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the same thing is happening. if function-to beat irons and tes with less notable results. Inters and furnaces, and thence t particular, there are a number something of its nature and how of experimental schools which it is brought into American educationists are fond and all about wiring and fusing the house of saving, are really laboratory and the rest. At the end of the schools where systems may be science course, all taught graphi worked out for other schools:cally and practically, there is
If England wishes to profit by These are as good as anything little that a child does not know America's experience, she is abla in the way of education that it is about air and aeroplanes, about to do so in connection with the have meteorology, about the principle effort now under way to bring rarely met with mere enthus of the baking oven, about cranes prohibition to Great Britain. jasm, more intelligence, more and leverage and pulleys and Granting the merits of some de sympathy If educational diving-bella and pumps-alles of prohibition-and America taught with every pportunity for overwhelmingly satisōed tha: it The Lincoln School of Teachers entrancing experiment and cons many merits the fact College-a co-education schoo! has only been established for into actual touch with the actual
struction. The child is brought mains that the manner in which has been brought about about three years. It has deliber-life he is leading, and its interest in erica leaves much to be ately set about its system of ed-for him is mightily increased. In desired. The interests opposed to ucation On the eliminating this connection and this applies prohibition in America never aup.
Academic educationists would libraries in America lose all pure-I
to all schools-the museums and Posed that probibition could be arhieved. The consequenre af be shocked at the number of academie character, and it is a this state of mind was that they things a child is a required to revelation to see the numbers of maintained an attitude of bitter learn. Many people, for instance, children who throng them under position to the end, with the STATI Out with the theory
guidance or without. A little Boysult that prohibition, came in of ten wanted to write a play America in a more drastic way iamthe Conqueror 1060 methods abon: Mithridates, with whose that is desirable. If the distilling that all children should know store he had recently been thrill and brewing interests and the all history. with
the resulted
at school. The play
other interests opposed to prohibi- that few children know
much very
tion had been intelligent enough like that history. The Lincoln School
to see the end coming, and if they any less happily-situated child. method deliberately elminates all
and, similarly. it
had been wise enough to rom- never got but the salient points in general to the end. But the child went Promise, we would now have been history. On the other hand, it to the museum to find out what in a better position. concentrates [+5) the history clothes Mithridates woze, and the
It would have been pessible at Jut The people
upposeri
museum authorities told him and any time during the past ten to the history of their governors.showed him all about it as a years to compromise on a basis
of the TOENTIS number of little boys were build forge: Mithridates: sartorially at whisky, and other liquors carry- Tatter of course. He will never
of eliminating Dr drastically restricting the sale of brandy,) ing a number of little boats. This,
least. though you might not know it.. was really the history of traps concerned. the
As far as the great towns are in a high percentage of alcohol: port or the Hudson. The little-chool is making headway.
and permitting the sale of beer day
and light wines, in which the boys knew it, and they knew all Horace Mann school is one of percentage of alcohol is low as about the Hudson and it trans- these, and boys travel as reuch not to be in a practical sense | port system and its history from as une hoor's journey a day to get
intoxicating. But the liquor in- the time that it was invented for to it. The disadvantage of this terests held out stubbornly to the Europeaus. Present-day events are followed with the keenest in-counter-balanced by the spending bitterness against them reached daily journey is, it thought. end. The result was that the terest, and by degrees they are the day in the country and be such a point that in the final. traced backward to their origin. the possibilites for sport and its legislation America adopted an At the Horace Mann School attendant advantages. American art which prohibits the sale of For boys another experimental
sehood of rather different kind.boss, a head master told me, have any drink containing more than not enough of the sporting spirit. one-half of one per cent. efl but also with an insen-ely vital They always play to win, and they alcohol. It is generally agreed wag citeaching history attend-
among those who are not fanatic would probably refuse to take on ed the most thrilling history class that have ever witnessed. Pre-
a very superior school at a game on the subject that we would silent Wilson baud that day upset to win. An American must always statutory definition of an in- | because they would be certain no: have one much better to fix the the Premiers of Europe about the do everything in the best possible toxicating liquor at something Fiume question. The master was way, and if he doesn't win he like four per cent, of alcohol. telling the tops aged about 10 te thinks he hasn't done wall. There 1 the points of the Treaty ofjate very strong efforts being
THE DEFISITIOS. London, and all the time hands made to introdure something of do not have the complexities In Great Britain, of course.you were going up and down like this sporting spirit, which plays becasioned by our system of a pistone. A sibilant "Please, sir" games for their own sake. into written pervuled the rason When the
Constitution, Federal American schools, bot it is not as statutes and State statutes over. master finished there was a fire yet the general sense of questions
of the opinions
lapping each other. Our present country. Liliputian. but extraordinarily Lasked a head master whether of liquor is this:
situation with regard to the sale like those of the Digmpians.
