of education with Professor Paul H. Hanus in direct charge.

FOR THE LOVE OF BIRDS

An anonymous donor has contribute 1 $20,000 to the National Association of Audubon Societies in the way of a guarantee to support the junior Audubon classes of northern United States and Canada. In these classes school children are taught birdlore and bird protection. The work in southern schools was begun under the patronage of Mrs. Russell Sage, who since has contributed $5,000 annually to guarantee the expenses of the association in that field.

SCHOOLMANSE

The attempt to load the school language with the word "teacherage" is most unfortunate. A well equipped public man and an author of high repute writes us that "teacherage is a horrible word." The teacher's home on the school grounds or nearby is sure to be popular in rural districts and it is important that a good name be attached thereto. "Schoolmanse" is everyway worthy and well qualified.

CREDITS FOR MUSIC

The educational world has waited all too long for any recognition of the educational value of Minnesota, and Chelsea, Massachusetts, led the music. It is less than ten years since Albert Lea, way, by allowing full credit for satisfactory work in music, whether studied in school or by accredited private teachers, and now many cities, many important cities, allow such credit. Some cities even go so far as to have no school for one or two afternoons a week in order that students may have adequate time for private lessons in music or dancing.

MARKETING TO ADVANTAGE

All through the South the rural schools help the boys and girls in every way, not only in the the selection of seed, in adapting it to soil and market, in preparation of soil and cultivation of the crop, but help the boys and girls to market them as well.

In one consolidated district in Mississippi, all the children sell all the eggs for thirty-five cents a dozen instead of fifteen cents.

They merge their egg business, shipping them. to Gulfport twice a week in quantity. They pack

with care, and are sure that no eggs are more than four days old when shipped.

They have established their reputation and get an extra price for their eggs because of their ireshness and packing. That has several features of wholesome education.

THE FICKLENESS OF HUMAN NATURE

A county superintendent in the State of Washington set her heart upon having a decent place for every rural teacher to board or live. The director would do nothing about it. The place where the teacher boarded was "good enough for her." The teacher was a worthy and attractive lady.

"Take her to your home."

"What! Do you think we want a stranger sitting round the fire with us every evening?"

"You can give her a warm room and I will guarantee that she will stay in her room and not bother you at all."

"To good to sit with us is she? I'll never have a woman teach in this district who is to stuck up to sit with my family."

MAINE'S LEADERSHIP

Education in Maine under the inspiring leadership of State Superintendent Payson Smith, is taking front rank in many lines of effort. His power to develop initiative is most unusual. Whoever presents Mr. Smith a demonstration of success in something original is appreciated much more than when he shows him how ideally he has worked out one of Mr. Smith's schemes or suggestions.

West

The result is that local boards of education and communities are keenly alive in seeking to do something quite unusually progressive. Gouldsboro, for instance, has put $2,750 into a one-room building with fewer than twenty pupils. Every feature of the building is up-to-date. The town of Sullivan, east of the Penobscot, has a high school public domitory which attracts many tuition pupils. The cost to a pupil is $2.50 if the pupil goes home for the week-end, and $3.00 for a full week. The school board assumes no financial risk for the terms, but it does assume complete responsibility for the social and moral life of those at the domitory. Only girls are in the domitory, and last year they had ten all the year.

THE COURTIS CONTRIBUTION

S. A. Courtis of Detroit, has made a contribution to education that is both notable and noble. One does not have to be a disciple of every phase of every feature of the Courtis Tests in order to pay tribute to his genius or his vision, but after spending a week with him and re-reading with re-adjusted lenses what he has published in the last five years, I am more inclined to respect his estimate of his work than my criticism of it, more certainly than the estimate of the other critics of his work.

Mr. Courtis has set us all a-thinking along a new line. He has set some men thinking ambitiously along his line. He has made some great contributions to the cause of education. For instance, he has demonstrated

a feather line, what some of us guessed before that the method of teaching has much less to do with the achievement of the class than the natural talent and maturity of the children; that a very small per cent. of a class needs any special method attention; that there is no virtue in having a few pupils acquire unusual skill in any elementary branch; that it is useless to try to have some children attain ever normal efficiency in some phases of elementary work; that when a child attains normal skill for his grade in a given subject he should give no more attention thereto but devote himself to something that needs time and attention. The great contribution which Mr. Courtis has made is not in standardizing the work, but rather in standardizing our common sense in dealing with individual children.

NO POSTPONEMENT

Because of persistent and pernicious rumors that because of the war in Europe the PanamaPacific Exposition will be postponed we telegraphed the general manager and received the following prompt and emphatic reply.

