By Margaret W. Sutherland. This exercise contains gems to be memorized by pupils of different ages in an ungraded school or from it selections may be made for various grades of city schools. However, I should have the Scripture verses memorized by all pupils and recited in concert.

JOY IN THE SPRING. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain.

is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. -Solomon's Song.

"Open the door, let in the air, The winds are sweet and the flowers are fair;

Joy is abroad in the world to-day, If our door is wide open he may come this way.

Open the door,"

The sunshine is to me the greatest visible good of life, what I call the wealth of life, after love and trust.-George Eliot.

All the earth is full of music,
Little May,

Bird, and bee, and water singing
On its way.

Let their silver voices fall.
On thy heart with happy call:
"Praise the Lord, who loveth all."
-Mrs. Miller.

VIOLETS.

Under the green hedges after the

snow,

There do the dear little violets grow, Hiding their modest and beautiful heads

Under the hawthorn in soft mossy beds.

Sweet as the roses, and blue as the sky,

Down there do the dear little violets lie;

Hiding their heads where they scarce may be seen, By the leaves you may know where the violet hath been.

-John Moultrie.

DAFFODILS.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd-
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the
breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance.

The editor of the Monthly has kindly invited me to assist him in preparing work for a mathematical department in that journal; and he has suggested that the work be devoted, for a time at least, to the solution of the more important problems contained in the Syllabus on Arithmetic as found in the advanced sheets of the School Commissioner's Report.

In accordance with this suggestion, I have arranged herewith solutions of the first six problems, beginning on page 58 of the report.

These solutions are intended to be helpful to the younger teachers, especially, and no attempt has been made at brevity.

I. B sells an article at 40% gain, but if it had cost $90 more, he would have lost 50%. Find cost.

100% 4X$5-$20, cost of second wagon, and $20+$5-$25, answer required.

3. Find the cost price of an article that was sold at an advance of 20%; but if it had cost 10% less and sold for $3 less, the gain would have been 30%.

on the investment, if they cost me $45, and $30 respectively?

SOLUTION.

When one number is increased and another diminished until the numbers become equal, the amount by which the one was increased added to the amount by which the other was diminished will make a sum equal to the original difference between the two numbers.

$45 $30-$15, sum of the loss on first horse and the gain on the second. Since the rates of gain and loss were the same, the amount of loss on the first will be to the amount of gain on the second as 45: 30.

4 of $15-$9, loss on first, and % of $15-$6, gain on second.

$9-$6-$3, net loss on an investment of $75. This will be readily found to be 4%, rate required.

6. A sells an article to B at a gain, and B to C at the same rate of gain for $16; what did A pay, if B, by selling for $10, would have lost half he gained?

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THE next State Examination will be held in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, June 19, 20, 21, 1900. All communications regarding it should be addressed to W. W. Boyd, Painesville, O.

STATE Association, Put-in-Bay, June 26, 27, and 28.

NATIONAL Educational Association, Charleston, S. C., July 7-13, National Council, meeting, July 7 and 9, and the regular sessions of the general association being held July 10-13.

THE time for elections and reelections is at hand, and it will be well for all to remember the "Golden Rule of Professional Courtesy" adopted by the State Associa

tion many years since.

We are glad that the old-fashioned commencement is coming into fashion again. The schools exist for the boys and girls, and they should be given the most prominent place in the exercises at commencement time. To keep in mind constantly that high school graduates are simply boys and girls from whom mature thought and action cannot be expected, will always help to simplify matters and make these commencements what they ought to be.

OHIO teachers have always stood loyally by their State Association, and there will no doubt be a good attendance at the Put-in-Bay meeting, June 26, 27, and 28. The announcement by Secretary MacDonald of the Executive Committee found in this issue indicates that a good time awaits all who attend. We hope to meet at this association not only all the "Old Guard," but many of the younger teachers who will help and be helped by such attendance.

OFFICIAL Bulletin No. 2 of the N. E. A. recently issued by Secretary Shepard is full of valuable and suggestive information relating to the Charleston meeting. Unusually

satisfactory transportation rates and arrangements have been made, and we feel sure that all who attend the meeting will be delighted with the trip. The program is well under way, and will consist of live

topics to be discussed by men and women who are worth hearing. In this issue will be found an outline of the proposed trip for the Ohio Delegation, and we trust that any who desire additional information will feel free to write the most convenient member of the committee. In this connection, we desire to emphasize the importance of making early application for rooms and board in private families on the part of all who desire such entertainment, to Mr. Jno. A. Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Accommodations for entertainment in private families. We will guarantee that those who arrange for private entertainment in these charming Southern homes will be fully satisfied. The Local Committee is sparing no pains to make the most. careful preparation for all who attend the meeting, and the indications are that at least 5000 Southern teachers will be present. Surely the North and West will desire to be represented in at least equal numbers, and the "Buckeye State" should lead all the rest.

'WE believe that many of our readers who have arithmetic to teach will be pleased to learn that Principal Ed. M. Mills of the Defiance High School has agreed to take charge of a mathematical department in the MONTHLY and for several months to come will give special attention to the solution of problems found in the Institute