event of an accident. It will surely be not denied that if tact and persuasion are the only instruments, "the end justifies the means." Begin by getting an opinion in favor of music from the patrons; proceed by getting a similar opinion from the school. When singing has been introduced, make it as general as possible, but should a pupil desire not to sing (make it impossible for him to refuse), let him be excused on apparently good grounds. Let not boys from twelve to sixteen be urged to sing. If their voices are rough, or breaking; advise them not to sing; and if pupils cannot sing in tune, do not permit them to sing -at least, not with the more tuneful children. Children with chronic sorethroat, or bad colds, and young ladies who say it tires them, should not be urged to sing, since great care should be taken of the voices of children. What children shall study is not generally in the power of the teacher to decide, the directors usually claiming that authority. Let music be treated in the same manner. Give all a chance to join in the exercise, but because a few refuse to take part, do not give up in despair. To bring about the introduction of music, do not call a town-meeting. Such a course gives rise to a division of opinion and argument contrary to the movement on foot, and when a person has once taken a stand publicly on a measure, he seldom leaves the position chosen. Look, therefore, to early steps.-Blackman.

-The music on the following page is from Silver Carols, New Day School Singing Book, by permission of the publisher, W. W. Whitney, Toledo, O. Per dozen $5. Single copy, by mail, 50 cents.

EXPLANATIONS.

1st stanza. From 1 to 2, imitate stitching;
2 to 3, driving pegs: 3 to close, paring shoes.
2d stanza. From 4 to 5, imitate striking.
with hammer; 5 to 6 filing; 6 to close, driv-
ing on shoes.

3d stanza. From 7 to 8, sawing of wood;
to close, piling wood.

4th stanza. From 9 to 10, plying of hands like a weaver; 10 to close, feet ditto.

Sing 1st and 2d stanzas sitting; 3d and 4th standing.

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Y what means may I, a teacher grow into the stature of a perfect man or woman?

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To avoid the evil physical results as far as possible, the method is sufficiently obvious. Eminent physicians as well as eminent teachers, have given directions in regard to the teachers' health, and those we may with profit consult. Pure air in the school-room must be had at all hazards. Spend half your salary if need be rather than live in the poisoned atmosphere of a poorly ventilated school-room. Give the Board of Education or the Trustee no peace till some adequate means of securing a constant supply of pure fresh air to pupil and teacher is provided.

To get the sunlight into the room as much as possible, without distressing the scholars, will be the next thing.

But the main reliance of the teacher for an increasing fund of health and strength, must be on his outdoor occupations before and after school hours. Of this I will speak incidentally under the next head.

How we may avoid the belittling tendency which results from our pursuing, year after year, the same studies, and from the difficulty we experience in making any considerable advances in knowledge, remains to be considered.

First, then, select some one branch of knowledge on which to concentrate your efforts. Determine to obtain such a knowledge of this branch as will make you respectable in any company. Determine to know more of that one subject than any text-book contains. Get below all surface water and drink from the primeval springs of truth. All the sciences are related and spring from a common root, but that relation can only be perceived when you have followed some one truth down to its origin.

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By all means let this subject of your study be an outdoor science. Leave to others the study of those things which are best mastered in the seclusion of the cloister. You must have some occupation which will take you into the woods and fields, and under the open sky. Botany, geology, mineralogy, or zoology will serve equally well. Do not imagine that because your education is limited it would be presumptuous to undertake to become proficient in one of those sciAs for one self-educated man said, when asked who assisted him in making his vast acquisitions in knowledge: "If one only knows the letters of the alphabet he can learn anything." Go at it with a will and you will succeed. Spend your vacations in this sudy. You will not need costly excursions to the falls of Niagara, or the Mississippi, or to Lake Superior, over the thoroughfares of travel. These would be very pleasant, and would afford a good deal of profitable intercourse with well informed and well bred persons, but would greatly diminish the contents of your slender purse. You can do better. Cut a hickory cane; roll up a blanket with a strap and buckle; take your hammer and your pressing portfolio, and start out by some back street and make for the country. If you have a fellow teacher with you for company it will be immensely jollier. A very little money will do-less than would pay your board at home. If you are afraid to sleep out doors, you will always be able to find some comfortable farm house where your bed will be softer and your fare as good as you will find at many a hotel. The idea that you need to sleep in a bed is a false prejudice ; a dry sod is a good deal better-you get better air. If you never tried a summer excursion of this kind you can't imagine how your pulse will beat with robust health, and your spirits rise to the summit level of enjoyment. I walked 1,200 miles one summer, and slept in a house less than a dozen times, and these times I didn't rest well. I felt intoxicated with enjoyment all the while. How much more interest could the teacher give to his classes in geography if he had thus made the tour of the State of Indiana.

The ladies will say that this plan will do for the gentlemen but not for them. The customs of society will not allow ladies to become common tramps in this way. Very true. For them another plan will do quite as well. And if I may be excused for referring again to personal experience, I will tell how I spent a summer vacation profitably, with about twenty ladies and gentlemen, some of them teachers and some pupils.

We organized a summer class in the study of insects. Each member was furnished with a butterfly net and a collecting bottle. Every afternoon was devoted to our work. Twice a week a lecture was given by the leader, and the remaining afternoons were spent in collecting insects and preparing them for the cabiinet. Oh! those beautiful summer afternoons! They were brimful of enjoyment and interest. In parties of from three to a dozen we would start, daily, off