San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 21, 1914. Dr. A. E. Winship, Journal of Education, Boston: Exposition will positively open on scheduled date February twentieth, nineteen fifteen. It will be completely ready when opened. It is more than ninety per cent. completed. Today there is not the slightest reason to believe exposition success in any phase will be any less than that which was so certain before European war began. Various nations in North and South America, also Japan, have already asked for increase in exhibit space. Domestic participation will probably be increased through war as there in general belief larger market for American. manufactures will be created in South America, and the Orient consensus of expert opinion agrees that travel to San Francisco will be increased because of the war. Two hundred and seventy-five congresses and conventions already scheduled for San Francisco, nineteen fifteen. Positive dates have been assigned to conventions from February seventeen to November fifteen, nineteen fifteen. Trust you will give widest possible publicity to this positive statement that the exposition will be open on time and will be completed on time.

Charles C. Moore,
General Manager.

This sets that matter at rest to the great satis faction of a multitude of people.

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be able to see in the water? Of course she sees her own reflection-what does that mean? "Oh her picture!" Have any of you ever seen your Own reflection in water anywhere? Well, first pleasant day after the next rainy one which comes, you look into the big puddles and find out what is to be seen. You'll surely be surprised, and have to look, and look again to count the things that 'll "look back" at you. Do you remember any other children who saw "pictures" while they were at play? Were those "pictures" formed as the "puddle" ones are? Wonder if there are any birds about? Why are there so few? What kind are they? Yes, and they will live all winter in the deep woods; we must all remember to have some food ready for them when the ground is covered with snow. Will Nancy find any flowers, or berries, or grasshoppers and butterflies along the way home? What kinds? Suppose she will see any squirrels, wild bunnies, or field mice? She will have an interesting story to tell her mother when she and brother reach home with the kettles of water--won't she?

The human stature as compared with that of nature is well suggested by the child-figure leaning against the great tree trunk, and that man after all is but one of the many units in the scheme of creation. That he should render service as well as abstract from nature is apparent. To look into the "heart" of this picture is to become aware of that hush-silence of the golden autumn which forewarns the coming of the restperiod for Mother Nature. The artist's treatment of the trees and use of light accent the figure, which "makes the note of action" of the scene. Help the older pupils to understand that it is a landscape--or picture of outdoors-with a human figure introduced as a centre of interest. Expect a written story as a return exercise after the actual study is accomplished.

father and mother to the oak tree and the children to places they found for themselves. What is this nest made of? Looks soft and cosy inside, doesn't it? Where is it fastened? Aren't squirrels wise to know all about building a home and the safest place to fasten it! It would take a pretty high wind to blow it down, wouldn't it? This family has been here all summer and now the young squirrels can very nearly take care of themselves. Guess what they have learned to do! See the hazel nut the father has brought home? Well, the children squirrels can tear away the crinkly covering, nibble through the shell and get out the kernel of which they are very fond. They know how to cut nuts from the stem with their teeth; they can wash their faces and keep their coats clean and soft; run up, down and along the branches and trunks of trees. As yet they do not spring across long distances between the branch tips of one tree and another. Soon they will be

able to do even that. Father and mother take them all to the ground to learn to search for food and the best places for "cupboards" in which to hide it. After work-lessons are ended they play games. It's very comical to see two of them, face to face with forepaws upon each others shoulders, swirling round and round exactly as children do when they are dancing. Often instead of dancing they roll and tumble over and over like two boys wrestling. When tired of this sort of fun one will run off, jump upon a tree trunk, and quick as a flash every one of the rest will pursue. Round and round the trunk they rush till the leader jumps to the ground, when one after the other the rest jump down, too. Over and over again they do this till I suppose Mrs. Squirrel thinks they've had exercise enough. I suspect she tells them when its time to scamper back home. Although they have never heard this little rhyme :

"Do as you are told to

Do it right away;

Don't stop to talk about it, Hurry to obey."

It is certain they do exactly as it says one should. This English artist, with his usual cleverness, has caught the characteristics of these "creatures of the woods" and shown how akin their family. life is to that of the human. So real may the fact of similarity be made to children that a lesson in having a care for wild life may be taught; also there may be shown that the just-right person thinks before acting upon the impulse to throw stones at little creatures which may be of much use in their way as is the human. The child who learns to practice self-control is the one to be trusted, and this idea cannot be too strongly impressed upon children of all ages, sexes, and

-Anon.