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TriE OMATTA DAILY HEE: SUNDAY, MAKCIT 27, lf04. CREAT TASK OF TEACHERS Importance of Stuly n tha W-yi, Habits and Tend.noiei o 'Lei -dividual Ch Id. DANGER OF DEVELOPING NERV0U3 TRAITS Volatile Address DrllTrrril hy Dr. a. Weir Mitchell to th Tftcktri I (! Pnbll Srbools of Philadelphia. Th first of a aorlts of torture arranged by and for the p-inrlpils and teichcrs of the public schema of I'hlla'lf Iphla was de livered hy Iir. B. Wtur Mitchell, famous loth . a n nrurnl'clst mnl author. His subject arn "The Xurvuus Diseases of Children." Dr. Mltihill an lil, In part: Tear aft-r yir children In multitudes come to jou, pass through the school, acatter, fulfill their lives, marry, die. All through their varied carpers thoy carry more or leaa the character record of their j echo"! life; mini you murk and v.iluably modify for life; Home you cnont Impress, I At all event, It Is a trust vital to the future of our people. It la ao easy to deM with It unjuatly In my own profusion, which, too, In a way, la educational, the long years of labor oaalfy tjia onnar'once of some men, end for othera tho yenra which brine; experi ence and wisdom. Its child, bring, too, an Increasing tondcrneea of conscience, a larger view of professional obligation, a feeling that to keep tyrat with duty la the flneat moral punctuality. For me patients are Individuals, and there la nothing to their lives, ways, habits of character which In Illness It Is unimportant to Itnow. With you It should be the game, or much the aame. This astounding fact of In dividuality never loeea for mo an Interest which la almost fascination. For you there are thousands of children at various agea. Every one of them la diatlnct and different from the other. The ordinary human being responds In well known ways to medical agencies. Then come tho exceptional people, and at one you have repeated the lesson that medicine la an art, not a science; that the doctor who falla to Interrogate Individual had better go and measure tape or be a car conductor. There are teachers In whom tho grouped capacltlea which represent educa tional talent rise almost to the level of genius, and there are the naturalists of pedagogy for whom character, tempera ment and mental pecullarttlea appear to have no accrete. If you have not this gift of being an observer by the grace of Ood, reat assured that you can become aurTl clently competent by wakeful, steady cul tivation of the art of seeing and hearing what your senses report of the busy little creature In your care. atadr Dall Children. Tou find In every class a proportion of very dull children. They may be willing may try to work. They merely cannot keep up. A smaller number of them fall back, only to fall again. Of these will be a atlll smaller fraction who can neither reason clearly nor remember even moder ately well. Are they only dull, or U their mental mechanlara hopelessly below the average T Tou, I suppose, are to decide If they should be relegated to the school for the Imperfect. I do not envy you the task of deciding. They may be underfed. Who hall decide T Can the underfed atudy aa well aa the well fed canT I doubt It. There must be In every large group of children, especially notable at the age of adolescence, aome who become gradually Inert, dull, Una capable. Any such sudden or gradual al teration In mind or memory ought to exolte your most kindly attention. Before you conclude auch effect to be essentially and primarily of the mind or gan lone, be sure, through the help of ome physician, that It la not the eyes, throat or digestion or evil hablta that are responsible. If these children must be rele gated to the merely slow-minded, the pe culiar, the mildly eccentric, there should be for these In each large acbool dlatlnot Clasaea. I do hot mean that the eohools must pro vide for the higher grade of the really de fective. For them you require what I have alluded to, special achoola, with manual training and method not needed In schoola for the healthy-minded or even the merely dull or peculiar. , For both type the sys tem demanded require unuaual pedagogic capacity and power to Individualise. For them the examination are terrible teat, and Indeed these period for many 'other are the cauae of bringing out de- fecta and maturing mischief. They are the cause of much nervousness and hysteria and the like In the women's college and are injurious to those who are both ambl tlous and emotional. Borne fifteen years ago a great deal too Much was exacted In the Girls' High school. Mow it ia now I do not know, nor d I know If In any grades too much Is required. I know well that In our universi ties fifteen to seventeen hours a week of lecture and study suffice for the average man. It I pur farce. Once out of the universities and In the medical profession they are compelled to atudy fifty or alxty Hour a week. St. Vitas' Disc. Many year aao I undertook a atnrtv