"Please, sir, where is duce close rantact with actual life did an amendment prohibiting the the bringing of teaching into such corporated into our Constitution
We have in-.
Stavia Fit admit." says bum- The Fadersigned AGENTS for her
pottendo cake it too purely utilisale of intoxicating liquor. That 1«', "ther the United! the above Company are prepared
tation. He replied no, that it amendment to ACCEPT RISES again!iantated, but I rau't, see why an ideal form it was not necessar
America can't he made it vital; that to give a thingy
will undoubtedly а long fine. It takes she should interfere in Europeo to wrap it up and dissimulate of three-fourths of the States to vote of the legislatures Su Wilsonion this. "Why.
it that the child could only tando such an amendment. A that's the reason we went into later life "guess at its meaning project of this kind involves a the wat." says a smut fellow and then gress wrongly. With long period of agitation and a ten. So that Jugo Slaviz might such enthusiasts as these modern long time to give opportunity for queries the head masters it is difficult not to the legal machinery necessary to master drils. To help the little believe that their methods are rescind an amendment to be put countries sir. But there wasn't perfection. The scholars within operation. The any Juzu-Slavia before the war," their keenness and zest certainly Amendment to our written Con- Prohibition objects another champion confirm the impression. At the stitution will probably last, not Please, sir, the United States same time America is a curious merely because of the difficulty controls the Gulf of Mexico and compound of idealism and utilt-of oerthrowing it, but also be. The result of the agitation just we shall very probably keep our Cuba and Florida, and she could taranism, often combined in the cause blockade Mexiro pretty easily if
the bulk of our people now going on will probably be to prohibition statute, but we will she wanted to. If the United There is here
same person'with starling results. believe in it.
-undo the legislative statute defin- change the definition of what great love of States is right, then why isn't knowing, less love of knowledge. stood alone, the definition to just half of one per cent. of alcohol, so as to allow more elasticits.
If the Prohibition Amendmenting an intoxicating liquor as one-constitutes an intoxicating drink Italy right to want all the coasts?" LONDON DIRECTORY. business pipes another then
"If a peaceful world isn't our an infinity. It will be interesting would be left to the courts; and sible alcobol to something like Of zest and enthusiasm there is what is an intoxicating liquor and raising the limit of permis. whose is it, I ask you? Well, 19 see in which direction the presumably the courts would find three or four per cent, we don't want war anyway." and new currents carry along the that an intoxicating liquor is one so on and so it.
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the definition of an intoxicating likely that we would not go the Western Railway Company with learns, for instance, the uses of tion of University College Hos- passed
the courts: we length ofincorporating prohibition the object of facilitating traffic electricity as it applies, say, nital at the annual meeting. Congress
an enforcement act oflinto our fundamental written and to relieve the demands on Sew York. While New York is Sir Ernest Hatch, tronenser, said | intoxicating liquor as any bever meet the situation by outlawing | templated work is the copsÍTUC- which defined an Constitution. We would probably the Severn tunnel. The con- asleep the amount used is marked there was a defirit of £12,000 last age containing as much as one-all beverages containing upward tion of a double-track bridge near year, and the forecast for the half of one per cent. of alcohol, of, say, seven or eight per cent. Beachley. It is proposed that the
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lo'clock the line has monnted tilensuing year placed the deficit That is the Federal law as it now of alcohol. Such a statute would I bridge shall carry a wide roadway at £25,000. It would be seen, stands. Some local State laws do away with the worst aspects for any class of road vehicle. The on the chart. By lunch-time it therefore, that the hospital was go the same length and some not of the consumption of liquor, railway company are is down again to a picture of restaurant, By six o'clock it is and his colleagues would meet
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by laws strictly regulating the THE NEW AGITATION. ball, and by twelve at night it is action was possible. Something
method of sale. There is great discuterit. As it is we are face to face în down again to the stage of must certainly be done if Uni- throughout America with this theatre, also pictorially shown.arsity College was to retain its definition. This discontent pre- agitation on this question than Presidential year with more From the great use of electricity place among the great hospitals rails even with many people who on serious matters of 97570 public it is a short story to its various of London.
believe in prohibition generally policy. As I have already said.I
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