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The Technical High School.
The Technical High School.
The human race having stuffed itself with books till one-half of the civilized community is short sighted, and the other half must take to spectacles before it is middle aged, now begins to find that perhaps it has had too much of a good thing. Instead of cultivating all the powers alike it has cultivated the memory alone, and has learned all its school lessons simply with a view of remembering them long enough to recite them. That done the book learning fades out of the person's mind, and leaves him nearly as well as if it found him before he began to be learned.
What a man learns with his hand and eye, however, stays by him, and he is only half a man that is like the German professor who understood fourteen languages, but had to call his wife to nail a plank upon the garden fence where a pig hud rooted it off.
We begin to understand that education must be through the eye and hand to the brain, and that the eye and hand must first be educated or much that comes after is useless. With this knowledge has come, in response to a universal want, the technical high school. It begins where the grammar school leaves off. It teaches the child geometry, algebra, physics, political economy, etc. But its main—perhaps best—teaching is manual. The student learns technical drawing and wood and metal work and practical mathematics. When he leaves the technical high school one year's special training will enable him to take a high place in any of the mechanical or scientific walks of life. He is educate? all around.
This is the high school of the future, the one that must supersede the present public high school, with its Latin, Greek and ancient history. Private technical high schools have been established in various parts of the country. The Pratt institute of Brooklyn is an excellent type. Others of the same kind are the manual training schools of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. But these schools are so crowded that it is impossible to accommodate all the pupils that apply to some of them, even though tuition must be paid in them, while the public high school is free. It shows unceringly the drift of popular sentiment, and the public high schools must sooner or later adapt themselves to this sentiment.
Useless Big Ships.
Now for a good many years we have been hearing about the scantiness and helplessness of the American navy, contrasted with the power and strength of European war fleets. The tremendous size and thundering cannon power of the monstrous battle ships of Italy and England have been periodically set before us till we all know about them. Oh, yes, we all know about them.
But now an appalling secret has leaked out. Through Capt. Lord Charles Beresford, of the British navy, we learn that so far as England is concerned, these great whales of ships that have cost a mint of money are no good on earth. They do to lie in harbors and make a fine show when Emperor Billy visits his grandmother, but that is all.
Some of them would not hold together long enough to cross the Atlantic if the weather should be a bit rough. They can make no speed at all, and they burn in one month fuel enough to warm all the poor in London for an indefinite time. So far as battering down New York is concerned they are as harmless as a pogon. Let us breathe once more. The English newspapers are commenting severely on these "startling facts."
But they make Americans feel comfortable. Ericson always contended that small swift ships which could be easily handled were the most formidable for war, and it looks as if he was right. Our moderate sized new cruisers are in the right direction.
The Fad for Things English.
"The Recent English Impress on American Life" is the subject of a paper in Belford's Magazine by James W. Gerard. It was quite the style to be English before the Revolution, Mr. Gerard tells us. The colonial governors were men of rank and culture, and they
brought with them people of their own kind. The loyal Americans imitated them in dress and manner fully as slavishly as the fashionable New Yorker or Bostonian now imitates them.
The Fad for Things English.
The Revolution brought a change. The colonies became intensely hostile to everything English. To say that a man was like an Englishman was to render him unpopular. We imitated the French, with whom our sympathies were wholly. In the years immediately following the Revolution Americans were too busy making up for the financial losses entailed by the war to care for anything beyond money getting. Mr. Gerard calls this period the dark ages of the United States. It was during these years that Mrs. Trollope visited us and wrote:
Writers in the United States have little encourage agement to exercise their powers in any manner more dignified than becoming the editor of a book. In this respect, it is indeed cidely bad; this is obvious not only from the mass of short power powns for the daily and the nightly, but also from the eulogy in which their insect authors are lauded.
And when Harriet Martineau came to us in 1830 she mentions that at a party one evening the lion of the hour was a tall, thin person, with a cock nose and a squint eye, who had made $109,000 by a single speculation in tallow.
But the invention of the steamship changed our social life again. Travel became cheap. Americans and English mingled freely once more. Americans discovered once more how admirable were the ways and the spirit of old England, and for the second time fell to imitating the mother country with all their might.
Mr. Gerard says:
Through steam navigation English thought and science have spread, their wings, and stimulated intellectual action and progress on this side of the water. English journalistic, periodical and light literature furnishes a favorite literary pabulum in American schools; here we learn English athletic sports and tastes are now available and have pushed the sedentary from their corners and counters. English outdoor games amuse, and develop both our young men and women, and are manifestly improving the American physique, and making it stronger, more developed and more attractive. English coaches are adopted as not only sensible and suitable, but becoming. English manners and modes of speech are sedulously imitated. English servants and even clergymen are imported in large numbers, the broad "a" is adopted, and even, under Enlightened leaders, is becoming reproducible. Speech is being learned, reflected, and a quick, sharp, heady voice has become a sign of low breeding, or, a langsage, "bad form."