In my clinics the cauaea of the disorder anown aa cnorea, or Bt. vttur dance. It turned out that weather had a hrh. months of atorma that the chorea curve also rose abruptly at the period of ex amtnatlon and - their time of nnrnirk When, therefore, at these season a or at any other thne, you observe a child be coming awkward In movements, twitching, letting books fall, It would be well to eend the child home, or at leaat to call atten tion to the fact. And thle la to be done not only In the Intereata of the child! but becauee other children In their tendency to become auto matically Imitative are apt by a kind of mental contagion to acquire aome form of the Alaorder. I have over and over Been It 'spread In the schools and give rise to much annoyance. It needa long rest from mind work, for at Its worst It lessena the memory and the power of attention, ex cltea remark and disturbs the speech. It la eapily confounded with a minor malady from wHch I separated It many vrnra Ofro. This leeer trouble la now fcnpwn since I wrote about It as the rmblt ernsm, or habit chorea. It Is ' not true rbore.-i. Ton will scf It often. A .'Mid wlr.ki Incesnntlv. or Fhrtipp his sVmMei a, or (witches the face. For a few days one art of auch movements prevails; when (hat rtops then another IicrIiis, It ge(s well and rnrely needs treatment, and the trou ble does not usually require a doctor to tell It from chorea. Sometimes, If It be very bad, the eyes are at fault. Remember that! You will ol.Ferve that a cert. tin small number of girls, especially about examination time, become nervous, cry easily and are apt, If older, to be hyeterlcal. Here la a chance for kindness, a little gentle, helpful talk alone, leppona In the need of self-restraint end self-government, anything but scold ing or harsh words. And this reminds me to aay a word about the fldfreta which get onto the nerves of aome teachers. Healthy children are normally as rest less aa klttena. Ood made them ao. Shut them up, keep them seated and they move uneasily, shuffle their fet, stare about them. Blind children are the worst, and also blind adults. Phase of Epilepsy . Now and then a child In the eChool may have a fit. If It be a boy, It la, aa a rule, epilepsy. If seen In a nervous, over worked girl, It may be merely a hysterical convulsion. In either case it Is apt to alarm othera. and It la beat to have the child at once removed from the room. In neither case ia there need to be alarmed. The hysteria passes. The epilepsy Is more grave, and It la pretty surely epilepsy If the child frothe at the mouth, bites the tongue and enda In atupor. It la not always eaay to be attre which It la. Both cases may need other care than yours, but eplleptlca do not die In fits. Sometimes a child, while reciting, stares, ceaes to speak, Is uneonseloua for a moment. At home It passes unregarded and unnoticed. It la what we call minor epilepsy, and you will aervn the child by calling attention to thla serious disorder. X come laat to the subject of head aches, and here you may be of the utmost aervlee, for headaches are too commonly regarded aa of no moment In the homea of auch children aa make up the largest P,art of your claases. It la rare nowadays to find nervoua sys tems wrecked by Inveterate headachea and vertigo, but thirty year ago this resultant disaster was common. At that time I had the good luck to tell my profesaion how a large per cent of headachea waa due to bad eye, and to have wrestled with auch a common evil aa headache and taught how aurely to deal with It. I count It a one of th happiest memories of a lifelong con teat with disease. Sometimes Imperfect eye cause vertigo, or such confusion of mind aa makes atudy Impoasible. The child geta credit for being stupid or Idle, and then a pair of glasses may make the differential diagnosis be tween laxy vice and studious virtue. Nervou children, Iay children, and ome who are spoiled at home are quite clever little mallgnerers, and will affect symptoms and simulate sickness. I hardly know how to treat It. It needs kindness, firmness, and I quite too long a chapter for my time. CONDITION OF OMAHA TRADE BELIGIOIS. New Tork now haa a Mafcnnt-lA nf i Syrian Qreek orthodox church, and Is no longer a mere ecclesiastical appendage of me Aieuuun isianus- The Young Men' Chrlatlan association of South Rend. Ind.. has received a donation pf J.TAOuO from Btudebaker Bros, for a new ouiiaing. Rev. L. S. Stevens, for twenty-two years rector Of Zlon church. Pontlac. Mich., has reklgned active work and has been creeated recior emeritus or me parish. U I announced that aji army of 5,000 Zlonlte will Invade Sale Lake City, Utah, next August. Three of the chief officers of Zlon have visited Utah recently to survey uieir cumempiaiea neiu or acuon. Blahop Vincent of the Methodist Eplsco- Sal church will soon return to this coun ty, hla four year of Episcopal avpervlslon of the Methodist Episcopal churches in Europe ending