CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 29 May 1914, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

A WROXO SYSTJCM. I'ossibly in) good can come, and absolutely only evil can come, from lmrding 1 little children into ill-ventilated, badly lighted, ami poorly equipped rooms; while no intellectual galin t'lin possiu.y come tn. the nation from the undue incitement of childish brains, involved in Hie 'pedagogic effort to demyii«.tiute in a wholesale fashion the advantages of every passing whimsy. l''or what are the results? We still have great scholars - -nsiiij/; the term in its broadest sense--but we alwa;,s 'had them. We. have a wider education, of course, but docs anybody ever siii"r<\s|. that those to whom opportunity was available fifty or a hundred wall's a.eo wei'e inferior in all that education is supposed to uccomplish to tlieir descendants of ln-diiV:"A ponderous Stale service, in which devoted teachers are harassed bv constantl,' increasing demands they know to be .e.:'ncra!lv prcposi,.ri>;i-\ and are breaking in heaiih ov.'in;; to the ceaseless drain anon t:heir energies; and a pifiabl" multitude ~! wearied chihlren. -nblly eveiied to i imccnl rale l,ev»nd ihcir -tienoib in siiuiii;.' room-,: is life lexical j-e.-ult of worshipping where we should have mastered, of making of popular education a fetish, cruel and 'la-

potio, where wo should have had a servant kindly and true. —Auckland Herald.

VALUE OF SALAD OIL. Wo English folk homily realiso the wonderful properties of salad oil, says Mrs. Orman Cooper, in "Everyday Accidents and ailments.' It is a most useful kitchen physiic. Ju that distressing and sudden malady, oroup, a teuspoonful of salad oil mixed with another of vinegar works wonders. It may he administered freely, as often as wished. Oil lubricates tho JabiM-img 'throat, while the acid of vinegar outs away phlegm. As a laxative salad oil is very useful. A spoonful of it instead of castor oil is a favorite nporienl for very young children Adults oniiiy take i't rejmlaTly with benefit, and willhout nausea, if it bo kept in a tlboirougtlify liquid/ wtatc II think most of us would do wisely if wo more frequently followed thie example sot *is by Ife-'Kliiinwuix and othta- Indiana, who nib uhoir children regularly with it to keep out the cold and to keep off the «un. In severe weather—especially in easterly winds—it is very well to >ruil> a child's chest and back every morning with salad oiL It certainly acts as a breastplate and keeps off ohills.