BilllWNCllllNCli
the sficiency‘af‘the schcoilystoms of
different states. ' a
Dr. Burgess compares the sa . . .
aid to teachers with those paid to $3.905? 0‘ the “mum” “ "‘9 0“”
,3 dkyear for the past 80 year’s makes it
finds that the wages Md to ybtgg'cm that in the ”St two years the
“-omen teachers {n country ma purchasing 90'" 0f the [BBCIIEI’S 88."
- hdtheseneral ~ ' dieted‘tlntnevlerss"'dureaeum
wired catalsbenla'thetwunaue latices or more in bewilcipatet!
the, a? of the con war. a lmmedletell. but that matures on
‘ ‘7' . teachers: salaries arm the enlarged scale will be neccessary
for a number of years. ,
Considering ways to meet the tie-j
sired increase in school expenses, Dr.l
Burgess says he believes the tax rate‘
imam BillfiEl‘l
sunninlllzulllili.
‘ aborers and artisans for 80 yea
nmv YORK. Sept. 17.——-School bud-3'
appeared articles aboutftwe vhiten who m or
by boys to Mr. Richter's bones h as he can
Dal-lea. On each occasion. the clergy- attached.
man says his house was made the ter- ”but on
get for eggs. over-ripe tome and gear! f
other mtssles. He also says he for
has been the target for garbage an.-
.1: ‘ .
.. M in American cities should be have increased from 82.50 a week 111 My has been less than at any other on property and PINicuhfl! on llfld There leafy is adiffercnre of other missles on ten or twelve other JU, COI‘I' DI
{file a, large as before the war‘ _ 1841 to $17.50 now, an increase of 600 time since the Civil War. The report can be further increased without dia- opinion ‘ the ”HO. E. Rich- occasions while walking in nag-lea) Am...—
' ' ac percent. Salaries of women teachers maintains that: the only way to” re- aster. The wide “in!" 0‘ rates in ter of Dotien and First Selectman He blames this hostility toward him M LONDON. 36m. 17-
.auding to an analysis ofpublic school
LulllSUCS just given out by the Rus-
will Sago Foundation: The report
maintains ihat teachers' salaries
mould now be double the pre—war flga
um. in order to obtain the same dual-l
:w of educational service. The cost
. 5 school buildings is declared to have
:rr-hleti in the last five years.
These findings are made public in
a volume entitled "Trends of School
test.” The author is Dr. W. ’Ran-
.lolph Burgess, assistant director of
the department gheducation of the
.‘Russell Sage Foundation. The study
1.. an application to the field of edu-
cation of the method of the index
number. The volume is a companion
10 "The Index Number For State
in cities show a similar increase from
about $4.50 to $35.50 a week. Men
centage increases in salary twice as
tive increases.‘ .
Up to 1915 teachers received per-‘
centae' increases in salary twice as
great as artisans and laborers, 'Dr.
Burgess finds; but in spite of the in-
creases the average pay of teachers
has never risen as high as wages paid
to such artisans as 'blacksmiths, car-
penters and‘paintere. ,
"During the five years since 1915
the salaries of teachers have in-
creased on the average of 45 percent.
as compared with a 100 percent in
crease in the wages of laborers and
artisans," says a summary of the re
different large cities is cited to'indl-
cate that there is no eccnmic limit
which has been reached in many
cities.
tain efficient teachers in service and
at the same time attract able men
and women to teaching is to bring
salaries to a leval corresponding to
the level of the wages in other occu‘
DatiOnS. and the level of the cost of
living. This ,is taken to mean‘bring-
mg 33‘3”” to a point last double handsome Courturier trumped mOdel
the pre-war figures.” cornet from Julius J. Prunyl of 39
. -. - - \‘orwalk the local
Estimating the probable levels (“linden 4:".‘98' ,‘ ' , _
schoolcxpenditures during the comingropresenhelm “ho has new sueml
instruments to the musicians of this
‘few years. the conclusion is drawn by town during the past winter, This is
the same make of instrument that is
used by the soloists of the large Har-
vey-Hubbell band of fifty men in
Bridgeport, which is now under the
leadership of a professor ,at a salary
lof $10,000 annually,
Master Beeman Peel of 1 Chestnut
street, Norwalk, has. purchased a
Dr. Burgess that to buy the same
amount of educational service in 1920.
and 1921 as in 1915 it will be neces‘
881'? to double the school budget. in
the light of price and wage fluctua-
tions in the past and particularly at
. m... S!
