A Recent Accident Turned My Thoughts to the T.C.U.F The T.C.U. Paid for This Accident One teacher fell from a stepladder the day before Christmas and hurt his back. It would have been a cheerless Christmas had he not been a T. C. U. "A recent Accident turned my The T.C. U. Paid $35.00 These pictures represent a few of the many Every day we send cheques to Teachers somewhere, who have suffered Accidents, or who have been taken ill, or who have been quarantined to help pay for the loss of Salary and the extra expense incurred. This month, even this week, many other Teachers will be kept away from their work by Sickness, Accident or Quarantine. Those who are members of the T. C. U. will receive cash payments to tide them over their misfortunes. The others will be using up their savings and regretting that they did not join the T. C. U. before. Will You Be Protected When Sickness or Accident Comes to You? I When you meet with an Accident, or become Sick, what will become of the Wouldn't it be distressing, to say the least, to find yourself burdened with an A Pennsylvania teacher wrote: "Kindly accept my sincere thanks for the promptness and dispatch with which the claim was adjusted. I assure you that the amount of your cheque was very welcome; all the more so because of the fact that the Christmas holidays had just passed, with the usual result that the pocketbook had been sorely depleted." The big draft of Sickness, Accident and Quarantine is constantly exacting its thousands of Teachers. One in six is called every year. Any day your turn may come, and your name be called. 257505 BOSTON FOR FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS. Washington, Lincoln, Longfellow, Lowell The Perry Pictures A Cent-and-a-Half Each FOR 20 OR MORE. POSTPAID. Smaller, Half Cent Size, 3x32. For 50 or more. (Notice that the price of the Half Cent Size has not been changed.) Bird Pictures in Natural Colors. 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EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK Decorate Your Schoolroom LIFE-SIZE BUST PORTRAITS of Washington, Martha Washington, Lincoln, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Bryant, Shakespeare, Woodrow Wilson, etc. Šize 22 x 28 inches. Price each (unframed), 20 cents, six for $1.00, postpaid, Fine Photogravure Portraits of Washington, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson. Size 22x28 inches. Price each (unframed), 60 cents; two for $1.00; three for $1.50, postpaid. FRAMED PORTRAITS Any of the 20-cent pictures framed in our handsome 2-inch Solid Oak, black enameled frames, complete with frame and glass and securely packed for shipment, each, $1.85: any two, $3.45: any three, $5.05; any four, $6.65: any five, $8.25; express extra. ARTOTYPES - FAMOUS PAINTINGS Celebrated paintings of the old masters and modern painters as well. A series of highest grade reproductions, furnished at moderate cost. Over 2,000 titles, the most popular being: The Angelus (Millet), "Can't You Talk?" 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The arrangement facilitates dramatization, which is so necessary in primary grades as an aid to the proper interpretation of the thought. I am especially pleased with the literary value of the selections. The illustrations are exceptionally attractive and the phonetic element is good." American Book Company HIS story of the great emancipator is, first of all, true. True in historical detail. True in both setting and dressing of scenes and characters. You know how intensely dramatic that stuggling log-cabin boyhood was. You know how moving it is even in cold print. Benjamin Chapin In "The Son of Democracy" You have often marveled that Lincoln's mother, who died so young, could have stamped an influence so indelible upon the boy's heart that it aided him till death, and set the lad's footsteps in the unshakable path of integrity, a path which he pursued till it led him to the most august post in the gift of the world's greatest republic, the presidency. Paramount Nobody knows better than the teachers of our public schools that a motion picture merely built around this epic would be wonderfully thrilling. -thrilling 'whether the boy's name was Abraham Lincoln or John Smith. -because revealing the actual hardships of a poor country boy's life around 1820, even without the foreknowledge of that boy's glorious destiny of leadership and sacrifice. But no, here you have the real thing, the fruit of the most careful research, produced and played under the direction of Pictures Mail this coupon for a FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION copy of Gettysburg address. Name.. Address. Name of Theatre. Write on margin if coupon not room in Benjamin Chapin, who has made a life study of Lincoln's character, appearance and career. Don't let any of your pupils miss it. It will make Abe Lincoln, the boy, "the father of the man, "live in their minds as vividly as their own companions, and that love and admiration for Lincolnwhich you have striven so hard to plant in their hearts and minds will be fixed there immovably as this epochal moving picture gleams before their gaze in all life's verisimilitude. Tell the best theatre you know of, to book this series there are 20 parts, and 2 parts will be run every time the theatre changes its program. Get the other teachers together and demand it. Send for literature and read it to your school, and then tell the pupils also to ask the theatre to show it. No theatre will deny such a widespread appeal, so don't let yours be the only school in the State to miss Benjamin Chapin in "The Son of Democracy" approved and endorsed by the Secretary of the New York Board of Education, the Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and representatives of N. Y. City Federation of Women's Clubs and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, while a member of the staff of Columbia University, N. Y., characterizes it as "the production which has succeeded in transforming my indifference to the moving picture in general into interest and enthusiasm." Benjamin Chapin as Abraham Lincoln What is the standard of time required for doing a given number of simple examples in arithmetic? How do you know when your class is up to the standard or whether your standard is higher or lower than that of some other school? FASSETT'S STANDARDIZED NUMBER TESTS present a definite standard for number work. Each card shows the time limit within which twenty-five examples should be done by a class of standard efficiency. When your class meets these tests, you may know that it is up to the accepted standard of schools where this work has been specialized and brought to a high degree of efficiency. 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