he Mississippi River.

9. Explain the reference in "Solomonesque."

10. What are "costs"?

11. Find a metaphor in II.

V. Suggested Time Schedule

As usual, except that on Friday one number of the program may be a
magazine composed of the best stories written during the week by pupils.

VI. Oral Composition

Be sure that your story has a good point; is free from slang; and
possesses a beginning, a middle, and an end.

VII. Written Composition

_Suggestion_: Imagine that the classroom is the local room of a daily
paper, the pupils reporters, and the teacher the editor. The stories may
be written in class.

VIII. Memorize

THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's;--he takes the lead
In summer luxury;--he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
JOHN KEATS.

CHAPTER VII

THE USE OF CONTRAST

"Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."--ISAIAH.

I. Introduction

Antithesis, or contrast, is one of the two most effective devices at the
disposal of any artist, whether he works with words or colors. Its
skillful use often enables a newspaper writer to make a good item out of
trifling material. The object of this week's work is to teach a little
of the art of using antithesis effectively in reportorial work.

II. Models

I

LONDON, Dec. 25.--Mrs. Rebecca Clarke, who is 109 years of age,
presided this morning at the wedding breakfast of her baby son,
Harry, who is 67. This is Mr. Clarke's second venture on the
matrimonial sea. His two brothers are sprightly bachelors of 70
and 73 years. Mrs. Clarke toasted the newly married couple and
ate the first slice of the wedding cake. She attended the
Christmas wedding celebration in the evening.

II

Commuters in Yonkers took ad