John H. Selleck of the town as to
what transpired when the clorzymcn
applied to Mr. Selleck for permission
to carry a revolver and was refused
the permission. -
According to Mr. Selleck, the clergy.
man said that, if he could obtain Mr.
Selleck's "say so." he would load up
his revolver and go out after the per-
sons who were annoying him.
Mr. Richter denies that he used that
language. He says his purpose was
to fire shots in the air, if the unwel-
come visits to his house were repeat-
ed, th‘ei-eby attracting friends who
would help him capture some of the
people who, he says, have been annoy-
ing him. H denied that he intended
to shoot anyone or would shoot. uln-
—_
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Eacis From Manylands
Superstition Among Caribbccs
HE inhabitants
lslands are a most superstitious
pCOyiO, and to a great extent their
life is guided by signs and omens. They
believe strongly in the evi. influence of
ghosts and devils, a belief which in the
past led them into the most frightful
pr cos.
0 of the potent superstitions is
the "Obeah." In all probability the
~:enn Obeah is derived from the word
',"0bi which is ‘u' by the natives
of the =ast in!" if" iii-ic- to signify
witchcraft and fut, " ‘5 who Obi has
been traced bani '...:o the Egyptian
Mythology.
The belief in Obeah 's not infrequent-
ly fatal to life, ile t lii-"er pining
away tlll death claims him. On every
estate and in every village there is a...
least one Obeah man or woman-hurt"
often the latter. This person is beds.
ed to possess.) the evil eye or the
powers of the devil. A negro who
I figure of the rural districts is a
quaint old gentlemen whose hat is very
much decorated with flowers and parti-
mlored ribbons and who carries a staff.
to the top of which is tiad a. huge
bunch of real or artificial flowers knot-
ted to it by long streamers of similar
ribbons. According to the district, his
of the Caribbee
wishes to be rid of an enemy goes to
the Obeah woman and secures her aid
by paying her a sum of money or giv-
ing her presents. The woman has her
reputation. to maintain. and if her in.
finance. . -. the whim fails. she re-
sorts to .o.- poison... but this rarely
needed, :._. .ao uncalled man or '...om~
an immediately no. “In! clutches \ .
the sorcer--. v- om... The Obeah
woman's method .L was As soon as
engaged to any. a}... 0‘4- ,4.-.»
powers she sun .‘.‘. ._. 2..-... -....
tells him do It: to DU 0M... he:
becomes r prey l... LLn. .‘nd ye. _, "mi.
'His family and friends no..:- the
-change in his conditio- ..... .. .‘am
he is "0beahed." and fall . ._.., from
him in terror. Thus th. u— .m, 'nuuf
Ic is begun, finds an end i- z. . miss:
mots death. Though it was the were
inga of his mind that killed him, the
Jacob woman is held responsible and
feared by all in the community accord-
llnsiv. '
Queer Custom
N Northern Germany a familiar usual in other ways. He is the "boob-
zeitbitter." 01‘ person on Joye-i among
the country foils to go from house to
house and invite guests to attend a
wedding. Ht. delivers himself of a set
speech in an old Plaitdevttch rhyme
when he arrives at each place, accom-
panying it will. wagging of the head
and stamping of the staff, and is gener-
ally in rather a. jovial condition by
costume also is old-fashioned and un-lthe time his day's labors are ended,
The Forest of Stone in Australia
' N Albany, Au-lralia, :s to be seen a sand. Little by little water acting on
sic-1r forest—2n other words, petri-
fied trees. The trees are of gray stone.
It is suggested as an explanation of the
strange phenomenon that in the depths
of past ages the forest was in full-
vegetation, and then through some up
heaval of the earth it was buried in
the sand penetrated the bracmes and
wlidiued. The wood gradually disap-
peared under the layer of stone and in
time took its form. Then in succeeding
years the winds again carried away
the sand, and the forest appeared
anew, but of stone.
The Most 4 Dangerous Fish
{THE Shark and the Octopus are
usually looked upon as the most
dangerous among the denizens of the
‘doap, but it appears that the fisher-
man who frequent tropical waters he“
a much greater fear of the devi‘ffisll,
the green moray and the swordiiih.
