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For Ihe Republican.COMMON ^SCHOOLS—NO. II*Since a school house is among the first things to be taken into .consideration, I will otfer a few ug-gentium relative tu their structure, location, c. 1 am ft plain, blunt man—therefore permit me to speak Tight on, and say plainly, that there is scarcely a school house in the land as it should he. I hey are in many instances so utteily devoid of taste and convenience, that one could easily imagine there was an effort made to render them uncomfortable and a source of misery- The taste and feelings uf those fur whom, especially, they are built, have neither been consulted nor studied 5 for it is generally supposed that children can have no taste in such matters, or, ifthey have, that It ought not to be cultivated. Hence, the thought seldom if ever arose in the mind of the arch i tec I—will the plan devised please them? N; if it was only clone cheap, and so constructed that the keeper of the j school could watch all the movements of his charge, and detect the rogue in his mischief, then the great object was secured. Usually scats and desks are [ too high, and to* far from eacb other. The child is ; obliged t» sit with his feet dangling in mid air, of- j tew without any support fur his back; and if he j writes the desks ate so high that he must raise his ; arms to au uncomfortable position, and, last not j least, so far off as tn oblige him to sil just upon the 1 rd;e of the scat and then to lean his breasl upon the [ edge of the desk. Pardon me, dear reader, it real- • ])’ had not occurred to me tbai you knew all about j it yourself—that you had been there too. Please j lend a hand and help me draw this picture, and we j will put on the finish. There, you couch this point . and I’ll touch that, and we’il do it Don’t you re- j member how we managed it ? When wc were 1 small we used to sil on the edge of the seat, cross our logs 011 the shins so n* t»make one support the j other a tittle, or else draw' up our feet under it,! cusbion-likp, and then hang our chins on the desk— and if we happened to find a ccrnfoilaMe lounge, so that every bone didn't ache, () how we used to keep one eye out for the u rat an/' and jog each other when . wc saw it coming ! And then, when we giew big- . gcr and could just toucli our toes la the lloor, and ; fclant ourselves between the seat and desk at an an- \ gle or about sixty degrees, can't you remember how j our poor limbs used to cramp, and prickle, and (in- « 1*1* whf-n thev went to slecn!—how our side used i
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Lorain Republican
Elyria, Ohio, US
Wed, Jul 03, 1844
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