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The Brussels Post, 1919-4-17, Page 71i9",�7�ti<5 lir 'If HAVE BACKWARD CHILDREN? By IIELELI JOHNSON KEYES. This 3s an age of hope -of hope ing spots are hreeding grounds for -built upon the se seat foundation, I pills:mut! germs and tu'idi whirls knew g"'. No Iii i' are a:! back. tvard cl it It n destined to remain bat kw ard. to grow up r,tttpid, ueeb ss, Rod dissent(, tri ,Scicnee Met sought'af1.3u ' and decaying teeth should bo for and found laird. las, t flea the! dull at school. canoes of this dodos..;, wh•!e dee tura,1 Children who are improperly fed, tc;.lure, and Philanthropists nr' and those wile, althnu h given neer- using ego Irma kuowh and npplyingiishint; thin)•;:a to tut, have bathos tho c solea. whish are not able to direst and d3a- lher,t are children, it in True, who tribute this food through the body can never be made normal, because mechanism, are of 'nor:)e backward. their nerve cells sure lacking in actual Nye.silain, bad breathing, decayed tissue, which we tau not know how to teeth, and pressure occasioned by de - supply, The problem of their caro formed bones may all lead to this is of very great importance, but it condition of digestive insuffic'ieney is not. the subject of this article.' and brain starvation. Tho boys and girls of whom I am The remedies for these conditions writing' are dull because of condi- aro • well known. They require good tions which may be overccme either doctors and good after-care, but - entirely or in part. jthere is nothing, alarming about Perhaps this ,kind of pupil makes j them. I trust that a time will come up three per cent. of your district or. soon when county hospitals will pro- ronsolidete,l school. They ore vary; vide proper working places for doc- unhappy because the brighter pupils! tors and skilled Bare at low prices make Pun of them; they worry the fee patients; but even without them teacher bemuse it is impossible to it is usually possible for parents to keep them up to grade; and their take their children to a competent parents are mortified and, possibly, eye doctor. for glasses, to a nose and p t. a Into Ilio digestive tract, bring- ing about etreonai' stomach and bowel trouble. 11 is plain why eh11dr:el with impatient. What shall we do about it? In the very first place, let us get up in our community a parent - teacher organization, a club with a throat specialist for defects of hear- ing and breathing, to a surgeon for deformities, to a family doctor for advice as to food, and to a dentist for the filling of teeth. This sounds membership of mothers and fathers rather formidable, but of course one whose children are hi the school, of child is not likely to he in need of the teacher or teachers, and of the all these cures. local doctors and dentist. Workings Ittsis the part of the physicians in together, parents, teachers, and des- tho parent -teacher organization to tors should make out a program examine at fair prices and with ut- which will eeruro for these children most rare the children who are special treatment and a special ed- brought to them, aiid, furthermore, oration tapable of making them to watch the children of the common - no mal eventually. ity in school and at play and to re - Although I have mentioned the comment to mothers, fathers and doctor list, it is to him that parents teachers such medical examinations ani teachers must turn first for help. and treatment as suggest themselves Before the spiritual influences of to their trained eyes and intelli-; P =; home or thy' educational as,iatace genres Better still would it be if. Successful Our 191T+ o.z.t 7,! rfa:e is 4JO`J' I'.?' fa, EV'e zi,okirto, Write todt‘..94 €'d94is Free tio !0 SUCCESS FaiiAin i$our seeds means tf it ir. ©ur seedsma.n. 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Simple to operate and Waves work. ,:.4t.J' ealers.verywhere of school ran be the slightest use in the doctors were paid a regular sal - developing the backward child, the ary as health officers for looking physician must remove those physi- after the children, using what cure cal d Meets which are the causes of tive measures lie within their scope,' bat l::vartiness. It •.- ill usually he found that dull children are suffering either from :Wept.: of sight, hearing, or breath- ing; from decayed teeth, or from de- formities such as curvature of the and recommending other doctors to, perform them as occasions arise.! This arrangement might be made not as a legalized office but simply between the parents of the organiza- tion and a physician in it. spine (which is exceedingly common Mothers Must Co -Operate. in s:•hoel children), hip disease, or "pigeon breast," or from urldernour_ The mothers' part is to believe in iahment. the doctors, if they are good and It is easy to understand that a competent, and to use their knowl- clriicl whose eyes are so formed that the rays of light do not focus at the right point