During the vacation of our schools and workers, there is a dearth of intelligence from “the field,” which must be the Missionary’s apology for its leanness. The next number will be made fat with the good things prepared for us at Norwich, and may be delayed on that account, after which there will doubtless be abundance from our teachers and pastors, who will by that time have their work well in hand once more for another year’s labor.
The St. Louis School Board has added oral lessons in etiquette to its course of studies. A few scholars read in turn five pages from a manual of etiquette, and then a conversation is held on the topic by teacher and pupils. We do not see why good manners are not as essential as good grammar.
So says the Congregationalist, and so says the American Missionary. In several of our Institutions at the South, a small text-book on good manners is used with accompanying oral lessons. Colored pupils take well to such instruction.
Chicago is the freest city in this country. There is no discrimination except in brains and money. Every place is open to the colored man. The schools of the city have white and colored children on the same seats and in the same classes, and no “kicking” is heard. But what is the strangest of all, there are two colored ladies who teach schools composed of white as well as colored.—Ex.
It is possible we may yet go to the negro to learn many things, especially the virtues allied to, and growing out of, patience under provocations, of which certainly he has been a wonderful example. The editorial fraternity of the country would do well to imitate the example of the colored brethren, who at the meeting of the Colored National Press Association, recently held in Louisville, disposed cheaply of what has hitherto been regarded as the editors’ inestimable and inalienable right by resolving, “That when differences arise among us, we will eschew vituperation and personal abuse, and that the columns of our papers shall be kept free from everything calculated to detract from the tone and character of journalism.”