Supt. Edward Hyatt of Riverside County is interested in manual training. Last ummer, by way of original investigation into the subject, he went for a vacation into the vastnesses of the San Bernardino Mountains with his children, ranging from six to sixteen years of age. They took along a complete outfit of wood-working tools and camped near an old sawmill, where oak, pine and cedar | lumber abounded. They had plenty of books on sloyd work and the whole party worked industriously at the bench when they were not fishing. In speaking with the editor about this unique experience, Mr. Hyatt remarked: 'One salient point impressed itself on me; I am not sure I understand its significance. Couldn't you submit it to Dr. Dewey, G. Stanley Hall or Dr. Burk, or some other of our educational physicians and ask for a diagnosis? "It is this: when we worked on the penholder, the key-tag, the thread-winder, and the other small and careful objects usually given to beginners, the children were oppressed by insufferable ennui-but they would gladly and happily work all day carrying and sawing and nailing great boards into a play house. It was almost impossible to get any of them to make his working-drawings of the regu. lar sloyd models and then to construct them. how keenly they enjoyed it, and how eagerly they would go to work in sawing up rough boards into a sled or in making a bench! Of this rough, primitive work they never would tire the careful, exact and delicate constructions were slavery and a weariness to the flesh- they wouldn't do it unless they HAD to. But "Now of course I'll admit that they were not properly taught and that they ought to be made to do unpleasant things as well as pleasant ones; still, these were natural children who had not before come in contact with these things, and their natural tendencies are of interest. May it not be that it would be better for us to begin our manual work with larger, coarser, more obvious and primitive operations than we do? The great good of manual work in the schools is that it makes a change in our bookishness, employs the body rather than the brain. May it not be that we schoolmasters are likely to squeeze all the life out of this manual work and turn it into a series of fine-spun, scholarly drawing lessons?" The issue of "The Little Chronicle" of Chicago for September 14 and 21 are deserving of the highest praise on account of the way in which the great national tragedy has been handled. 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