on the retina, but, instead, spread nut too soon or not soon edge and skill for the restoration of their children to health and normal powers. Besides this faith in medi-I cal skill mothers must make borne enough, give ng a confusion of blurred conditions just as healthful and hap - images instead of one clear picture py as possible. They must see that it is easy to understand that this their children go to bed early and child will be dull. It is impossible sleep with open windows or out of for him to see quickly what is on the doors; that they have enough nour- blackboard or on the page. But the shing food, and no food which is eye has an astonishing power to hard to digest; that their hours of strain itself and get the correct vi- work are not too long nor depress- sion finally by tremendous muscular ing, and that they are frequently re - effort, and the defective sight is often Hewed by play. Mothers must co - overlooked. The effort, however, oc- operate with the teachers also, keep- cupies time, injures the eyes, and ing them acquainted with the health fatigues the whole mind and body. anti home occupations of their ehil- Why Some Children Appear Dull. dren, and seeking to understand and In a similar way, the child who assist the efforts the teachers are does not hear clearly appears dull, making. even though his brain is all right, The teacher cannot perform suc- because he Fimply does not know what has been said. The child whose breathing pre separates them an their class work sages are plugged up by overgrown from the brighter pupils. They are tonsils and adenoids, of by spurs of subjected to ridicule and cruel dis- band in the nose, or by a crooked couragement when they are expected middle partition of the nostrils, fails to compete with the usual grade to get the amount of oxygen which work. Even though they are placed the body must have if the brain is to ee in grades with younger children, work normally. He is dull .because their poor vision or hearing, or gen- tile valve is shut through which the fuel for his brain should pour in. His eral ill health, stands absolutely in mind may be an excellent engine, the way of their comprehension and but it cannot work without oxygen progress. power. A separate class should be formed Decayed teeth are painful, and for them, and, besides this, they should receive. individual instruction. No effort should be made to advance this class as a whole, but only to develop each child within it as far as essible. Althou `h this su e cessfully her share in bringing back- ward children up to a level of use- fulness and normality unless she pain distracts attention from every=' thing else. Besides this, the decay - NATIVE' SLED CORN Grown in South Moses Selected at husking time, Pegged .and crate cured, Limited amount. ORULtTt ga,ARLY. Wis. No. 7 $ 3.25 per bus, White Cap 0.25 Hailey 8.35 ' " Golden Glow 4.00 ' North Dakota 4.00' " " Sage Pree, Muth with order. Darius Mete, Kingsville, Ont. p g gg s - tion may seen to place an added burden upon the teacher, she will find her normal classes very much easier to handle with the backward children removed, and in giving individual care to the retarded pupils she will be free from the anxiety of keeping them up to a certain impossible standard. 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In the .mean- time they should he protected against humiliation and misery, and the principle underlying their in- struction should be to train them along those lines for which they show sono ability, not to drive into them the sort of instruction which they show themselves incapable of receiving. Always it must be re- membered that their ba'cicwardness is an actual physical condition, not a moral weakness. They -have to be backward, just as a man with one leg shorter than another has to limp. Until their euro is well under way it will be batter not to give them Much book work. If the school curri- culum permits it, let them work with their hands in the garden. School IiAS'CI:It I.I:FiSON AI'iRIL 20. -- Leeson III. Our liken Lord—Matt. 28: 1-10. Golden 'Feet, Matt 20. (i. "Late on the Sabbath day." The Jewish Sabbatth corresponded to our Saturday, and ended at. sunset. But there was a popular way of reckon-' ing which made the Sabbath include both the day and the night following, and It is thus that Matthew reckons nsA,,Txr.xz>,xe (1 A It 1, 11N s . LAWNS. 1•1.,,11 -Elms. Nis t•0ntpl,.ts Fertilizer. WOG- tleorge Stovetir I'eterboro"ph, ,int SEED CORN .Ac:dreuat also. L. axii,,7SAIYf. . 'CU'ladao:, ant E01108 County BROILERS I:ettt:r grality preferred. WRITE FOR. PRICKS STANFORD'S, Limited 128 Mansfield St. Montreal here. It Was in the early morning .,....-----.-..