tins month. Bishop Whitehead and fifteen of the clergy of Pittsburg, Allegheny, and their suburbs, have addressed a letter to their cciuret-ticna urging that church people hould not countenance the intrusion of grand opera into the solemn devotion of holy week. Bishop Greer says: "I have learned more lessons of courage, patience, bravery and splendid heroism from the poor of thl city (New York) than from any other claas. Whatever you do, don't go among the poor in a spirit or patronage notning i ao deadly."' Rev. Dr. William A. Robinson, pastor of the First Congregational church of Middle town, N. Y., surprised his congregation by handing in his resignation after thirty nine years' service In the ministry. Ho said be waa 64 years old and as army officer were retlreed at that age he thought he would retire. Thirteen denomination, embracing 800 churches, have worked as one in Pittsburg, Pa., during the lam month or mere. Seven teen of the most successful evangelists of the eountry have been conducting meetings under (he leadership of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. Two hundred uniformed police men of Pittsburg and Allegheny attended religious service in BIJou theater. Many city officials and scores of newsboys were also present Vjjf BETTER W - T MADE T Not So If any En; art in the City, but Order Buiineat Ver Brisk. MERCHANTS BUYING FALL GOODS FREELY i Sharp Advaace la Price of Robber Footwear aad Another Oae As noeaeed for Jeae General Market Strong. Spring business waa in very aatlsfactory condition last week In practically all lines. There were possibly not aa many mer cliunts In tne city aa have been here at eorne previous times, but that was to be expected, owing to the faot that the bulk of the (1. y giMHls for spring are now soul, and It is the dry go ds merchants who come to the city nios( frequently, orders through traveling men and direct from merchants have be n very liberal, and Jobbers have no complaints whatever to make. Ketallnre are Inclined to clamor more or lews for warm weather, but that la always the cnae at this time of the year, as merchants al ways seem to expect settled warm weather before It is time for It. Jobbers who Hre offering fall line? r.rw more lhan plcaaud with the success they have had tip to the present time. With practically no exceptions retailers are buy ing more freee.ly than they were n year ago at this time. Aa a general thing re laium have cleaned out their stocks of winter goods fully ns well as usual, which ptita them In a position to buy freoly for next season, and aS the tendency of prices Is upward rather than downward they naturally are buying more freely and at an earlier date than usual. The market situation continues In a pood healthy condition, and a number of Import ant advances have gone Into effect on staple lines. Those In a position to know say that tho outlook for continued firm markets for some time to come was never better. When that Is the case It Is much easier for both buyers and sellers to handle their trade, and that ia one reason w hv wholesalers and mitnnficturera are looking for a guod, steudy business fur aome time to come. , Collections are reported na being only fair. They have been In worse condition snd they have also heen better. They are not so slow, however, aa to cause any un easiness. llnose Trade Not So Brisk. There wore comparatively few visiting merchants on the Omaha dry goods market last weeK. v nolesalera, though, have been expecting a falling off in the number of bueis lor some lime past, as the seaain opened unusually early this year, and for tiiat reason should have closed early. As a matter of fact, though, (he demand has miu on longer than uaul.i and Jobbers re port their Bales of spring goods much heavier than a year ago. Order trade, Loth throuuh traveling salesmen and direct irom mcrcnunts. continues very liberal, When It comes to advance business for fall wholesalers all have a good word to bay. Bume of them, In fact, report their aalea so. far about double what they were a year ago. 1 raveling talesmen are ull on tne rouu with their fall suinples, and are much encouraged with the success thoy have had. Thev are selling laree Quantities of blankets, shaker flannels, comets, mot tled llaunels, hosiery, underwear, shirts and duck goods. There liuve been no Particular chanires In the market for cottou goods during the week under review and none are looked for at the present time. The advances from me oia uusis nave Deen very slight on nearly all lines. In this connection a. loo ill Jobber said that checked Klnghams have advanced only In the last ntieen months, lancy ana staple prints only ftc In tne last year, while print cloths are nearly lo pur yard higher than a year ago. Ticks and denims have been advanced more thun other lines of cotton goods, due no doubt in the case of denims to the tact that the use of duck and denims cloth seems to have Increased each year, while the