CHILDREN'S CORNER.

Evening Star, Issue 14963, 24 August 1912, Page 4

CHILDREN'S CORNER.

A GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS TO BOYS. The Governor of Tasmania (Sir Harry Barron), accompanied by the Director of Education (Mr A. Williams), recently visited the Adelaide High School. Sir Harry was much interested in the practical nature of 'the. instruction, and contrasted it with that of.his own school days at Woolwich, where all instruction w..s given through lectures alone. .In the streets of London, he said, he once overheard a cabman remark, in all sincerity! as Queen Victoria drove bv : " Don't the" old ,-irl Took well." This was the cabman's way of expressing his lovo for his Queen, and he urged the students 'to love, and cherish their mothers, so that in time' free me they could say of her : " Don't .-the. old .lady'look well.". When Actirig,,Go vermr of. Malta some years ago he .liad .entertained the King of Siani, .and the.iattc... h::d snid : " Wherever you find Britisher: you 'find them straight." He wishoc the students to remeinber that, at Britishers, they eliould always bt b-.neat and " true. In illu&tratioi His Excellency told a story of De-r Hole, whose father was very strict. One dav when a little bov Dean Hole hj < kicked his nurse and spat. When brought before his father, the lad was "straight." "Well, daddv," said he, " the .-, devil temoted me.to" kick, but the. spitting-was t im-'cuvn idei." He congratulated the -fate, the director, and tho masters on /nvinLt.a .school as good as any he had seen j in other parts of the world. In his' Own State (Tasmania) thev had nothing like it. They were trying, however, to get sometbino; of the kind," becjuse" they recognised that schools like that cave boys and qirls an epporttrnitv of developing them-. selves. They all had tho hunting -spirit—the spirit to secure what was difficult' t tp .-:<■ t. Out-e when fox hunting a Spaniard , f;--.u£rht the fox, and bvou.trht it to hirq .', ir. j Harry), .supposing that he wanted to "eat ' it. but captured in that way the fox was ' no good to him, for it was his without J trouble. Trouble gave them the oppor- j tunity to realise what thev hoped for; hard work and determination to succeed | would overcome all difficulties and help them to aft -in their wishes. He was pleased with- the pleasant faces -of the :e.uiers, and oontr.-.stcd them with those of his own school, wdiere the boys were flogged upon very little urovocatidn. In fie armv ?ome years ago men were; flogged for even mild offences ; now discipline was secured bv other means, both in the schools and in the armv, where'sympttthy and kindness on the part of teacher-'Sftd ol'licpr secured harmony and order. The ! good teacher, like the food officer, showed J those under his control, firstly, that he I knew better than they what to do, and, sc?,-ndlv that he desired to extend, his | so-m.pathotic help to them. All needed ! discipline, and a coed motto for school j life was : "Bv " obedience, learn to j command." To the students he would say : I "You have as aood a school as T have 1 fc-n; stick up for it, for your 'Tate, for : !'-■* Commonwealth, and. above all, for the ! British Emnire. Be straight, and then j von can lauiih at the whole world."

SCHOOL HUMOR. The Tads of. a country school were being examined in the gender, etc., of nouns, and, on the whole, they answered very creditably. Presently the inspector took the sentence "Hark! how the lark sings!" and asked one of the rustics to give the gender of tho word "lark." " Masculine, sir," answered the lad. "No," said the gentleman, "you are wrong this time. ' Lai k' is a common gender. Surely you should have known that!" "No," persisted the lad, "it's masculine, sir; for I know it's only the cock what sings!" ENGLISH BOY WHO BECAME A MILLIONAIRE. Joseph Lowthian Hudson, a Detroit (u.S.A.) millionaire, died at Worthing, England, while paying his first visit to his native land after nearly 60 years. He left Gateshead as a boy of 9, and began work at 12, doing any odd jobs, and for many years handed to his widowed mother jvery "cent he earned. Gradually he became one of the foremost, merchant princes in America, the hands employed it his various stores, and _ by the Hudson Motor Car Company, which he founded, numbering nearly 6,000. The whole of his huge income, apart from a small portion required for his own personal use, for years has been devoted to charitable and Other philanthropic objects. j LADY TREE'S STORIES. j . Lady Tree, at a recent meeting of th | Ladies' Association Work Guild at tli Queen's Hospital for Children (London), appealed to those present that they should love little children whether they were naughty or good She had heard of a little boy who .had said that what hewould really like to ask of God was: "Love mo when I'm naughty." Anothei story Lady Tree related was that of a (little girl,'who was heard to pray: "0 i Lord, keep me good—even better than 1 , am." j A DIFFICULT TEST. I At a recent school examination for girls I in France the candidates were required to ' write an imaginary conversation between a cuckoo, a nightingale, and a donkey on the vocal qualities of each.