- of the fleet day of the week that the women came to the tomb. Mark says "when the Sabbath was past,'; and Luke "at early dawn," Both Mark and Luke say that they brought spices to anoint the body of the Lord.! They found to their great surprise' the stone that closed the entrance , of the artificial cave or tomb rolled I away. Matthew says there had been! an earthquake and an angel had rob.' led away the stone. To the women the angel appeared as a young man, "sitting on the right side, arrayed in a white robe" (Mark 16: 6). Luke tells of two men "in dazzling ap- parel." "Fear not," the angel said, "ye seek Jesus." He is not here; for he is risen, even as He said." Both Mat- thew and Mark report that the angel said to tell Hia disciples, "Ile goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see ]nim." Matthew adds that Jesus Himself met the women and greeted them, and gave them the same message for the disciples. It is difficult to recen&ie this with the stories told by Luke and John, ac- cording to which Jesus made His first appenranee to the disciples in -`--` Jerusalem. The explanation of the credit for home work is excellent in these cases. Often backward pupils have unusu- ally good memories, and when this is the case the committing to mem- ory of multiplication tables, of gram- matical rules, and of fine bits of poetry and prose may be included in their studies. But do not expect them to be able to reason frim these facts which their memories hold; do not expect them to be able to apply the facts"'they have, or to combine them with other facts. They cannot do it, will not be able to use their information until eyes, ears, lungs, and brain are working properly. Almost a divine patience is re - difficulty must lie in the fact that there were different stories told by these first witnesses of the resurrec- tion, and that the differences were magnified ,in the traditions of sub- sequent yearn. What else, indeed, could have been expected, if we recall the amazement, the mingled joy and fear, and the incredulity of some, which marked that first day and the dawn of the new hope? Is it any wonder that the, stories told were in- coherent and fragmentary, or that the facts were pieced together differ ently by those who afterward sought -to make out a connected story? The very lack of exact agreement be- comes itself an evidence of the truth quired of the teacher of backward of the narrative, for if the early children; but her task is made easier Gospel writers and preachers had if she lets then! %et their +own sten- been capable of deceit they could dards according to their abilities, in- stead of imposing on them the curri- culum for healthy youngsters, !chard's Easter Richard lived on an island, and, like most little boys and girls, he lived with his mother and father. But the house in which lee lived was not the least little bit like your house or like mine. It was built on rough rocks, and in its tower was a huge lamp—a lamp that was kept burning all through the night, in winter as well as in summer. On beautiful nights, when the moon and the stars shone—there stood the light! On wild, stormy nights, when the wind howled and the waves dashed madly against the ships at sea—there stood the light, to warn sailors from the rocks and to guide them to a safe harbor. Now you know that Richard's hone was a lighthouse. Some day you may sail to it. In rummer a great many people go there. It looks so quaint and comfortable that it is fun to pic- nic there. The people watch tile waves. They dash and break on the rocks, and then sliding back, call to their and waves, "Come, let us try it again!" • Richard watched the people just as the people watched the waves; and as they did not speak to the waves, so he did not speak to the people. In fact, he did not know what words to use. Perhaps the people felt the same way. His mother had bits of lace pinned in the window to show visitors that she could make pretty things aa' well as tend the light. Often they knock- ed upon her door to ask whether they could buy some lace. Gladly she sold to them. Gladly she told of wintry evenings passed ,in reproducing fav- orite old designs from her pattern book. She always ended by holding up one strip of lace and saying, "This is what my Richard made for me one Master Day!" At last a lady carne who wanted to buy the strip. That time Richard's mother did not smile. Instead she pointed to her doilies and her tidies, But the lady shook her head, Richard whispered, "05, let her have it, Mo- ther! 2'11 make another, a hotter one, this Beater Day!" So the lady bought the lace and asked Richard to help her to find her boat. Then as they wandered down the little wooded path she asked: "Why did you Make this lace for your mother's Beaten?" At last he spoke: "I nide it be- cause—because it's hard to 'know it's Easter Day upon this island, Yott see, it'S cold and chilly, We have no church, no friends. I've no see seek a real Easter. Mother tells me that people have lilies; that in churches children sing; that all is bright upon that happy day. I wish that she could have an Raster once again! You see, she's used to it. I'm not. That's why I put the lilies in the lace." The lady looked at Richard's crook= ed stitches. But lilies, Easter lilies, sure enough, were scattered here and there! She whispered, "You and I will share a secret! For I, too, had a lit- tle son. Perhaps—who knows?