The Massachusetts teacher Volume 13 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...The Romans, Italians, French, etc., are quite temperate; they drink their weak wine with water, and, when they take liquors, it is only a little glassful at a time, (which does not make a spoonful.) I don't believe there is a bar in all Italy where men step up and drink rum and water, gin and water, etc. Excessive drinking is not to the taste of the people. In the North of Europe, and even in Switzerland, it is not so. The English, without help from the Irish and Scotch, drink about 600 or 700,000,000 gallons of beer every year, not to speak of the wine, spirits, etc., they take to wash it down withal. There is drunkenness. So you find it in Scandinavia, in Holland, and North Germany. How do you think the Americans will settle the drink question? Certainly not by taking merely to water, tea, coffee, etc. We shall have more beer, perhaps return to the making of cider, and certainly plant vines where they will grow. Drunkenness is such a monstrous and ghastly evil, I would do almost anything to get rid of it. But I sometimes think we have taken the wrong track. I am glad to see the license law introduced to the New York Legislature, and think it will do more good than our New England scheme of prohibition by force." MATHEMATICAL. Mr. Editor:--I noticed an example in the Teacher of January, 1859, and was dissatisfied with the method given for performing such examples. I have waited thus long for some one to give a "better way j" but, as no one seems to notice it, I will send the following explanation, given to me by an "old teacher" from the "Cape," and a different version of the example, both of which I would ask you to give a place in the Teacher. Amounts of one dollar for 8, 6, and 1 years. $1.000000 $1.477455 =.676839-f-4...