OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 2

OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— Saturday evening's Post contained an Auckland item of news in which >a Dr. Herz condemns the carriage of Now Zealand children. Anyone, with eyea to see, who watches tho children on our stroetjj, must agree with the doctor. In spite of physical drills and our cadet sys tern our education authorities have something to learn in this direction. All otforta in tho direction of improving the carriage of pupils aro rendered nugatory by tho arrangement of even tho mo-t modern of our schoolroom*. (Jo into the class rooms, and you will find that, for the most part, owing to the shape of tlip rooms and their cyowdnd state, pupih aro kept seated throughout tho day. They got weary of the famo position for hours at a stretoh', and thig conduces to lolling and lopping and generally unhygienic attitudes. Were there space many of the leeson could ba taken on tho floor, ttaiiding and lolling propensities could bo chocked. Most of our class rooms aro aa nearly as possible square in shape, when they should be oblong. Ono half of each class room should be occupied by desks and the other half be freo for lessons of which writing or drawing did not form a part. Till we get architects who placo 1 the well-being of pupib beforo strictly arohiteotural considerations, and education authorities who know their business, wo shall, I fear, cry in vain for an improved carriage among our children — I am, etc., ■™- „ PARENT. Wellington, 26th February, 1908.

James L. Williams, a hatmakor, of Danbury, Conn., and his wife have occupied tho samo houso, takon their meals at tho same table, and haro been in each other's company almost continually for five years without speaking a word to each other. Fivo years ago (says tho Express, New York correspondent) they quarrelled, and Williams made a vow that ho Mould ne\er again tpeak to his. wife lie has kept it religiously^ and Mr?- WUlirm ii sow suing /or, a, divorea.