Especially will this be the case if the teacher accompanies the descriptions with rapid illustrations on the blackboard.
Tepee or Wigwam of the Sioux Indians.
Necessity for skill in drawing on the part of the teacher, becomes very evident as the desirability of frequent illustrations is felt, and the fact is also realized that by it untold influence for good is exerted over the mind of the pupil. It is an aid to correct mental picturing, which the teacher cannot afford to omit.
Coast of Alaska.
(Showing its drowned valleys caused by the gradual sinking of the land, also glaciers, Alaskan hut and totem pole.)
Special features are more readily understood when drawn in detail: as mountain peaks, stern or forbidding in outline, or lofty and grand in their mantles of snow and rivers of ice (Mt. Blanc); valleys with wooded slopes and streams of water; lakes, waterfalls (Niagara Falls); glaciers and icebergs, with typical scenes of Arctic regions, including inhabitants with their homes (Muir Glaciers), (Alaskan huts and totem-poles); deserts and oases, with typical trees and surrounding objects (palm trees, pyramids, camels); Indian homes and environment; dykes of Holland, Suez Canal, St. Gothard Tunnel, Great Wall of China, etc.