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Manawatu Herald, 5 February 1898, Page 4

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN AMERICA. ' They Date Baok to the Settlement of Mm-' sttchosetts and Connecticut. Tho or'gin of the publio school aystem' of America dates baok to the time of % the settlement of Massachusetts and Conneoticut. In tho vory beginning of their his* tory tbeso colonists mado provision for the establishment of schools in every town, and parents were required to send their children to them or educate them otherwise. At first these schools were not en-; tiroly free — that is, those who could pay; woro required to do so— but the evil of Bepnrating tbo children Into paupers and ratepayers In time became apparent, and shortly after the colonies became states the school taxes were inoreased and the schools were mnde free. Tho ozamplo of these colonists was quickly followed by other New England colonies, but in other sections of the country schools were either private orparoohial for mony years, ozcept in oases where a free school was established and supported by private beneficence. When the vast , territories west of the Allegheny mountains came into the possession of the Unit-, ed States, every sixteenth section in each congressional township was set aside by tho government as a nucleus of a publio school fqpd. Later this was inoreased to two sections for the benefit of tho newer states. The southern states were the last to em* brnco the free school system in its entirety, having done so only since tho close of the civil war. Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Nevada, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, California, Arizona, Wyoming and Washington have compulsory educational laws. Toilet of Ancient Egyptian Ladles. Ladies wore their own hair long, often plaited into tresses in a triplo plait and fastened together at tho ends by a woolen string of the same color, kept In position COMB AND PAINT BOXES. at tho sides of the head by hair studs of Ivory or porcelain, and hairpins of Ivory, wood or gold. JBands of gold and ornamental fillets, with a lotus bud falling over the forehead, were very general, and also light veils fringed with gold wore worn. The eyes and eyebrows were enriched I With dark lines of kohl or stibium, made ■ of antimony, blaok ozide of manganese, i lead, black powder of burnt almonds or j frankincense. The boxes for keeping theso various eye paints in arc of many shapes and kinds. Somo of them are in bunches of flvo cylinders, ono to keep the littlo stylus in, and one for each quarter of tho year. Other 3 are of wood, porcelain, ivory or glass in the shapo of littlo columns or images of various deities, etc Tho nails and finger tips were dyed red with henna, mado of the pounded leaves of the lawsonia. From some of the tombs at Thebes come mysterious little stibium bottles of ChiI nese porcelain. There is considerable doubt I as to the date and history of these, as the I earliest recorded mention of porcelain I manufacture in China seems to be about I the second century B. C, and these little ' I bottles appear to havo had a much earlier I dftte than this ascribed to them. , ■ A Fabulous Race of Dwarfs. I The pygmies, in whose existence the an* I oients believed, were supposed to be about ■ 2>i feet in height and In constant warfare I with their enemies, the cranes. By some ■ writers they are placed at the month of the ■ Nile, and by others as Inhabiting the re- ■ gions of theThuleand as living in jubI terranean dwellings on the east side of the ■ Ganges. Every schoolboy is familiar with ■ the stories of this fabulous race of dwarfs, ■ especially their antics with Hercules. Ex- ■ slorations in Africa bave thrown light B npon the pygmy myth by revealing a race ■ of very small human beings In the mownB talnous country of southeast Africa. They ■ ate called Obongos and are about 4K feet ■In height A race of very small men was ■ also discovered in Africa In 1868-71, none ■ of whom exceeded 4 feet 10 inches In ■ height Their peculiarities are dispropor- ■ tlonately large heads, peoullar shoulder ■ blades and abdomena of enormous size. * H 33i« Second Day of thm Week. H Monday derives its designation from the Bjßomans, who called It Lun» Dies, or day Hof the moon. In most European countries has been held as sacred to the moon and a corresponding name— in German, HiMontag; in French, Lundl; Danish, MonHdag. The English word comes from the Anglo-Saxon, Monandaeg. H St. Nicholas In Holland. In Holland St. Nicholas comes driving white horse and not a reindeer. On eve the children fill their little with oats and place them on the These oats are for the good saint's horee. Xn the morning the oats are In their place are found toys and __________ ___■> Wild Camels Xn Arlsxma. _H There are some herds of wild camels In __Bhe desert of Arizona. They were brought _____b this country nearly 60 years ago by Jef_____BMon Davis, when be was secretary of war. ___Do thought they would be useful for the __Hhny in the western deserts, but the civil coming on they were suffered to run "Cleanliness Next to Godliness." __H The familiar quotation, "Cleanliness Is ___Hext to godliness," is from John Wesley's _____Knety-second sermon "On Dress." The _____fea is likewise to be found in Bacon's |____tAdvancement of Learning," and Bart____gtt tvaoeb it back to Phinehas ben Gair, a ____tebrew commentator on the Bible.