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our poor limbs used to cramp, and prickle, and tingle, when they went to sleep!—how our side used to ache, and wc couldn’t catch a long breath '—how round shouidered and out of shape we grew !—how wrelcbed and miserable we were !—and ho tv rejoiced when the old school house burnt up! Can't you remember it as well as if it happened only yesterday ? You see that we have only pencilled this off—have used uo coloring—and have even left some prominent points untouched. Rut here it is, and schoo^houscs, as they used to be, were very much as they are now, tiono of all our boasted improvement a bavins; yet been applied to them- ’1 he ill cotMtuction of houses alluded to above,together with I he restraint and confinement—n mounting in many instances to absolute tyranny—imposed ujxm children by teachers, ate fertile sources of pcrrna-♦wnt disease* and a lasting hatred tu school houses Onceraore* every school house should have at least half an acre of laud attached tu it for a play ground, a well of good water, wood house, and such other ihings as are necessary fur the comfort and convenience of the litile community who spend the most important period of their lives there. In these ic-sjiects school ought to he independent of tin ir neighbors tn this lot shade trees should be plan-red fur a protection against the heals and colds of summer and winter. Who has not experienced the withering influence that a school house placed in the Hatching sun, and within the limits of a dusty road, has had upon him f One single shade tree near a vchool House would prove aguaidiun angel to its inmates, and none can calculate the immense advuw-iagf-s, moral and refining, to be derived from a sufficient number of them. The ancients were more than half right in their belief of Wood Nymphs and t5«'dJesses, and old Plain proved himself an acute and enrrtet observer of human (youthin!) nature when he nfTide the throve his school house—his ■Aradenms' sacred sh-«dc,” Nor should a flower garden and house plants on any account be omitted. A writer has beautifully observed, Hurt “Floweis :ire the alphabet of un^ js, with which they write on hill and dale mysteiious truths/* Who has riot tv\t the gen He and salutary inttntnce that the cul-tie uiuii of 3 owe is and an assuci.ilicm with them produces 3 tt would break up Ur% rude and romping hnbit* into which our school girls fill, and they would etutifolly spend their reress hours in training a beautiful and loved li »wer. Ruvs, too, would become gen He, easy, affable, under the teachings of these silent but lovely instructors. Now, when scholars are let out of a school house hot and
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Lorain Republican
Elyria, Ohio, US
Wed, Jul 03, 1844
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