ritten English and will be of the sort Dewey characterizes as
"having something to say rather than having to say something."

_Geography._--This study may also enter as deeply into the field of
geography as the development of the class warrants. It will be geography
of a vital sort. How these things are brought to us touches the field of
transportation, creating an interest in ships and railroad trains, pack
mules and express wagons.

_History._--The study of the process of manufacture opens up the field of
industrial history, and in this, as in the geography, the study is limited
only by the capacity of the class.

_Number._--In the field of number the possibilities are also unlimited, in
studying the weights and measures used for different commodities, the
actual prices paid for these things, and the usual quantities purchased.

Playing store will involve the making of bills, the changing of money, and
the measuring of merchandise. Different pupils may take turns acting as
salesmen or cashier. The common practices of business life should be
followed as closely as possible, only in this case each purchaser should
make out his own bills. Actual purchase slips may be brought from home and
used in number lessons.

An inventory of the stock may be taken and will supply excellent practice
in addition and multiplication. After the example of _real_ stores, a
stock-taking sale at reduced rates may be advertised. The writer answered
such an advertisement by a third grade and asked how much could be
purchased for one dollar. Pencils were busy at once, and a variety of
combinations suggested. One pupil was quickly called to account by his
mates for offering only ninety-five cents' worth of merchandise for the
dollar. By these and numerous other exercises which will suggest
themselves to lively children and wide-awake teachers a vast amount of
vital subject matter may be dealt with in a natural way, quite on the
level of the child's experience and interest.

[Illustration: FIG. 34.--A grocery. Third grade. Columbia, Missouri.]

_Art._--The art side also may receive due attention in the general
proportioning and arrangement of the stores, in the modeling of certain
features from clay, as enumerated above, in the making of labels for boxes
and cans, in the writing of signs and advertisements, and in the color
combinations. These features are to a great extent incidental to other
problems just as the use of good taste is i