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THE SCHOOLCHILD OF TO-DAY.
ITS RICHER VOCABULARY,
(By Dr. 0. W. Kimmins, Formerly Chief Inspector of the London
County Council Schools.) It has always been the English The custom to belittle the standard of] education in vogas and to take an unnaturally roscate view of that of the days of our childhood. The pro sent outcry is that a serious epidemic of bad spelling is in our midst.
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CALCUTTA.
Sir,-I thank you for your letter of It is common kaswledge that the April 4, 1922. Tho Remington Port- disastrous effect of the Great War is able Typewriter which you have loan. still being felt in many departments ed to us is a very great success and wo of educational activity.
The absence from our school of vast bave it continually in uso. Although mother to her. Then she was placed
Dumbers of brilliant teachers on mil- we have not been traveling for very itary service, the inevitable lowering long it has already gone through a under the training of Signor Antonio
of the efficiency of the teaching staffs pretty high triaf as we have taken it Niecolini who was then the conductor
The arrangement of the principal of the grand operos at the Calcutta stars of Hercules, eays E. Walter and the various take-shilt arrange-oven several high passes in very bad mente involved, have undoubtedly weather. At your request I am send Sho Grand Opera House, Dow Maunder in the Daily News saggest left their mark on the children now ing you a photograph of the Type- bucarro leader of the Circular great lily. Of this lily, the meat Road, Baptist Church choir, and her westerly line is marked by six stars leaving the schools. It could not writer being operated by a member voice drow crowded congregain the map, and nearly midway behave been otherwise; the marvel is of the Expedition, which I hope will
that it is not wor40, tions. At the age of 15 or 18 tween the third and fourth of thess is
suit your requirements. she was placed for five years under one of the most wonderful objects in
But why single out spelling for
I must again thank you for the the tatorship of Mr. T. Henry Webb, the heavens-"the great globular special condemnation? It bus act loan of this most excellent Machine. who had come out as the organist at cluster of Hercuing," known to suffered more than any other subject I am ser ding you the negative of the St. Paul's Cathedral. "That would astronomera as "lesaler 13" from be quite an abeard age to start ging the French astronomer, Messier, whofer the "leck and say" to the "phonic"
Critics may still be found who pre-photograph to use as you require. ing lessons in England" declared made a catalogus of nebule and star methods in tenching children to read, Madame Alice Gomez, "but in India clusters, in which this cluster was but the latter are too firmly establish we develop our voices carlier." On the No. 15. advice of Mr. Webb, whom she later It may be detected on a fine night, ed to be in danger. eyes by the magic of her tones married, she went to England and and in the absence of the moon, with periments have been carried out in Remington Typewriter Co., in Hong-
The following is from the English man (Calcutta) :-
There are still very many of the oldarfolk, both in England and in India, who will never forget, Madame Alice Gomez, the tall, stately, dusky-complexioned singer who bad forced tears from their
There have been actors who have outhralled their bearers, but few singers have swayed their audience with such emotions as she who was
of the school curriculum.
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Yours faithfully,
(88.) 0. G. BRUCE,
Major General. [Mesere. Mustard and Company are Quite ently very interesting ex the sole Representatives of tho studied under the well-known in-ent optical aid, and in au opera-glass structors, bir. Shslcapeare, Siguor it can be seen as a faint, minate England and Scotland in using kong and China, and will be pleased Rand-gger and dear Madame speck, but in a good telescope it simplified spelling methods in the the demonstrate this machine.] Trebelli." The latter was a special shows itself as a marvellous spectacle Without prejudging thoreaults of these carly stages of instruction in reading, inspiration to the singer from the congregation of thousands of
experiments, one point, howeYOF, was," Madame Gomez used to say au area of about the same apparent to haunt the pinces where she was as bees in a hiving swarm near the going to sing; in fact, I can scarcely centre, but with stragglers all round tell you what a powerful influence she the edges, yet evidently subject to had over mo."
called "The Eurasian Nightingale." Bust, "What a great artiste Trebelli shining stars, compressed together in is abundantly clear, namely, that the To Calcutta, Alice Gomez was al-"I simply worshipped her, and weed size as the full moon; closely packed children can transfer from phonetic to
Here was a memorable career. was myetilying to Home audiences that so magical a singer should come to them from the East. She fascina ted them and for a full decade there was no one like Alice Gomez, the successor of the great Madame
Trebelli.
