7. Let a committee score the votes of the class upon the selections in "Making and Building" on the following points: (1) the most interesting story, (2) the most instructive selection, (3) the poem most enjoyed, (4) the reading most disliked. Arrange the report, as shown in number 6, giving each column its appropriate heading. Let the chairman of the committee ask members of the class to tell their reasons for their opinions, calling especially on pupils who may have listed as "most interesting," or "most enjoyed," what other members of the class considered "most disliked."

TOPICS FOR REPORTS OR COMPOSITIONS

1. What I should like to invent.

2. One invention we need at home.

3. The first gun (a story).

4. The first rocking-chair (a story).

5. Inventions needed in our school building. 6. The use of tractors in farm work.

7. How a pin (or shoe) is made.

8. The most difficult task in bridge-building. 9. Why I should like to be a civil engineer. 10. What I learned from a shoemaker.

QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE

1. Resolved, That the printing-press has contributed more to man's welfare than has the automobile.

2. Resolved, That all buildings should be limited in height to twice the width of the street they face.

BUYING AND SELLING

CANALS, THE "BACK-ALLEYS OF COMMERCE," PLAY NO SMALL PART

BUYING AND SELLING

So I make a jest of Wonder, and a mock of Time and

Space,

The roofless Seas an hostel, and the Earth a market

place,

Where the anxious traders know

Each is surety for his foe,

And none may thrive without his fellow's grace.

RUDYARD KIPLING.

To many people the word "business" suggests nothing but humdrum and monotonous work. To them "buying and selling" means only the measuring of calico and gingham, the handling of corn, wheat, and potatoes, or the posting of ledgers, the making of balance sheets, and the keeping of accounts. They have never seen the romance and fascination of daily tasks.

A century and a half ago most people saw little beauty in clouds and sunsets and flowers, and they never dreamed of using such material as subjects for poems and stories. In their minds poetry and art dealt only with knights and ladies, kings and queens, courts and warfare. It was of such an individual that Wordsworth said,

"A primrose by a river's brim,
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more."

But beauty lay in the primrose and the daffodil all the while, and in time the poets and the artists pointed out the glory of the commonplace so that all could behold it.

won.

Many people regard the great world of business as lacking in human interest. But adventure is there, too. There are fortunes to be fought for, games to be Sometimes human lives are staked and lost. Poets and story-tellers have seen the romance which lies behind the activities of department stores, the work of banks, and the conduct of commerce, and have given it to us in the form of poems and stories.