Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Beautify Your School-Rooms. [ARTICLE]

Beautify Your School-Rooms.

Teachers, haye you done anything towards beautifying yon school-rooms t If you have not, do not permit smother week to pass without doing something in this direction. Time and money expended in this way will pay you a greater dividend than any other investment (hat you can make. By doing so, you Will not only render your school-rooms attractive and home-like, but you will have accomplished a work that will assist yon very much in the government of Sour pupils. It will not only do this, ut it will promote the interest of your schools in every respect It will cause the patrons erf your schools to have a higher regard for you, and they will take a deeper interest and work harder for the success of your schools than they otherwise would have done. If yon desire your puplila to attend promptly aud always be on time, make your school-rooms more pleasant and attractive than their homes; then yon will accomplish your desire, and not nntil then. No wonder so many children almost hate the school-room. How oould they do otherwise, when they are compelled to sit all day in a room whose walls are as black aud dirty as a barn ? Teachers, decorate your walls with beautiful pictures and appropriate mottoes, and job will be amply pud for your trouble. If you do not think you are able yourself, ask your pupils to assist you; you will find many anxious to do what they can. If you secure their help in thi. work, instat'd of trying to t» ;»r jiowu their school-house, they will be interested in its beautification, and do all in their power to make it beautiful. By decorating your school-rooms with beauful works of art aud appropriate mottoes, you will not only render it plettsant and captivating, but you will cultivate the taste of your pupils aud give them a higher conception of the beautiful than they otherwise won .1 base acquired. Teachers, as er you have made everything ar >uiid you pi.-asam aud fascinating, do not forget, yourse ves. If there is any person in the world that should Jook neat, surely it is the teacher. He should never enter the school-room without first making himself as neat and becoming as circumstances will permit. When you arise in the morning do not forget to put on your smiles, wear them to the school-room, and keep them on all day. Do not take them off as soon as you get in sight of 'he school-house, carry them the remainder of the way in your pocket, and then put them in your desk and lock them up for fear some of your pupils will get one 1 Notwithstanding the inconsistency of such actions, yet it does seem that there are some such teachers, or at least they style themselves as such. Shame on such a teacher! Beautify yourselves with kind words and loving smiles. Aim always to have the most genial countenance in school. If your faces are beautified in that way, then vour pupils will not be hateful, and their faces will be lit up with cheering smiles, for as the teacher is, so is the school.