Result of the Prize System.
WE clip the following little story from an exchange. It is quite appropriate in this time of "strike"s, and we recommend it to the consideration of those teachers and superintendents who depend on prizes to enable them to get up an interest. There is a moral to it:— A teacher, finding it difficult to obtain the prompt attendance of the boys in her class, resolved to adopt a plan which she felt sure would be successful. She said to the boys:— "Now I will give a bright penny to each one who will be in their places every Sunday." The plan seemed to work well until one Sunday not a boy appeared in his place. The teacher was surprised and somewhat discouraged that her plan had not succeeded. But the next day, while walking down street and thinking what to do next, she met one of the boys and said to him:— "Well, Johnnie, where were you yesterday?" "But why did you and the other boys not come to Sunday-school, and get your pennies?" "Oh, teacher, 'cause we've struck; we won't come for less than two cents now." We were not informed as to how long the strikers held out, or whether the advance was granted.