There seems to be unanimity of opin-
Aon that the shark and the octopus
j'lll not attack a boat, while those
{Which have been mentioned will. And
moreover. the attacks of the devilflsh,
Pill 13:9:ng the swordfish are a
‘3
' “*‘W‘ “‘“ "‘ "’ OW‘LM .I.
. .raaw
a.“
i
!
1
Savings as
great deal more terrific than those of
the shark and tho octopus.
The devllflsh is a large ray which
infest; the warm waters of the Atlan-
tic. it attains a weight of a ton and
a half. has horrible looking teeth and
a barbed, poison holding spike in its
fall which it uses with tremendous ef-
fect when it assalla a party in a boat.
The green moray is to be met with on
the coast of Bermuda. it resembles a
congereel, but is green in color. The
moray is mkonsd the most savage
inhabitant of any water.
Home Life of the Child [when they were very small. in the]
p evil thoughts foster evil men/simplest language possible, all the‘
I “tell it behooves “a as fathers 'ndmweet, old, Bible stories. i talked.
moths-s to surround our children with labout the Sundayachool until I made,
the influences and environment thatlthem "“3"" anxious ‘0 b° old enough?
will bring out the best there is in ”° 1°-
_,q, Fortunately, there was ni
hm“; What a road of poetry, ro— kindcrgartcn in ours. which enabled,
intense, love ..nd beauty lies moden in the“ "° a.tend 'hn" yet very young“
. - .9 ., . Afternoons we took, when the Weather.
”5.-., at“; ale-lit. A. is not on: ,4“ 7 bl i th 00!! d
'flhu on; ..._ privilege of the parents. ' "mined; 30" ram ‘2; n ‘1' “f
.auu t...‘ eul‘u’ we mother. to awaken ;"““‘“‘ a“; .hemlffio‘ll): dim? 3'51”":
touts aux. mm Quinn-3t instinctaém‘u‘r' “h“ co“ m“ . . '
up”... u u... “H,“ W “mum” make “itentlcn of little ones as marvels of
iHcms n. eve eenu m A” son} u"... -430“ and work o: 1;. beneflcent
'wuuu u. witfuuvvnsJ, vines, trees and Creator. 1“ the ' inter «’1 'a bad
‘ 1-6:“, ,4“ cm,“ to lovo n‘mmwooks‘and Sunday games and music?
m“, .. ,6“. moments to a“ ,The day was not permitted to become;
irkxome. It. 9.... made a day to be
.cohed forward to. i
We took part in all the social affairs;
of the school. i say "we" with empban
sis, because the attentionand interest
of any child will slaken unless the pa-
rents take an interest, too. in Sundayj
school. it 14 important not to naryt
‘oae._§
:lt. unlike.
his ....te..u'.m l0 .... opening flower. a
lovely sunset. or the beautifu. feather-
ed .ungsters.
it seems to me that the greatest
handiwork of our Creator is the match
less flower. V-Lat - sermon and what
a lesson for tho cllliu; Show him the
ugly little clack seed and unattractive
bulb and explain to him, or let aim
find out for hunself what a world of
beauty is hidden there' How simply
and sweetly, too, could the story of
life be taught to the child in a clean,
pure. understanding way by the seeds
and bulbs and by insect and bird life.
Teach the children to love the swast
sanctuary of home. It is surprising
what pride and interest they will take
in a pretty and attractive home. Let
them gather the flowers for the house.
Teach them to observe God’s sky and
mountains. the singing birds and the
opalescent heavens. A child can't go
very far wrong a companion of petals.
a worshiper at her shrine, close to her
beating heart.
Supply the children also with good. .
healthy reading and road with them.
Take per: in s...‘ their love and sorrows.
Make them feel that the home is theirs.
Your home should be something more
than a place to eat and sleep in. Put
into it love, cheerfultuss, and your own
individuality. Give your child plenty
of good. clean amusement. Reserve gm him, while young. a dislike for
your best for home. and in after years : the church services. There line the
you:- child will loot back to and intuition” of m“, young ”0915-. indif-
af hours as something sacred. Surely fetuses to gum!” school “a church.
the memory of such a home will be a Given the right mm, one Mu.
safeguard through life. Many tempta- ates naturally from the fomef to the
Hon- Wfll be Ihlmwd 3nd "emu latter and makes it a part of'his line.
by that dear heritage, a picture framed more necessary “a helpful than a.
upon the walls of memory there to “bum society. mm... mm
'temln- Bible boys and Bible girls. their lives
The Best Day in the Week. explained. are as familiar to my chil-
dren as similar characters in fiction
Sundays, when i was a child at bomb. or in real life. They can give all the
were dreaded days to me. When my facts in the lives of Samuel. David.
children came. i decided that they
Hosea. Abel and all other of the Bible
should not go through that same db
9.