—he might have made me Easter lilies! I'll send your mother some on that happy day." "Your lilies wouldn't live! They'd die! We get the mail here only once a week in winter time." The lady wrinkled her forehead into tiny linea, then whispered some words to Richard, who clasped his hands. When she stepped into her boat to sail away, she called, "I shall not forget! You wait and see! I shall not forget!" About the box that came to Richard his mother did not know. Nor did she know why Richard carried old to- mato cans from out dark corners into the light. When tall green shoots heavenly places. Their faith and began to sprout, he hid the cans in their hope has become ours. a secret spot. His mother worked, Of course immortality has always but white she worked she smiled. been a fact, Jesus brought the fact Perhaps she, too, had a secret! into prominence and convinced men On Easter morning Richard clasped of its reality. He brought life and his mother's band and led her to his immortality to light. But Jesus did secret spot. There bloomed what not reveal to His disciples the nature seemed to them an altar White with of the life after death. It was going lilies! to the heavenly Father; it was being Suddenly from his mother's room with God; it was to he in the man- e strange sound floated! Richard lift- sions of His Father's house, whither ed frightened eyes, but his mother He had gone to prepare a place for folded him within her• arms. A voice them. Beyond that He told nothing. from somewhere sang, "Christ the Nor do we need to know, and the so - Lord is Risen To -day, Hallelujah!" called communications which some It was his mother's turn to take her profess to receive from spirits in the Richard's hand and lead him to her other world add nothing to our real room, where his father stood, with knowledge and help ns, nota whit, lips tight closed, beside a wooden Our hopo is in Christ, and that is box. Yet from that box came words enough. she used to know—those old, glad words of Easter Dayl And Richard cried, "My lady, Hien, did not forget! She's made 01y lilies bloom! She must have made theso voices sing! Iiere on the rocks! 0 mother—'tis Easter Dayl 'Tis really, truly, Easter Day!" have fixed the stories to suit their purpose and mild have made them agree with each other. ,,St. Paul regarded the fact of the - resurrection of Jesus Christ as hav- ing the highest importance. If Christ' has not been raised, he declared to the members of the Church in Cor- inth, "then is our preaching vain; your faith also is vain." For he saw that the resurrection vindicated the character and the claims of Jesus, and justified those who believed in Him. "He died for our sins and rose again for our justification." "It was the method," says a recent well- known writer, "which 'God took to convince those whose faith had been staggered by the crucifixion that Jesus was really what Ile claimed to be, the Lord of the world and the• Saviour of mankind." The disciples of Jesus hoped for a' glorious kingdom. In bitter grief and disappointment they saw Him nailed to the cross. Was thtt the end? Jesus had spoken to them of resurrection, but they had not under- stood. Their faith would have failed them if it had not been for this am- azing and triumphant fact—"Ho is risen." Now faith grew strong again, hope blazed up to a brighter flame, love was satisfied. Jesus, their Mas- ter, lived and would forever live, and they, they would live with 2iim. In the confident assurance of that new, hope it was as though they were al ready risen with Him from the dead, and already sitting with Him in! Ventilate the hotbed on warm days. If the wind blows, raise the sash on ifhe aide away from the wind, . Close the sash early so that the Lathed does not cool off too early, Early Easter Morning. "Easter!" said a sudden wind, Talking in a tree, "Easter!" sang it listening bird, Looking out to see, "Easter)" breathed a violet, When the song was sung. "Easter!" ealied another bird, Window vines among, "Easterl" cried a little child, Waking to his call. "Easter! Easter! Easter" Joyful sang they all, RAW F��.9 1 will pay high- est market price for MUSKRATS and Ginseng 0005. 33 years of reliable trading. Reference --Union bank of Canada Write for Tags. N. SILVER, 220 St. Paul St, W. Montreal, P.Q, VARICOSE VEINS? 