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It’s getting more beautiful in Rappahannock by the minute. Laat week the county was resplendent' in apple blossoms and dogwood. Every week it's magnificent with the glory of the land. The green fields are studded with fat blade cattle, or the color scheme may be dark red and white on a field of green. Sides of the hills are striped in green and earth redbrown.
It's more thankful each day we people'of Rappahannock be. We - live, where there’s beauty and peace. Perhaps our woilc sometimes seems hard, but after an. honest day’s toil, no man in Rappahannock needs any fool invention of a synthetic fog-horn to put him to sleep! ><
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‘‘The classroom of 200 A.D. will be built around microphones into which students will say their lessons, Prof. C. H. Mercer of Daihousie University, Halifax, N. S., forecast recently. According to The Canadian Press, the professor said the tape.recorders would play back the pupils' speeches and the class would criticise them.
“Students will use swivel chairs, Professor Mercer declared. and_ there will be no blackboards. Tape recorders will recite the day’s French lessons and teachers, freed from the ‘curse’ of blackboards, will devote their time to watching the attentiveness of their pupils.
“The professor has much faith in the tape recorder and the microphone. ‘The future,’ he said, ‘has great things in store for these gadgets.’ ”
Well, well! My, my!
This all sounds fine, but I'm willing to bet (1) youngsters will still manage to play hookey and go fishing the first warm spring days, (2) the first .graders, just learning to write, will manage to find a piece of chalk to write their newly-learned “dirty words” on sidewalks or walls, (3) little boys will scorn little “girls” as unbearable, and five years later completely change their minds, (4) little boys’ pockets will show a rusty bolt, a very dead frog, two fishing worms, a piece of string or twine, a blue glass marble, a wad of second-hand chewing-gum, etc., and (6) little girls will still wear the grown-ups’ long dresses clop around in high-healed shoes to play tea party.
‘Tis true, times have changed. Students don’t put boards over the school chimney to smoke the school out, and there are no pigtails to dip in the ink-wells or tie to the desks. A trip to school and a confidential talk will probably disclose the modern version of these pranks.
1 believe I’m thankful I’m not
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