HOD/IE
P-y David Cory
little house. a white house,
a A home for you and me.
With honey-suckle by the porch
And weeping-willow tree:
A box hedge running by the path
Of pebbles, smooth and white;
A little swinging gate that crook-
i‘fiiea you come home at night.
friendly clock upon the stairs
- To tick the hours“ flight.
A little cradle in the mom
That was so still at night.
A little cry to wake us from
Our sleep with visions sweet.
A-llttle faith. a little love
To make it all complete.
the little child with religious things or
Pm ctiCal Suggcétions for Home '
A Few Suggestions Gained From The EXperience of Four Mothers
read some very exciting but good talol
mg
that of many older minds. it was
gathered as naturally as the know-
ledge of any’other history.
Cultivating the Reading Habit
My children dld not seem to enjoy,
loading to themselves. Knowing howg
much Joy would be lost to them if they 2
failed, in early youth, to cultivate thie‘
habit, l originated a plan to interest
them whichproved very successful.
1 would gather them around me and
to them. commenting on it as i read
and getting them to do the same. Then,
at a most crucial point in the story. I
would be called away for some import-
ant tesk, and when. as always happen.
ed. they expressed disappointment, i
would suggest that they continue the
reading themselves, and when i re-
turned tell me about it and how thel'
situation turned out. Alain. i would
read and give the he‘ro. or heroine. the
name of some child known to them, or
use one of their own new. This al-
ways stimulated their interest. and by
these simple devices. the somewhat
dormant. or sluggish. minds of four
children were brought into tune with
reading, and while they will never be,
the omnivorous readers that borni
bookworms are. they will always bei
able to extract enjoyment and enter
tainment from good volumes which. i
doubt, would have ever been the case;
had I not made the effort to awaken:
in them the happy habit of reading.
Reward for Good Behavior
Ify little boy has been helped to
obedience by our me of a card on
which we place little gilt stars as re
wards for good behavior. We began
A“...
on his activity in efforts to prevcn' William *3. Colt, of the New W,
gambling at carnivals in Darien and City Police Court. died suddenly I.” .,
surrounding towns.
'Selectman Sells-cl: sale today that.
when Mr. Richter first asked permit»
sion to carry a revolver. statfng the
circumstances that led to the request.
he told the clergyman he did not feel the damage; and was
justified in issuing :1 permit. but would “'4'- “ 1 -
take uprthe matter with the acting
town counsel. He did so, he said, and m u ”01
on the latter‘s advice, refused to is
eue’the permit.
“i told Mr. Richter." he said. “that
if he would give me evidence that any
tel-day. at his apartment in the II t
can Hotel, from heart disease. .
was born in this city July 2:, in.
and was a descendant of Elder are"
eter' of the Mayflower. He reed?“
B. 8. from Yale, 8b.-
a member Q
the Connecticut House or
and 1903. He was p
dent of the Union Bank and TI.
Company of this city and a direct.
C the Savings Banks of New bond.
an. Beet “omen—A Want an. '
one was annoying him. 7 would cause 1. W for the best results.
the prosecution of the person or per
i do not eprove of,
'eon or persons.
c—l'be. Beet Salesman-A Want AC.‘
2:
A CHANCE remark on the advis-
ability of “seeing one‘e own coun-
try ilret" was the inspiration of a 'very
successful year’s work on the part of
one woman's club. instead of the ma]
literary program for the season, the
members voted to study “our town.”
The idea proved at once to be most
popular.
The committee found no difficulty in
preparing the year's program, for there
was much to lean: and there were
many willing to teach. The beads of
various city aflaire moat gladly came h
the meetings when asked to tell what
was being done .in their departments.
The busy judge of the juvenile court
A in... arm. “n:
EA i
gave an hour one day to tailing of I
wondetvel work being done in M'
court. and he was followed by the pro-‘
betlon ofllocr, the schorl nurse, tho.I
m of a. girl's home. the bend or
the associated charities, the president'
of a. v. u. c. a and others. These?
meetings were intcitpetnod by “saw
porioeoo meetings." where each m
ber pledged herself to iti‘ln‘ one db
coves-y about her my to each meeting.