RELATIVES IN CALCUTTA,
The original intention of Alice Gomez was to sing in grand opera, but from this she desisted on the ad vice of her mother. Concerts then became her principal occasions for
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normal spelling with amazing rapidity, and that no evil effect WHERE PEOPLE GO TO AVOID reults from starting them on phonetic]
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A small proportion of our children will never spell accurately, and case are not unknown of distinguished university men who share this in capacity:
increasingly popular in our schools, Script writing, which is becoming
of other countries, is having a most beneficial effect on spelling.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in Parliament in muil week that he proposes to ask for increased con- tributions to the Imperial Exchequer Islands. In the case of the lele of from the Isle of Man and the Channel Man any addition to the statutory contribution of £10,000 a year will re- quire logislation.
ways a special pride and delight. Many "Ditchers" remember her ap pearances at the Town Hall with her rich mezzo-soprano flooded with a sympathetic a singing of Home, Sweet Home that in the audience there was scarcely a dry eye. In London and in many a provincial English_town similar scenes were common and aud-
The newest burglar alarm is based iences would stand on their fest clam-public appearance. Her first concert on the property of selenium to re ouring for "just one more song" or in London was on July 6, 1887, at the spond electrically to light. The aand is rapidly spreading to the schools crying "come back again" to her Kensington Town Hall when her best paratus consists, aays Everyday who had held them spellbound. received song was Vieai cho poi Sereno Science, of a small but highly se
It from Gluck's Semiramis. Her auc-sitive selenium cell contained in a
This type of writing approximates Lt. Col. Assheton Fownall pointed care was immediate and for the next little box about six inches equate. twenty years she was one of the idole The cell is inserted in an electric cir- more closely to printed matter, so out that income tex in the Isle of of the public, earning as much as cait. Ar long as the room is in dark that the visual comparison of the Man door not exceed 1s. Eld. in the £300 for each of her concerts. Even noss the cell is inoperative and the written with the printed word is im- £; that in Guernsey the income tax is her marriage in 1591 to Mr. Webb and circuit is broken, but no burglar can mediato, and any error is corrected 7d. in the £, and that in Jersey there her domestic cares did not interters work without some light; and the because "it doesn't look tight." The is no income tax.
In the financial year 1920-21 Jersey much with her public engagements. light of an electric torch or a lantera enormous advantage in this respect She used to practise for at least in the room is anfficient to rouse the over cursive writing is not sufficiently and Gaerneey together contributed £10,400 towards the cost of Imperial In Calcutta there still live the an hour a day, but abs declared that selenium, which completes the circuit recognised. brothers and sisters of the Eurasian she found ample time for her and ringa an alarm bell. The bell may been carrying on an investigation on
Daring the past few years I had, defence,
Jersey has frequently been des singer. A representative of The Eng domestic occupations and the bring he placed in any part of the building, lishman searched for them and founding up of her children, of whom she and as long as the intrusive light is the Sense of Humour in Children, and cribed as the island of the tax-free and their home in the eastern suburb of had two-a boy and a girl. Both present the bell will ring. During the in connection with this research I the taxpayers' ideal of Paradice. Entally. Mr. Gomez, one of Madame children are in England now, and are daytime or before locking up, the have read many thousands of essays One man who became a resident there Alice Gomez'a brothers, was ont, but married. The on after passing selenium cell in the box is covered by children from 8 to 14 years of age, last year reckoned that he lived for a a young lady, bis niece, very kindly through Magdala College, Oxford, with a light-tight flap so that all that Quite apart from the extraordinary whole year for nothing. He explain.
saw service during the war. granted our representative on io
is necessary to set the alarm is to open power of graphic description possesseded this apparent paradox by saying terview. She not only uhowed him.
the flap and so put the electric eye by young children, I have been math that the money be would have paid an old photograph 1 Alice Gomez Of Madame Gomez's life an1 career on guard. Obviously, too, the eye impressed by the wonderful range of in income tax paid the whole of his
expenses for 12 months. wearing the gold chain and pendant there is very much more that could will give the alarm in caro of fire with their vocabulary.
