| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. tieizei nsroiRTia: :d.z5_:k:ot.5_ B-aosnsrEiR. 3 Local News. All well. Our attendence is now fifty. Examinations arc over. Arc you glad ? This weather isn't doing a thing to our wood-pile. Guilder Gunderson oiled the hall-floors one night last week. The little ones have had some pleasant games of “ pillow-dex" lately. Christopher Anderson and Murdoch McMurchy recite under Mr. Seaton in history. Leister Williams and Earl McAdam are getting so they play quite a game of chess. Mr. Fred Henion, a friend of Earl McAdam's, visited the school one day last week. Hon. A. O. Whipple, treasurer of our Board, has gone east for a three weeks’ trip. Leister Williams was remembered with new shoes and mittens from home last week. Last Sunday Birth Hanson's father came for him and took him home to spent the afternoon. One of the pupils on being asked what “ M. C.'' stood for, replied, “ Merry Christmas.” There will be another story-telling entertainment soon, and the pupils are busy preparing stories. Rosella Wager received a letter from home Thursday. She doesn’t want to go home now. Since our recent examinations several classes are rejoicing over the fact that they have new books. The last issue of the Record was a double one and contained a picture and description of a steamboat. The pleasant weather continues. The rink is in good condition and the pupils are enjoying fine skating. Lulu Helms and George Kreidt will call on the dentist this afternoon. Both have teeth that are hurting. Last Tuesday Elsie Iverson was made glad by receiving a package from her aunt who lives in St. Paul. Ida Carlson received a package from home one day last week. It contained some useful and acceptable articles. Elifie Smith’a brother, who went west, is now visiting her brothers who live in Iloquiam and Damon, Washington. Mr. Bangs has re-classified some of the Sunday classes so as to give some classes more time in the study of the Bible. Sunday and Wednesday two large engines passed through here. They were on their way to the Montana central division. The eleventh of this month Mrs. Wager brought her daughter, Rosella, here to the school. They live in Forest River. Three of our pigs were butchered one day last week, and when dressed weighed 97b pounds. We now have nineteen pigs. Ethel and Mabel Grady thought about their sister, Jessie, on the twentieth of this month because it was her ninth birthday. Earl McAdam got a set of " pillow' dex ” from his father last week. He bursted two of the balloons by filling them u'ith too much air. Misses Wright and Morris and Messers. Marcosson and Seaton were entertained by Mrs. Kelley at her home last Saturday evening. A few days ago Christopher Anderson broke one of his skates. Martin Engen had two pairs, and he kindly lent one pair to Christopher. Clarence and Mabel Sharp have received w'ord that their brothers were sick with the measles. We hope they have recovered by this time. Last Thursday Louisa Ritz received a package from her sister who lives in Montana. Upon opening it she found a pretty pen-holder and a pocket-book. Last week Gilman Nordhougen received a bundle of newspapers from home. He has had two calls from his brother, who is attending Rev. Aaberg’s school. Last Tuesday Professor Haig, his wife and two children took tea with Mr. and Mrs. Bangs and enjoyed the slereopticon exhibition which was given that evening. George Kreidt is our bookbinder. He will attend to the binding of new books and the repairing ol old ones. He w'ill also help sling type and rnn the press when needed. The advance agent of the Alexander Bull Concert Co. was in town this week, trying to make arrangements for a concert here. Our Lindeman is a second or third cousin of Alexander Bull. Several of our children have noticed that the mumps have reached the colored department of the Kentucky School and are wondering if they are there to give the " glad hand " to Mr. Marcosson. Lindeman Bull now knows more about his ancestors in Norway than he did before. He has received a letter from his mother, giving him quite an insight into the past history of his father and grandfather. The boys of the Kendall School, at Washington, D. C\. have sent Miss Morris’ class a roll of illustrated papers to be used in the school-room. The class has filled their scrap-books with them and also acknowledged the receipt of the same in a letter. Supt. Bangs and Prof Haig, of the city schools, arc arranging a series of five lectures to begin about the first of February. They will be illustrated by the stereopticun with from sixty to seventy-five views with each lecture. The lectures will be given in the opera house in town and after all expenses are paid, whatever surplus there is, will be equally divided between the Y. M. C. A. of this city and the library of our school. The following is a list of subjects: (i) Alaska and the Klondike. (2) Nansen’s voyage to the North Pole. (3) Ben-I-Iur. (4) Cuba and its struggles. (5) Hawaii —its customs and people. CHILDERN’S POSTURES. Continued trom First Page, to the right by force of gravitation; but to prevent this, the vertical muscles on the left side, contract to draw the spine into an erect position and so preserve equilibrium. This extra exercise of strength thus placed upon the left muscles, accordingly strengthens them; and in time they become stronger than their fellows on the opposite side. Consequently when the spine is at rest, no books or other weights on the right hand, these left muscles because of their greater strength (and strength in muscle economy always means contraction!) curve the spine, hollowing it, of course, on the left side, convexing it on the right. These are but a few examples common enough among school-children. And what shall be done about it? 1 do not know. 1 shall say first of all chairs and desks of the right size for each child; second, double sets of school-books, one for the home, one for the school-room. Third, I cannot say; school-boards, universal demand, and general intelligence must answer that if they will!—M. L. Pratt in Education.
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