Requirement for a One Room School GROUNDS 1. Play grounds at least one acre and kept in good condition. 2. Level, covered with good sod. 3. Some trees and shrubs. 4. Well or cistern and sanitary drinking appliances. 5. Two out-houses widely separated and well kept. 6. Good convenient fuel house. HOUSE 1. Ample school room. 2. Separate cloak room for boys and girls. 3. Outside painted, in good repair. 4. Inside walls properly tinted and clean. 5. Lighted from one side or from one side and the rear. 6. Adjustable windows fitted with good shades. 7. Floor good and clean. 8. Heated with basement or room furnace which brings in the pure and removes the foul air. 9. Sufficient boards, some within reach of little children. 10. Desks of No. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, placed each side in a row properly spaced. FURNISHINGS AND SUPPLIES 1. A good teacher's desk. 2. Two chairs. 3. A good bookcase. 4. At least eighty library books, ten suitable for each grade. 5. A good school encyclopedia. 6. Three dictionaries suitable for high school, grammar and intermediate grades. 7. Writing and examination supplies. 8. Two good wall pictures. 9. Set of good maps. 10. A good globe. 11. A set of measures and scales. 12. A thermometer. 13. All school books for teacher's use. 14. Crayon, erasers, pointer, coal hod, shovel, poker, broom, floor brush and sweeping preparation. 15. Wash basin, mirror, paper towels. 16. Combination daily and classification register, schedule of school property, including list of library and textbooks, monthly report cards. ORGANIZATION 1. School classified and recorded in register. Especially If She Leads a Painless Life One follows the other if she uses Beecham's Pills to keep her Let the Young be Young One day last week Mrs. Mary Austin (who wrote "The ArrowMaker") talked to the women of the Legislative League, in New York, about the need of securing to the young the right to be young. A heavy load of moral responsibility, she said, should never be laid upon a man in the first flush of youth. If it is, he is apt to dump it in his maturer years. She had been helped to this conclusion by much experience as a listener in the Domestic Relations Court, where, she said: "I have learned that in a great majority of cases the man of forty or thereabouts who has grown tired of his wife because her beauty has faded and refuses to support her any longer, so that she has to appeal to the courts, was compelled to go to work when he was thirteen or fourteen to help maintain his parents or brothers and sisters. By the time he reaches middle life his moral muscles, which were strained and stretched beyond their proper capacity when they were still soft and untrained, have become feeble, if they haven't snapped entirely, and he can't be depended upon for anything." This is unusual information, but we don't doubt there is truth in it. Speaking on the same lines about girls, she protested against letting the bloom be worked off of them by severe industrial labors in shops and factories between the ages of fifteen and twenty. It is very necessary for the young to be young and to have time to grow up. Burdens that stiffen, if they do not crush them, at eighteen or twenty, can be borne gladly, easily, and with profit at forty or fifty. There are exceptions, of course, to Mrs. Austin's suggestion that the weight-carrier in youth does not make a sturdy burden-bearer in middle age, but in the main she is right. We see or used to see the same thing on the race-track-twoyear-olds sent in to do their best at that age, and sacrifice their maturity for a much too large early purse. It was wasteful of good colts. Crowding responsibilities on the shoulders of children is wasteful of something MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. vastly more important than colts.-Harper's Weekly. Among the Americans who attended the Congress of Races in London this summer was Paul S. Reinsch, Professor of Political Science in the University of Wisconsin and author of international reputation. Professor Reinsch's two books on "American State Government" and "American Federal Government," are among the very best texts in this field. Both are published by Ginn & Company. In answering advertisements please mention "The School Journal" of Publishers of School Books, Manufacturers and Dealers in School Supplies and Equipment. This will be a great convenience to subscribers in sending orders. When writing for circulars, catalogs or other information by mentioning THE SCHOOL JOURNAL every time you write you will get special attention. Two lines, one year, $5.00, each additional line $2.00. Regular advertisers in THE JOURNAL are entitled to one line under two classifications. Additional lines, $2.00 a year. School Book Publishers W. R. 