The comparison of the spelling of a
Officers on furlough, especially from given her by Queen Victoria after a be said. She was very attached to in the room. It is a German dovice.
child with the very
India, are taxed in Britain if they limited special command performance but England, preferting its climate to
vocabulary of former days with stay here longer than six months. By spoke freely in terms of the greatest that of India. Sho had her home in
that of one with a vast choice going to Jersey after the six months admiration of the singer and per the lovely south coast town of
of word should naturally be bas elapsed they avoid taxation mitted our representative to exa Torquay and cared little for travelling minn & collection of news cuttings beyond the shores of Britain though
Germany may claim to have the confined to words of the same type, altogether. Needless to say, the relating to her career. The house, she spent a few intervals in Colcutta, most complete and comprehensive especially as where there is the alter: floating population of the island is "pacious single storeyed lungalow oue of thras being in 1905 and telegraphin code in the world, through antiva of the short or the long word largely composed of these officers, with a deep verandah, was not the another about 1912. She also toured the establishment of the Rudolph the child will invariably choose the while the permanent residents include ono in which Alice Gomez had first most of the principal towas in Eng. Morse Code, in memory of the late latter. The following extracts taken many half-pay and retired officers seen the light of day. The last of a land. She was fond of an outdoor lifa Publisher and owner of the Berliner at random from essaye written by whose means will not permit them to family of cleven children, five boys-walking, riding and tennis, being Tageblatt, to whom it owes its in-young children of 9, 10, 11. and 14 live in Britain.
years of age, respectively, illustrate British limited companies to avoid and six gir's, she was born in a house her chiel forms of exercise. Her
paying the registration fees of this It was the wat, says the New York the child's love of long words: (still standi.g) in the vicinity of hobby was botany and for this sho
American, which gave an impetus to (a) "Wo sat in & portion of the country, also exploited the advantages Wellington Square. That wRE 59 found exceptional opportunities in the this new code, which contains a seam-baths set aside for on-lookers at the of the tax free island to such an extent years ago. Her father was a Gover-Devonshire countryside. A peculiar ment servant. Madame Alice Gomez characteristic was her taste in dress, ingly endless collection of complete Swimming Gala, watching with much that this year the Jersey Legislative Bill requiring frequently lived in the house in "I always drees in deep rich colour, tences and phrases, together with merriment the comical antics of the Assembly passed a
companies making application for Entally. In one corner is the old like crimson and old gold," he said equally comprehensive list of competitors."
registration to deposit 18. 6d. per piano at which she used to accompany when some one commented upon the herself, for she was herself a good brilliant Spanish costume in which
£100 of Lominal capital. player and had also learned to play she sometimes appeared. At her the organ from ber husband, wedding. when she was given away by
of combinations. Mr. Webb, one of the finest organists Sir Edwin Arnold, always a great ever heard in Calcutta.
The new feature of the Morse codo, friend, she was attired in "a band- some dress of nasturtium-coloured which carries its scope beyond that of One of her greatest delights was to cloth, with waistcoat of gold cloth, the system as already known, is to be puzzle preas interviewers by bluntly covered with exquisite gold and found in the so-called three latter asking them the question "Now, what: jewelled embroidery. The seams of key," consisting, as the name indi- am I?"On one occasion Siguer Foli, the bodice were outlined in gold, and catre, in a liet of words composed of who happened to be present, out three rows of gold braid edged the three letters any three of which may witte ber by replying: "A very foot of the skirt. She wore a gold be combined into ons tax word. nice girl." English journalists could coloured boonet trimmed not guess her nationality, Fo Miss nasturtium velvet." Gomez (she was then) would explain The best portrait of Alice Gomer is that she came u.dor the term Eurasian oil painting by Wirgmann, This ag. In her particular case she declara exhibited in the Royal Acadamy ed that she was a blend of at least in 1891 and shows Madame Gomez in a red velvet dress with a copy of ber Atvo nationalities, including English and Spanish, Milame Alice Gomez favourite song, "The Bachantress."