Vlaite by the club as a whole More
male b points of interest. When that
bloom were spoken of. the members
arm-led almost to a woman. "Why.
as many years as he lived in fifth
town. l’ve never been there.”
ETEOROIDGY as a science in In
its infancy. but as a branch of1
knowledge it is. perhaps. as old as man-
kind. The beginnings of metaonologyaro
to be found at the origin of civiliaafioo.
ltwonldbeerrortoimaginethatthe
rich weather lore found in the Bible.
especially in the book of Job, and in
the Poems of Homer and Hesiod. origi-
nated then in Palestine or Greece. 0-
the contrary the familiarity of the peo-
ple with the sayings and rules concerto
lag the weather revealed by these
writings show clearly that they must
be considered as a primeval stock of
the culture of that time. There is rear
son td believe that the origin of much
of modern weather lore can be traced
to its lode-Germanic Source. The
Greeks as far back as the fifth century
3. C. were the first to make regular
meteorology observations. some result.
of which are still [NHL-Ted. Their
great capacity for pure release induced
them to propound moieomlwy theo-
it shortly after he had undergone the
fashionable operation on tonsils and¥
adenoids, when his nerves were still
rather unstruag and he was more than
usually dlilcult to manage. We took
agood-oinsdstiflcerdandraledltofl'
in squares. to be later filled with little
gilt or bright-colored paper “stickers.”
A special star was promised for each
time that he went to bed without pro-
tect. Ono star was given for good
behavior at meals. another for con-
scientious snort to overcome a habit
of loud. shrill talking and noisy closing
ofdoore. Onedaylboughteometlny
flag "stickers.” which were kept for
very special mood behavior. What an
lnneentive to effect these flags proved
to bel
Other mothers may have thought of
the same thing and used it with good
mace“. ln thocaseofoursmallboy.
it has certainly helped us to do away
with the countless "Don'te" that all
youthwithsimpledinctnuaandtholr
‘uroooblo oxporlenoe. I told them. familiarity with the Bible febeyoad
mothenuoanxglreto avdd.
rise. At this time t‘tzy and Trial
016 Weather
Prophets
they built the Tower of the Wind C!
than. The first quantitative oboe»
venous—that is. the measurcmont of
rais—wers'made in the first century
A. D. Those were made in Palestine
and tick results are preserved in the
I“ leteorolozy made but. little,
we among the Romans. 'I‘Iol
Barbarone state of Europe after the
loll of the Western Empire was not
adapted to the furtherance of‘acienoa,‘
which wee barely kept alive within the
Shuttle: church. The fathers of the
church. writing eommontaries on the
week of the seven day, often took oo-
caelea to insert long elaboration- a
the atmosphere and its phenomena.
The arrival of experimental science d
to thirteenth century led to the ob-
eervatieae in the fourthcenth century.
It m only during the latter part d
the nineteenth country that meteor“
gy became partially an exact sci-a.
be. yet in popw‘sr estimation ’l’
photo if the "-Joosebone" variety on
W as ran-bio as tho gavel-
vanea, and in the first eezfui'i B. C.
“scanners.
GUESSING contest which seem
easy to most girls and boys when
they beer of it, but proves more dif-
ficult than they supposed, is called
Dlounlted States.
’liaks an outline, nothing more. of
each State of the Union. These must
be drawn on separate cards or pieces
of paper and be exactly like the out
lines on the map. Have each card
numbered and its number placed op-
posite the name of the State on a
separate piece of paper. which is not
shown until the contest is over.
Youwfllbeanrprisedatthenzio-
tabea made. for even those who have
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Removal Sale.
maximu- yeere and}!
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,gh as 40 Per Cent Offered in Our
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Owing .to our. new. home = not being ready for us to move "into this coming week, as we had anticipated, and the fact ‘
that we must vacate our present location by October 1st, we will offer some attractive bargains to further reduce our stock '
of Furniture, Bedding, Rugs, Linoleums, Draperies and Housefurnishings. You should not fail to take advantage of this
great money saving Opportunity. The large number of people who have visited our store acclaim this the greatest sale
ever held in the N orwalks. It isn’t necessary to tell you that our pricesare low. This you can see for yourself, and no
matter how low the price the merchandise is of the first quality. Whethereyou need an odd piece of Furniture or an en-
tire house furnished, you cannot afford to miss this wonderfulbpportunity. '
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