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Grossmann's Practical Guide to German Pronunciation An indispensable aid to every teacher of German. Price, post-paid.. 50 cents The Autobiography of Edward Austin Sheldon Dr. Sheldon's work as an educator is too well known to require com- $1.25 IVES-BUTLER COMPANY T HE PRANG COMPANY extends to every reader of "School Journal" a cordial New Year's greeting with the hope that 1912 may be a year of joyous service and achievement for the cause of Education in America. For more than half a century The Prang Company has been devoting all its time and interest to the promotion of Art Education, and it hopes to be of larger service the coming year than ever before. If it can serve you in any way, please command it. May we tell you some of the ways in which we are trying to help? 1. The "Non-Resident Courses in Art Instruction" established in connection with The New York School of Fine & Applied Art, under the direction of Mr. Henry Turner Bailey, Editor of "The School Arts Book," are planned for those Art students and teachers who are not able to leave their positions and their homes for resident work in a New York Art School, yet who are ambitious for growth and development in the teaching of Art. STUDENTS MAY BEGIN THEIR WORK AT ANY TIME. If you have not received our circular announcing free scholarships and other prizes in connection with these "Non-Resident Courses," we shall be glad to forward it on receipt of your request on a post card. 2. We have just published an exceedingly important book_entitled "Illustrated Exercises in Design" by Elizabeth G. Branch, formerly Instructor in Drawing in the Newark, N. J., High School. All the plates are printed on one side of the paper only, so they can be removed and used as illustrative material. This makes it an invaluable book for the grade teachers as well as the Supervisor of drawing. If you have been looking for a practical book on Design, here it is. It is attractively bound in boards and will be sent postpaid on receipt of $1.25. 3. The increasing sale of "Art Education for High Schools" seems to indicate a growing interest in the teaching of drawing in the High Schools of the country. This is the only comprehensive and adequate course in Art IN A SINGLE VOLUME. If you do not have a copy of "Art Education for High Schools" we shall be glad to forward it postpaid for $1.75 and include WITHOUT FURTHER CHARGE a year's subscription to "The School Arts Book" (regular price $1.50). This is a very special offer. 4. Have you seen the new "Progressive Drawing Books" which were revised last summer and are now printed by the offset process? If you find other drawing books "too difficult" or "not carefully graded" or "without progressive development," we invite you to give the "Progressive Drawing Books" an early examination. These books are noteworthy for the simple, direct and progressive development of each topic presented. They are best described by saying they are "teachable." They are not intended for use as "reference material" but as helpful guides in the hands of children. This makes them a valuable aid to both the Supervisor and to the grade teacher. 5. The Prang Water Colors, all of which are imported from Germany, have been the acknowledged standard for more than a quarter of a century. All colors bearing the Prang name are of THE SAME QUALITY. Our three leaders are-Box No. 2, 15c; Box No. 3a, 25c; Box No. 6 (H. S.), 35c. 6. Are you familiar with the new Prang "Crayonex,” containing eight sticks of colored crayons at the exceedingly low price of 5c per box? These are believed to be the most satisfactory 5c. colored crayons on the market. Why not send for samples. 7. We wish to revise and enlarge our mailing list. If you are an Art Teacher or Supervisor of Drawing and do not receive our announcements, circulars, catalogues and samples of our Industrial and Art Materials, please forward us your name, POSITION and address on a post card. 8. We have recently published an attractive 72 page "Art Catalogue" profusely illustrated with many plates in black and white and in four colors and listing all of our Art publications and Art materials, together with a large number of new Industrial-Art supplies, such as "Stixit," "Ruco Printing Blocks," Art Fabrics for bookbinding and construction work,_Prang Oil Dyes, Stencil Brushes and Stencil Knives, Tinted Construction Papers, Blotting Papers, etc. It is impossible for us to even mention the list in a letter of this kind. If you have not received a copy of this “Art Catalogue" we shall be glad to send you a copy with our compliments on receipt of your name and address on a post card. 9. Whenever you visit New York City, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta or Dallas, where we have offices, we invite you to have your mail sent in our care and to make our offices your headquarters while in town. Wishing you much joy in your work the coming year, we are THE PRANG COMPANY, EDWIN O. GROVER, President. |