Vocational Training.

Recommended by the U. S. Board of Education.

Within the past year or so, a mighty movement has been going on for vocational guidance in the public schools of America. The United States bureau of education has recently made a strong endorsement of the establishment of this kind of training, and it quotes from a report issued by the New York organization. The bureau strongly cautions against work for children under 16, and advises that more information about industrial conditions be ascertained.

This is a good innovation, if rightly taken care of.. has been needed for years. More than the half of human effort has been worse than wasted by misdirection and mis-employment. Our penitentiaries and poorhouses are largely filled in consequence of oversight in this matter. Those who are really interested in human welfare and progress especially know how true this is, and no one knows it better than the earnest, observant phrenologist.

But you can't train properly for anything special, unless and until you know WHAT TO TRAIN FOR, and this opens the way and demand for good and competent phrenologists, as there is no method known under the sun half as good for deciding in advance what line of work a boy or girl should follow for success. By taking the temperamental qualifications and cranial developments, which it is the particular business of Phrenology to discover and gauge, every youngster of the American schools can be made not only a blooming success, but a happy worker as well.

with a view to vocations.

To this end the editor of the ERA is laboring. But we need help. The youth ought to be scientifically examined There ought to be a phrenologist in every county in every State of the Union, and in the large ones two and three,-yes, five or six. And, by some arrangement, they ought to examine every pupil that enters the schools. This will soon be done. And many young men and young ladies with the proper snap can well expect a lucrative practice in preparing for this profession. Think of it! All past experience and evidence show it to be "the

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most useful science known to man; and while Gall discovered it over a hundred years ago, the people are just discovering it now. They are beginning to let it have a better chance. And we call upon and for competent colaborers to come and help us do the work.

Why?

Why Should a Person have His or Her Head Examined? It will tell you in a few minutes what your condition of health is and why, and how to improve your health. It will discover your talents, and what business or calling in life you are best adapted for. Some persons spend half a lifetime trying to find out that for which they are best suited. What an unnecessary waste of time and money! It will guide you to a happy marriage. For two persons to marry withont understanding whether their intellectual, moral, social and physical nature are adapted to each other, is what makes marriage a mere lottery, and frequently paves the way for a life of misery for one's self and others. It will also assist in the important thing of training children. Thousands of young people are ruined through mistraining in early childhood. Parents should have their children's heads examined to learn the causes of their peculiarities, the condition of their health, and the special line in which to indicate them. It will teach how to have sound minds in sound bodies, and cause communities and nations to grow stronger and better; and most assuredly bring about conditions that will decrease crime, dissipation, vice, insanity and poverty.

It seems to me, now, the important thing to do is to begin trying to have the public schools adopt some form of phrenological instruction that the heed of such places as prisons, reformatories, etc., may be done away with. Education is the key to personal liberty. Ignorant persons are always dangerous, as we all know.-MRS. FRANCES GREENE, Racine, Wis.

The working power of an able-bodied man is about onetenth that of a horse.

If the appetite of a man were as great as that of a sparrow in proportion to his size, he would eat a whole sheep at one sitting.

Many Commend Our New Book.

Doctors, Editors and Others Endorse "the New and Natural System of the Temperaments."

Your valuable book on the Temperaments received a few days ago. Please accept my sincere thanks for same. I have already read and studied the work over several times. I find it very interesting, instructive and valuable. I am sure it is much in advance of any of the old systems of explaining the Temperaments.-MRS. W. THAYER, Lake Placid, N. Y.

Prof. M. Tope is to be complimented on his new book of Temperaments. This, as in all other of his works, shows that he loves truth and simplicity of this profound doctrine. of Phrenology. His method of teaching is that of a real teacher who inspires and imparts, and gives you a love for the truth.-REV. DR. L. M. NESMITH, Custar, O., July 9, '14.

Prof. Tope has turned out another new book. It is entitled "A New and Natural System of the Temperaments," at 25 cents a copy. He claims a big advance step in the science of human nature, and we guess he is right. The work is nicely illustrated and printed, and treats of character, health, education, vocations, etc., in a way for the common reader. It should be in every household library.-Bowerston Cor. to Cadiz Republican.

Prof. Cozens Dead.

It was with deep regret that we learned of the death of our friend and co-worker, Prof. George Cozens, of Hamilton, Canada. A letter received recently from his wife conveyed. the sad intelligence that he had passed away on the 19th of November last. Though a professional phrenologist, he did local preaching, and while conducting a series of meetings he got hurt one dark night.

Born in England in 1854, he was 60 years of age. Came to Canada in 1874. Graduated from the American Institute of Phrenology in 1891. Many have been benefited by his labors.

We are sorry to lose so good a friend. The cause of Phrenology can illy afford to spare him. But so it must be. And we ask our readers to join with us in extending sympathy to his bereaved wife and family.

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