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WHAT AM I?
with
cention.
technical terms taken from the in- castrial, commercial, and economic phraseology, whereby the users of the code are able to form literally millions
Another innovation is the Morse "condenser "--that is to say, a method or system by means of which figaros may be transformed into cole words.
RIDDLE OF SPACE.
(b) "The shopkeeper with much efficiency, strade away and raturned with a collection of trains. The men examined them, muttering criticisme
at he did so."
(c) "The heroic little coachman put himself in the path of the human avalancho (his mistress) and was swept into the gutter."
THE TEST OF THE STAIRS.
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Do they leave you Breathless?
Many people, otherwise in apparently (d) As I walked along roliloqui- good health, find themselves 'out of ing upon the drabness of the general breath after slight axertion. To them outlook my reveries were interrupted it seems a long journey to reach the top by melodious strains which issued of a flight of stairs, for they must rest on the way. This breathless condition, from a very ancient looking person when accompanied by pale chooks and ago."
lips, is a characteristic symptom of anaemia, and is caused by the lack of When the blood facka red corpuscles it red corpuscles is the blood. iscientific fact that a course of Dr. Williams' pink pills will cause thom to increase. This can be proved by a microscopio examination, or epsone con detect the difference by looking in mirror, for an increase of red corpuscles shows quickly fo the cheeks, and socially in the lining of the eye lids.
des, when ber WLon a girl's calour fades, chicks and lips grow pale, and sbe soon. gets short of breath, and her heart paipitates after slight oxertion or under the least excitement, it means that the
If the number of different words used by the average child of 13 to day could be compared with that of the average child of the same age of 10 years ago, the result would be startling.
The child of to-day not only reads
.
Was descended from a musical: Madame Gomez who was always mo- Dr. Charles P. Setinmetz, the chief for more, but infinitely better, ma family. Her mother, whose maiden garded as a mezzo soprano, began consulting engineer of the General terial than that provided by the name was Brage, of the family of the vocal work as a high soprano. The Electric Company, Schenectady, schools in the last decade. seleursted composer of the world-geverity of the training, however, United States, bas stated inanartiala loved "Seranata" and as Mms. brought her voies lower, and even in in Popular Radio There is no such Gomes said. "a lovely singer, 1991 she complained of the exceeding thing as the other, Light and wireless force occurring at fxrd intervals and while her father too had a good vice ir bigh standard at which the English waves are not wave motions of the known electrically as a p-riodio alter Alt the children, nine of whom grew concert key is pitched.
ether.
The scientist, in fact, no nation. A wiraless station sends cut up, bai the same talent and at one The life of a singer is usually a very longer needs the idea of the ether, but a signal. In doing so it throws out a time filare At ge Gomez thoughs of exacting one, and although Madame the layman will long continue to fald of force which extends to the forming a concert party consisting of Gomez held out with remarkable en think of it as the medium through receiving station bundreds of miles an mbartut the family alone. Tiven duranse, a envere nervous breakdown, which the waves of light and clean away “whôn glity, varig abe entertained the followed. This came in 1912 and the city travel. It would be as easy to What is it that carring this held of: S kalined by coming a singer though | decided to retire, spending the last ten think of sea waves without the soa. energy from one spot to another ↑. Dr Saffirole di cim d den at the Tamara of her life chiefly in the quiet The borm of light and the wireless Steinmetz argues that no carrier is Eoin The Horst Beautifully surroundings of wave, says Dr. Selianetz, ata marly requiet, that we have don with the
Tai ter who was a sujund (T
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