All of which, if true, goes to prove that even now, after nearly 300 years of existence, the American people have still no character of their own, but must continually imitate somebody else.
John L. Sullivan has a sense of humor quite unknown to himself. He used in the most solemn manner to introduce his little old father to strangers as "the only man on God's earth who ever licked me."
The Journalist makes this very significant comment on the new city editor of The New York Herald: "Reick seems to enjoy in a marked degree the confidence and esteem of the commodore. Whom the gods love die young."
Ex-President Andrew D. White has made a great discovery. He announces in The Popular Science Monthly that some human skulls have been found at Cro Magnon and elsewhere amid surroundings that indicate a lower order of civilization than that which now exists.
Minister Phelps is working manfully for the cause of American pork in Germany. Referring to a report that he contemplated resigning, Mr. Phelps writes home, "I don't want to go out of Berlin till the American hog comes in."
If a tramp is found in Iowa he is arrested and put to hard work. Thus the treatment is at once reformatory and punitive. If Iowa persevere she will get her roads kept in repair and make good progress with her public works. Women will not be afraid to walk along country roads or remain alone in farm houses. In the definition of the Iowa law a trump is any male person over 16 who, physically able to work, is found wandering from place to place begging or without visible means of support. If any trump wants to reform and become a respectable member of society, and has not the backbone to do it himself, let him go to Iowa.
INTER-STATE FAIR.
THE MISSOURI AND KANSAS
KANSAS CITY, MO.
September 22 to 27, (Inclusive) 1890
The Exposition Driving Park Assoc C.I.
The Exposition Kauai City
The Exposition Kauai City
Under the Combined Auspices of
ONE : ADMISSION
To the Exposition Building and Grounds, also the Magnificent Grounds and Track of the Driving Park Association, including a Seat in the Grand Stand at the Races.
$10,000 in Money Premiums
For the Fair proper, besides many valuable special premiums,
Competition Faires.
Competition Open to the World. Entries Free.
$10,000 in pursues for the mace. The best run-
ning, tretting and pacing team in the country entered for the regular fall meeting. Five miles track in the West. Accommodations first. Two days—Sept. 19th and 30th, for preparation sale. Remember the Date! Send Your Entries. Drury Underwood, Pres. R.W. Cunningham, Sec. T. B. Buller, Chairman of Citizens Com.
BROMELSICK
Shows the Handsomest Styles IN
Soft and Stiff Hats. HENRY FUEL, BOOTS and SHOES
Mended at Reduced Rates for Student's
Next Door to McConnell's Tailor Shop.
BREAD, BREAD.
Because they eat that superior quality of Bread made by R. J. SPIETZ,
Why do those students look so happy and contented?
Massachusetts - Street.
BOOTS AND SHOES
MADE AND REPAIRED
J. F.WEIDEMANN
Second Door East of Pochler's.
The American Clothier,
M. J. SKOFSTADT,
No. 822 Massachusetts Street New Store! New Stock!
WILDER BROTHERS SHIRT - MAKERS
And the Most Salisfactory Prices in Town-
GO TO METTNER,
The Leading Photographer
719 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kas.
FOR FINE PRINTING, GO TO
Hoadley & Hackman Under Douglas County Bank.
GENTS' FURNISHERS LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Students and everybody will do well by calling on us and be fitted out in Shirts and Underwear that have been made to order by parties and not taken.
You can buy the Finest Goods for one-third the regular price.
Patronize our Custom Steam Laundry for nice work and low prices.
ephone 67.
The
Hacks at all Trains and at all Hours.
W. L. TAYLOR & SON. Popular Livery Stable,
We Make a Specialty of Furnishing Hacks for Students. VERMONT STREET.
If you want your clothing colored or cleaned in first-class style, bring them to the Kaw Valley Steam Dye House. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Best of city references given. CHARLES H. SIEBKE,
Berkley Street, 1st House Northeast of Massachusetts Street.
Popular Photograher
At DaLee's Photograph Gallery. [Special Attention Given to Students.]
ELDRIDGE  $ \div $ HOUSE.
M. CONN, Proprietor.
The leading and best hotel in the city.
All the latest improvements.
Electric Bells, Heated by Steam.
Our Rates $2.00 Per Day.
Groceries & Merchandise.
Stationery, Pens, Ink, Peacils, School Supplies, etc. 1300 Massachusetts Street, Corner Lee.
McCONNELL
Has the LARGEST AND BEST selected stock of
Spring and Summer Suitings, Pants, etc., in the City. A liberal discount to all Students giving me their orders..
POPULAR RESTAURANT!
THE STUDENTS' POPULAR EATING HOUSE.
Everything neat and Clean. First-class in every respect.
Board, $3.00 Per Week, Meal Tickets, $3.50.
F. H. Klock. 816 Massachusetts Street.