It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.-Theodore Roosevelt. Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth; It has trouble enough of its own. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. There are no fragments so precious as those of time, and none so heedlessly lost by people who can not make a moment, and yet can waste years.-Montgomery. The height of my ambition is only to find my place, though it were but a sweeper of chimneys.-Charles Kingsley. Four things a man must learn to do, I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be friend of all-the foe-the friendless; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; -George Herbert. Not what we give, but what we share, -Lowell. He that can not think is a fool; he that will not think is a bigot; he that dare not is a slave.-Carnegie. My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.-Josh Billings. But whatever you are, be true, boys! In fun and in earnest, be true, boys. -Mackay. There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.-Carlyle. You can not dream yourself into a character; you must forge one.-Carter. Men and things are valuable only as they are serviceable. We want no kings but kings of toil— No crowns but crowns of deeds; -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail.-Lytton. Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the work is his.-Webster. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.-Horace Mann. Be noble! And the nobleness that lies -Lowell. To be polite is to do and say The kindest things in the kindest way. The fisher who draws in his net too soon Won't have any fish to sell; The child who shuts up his book too soon Won't learn any lessons well. A thing is worth precisely what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.-Ruskin. Everything comes to him who waits-and hustles while he waits. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Plow deep while sluggards sleep And you'll have corn to sell and keep. -Franklin. Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are lost forever.—Horace Mann. So here hath been dawning Another blue day. Think! Wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of Eternity This new day is born; Into Eternity At night doth return. Behold it beforehand From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue day. Think! Wilt thou let it Slip useless away? -Carlyle. A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.-Sol omon. Good manners can not be put on at pleasure, like an outside coat, but must belong to us. Let me not I shall pass this way but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.-Gilpin. Use dispatch. * * * Ask me for whatever you please, except time; that is the only thing which is beyond my power.-Napoleon. Be a man! Bear thine own burden; never think to thrust Thy fate upon another. -Robert Browning. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.-Hawthorne. Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.-Addison. One flag, one land, -Holmes. Beware of little extravagances; a small leak may sink a big ship.-Franklin. If you are idle you are on the road to ruin, and there are few stopping places upon it.-Henry Ward Beecher. Learn something beautiful, see something beautiful, do something beautiful each day of your life.-Alice Freeman Palmer's Three Rules of Happiness. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.-Horace Mann. Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.—Sir Philip Sidney. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato-the only good belonging to him is underground.—Sir Thomas Overbury. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.Alexander Pope. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.-Edmund Burke. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers can not take hold to drawn it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.-St. Augustine. Education begins the gentleman; but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.-John Locke. If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.-Daniel Webster. He that can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven.-Lord Herbert. Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her, but if suffered to escape not Jupiter himself can catch her again.-From the Latin. PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD GRADES. The "health talks" herein given are intended to cover the lessons pertaining to care of the body, formation of correct habits of living, home sanitation, etc.; they should be given each year to all pupils in the three grades. The work is to be given in connection with oral English, one lesson per week, and in day schools, where there is only one teacher for all the grades, it may be best to combine the three classes in these subjects, or at least to have only two classes for the three grades. The outlines are not intended to be followed slavishly, and the talks need not even be given in the exact sequence in which they are here arranged, though it is believed that this sequence is natural and logical. These lessons should be given with elaboration adapted to the intelligence of the pupils. The matters outlined are fundamental and can hardly be presented too often or too plainly and carefully. Of course, repetition should not be allowed to become perfunctory and mechanical, but, given unflagging zest and interest on the part of the teacher, it will be found that children usually enjoy a lesson more, and profit more by it, after it has been given to them a few times than they do when it is first presented, just as if they are well told they usually prefer stories with which they are familiar to new ones. In addition to the health talks, a few first-aid suggestions of a simple character are given. These are largely for the information of teachers, and no definite place is made for them in program of primary work; but it is believed that teachers will find opportunity to familiarize their more intelligent pupils, even in these grades, with such lessons. Many of them can be taught by drill in imaginary cases. I. HEALTH TALKS. The body.-A very wonderful machine. Important to keep it in good order. If it gets out of order we are sick and do not enjoy ourselves. If it is very badly out of order we can not work or play or go where we may want to nor enjoy life at all. If some parts of it get broken, such as arms or legs, we are crippled temporarily or permanently. If our eyes are injured or sore we are partly or wholly blind. If our ears get badly out of order they hurt us seriously and sometimes we become deaf, etc. |