If you should go into any home in the land, where even a limited amount of intelligence prevails, and ask the question, "Do you take an interest in the school life of your child?" you would be met by an indignant air, and the positive declaration, "Of course I do." If you pursued the matter further, and said, "How do you interest yourself?" there would be no hesitation in saying, "I always send them unless they are sick, and I see that they leave home in time to reach the school-house at the proper hour." Further questioning would reveal to the questioner the astonishing fact that they had but the most vague and chaotic ideas as to the life in the school-room, the studies their children are pursuing, the kind of training given, or its adaptability to the future of the child, the child's talents or natural bent. Schools at present are adapted to display the beauty of certain systems of education, and results are shown by the averages maintained, at what a tremendous price the impaired and enfeebled physical powers of many of the finished (?) pupils testify. Societies may talk, individuals may grow eloquent; but until fathers and mothers realize the importance of educating children in harmony with their talents and the possibilities of their future, but little will be accomplished. Parents largely feel that the hours from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. are hours that are free, in a large measure, from responsibility, because the Government has assumed the care of the child for that time, and opened a place in which a child is put through a process that fits it to meet the future fully equipped. What this process is, how this result is accomplished, they never take the trouble to find out. If the parents meet their children's teachers on the street, they do not know them; they have never crossed the sill of the building in which the majority of the waking hours of the child are passed, nor held five minutes' conversation with the person who controls the mental, moral, and physical destiny of their child in a large degree. The school life is so linked in with the home life that good results can only be obtained for the individual child when there is a perfect understanding between the heads of the two factors which make the sum of a child's success.—Sel.