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-YUKON ROUTE =
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Daring the winter season of 1914—15 our regular train ser
vice will be maintained North and South bound between
Skaguay and White Horse, trains leaving both terminals
every Tuaaday and Friday.
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operated between White Horse and Dawson, affording al
possible comfort by means of a
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For full information apply to
C. W. Cash.
Supt, Mail Service Dep't,
Whitahorse, Y. T.
A. F. Zipf, Traffic Manager,
612^Second Avenue,
Seattle, Wash.
heWhitePass AYukon Route
TOSS TABLH No. 84.
Tuesday Friday.
No. 1. Jf. Boost* Ko. a, 8. Bound
in clu» let cLaca
t^.Ho a. m. Lmtm SKAOTJAT Arrivee 8:20 p. kl
IJ:0o p. m. " WHITE PASS U*t»s 1:40 p. m.
lMl) pw n. " LOO CABJ> » 12:47 p. m.
»-:33 p. m. " BENNETT " 18:15 p. m.
2:(Xi p. m. " CARIBOU " 10:25 a. m.
4:1s p. m. Arriree «VHI icHORSK " 8:15 a. m.
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150 oouadi of baggage will be checked free with each fall fare
•cket aad T5 pouada with e&ck ha ' '8re ticket.
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LITERATURE FOR THE CHILD
(Written by Miss Moffat for the
Parent Teacher Association)
In discussing this subject 011
which so much has been said and
might be Baid, I am not going to
attempt a long or learned discus
sion. What I shall say is the re
sult partly of my experience as a
high school English teacher. The
lack of literary background of the
average child of high school age is
an appalling fact that confronts the
high school teacher and handicaps
the whole high school course. In
this age of Industrial life and edu
cation, I should strongly recommend
books of cultural value, of history, of
great deeds, true or traditional, of
myth and fable that have stood the
test of ages. If you would study
the course of language and litera
ture through the curriculum of a
modern, progressive Bchool, you
would find that the school is try
ing to Bupply this cultural training
through the child's readiug and
study of English. The child of pri
mary age, when Imagination is keen
est, Is given simple, imaginative fairy
lore and legend, and much dainty
fancy in verso, which the older
child may not so much enjoy, the
child of intermediate grades, at the
age when his Individuality Is begin
ning to assert itself, and when he
Is seeking for some hero to imi
tate, is given the heroic tale, the
early epic, and the biographies of
great men of actual history. Then
with this preparation he enters
high school, and during a four year
course in English, becomes familiar
With and finally has for his own
possession several selections from
the best types that our language
and others afford. Unless, however,
there is & basis for this high school
work, and unless he has learned to
love good literature, his work be
comes merely routine. So, the Im
portant period of the school child's
reading, as in so many other things,
cornea during the Inter mediate grade
years.
While we admit that the Bchool
can do much, nevertheless, It can
not bear the burden of responsibili
ty alone. The home could tremen
dously help the school if the par
eut could have a definite answer in
mind or at least use care and judge
ment when the question comes
"What books shall I get for my
children?" The books that children
like best are often not good for
them, while those that the parent
thinks good are often dull to the
child. Its the wise parent or
teacher who recognizes the tenden
cy of the child's mind and knows
something that will appeal to and
satisfy him when he demands some
thing to read. That teacher or par
ent has a powerful grip on the
child's future. When the question
comes of buying books as gifts for
children it would mean much if the
parents could only look ahead a bit
to the ultimate value of the book
to the child, and. Instead of buying
just aimlessly because a book deal
er happens to have a supply of hit
or miss books for the sole purpose,
like the green spectacles of story
merel*- to sell, would make sure tha
he is buying one of strong, strik
ing worth. It is not enough that a
booic should be merely harmless,. I
spent hours this fall reading a book
to the pupils that was merely en
tertaining. It was harmless but
worthless. It was forgotten and
110 reference has been made to it.
Heading it was time lost. However,
this class of books for entertain
ment for children are often full of
poor English and inaccuracies. The
same children are listening just as
eagerly to "The Dog of Flanders"—
a book full of beauty and worth and
unconscious moral lessons. Just as
eagerly have they listened to Robin
Hood and Siegfried. It is too bad
to waste the child's time on reading
not worth while, when literature is j
filled with good things. What he i
misses in liis childhood he'll never
make up. It is a pity to Bee high
school and college students trying
to cram In hurriedly what they shoul
have been living with for years.
Fill the child's mind full of big, fine
stories and he'll read them into ev
ery experience of his life as well as
into every piece of new literature
that he meets. I wish that you
| could have seen the practical appli
' cation that I did of the story of
j King Arthur and his Knights after j
i a live fourth and fifth grade teacher
had given it to her pupils. Playing
these stories became the favorite
diversion for weeks of a crowd of
boys that otherwise might have been
up to any mischief. As proof of
what a child's reading means to him,
think of the incidents reported of
boy's crimes after tha newspapers
have exploited the details of some
act of outlawry cr crime especially
if it is a one man stand like the
John Dietz case in the middle west
a few years ago. War incidents al
ways bring forth young imitators.
The movies, too, have been a power
ful force in child activity in the
past few years; hence the need for |
strict censorship. The average boy
demands a hero. Why not supply
him the best that literature offers?
The normal child demands something;
to Toad. Parents and teachers must |
be ready to meet this demand with
something worth while that will in
terest him or else he will turn to
cheap, pernicious literature provided
by the ten cent blood-aud-thunder
Diamond Dick editions, so easy for
him to get for himself. There is a
stage in the boy's life when he de
mands adventure. Then is the time
to put into his hands books like
Stevenson's Treasure Island, Kings
ly's Westward Ho! Scottish Chiefs,
or any of the dozen books of story
groups. Th§ child is willing to
try anything. Why not when he
has outgrown fairy lore, Indian
stories and tales of primitive men,
try him on some of the early epic
tales, stories that are full of ac
(Continued on last page)
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