to class his news
article--not written but in his head--and be prepared to deliver it to
the class as if he were a reporter dictating to a stenographer or
telephoning his report to his paper.

_Thursday_

Profiting by Wednesday's discussion, the pupils will write their
articles and hand them to the teacher, who will proof-read them and
return them on Monday.

_Friday_

Public Speaking--Organize the class as a club. Let the officers arrange
a program consisting of declamations, debates, essays, dialogues, etc.
This day may also be used for the reading of the best articles that
members of the class have written.

VII. Organization of Material

After you get your story, you must decide on a plan for its discussion.
This will depend largely on its nature. Indeed, the plan and the style
of any piece of writing are to the material as are the clothes to the
body. They must fit the body. The body determines their shape.

The model in Section IV is a bit of exposition composed partly of
description and partly of narration. Its framework is as follows:

Par. 1. The "Four W's": Who=hundreds of people;
What=handiwork in snow; When=yesterday;
Where=Brook Avenue near One Hundred and
Forty-ninth Street.

Par. 2. The Exterior of the House.

Par. 3. The Interior.

Par. 4. The Architects.

VIII. Some Possible Subjects

1. The Gas Engine that Jack built.
2. A Profitable Garden.
3. How a Boy earned his Education.
4. A Cabinet.
5. How to bind Books.
6. Stocking and keeping an Aquarium.
7. How to build a Flatboat.
8. How to make Dolls from Corn-Husks.
9. Metallic Band Work.
10. A Sled made of Ice.
11. Silk Culture.
12. Chickens.
13. A Good Notebook.
14. A Sketch-Book.
15. A Successful Composition.
16. Skees.
17. A Paper Boat.
18. Toys made in the Manual Training Rooms.
19. A Hat.
20. A Dress.
21. The best subject of all, however, is none of these, but one that
the pupil finds himself.

IX. Suggested Reading

Elbert Hubbard's _A Message to Garcia_.

X. Memorize

A PSALM OF LIFE (_continued from Page 7_)

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And, de