time under a mere intellectual pressure. So will the plant sprout and expand wondrously in a dark cellar. It will grow beautifully tall but painfully deficient in strength and natural color. When we consider that it is equally sinful to inflict an injury upon the physical as it is upon the moral nature, more attention would be paid to the observance of the general laws of health. We can not refrain from entreating our co-laborers in the field to carefully guard and tenderly nourish the beautiful casket of the soul. Let the free air and cheerful sunlight flood your rooms. do not duly estimate the importance of the vivifying rays of the sun. Our schoolrooms, our sleeping apartments, and our private parlors are kept too dark.

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Keep the children actively and pleasantly employed. Activity is the law of childhood. Let the exercises be short, however, and varied. "Change is rest."

There is danger, perhaps, more particularly with those teachers who are introducing new methods of instruction of crowding the intellect at the expense of the body and heart. The methods referred to prove exceedingly interesting to the children, and it is possible that the mind may be overstrained. This need not be the case it certain principles are adhered to. No lesson in the primary department should exceed fifteen minutes. Exercises of a different character should succeed each other, gymnastic movements, marching and singing should be introduced as a relief after mental exercises. Frequent recesses should occur.

SOCIAL AND MORAL CULTURE.

It is often remarked that the teacher exerts a more powerful influence over the child than the parent. That such is a fact in some instances is certainly true, and may be accounted for on natural principles. In proportion as a child loves his parent or teacher will he be influenced. Children, like adults, can not love that which is unlovely. The affectional nature is not always cultivated in the family circle. Such being the case, the teacher has a mighty mission to perform. Let him strive to render himself altogether lovely, and endeavor to awaken and exercise that part

of the child's nature t which must alone rend the divine command,

How shall we teach not objectively. Surely knoweth all our wants them, has not permitte way in darkness. Has the life of Christ an ob and imitation? Shall w observing students and so that Christian virtue through us, and produ upon those who are ind example? We must be consistent Christians, if like virtues in those intr

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HE following neat a was made by Danie sponse to a toast given in wife, who was the objec affectionate attachment. political meeting. The could furnish nothing mo der and graceful.

"There are some top and sweet a nature that t prehended by those who they cannot possibly be human being. All I shal you in the name of her w terested choice of my y the ever-cheerful compan years; and who is the s that 'sear and yellow lea have arrived. In her nar and this you may readily 1 perience, I think, will sho man can not battle and stru nant enemies unless his warm and comfortable-u of human life is commende he loves."

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III. INDIAN CLUBS.

DIAN CLUBS, or Scepters, as they re sometimes called, are deservedly in the highest esteem by all gymnasts, ling, as they do, one of the very best most extended series of exercises for Hoping the muscular power of the e body. Nothing can be better caled to invigorate the respiratory sysexpand the chest, call into action the les of locomotion and the principal tures around the joints, and enlarge strengthen the muscles of the forearm, upper arm, and the shoulder, as well ne abdominal and spinal muscles. hile they secure to a greater extent any other apparatus the requisite ltaneous activity of the mental and physical powers, in their beginnings y are accessible to the meanest capa; since there are scarcely any who, at first trial, can not execute a number of elementary movements.

Commencing with light implements and ple exercises, the student, by thoughtand persistent efforts, will soon learn handle heavy clubs in alternate, reciproing, and double movements, tracing in e air the most varied and beautiful dees, in complex curves that seem at first nost inexplicable.

These clubs act like an incantation. Oq can not touch them, you can not lift em for the simplest exercise, without using strength to flow into every memer of your body as naturally and irresistiy as water into the conduit, when you urn it on to irrigate and enrich the soil. ew systems of muscles seem to shoot out rom your shoulder-blades, enabling you o do, almost without effort, what you ould not dream of doing before. Movements that seemed awkward and hopeessly difficult at first, soon become easy, raceful, and exhilarating.

There are numerous and appropriate exercises both for long clubs and short

IV. RINGS.

RINGS made of iron, and employed for movements that are executed by the combined efforts of students arranged in pairs, have been used in our gymnasiums for many years. Although they are worthless in

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the hands of one person, and consequently inferior to wands, Indian clubs, and dumbbells, yet they afford opportunities for so many graceful positions and effective movements in combination, for persons of all ages and degrees of strength, that they are

justly classed with the valuable gymnastic app

FIG. 22 The best and most exercises in schools and