Mrs. C. H. Pryor, Superintendent Eastern Washington; Mrs. M. A. Shaffer, Superintendent Western Washington.

Mrs. Pryor writes: "In Eastern Washington the subject is well taught in the schools. We are fortunate in having County School Superintendents who are temperate men and women, and they see that the law is enforced. School boards, so far as I have known, make no objections to the study. The endorsed text-books are used. The teachers usually are in hearty coöperation with the School Superintendents, and like to teach the subject. Cases have been brought to my knowledge in which children have induced their parents to leave off drinking, by explaining to them the truths they had learned in school.

"One County Superintendent of Schools says the school boards frequently ask her if their teachers are complying with the laws, for they deem it very important."

Mrs. Shaffer states, for Western Washington, that the law has met with general favor, and that in many instances the children not only show a knowledge of the nature and effects of alcohol and tobacco, but endeavor to persuade their elders, particularly relatives, against using them.

1890. Owing to the changed conditions consequent upon entering statehood, the attention of workers has been turned largely toward making permanent the excellent features of the territorial law, by means of an aroused and strengthened public sentiment. A most encouraging fact is the thorough enforcement of the law by school boards and teachers, of their own volition and because of their belief in its value and importance.

Cases are reported of changed habits in parents, through the truths the children learned in school. Books, so far as adopted, have been up to standard, thereby saving much labor necessarily expended in other States.

SECTION 1. Provision shall be made by the proper local school authorities for instructing all pupils, in all schools supported by public money, or under State control, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.

SEC. 2. The text-books used in giving the foregoing instruction shall receive the joint approval of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Health.

SEC. 3. No certificate shall be granted to any person, to teach in the public schools of Wisconsin, after the first day of January, 1886, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and

hygiene, with special reference to the effect of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.

SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Mrs. J. E. Kinmore, State Superintendent.

In 1889 Mrs. Aleura Collins Hollister, then State Superintendent, reported: "At the Annual W. C. T. U. State Convention two years ago, no report of this Department was made. One year ago less than a dozen Local Superintendents were reported. This year we have fortyseven Locals beside District and County Superintendents. Mrs. C. J. Dresser, Superintendent of the First District, is actively engaged in organizing her territory. Rock County is quite thoroughly organized, in nearly all the schools of the eastern part of the county, and in 70 per cent of those in the western part the study is pursued. The women are beginning to see that the remedy for indifference on the part of school boards lies in their own hands, using the ballot for the election of school officers. The women of Black River Falls have voted at school meetings for three years, and have elected a woman member of the school board."

1890. Steady gains in organization are reported with faithful efforts to increase interest and closer approximation to the Standard for Enforcement.

No Report.

WYOMING.

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The National Law.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools, and in the Military and Naval Schools, and shall be studied and taught as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like required branches are in said schools, by the use of text-books in the hands of pupils where other branches are thus studied in said schools, and by all pupils in all said schools throughout the Territories, in the Military and Naval Academies of the United States, and in the District of Columbia, and in all Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the proper officers in control of any school described in the foregoing section to enforce the provisions of this act; and any such officer, school director, committee, superintendent, or teacher who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requirements of this act, or shall neglect or fail to make proper provisions for the instruction required and in the manner specified by the first section of this act for all pupils in each and every school under his jurisdiction, shall be removed from office, and the vacancy filled as in other cases.

SEC. 3. That no certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the District of Columbia or Territories, after the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eightyeight, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system.

Approved, May 20, 1886.

Mrs. Lydia N. Tilton, Superintendent.

Mrs. Tilton reports that in visiting schools and talking with teachers, she has been surprised and delighted to find some of them veritable enthusiasts in their ambition to impress the truth upon the hearts of the children. She relates the following instance as showing the effect the study is having upon the children: "A supervising principal took a boy to a school of the sixth grade and privately told the teacher to do the best she could,' but the boy had never remained long in any school and seemed stupid. 'He would probably play truant until he had to be dropped from the rolls.' The boy at first gave no promise of improvement. The teacher, recognizing that the whole future of his life might lie in her hands, very carefully studied him and his surroundings. His patient mother worked hard to keep him in school, but he was so addicted to the use of cigarettes that he was under the influence of a narcotic all the time. Mrs. Hunt's book, the 'Health Primer,' was one of his required studies. Its narrative style interested him; the teacher used every aid she could command — pictures, blackboard, experiments, and stories. A new light came into the boy's eyes, a new ambition was kindled, the pledge against tobacco was signed, and the boy was henceforward at the head of his class. That teacher has saved a man for this nation."

TERRITORIES.

(ALL THE TERRITORIES, LIKE THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ARE UNDER THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE EDUCATION LAW.]

The New West Commission which has in charge many excellent free schools in Arizona, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico, has proved a valuable agent in teaching the truths concerning the dangerous nature of all narcotics, as required by the National Temperance Education Law. Although supported by private philanthropy, and wholly outside any requirements of this law, its officers have instructed their teachers to place this study fully to the front, on an equal standing with arithmetic, language and history. The endorsed books have been provided, and the result is enthusiastic interest and success.

The American Missionary Association has also some schools supported in part by public money, and coming under the requirements of the National law; but a large majority are wholly maintained by private benevolence. Nevertheless, in all alike temperance instruction has a place in the regular curriculum, and thorough text-book instruction is given in the upper classes whenever there is money sufficient to provide books. The officers make grateful acknowledgment to this Department for circulars suggesting methods of work, and express the intention of bringing their teaching up to approved standards.

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Mrs. A. M. Jarrett, Superintendent.

Mrs. Collins, Territorial President, writes: "The temperance sentiment is growing stronger among us with each month, and our workers, although few, are brave and doing their utmost. The Pathfinders have been faithfully used in the academies of the New West Commission in New Mexico since their first publication. 'Mrs. Ellen Blair, of Nebraska, who passed through New Mexico to California, said that she had never addressed children who were so thoroughly posted in temperance principles as ours in New Mexico,' writes one

of the New West teachers.

'In the outlying New West schools it is impossible to do as thorough work, because the children are not sufficiently familiar with the English language, and the teachers not familiar with the Spanish. We have two graded schools in the Territory that would be a credit to any State in the Union. In one of them - the larger the Pathfinders are used. Some of the other

denominational schools use the same series.'

1890. The report is progress, in spite of discouragements. The study is introduced into a number of private schools and a few public schools."

Mrs. Helen R. Duncan, Territorial Superintendent.

Mrs. Duncan, aided by the newly organized Territorial W. C. T. U., is going bravely on with the work she has been pushing for several years without such aid. She is especially anxious that text-books should be printed in Cherokee, in order that the people of this nation may read them in their own language and become interested in this branch of instruction. This could be done with a little outside help, as they have a national newspaper printed in Cherokee, and a printing-office at Tahlequah. The people would themselves do much toward securing temperance instruction for the young of their nation, if they were once shown how to do it with books in their own language. She says in closing her report for 1889:

"I trust soon to see our fair Indian Country teaching its children successfully and thoroughly the principles of Scientific Temperance in every hamlet, school and seminary in the whole Territory. It is a large field and is only waiting the seed-sowing to yield a rich harvest.”

1890. The subject is taught in several schools by order of the Board of Education of the Cherokee nation. Some of the other nations have now taken up the subject. The mission schools are doing very effective work, with approved text-books. Teachers are asking for more light on the topic, and gladly receive helpful suggestions.

The study of Physiology and Hygiene with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drink and other narcotics, as the law demands, is pursued in the Government schools of Alaska. The "Pathfinders,” a well-graded series of text-books, are the only ones in use in that territory.