The King and Queen strongly dept:s cated _ the hilling of birds for him trimming when informed that a cerlbS milliner had contracted for 10,000 m'|| gulls’ wings to fill London and Parlfl, orders. Mi An English instructor is reorgani-f* ing the Korean army. 1 For sheer lack of intelligence, snCj school teachers have no equals, dirty practice—which used to be comw among children—of spitting on a and cleaning it with the band is iC 1 - allowed to continue although the majoriitL of teachers do insist on the provisioiifejfi slate-rags and sponges. But even msVijK reprehensive prao-ices are directencouraged by teachers. In the lotteL, class of one Canterbury public school teacher keeps what is technically kno»|f as a “ soother, 1 ? or “ dummy.” £p r tt| benefit of the ignorant, it may be dl plained that a soother is an indiarubt*jl| teat, fitted with a bone ring-guard, givs|| to babies to suck and chew. If a chiff cries in class, as most children do times, this teacher stands him, or h<* ; s out in the middle of the floor, and him, or her, the soother to euck. It i«| form of punishment both dirtv dangerous, calculated to spread con .throat and mouth diseases with cerUiDif.% and rapidity. The dummy, traveilj&S ing the round of a score of mouths itlp the course of the day, may collect i*M germs of consumption, cancer and equally fatal disease*. Which is why this graph opened with a comment oh tb| lack of intelligence displayed by bob* teachers—Lyttelton ’limes.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 170, 25 February 1902, Page 4
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