Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1900 — Page 6

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Letter from Miss Julia Parrott. Toungoo, Burma. My dear Indiana children: Strange to say it takes a long time to spend one day at our school. Do you begin to feel acquainted with our boys and girls? I trust you will learn to love them notwithstanding they do haw faults with their virtues as have our juniors at home. This visit begins at one o’clock. The bell is ringing, and we will go to hear the children in their English class this hour. Let us visit Meen Way’s recitation. What bright, happy boys and girls are these! It does us good to see them so cheerful. As they come in they take their seats on the long benches. Meen Way says something to them in Karen and at once they all close their books, take up their slates and pencils, and in a twinkle they are seated on the floor with their slates on the bench. That is the way they often write. Now will some of our juniors who can pronounce words plainly, please read this little paragraph very slowly to the children? They will write it while you are reading. First, you may go over the whole paragraph, then give out two or three words at a time, and be sure they have all finished writing before you - read again. This is called dictation. Every day they write five or six lines 1 of dictation. On Wednesdays they use pen and ink and exercise books, ! instead of pencils and slates. Here, in the drawer of the table, are their writing books. Some keep them very neat and clean, but others have them blotted all over. At the end of the year these books are shown to an Englishman who comes to examine our school. Now they have finished. They bring up their slates and pencils and in a short time we have looked over the writing and crossed out the mistakes. Here is a boy who has fifteen mistakes. With chalk we make a large 15 on the slate. Another has all his words right and he gets a large 0. How happy he is when he sees he has done so well. The dictation work is done. “Nau Foe,” says Meen Way, “you may begin to read.” Nau Foe gets un and this is what she reads: “Page 75, ‘The English Girl and her Ayah.’ A little English girl was one day playing outside her father’s tent, near the edge of a jungle.” “Enough, Nau Foe, now, what is the meaning in Karen?” She does not know what “near the edge of” means; so Meen Way explains. It sounds very fnnny to hear these boys and girls trying to talk English. When some of them read you can hardly understand a word. But others do very well indeed. Listen to the boy who is now reading. How well he utters every sound. If you were to shut your eyes you might almost fancy he were an English lad. His father is a doctor. He was edu cated at Calcutta. He and his wife both talk English to their boy, and now he speaks it almost as well as he does Karen. Do look at those two girls near that widow! They have fallen asleep. Nau Foe, who sits close by, sees that we are looking at them and she punches first one then the other, and scolds bot h in a whisper. After the children are do le reading all the new words of the next lesson are written on the board. By the side of each English word is its meaning in Karen: Tiger, (Bau tho:) screaming, (koh p’thu taw,) and so on. Then Meen Way reads to them the new lesson and they follow in concert. After that they tell in Karen what they have read. It is' now Nau Foe’s turn to sleep. The two girls near by are trying their best to waken her. Ding dong goes the bell. “Put down your books,” says Meen Way. Each' one lays down his book on top of his slate which is on the floor; “rise.” and all stand; “take up your slates, turn, pass.” As they walk out the first one says one. the second two, the third three, and so on to the last. They go into the chapel or study room. Then Tway Oo taps the bell and all the girls pass out. Wo will follow them; they are going to the sewing class,