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When ready to use melt a cake of bit- ter chocolate, :form the cream fondant into shall eggs of the desired size and dip them into the chocolate, then place on waxed paper to dry. If de- sired, the chocolate cal- be sweetened, although I have always a itsidered it much more toothsome when left un- sweetened. Egg molds can be purchased for se small sum in any store. Two dessert spoons or larger cooling spoons make very successful molds, A Song. April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter; 'Chen, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears! April, that mine ears Like a lover groetest, If I tell thee, sweetest, All my hopes and :fears. Aprii, April, Laugh thy golden laughter; But, the moment after, Weep thy golden tears. More matches aro used in Great Britain than in any other country, Easier : The Fulness of Life I nm rolne that they night have life, and that they might have it more eleneleiatly. --St, Tehn, x., 10. 'The message of Easter tells us in words and music that Christianity is a relit;;ion of joy and power, of i'reee- don. and 'strength. It is not a series of (becks and inhibitions clamped down over your life by svhieh you are forbidden this and prevented from that and generally treated like a slave because to -morrow you may be dead. No, but it is a liberating, directing, enabling power which pos- sesses you, and speaks to your soul not of death but of eternal life, It is not the recitatten of a creed nor the acceptance of a body of doctrine; it is not reducing life to its minimum of barren existence, as some of our economic reformers who believe that man lives by bread alone would have us do. Christianity is nothing more nor less than a divine life within a man. And the message of Easter is the message that Christ is sufficient for all our needs. This is the day of the life full and abounding; here is the joy of an overflowing heart; here is the erne powering of men by their acceptance of divine strength and freedom. "0 Mighty Love! Man is one world, and hath another to attend him." No prison walls could retain the indomitable spirit of Paul. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I will say rejoice." No physical limitation could dishearten him as he found that the grace of Christ was sui•lit'ient for him. None of the handicaps com- mon to human existence could daunt him. IIe was a free man and an in- vincible man. "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me." Christianity is not looking for fresh arguments but for more Christ- ians. For a Christian is its only real proof. Within the heart of a Christ- ian dwells a divine spark. It is en- thusiasm—being filled with God; it is the illumination of the soul. From Him that spark Leaps to the soul of another. I remember hearing a Chinese gentleman describe his ac- ceptance of Christianity. After be- coming a friend of some missionaries and observing them at work and rest Ise came to them one day and asked: "Where did you got that dynamic power?" "Why," said they, "it is Christ." That was the beginning. The secret of power was discovered. The spark was lit. There are two ways of fighting the battle of life. One is in reliance on our ' own wisdom and strength and with inevitable and naturally in- creasing failures and discourage- ments. The other is to draw on the infinite resources of God, and with that supreme trust which is the sec- ret of joy perform the task that lies at hand. Easter Day, is the witness to that present and living joy and power. It is the, radiance of the faith of this day that makes the glory of human life. If our lives are to be more than broken and useless baubles we must lay hold on divine joy and posv- er both for our own sakes and for the sake of our great nation of which we are a part. Suffering is not a1 symbol of 'sorrow and weakness. To give himself 'with abandon to the cause of righteousness, justice and peace is the only freedom ,of the Christian man. It is joy and power; it is life triumphant here and now. It is following Jesus, Who, for the jay that was set before Hint, endured the cross. "So let it be. In God's own might We gird us•for the coming fight, And strong in Him whose cause is 01.150 Ili conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons He has given: The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven." I Saw the Spring Come Riding. I saw the spring come riding, Ere winter yet was done; The pallid little flakes of snow Bogan to leap and run; For lo, a million grass blades Were flashing in the sun! I saw the spring conte riding, And oh, her face was sweet! And shinging little raindrops Did gallop at her feet: Then thousand little drops of rain Tr, shining armor neat. I saw the spring come riding, And none might say her nay: So all the birds began to sing A merry roundelay, As minstrels sing in balconies Along the Queen's highway. I saw the spring come riding In Lincoln green arrayed: Her yellow hair lay down her bac]; All in a gleaming braid; (Nor have I seen for many a day So gay a cavalcade, The Taster Flowers. The hyacinth bells ring softly, The lilies bow their heads, And to and fro tiro tulips blow l And glow in the flower beds, '""i,+ The, daffodils quiver in golden glee, And each in its flowery way Adds something of sweetness astt joyona completeness To brighten our Raster Day.