Beginner's civics for North Dakota . fe, and this was in a log schoolhouse; yet he wasone of the best educated men this country has everproduced. His Gettysburg address is read the worldover as one of the noblest classics of the English lan-guage. Lincolns unquenchable thirst for learning hegot, so he tells us, from his mother. At one time hewalked nine miles a day to attend a log-house night he would lie in front of the fireplace and,having no slate and no paper, would write and cipherwith charcoal on the wooden shovel, on boards, and onsmooth sides of logs, shaving them clean when
Beginner's civics for North Dakota . fe, and this was in a log schoolhouse; yet he wasone of the best educated men this country has everproduced. His Gettysburg address is read the worldover as one of the noblest classics of the English lan-guage. Lincolns unquenchable thirst for learning hegot, so he tells us, from his mother. At one time hewalked nine miles a day to attend a log-house night he would lie in front of the fireplace and,having no slate and no paper, would write and cipherwith charcoal on the wooden shovel, on boards, and onsmooth sides of logs, shaving them clean when hewanted to write again. It was in his humble cabinhome, and not in the schoolhouse, that Lincoln edu-cated himself with an education that was genuine andthorough. And, thanks to this home influence, he earlyacquired a taste for books, not books that were sillyand trashy, but books that were worth while. Historytells us the names of seven of the principal books whichwere an early influence for good in the Lincoln home. 12 GOVERNMENT. They are: an arithmetic, the Bible, JEsops Fables, Robinson Crusoe/ Weemss Life of Washington,Pilgrims Progress/ and a United States history. Nowadays the schoolhouse is in reach of every an appreciation of education and a taste forlearning must be found in the home, if the school is to have very muchinfluence in educatingthe boy or the girl. No matter howgood the churches Pioneers Sod House are, the child depends, for good morals and right habits, almost entirely on the home training. Important and helpful as the churches are, they can not do this work for the family. The home must always do its part. No matter how good the doctors are, the health ofthe communitjr depends more on the family than onanything else. For instance, a large city recently issuedthe following health bulletin and distributed it amongthe people: We are especially interested in diphtheria and scar-let fever just now. The warm weather causes thechildren to congregate
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