which is on my verandah. One of the older girls has already brought out all the sewing materials. The girls wash their hands, come and sit down on the verandah floor, and to each one is given her sewing. Here is a group of little girls who are making quiltblocks. Let us look at their work. ; The seams are bent over and whipped instead of being sewed straight like . our blocks in America. These older I girls are making jackets for the boys. 1 Would you not like to dress like a I Karen? You would have no trouble i about fitting clothes. It wotdd be delightful in summer time to wear such a nice new jacket. And. they are so : very plain—something like the loose waists we make for rag dolls, and then the skirts; those of the girls are simply’ a yard and a half of goods; two sides sewed together so as to be like a sack open at both ends. The skirts of the boys are the same, only they take three or four yards for they are worn very full in front. But you say. these girls aren’t all dressed alike. Here is a small one who has a loose white sack which comes down to her ankles. It has no sleeves and a low V-shaped neck. She wears this over I her jacket. Then there is an older girl who has the same kind of sack, but it is black and much shorter. This she wears over a jacket and skirt. Yes these old sacks which you talk about seems strange here in our town school, for so few have them. But on the mountains they are the style. Almost all the Karen women in their j mountain homes wear these sacks without jackets. When the girls come to our school they put on their jackets and throw away their clumsy old lownecked, short-sleeved sacks. In our sewing class we make quilts, ai d clothes for the boys: and, besides, our girls must learn how to patch, darn, knit, crochet and to do well all kinds of plain sewing. The girls who have no money sew also on Saturdays. Thev are given about a cent an hour for their work. In three or four weeks they earn enough to buy a jacket. By working in this way, they can pay for clothes and books.’ Quilts are made by them and sold to our teacher’s wives or other Karens. Besides, the girls who earn money lay by a small sum for the Lord’s work. They give willingly. Some, however, would like to spend most of the money they make in buying food not fit to eat: but we do not allow them to do so. And if we show them how wrong it is to ' throw away the little they have, they I are willing to be careful of their money. < After recess the children have one more hour of work in the school room. Then they are dismissed. Recess comes just after sewing. I think we will pass over that last study hour 1 and imagine ourselves on the steps of c our verandah just as school closes. s The bell rings and we can see through 5 the broad windows, the children as s they come into the chapel from all i: their recitation rooms. One of the teachers walks up to the table in front e of the scholars, and gives a short 1 prayer. Then the doxology is sung, - and they pass out quietly. But you 1 must watch them as they come down the steps: see the boys rushing down * with a hurrah. The air is filled with 11 shouting and singing: there is laugh- “ ing and talking going on. but no quarreling or fighting. Our Karen boys e are better behaved than most of our American lads in this respect. I have ' never seen any Karens fight. Once in a long while there is a quarrel. Generally they do not say much when E they are angry at one another, but , they look like little tigers. The children have now eaten their 1 dinner. Here comes a group of girls. The smallest walks up and says: “Mam, can Mary, Lena, Dora and I four of us go to Louisa’s house?” 1 “Yes, you may,” and they go tripping with Louisa. Then others come. They want to go to Emily’s house; or take a walk along the river road, or go to the English cemetery. Ah Gray one of our teachers, has just taken some boys and girls into the chapel to teach them a song for next Friday evening’s entertainment. He sings one line and they sing after him, and that is the wav they learn their piece. On the verandah of the boys house you can see groups here and there, some are singing, some talking and a few are lying flat on their backs studying English. Let us go out walking with the girls who are to take the river road, and enjoy the evening breeze. We are nearing the bend. Those three large trees on the right are called “Mangoer.” As we turn to the road we come to the broad, muddy Sattarig river. On its farther banks we see a Burman village in a large orchard of bananna trees. Now a number of little brown Burmans comes shouting down the bank, and into the water they plunge and swim around like a group of ducks. How happy they are! Au old mother elephant with her baby at her side is walking slowly from the village street ■ down to the water’s edge. On her ■ back is fastened a large basket, and on her neck sits a Karen. She sways ' her trunk from side to side, blows her I trumpet a little and then slowly goes into the water and she and her baby | have great fun rolling over and taking their bath. In front of us are trees I with bright red flowers. Far in the distance may be seen groups of waving palms, and down the bend of the stream appear the dark red buildings on Dr. Bunker’s compound. The sun is slowly sinking in the west. Just as •t says good-night to us it bids our Juniors in Indiana a happv good morning. Julia E. Parrott. The Democrat and Sentinel can be had this month yet for one dollar. For Sale Cheap—A farm of forty acres of good Jan 1, with buildings on, i one mile east of Geneva, for particulars address, P. B. Manlev, Marion, Ind. ’ 24-3 m

, I The Sun’, Journey Through Space. | j By means of the spectroscope we cat ! : obtain a probably more accurate deter- ! niination of the sun's velocity through ,! space. As is well known, the velocity fl of a star in the line of sight can be . j found by measuring the displacement I of the lines visible in the star’s spcc--11 trum. Now, the stars near the position Jof the solar “apex’’ should be ap- . proaching the earth on account of the solar motion, and those at the opposite , point of the sky. called the "ant apex, , should be receding. This method lias been employed by several astronomers, especially by \ oJ gel at the Potsdam observatory. This able astronomer has found from an examination of 40 stars that the sun s velocity through space is about Tb. miles a second, but au examination of j a larger number of stars would be nee- | essary before we could consider this result as thoroughly established. From an examination of the spectra i of 14 nebulae Professor Keeler of the Lick observatory has found velocities in the line of sight, and from these the French astronomer Tisserand has deduced a velocity of about 9 1-3 miles I for the solar motion, a result which I does not differ widely from that found by Vogel. We may therefore perhaps conclude that the velocity of the sun’s motion through space is between 6 and 12 miles per second. —Gentlemans Magazine. Hard on the Bnrgrlar. “There is a family in my town.” said I a Baltimore man, "where the children ' are all boys. They are very rich, and each of the three sons is in receipt of a liberal allowance, but the manner in which they expend it and certain of their characteristics were as succinctly and tersely described as possible the other day by Bob, the eldest one, in telling the story of a burglary that occurred last summer at their country place. Bob is the oldest, Jack the second and Albert the youngest son. Bob, in telling the story, said: “ ‘He didn't get very much, as some one of the servants thought he heard something about 3 and in going to investigate probably scared him off. but when we discovered the next morning that a burglar had visited us we naturally took an account of stock. The only rooms in the house he had entered were those of my two brothers and myself, and in each of them he had gone through the clothes we had been wearing the day before. Out of my clothes he got 10 cents, from Jack he got nothing, and in going through Bert’s jeans he gpt in debt.’ ’’—New York Tribune.