production of those fabrics ia not greater than formerly. iu got aeuvenes or. staple lines l now the greatest problem with Jobbers, and It is not thought that there will be any im provement in tnat una tor some lime to come. Not Many Changes la Groceries, Wholesale grocers reDort the demand for their line of aoode as bum exceutionaliv good for this season of the year, and better tnan a year ago. There nave not been many important market changes, however, but prices are hrm all along the line, with but lew exceptions. In dried trults the demand la reported very active, with great pressure to sell on the part of Ureaon Drune holders, but on almost every other line of dried fruits the inarKst na Deen in tne sellers favor. Apricot and peaches, in particular, are in a very strong position, with the tend ency of price upward. The same ia true of evaporated apple and raspberries fuiui i i or state. Apples snow an advThce of V&tac per lb. In the last ten days and raspberries are held by a few shippers at an advance of ao per lb. over quotations ruling a week ago. The demand lor canned goods has Im proved from week to week, and particularly bus that been true Of tomatoes and canned fruits. The price of corn is so hiich and the supply so limited that the goods are moving out In a small way. The demand is Improving for salmon and it is thought that the recent advance will be sustained on pink fish, while trading is active at full prices on flrst-clafcs red Alaska. There has been no change In the market on either tea or coffee during the week unuer leview. Advance In Prtoe of Rubbers. The advance In the Drloe of rubber foot. wear amounting to 74 per cent, which went into enect tne nrst o: lost week, was a sur prise to the trade In general. Jobbers were expecting on advance the first of June, but they had ho intimation that there would be an auvance before that time, at teast not without notice. Another advance of 6 per oent la being announced to take effect June 1. The reason given for these sharp ad vances Is the continued rise in the price of crude rubber, which has forced manufac- wm. iu-mu v fii.w kiicji iwm ur lull uicii plants at a loss. A great many retailers nave laaen me aavise oi joooers ana nave already placed their orders for fall rubbers. More of them. In fact, have done that this yer than ever before, and they, of course, are now In a much better position than those wno nave not bought, it is expected now th. practically every merchant Mill protect himself against the advancedm nounced for June 1 and traveling men for that reason expect to book an Immense amount of business during tne next few weeks. Immediate business In the rubber line la naturally quiet. There have been no gen eral rains as yet and until snrlng rains do set in Jobbers do not expect much business I or immediate snipment. In the leather goods line trade Is very fair. More stormy weather would un doubtedly belp the trade to ctuito on ex tent, but still Jobbers, as a rule, are well natlsfleu with the trade they have expert enced up to the present time. Tan Bhoea have been selling to aome extent thla aea sou, but Jobbers say the demaad out through the country will be rather limited. In the larger cities they will be worn to some extent in the higher priced lines, but not much trade is expected in the cheaper class of goods. Hardware Active aad Steady, The hardware market has shown very lit tle change during the week under review. Prices are firm on practically all lines, but there have been no quotable changes (bat are worthy of mention. Not only that, but Jobbers look for a good healthy market tin some time to come with very few fluctua tions in either direction. So far a a trade la concerned Jobbers have no complaint to make. All seasonable line) are moving out very freely and, in fact, the demand Is. If anything. In excess of ex pectations. Steel goods, builders' hardware and s 11 season goods are good sellers. Fruits and Produce. The strawberry season is praotically at hand. Thla week Jobbers expect them to arrive In carload kits and, according to ad vices received, the quality will be Kood and prices reasonable, ijotl week grocers were retailing berries at SO cents per quart, which Is a very moderate pi ice for this time of year. The demand for oranges has been very liberal, prices ranging from 12 40 to f 2.7S. Apples are aiaj sailing freely, but prices are unchanged. In the vegetable Une the green stuff Is now attracting a good deal of attention, us the supply is better and prices more mod erate, as will be seen from the quotations In another column. Potatoes keep going up. native now selling at Jl and Colorado at tl 20. The egg market has been a little lower the last few days, prices ranging around It cents. Poulny, on the rtber hand, has been scarce and firm. Butter has shown but little change in either direction. Me Oplans In Chamberlain's rough Remedy. 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