An Old Tinier. A crowd of young men were seated in one of the steamboat offices in the city the other afternoon while an old steamboat veteran regaled them with stories about old times on tlie Mississippi and reminiscences of old time citizens. “Did you know old Bill Jones?" asked one of the men, after the captain had finished relating how he ran a gantlet of Indians with his boat way back in the forties. “’Member Bill Jones? Well. I guess I did.” replied the captain. “Let’s see, he died just after the war. He was a good old fellow too. I knew his father before he was married to Bill's mother.” One of the boys thought the old man was “doping” and byway of tripping him up on his dates asked, “Cap. how long have you been running on the river?” "Who. me? Why, I started on the Mississippi when it was nutbin but a creek!”—Memphis Scimitar. Chess r n<l War. The origin of chess is shrouded in mystery. There Is little doubt, however. that its birthplace was in India and that it is an offspring of a game called chaturanga, which is mentioned in oriental literature as in use fully 200 years before the Christian era. From India chess spread into Persia, and thence into Arabia, and ultimately the Arabs took it into Spain and the rest of western Europe. The game was in all probability invented for the purpose of illustrating the art of war. The Arab legend upon this point is that it was devised for the instruction of a young despot by ais father, a learned Brahman, to teach him that a king, notwithstanding his power, was dependent for safety upon bis subjects. The Greek historians credit the invention of the game to Palamedes, who, they claim, devised it to beguile the tedium of the siege of Troy during the Trojan war.

Where Quinine Is Good. Dr. Crosse, in an article in The Lancet on blackwater fever, incidentally calls attention to the fact that it is not wise for those who have an idiosyncrasy against quinine or who suffer from even slight albuminuria to go to malarious climates. He believes that in the more malarious districts at least five grains of quinine should be taken a day to prevent chronic malarial poisoning. This he considers necessary in addition to ordinary precautions in regard to exposure to chills, wet and the sun and as to moderation in eating and drinking. ConfntinK an Impossibility. “I want to see Mrs. Smytlie,” said the visitor. "You can’t.” said the servant. “She lias the toothache.” “You must be mistaken,” the man i replied. “I’m her dentist, and I Lave ■ her teeth here In this package.”—Catb- ! olic Standard and Times. Spanish Courtesy. In the Spanisli Bibles and prayer 1 books the nameof the Saviour and those of the saints are always printed with | the title “senor" (mister) before them, j as Mr. .te’m the Baptist. Mr. Saint Paul. Mr. S<nt Matthew, etc.-Chicagc Record.

A Lively Streak of . Several ]" »us standing m front of • show" -low on Fourth street waS‘l prove- :ou of Japanese ‘ r e as tbev ran iu at one “ ,ce " apartment and d0 ? 1 ’, . - with lightning rapidity out at . ■ . imw ' e,llni, E K , two mice, while d were at least i \ verv active, curious little • “ ’ instead of being of the “ . were black and white u <d in large blotches like Holstein . de or old fashioned swine. The holt no and out of which they , tne-ether and they cbasran wen <. togttnii. .iuu . ed around so swiftly that it u possible to count them, for sometimes there was a mouse at each l>o le ana sometimes one outside ami the others inside, ami sometimes it appeared as i there were just one long mouse in a circle revolving on a pivot, with noses and tails at intervals. Tim mad race was kept up for some time, and finally all the mice disappeared as if by magic. One of the spectators went into the store and asked how many mice there were in the cage, stating that he and his companions had not been able to decide, as they moved too quickly to be counted. A clerk said there was only one mouse, and it was impossible to count it except when it was asleep and. seeing a look of incredulity on the countenance of the caller, raised the top of the cage and showed one little black and white mouse nestling on a piece of cotton in a corner. —Portland Orojxonian. A Happy Thought. The spontaneous ami happy wit of the late Isaac 11. Bromley, for many years a writer of New York Tribune leaders, is recalled by the example below: One day in The Tribune office the veteran journalist Charles T. Congdon war talking of the delightful reading he had found in Bayle’s Dictionary and remarked that if he were ever in jail he would be quite contented with that book. “Os course you would,” said Bromley. “If you had Bayle, you could get out.”

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