Stamp Collecting as a Pastime

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in a more rational direction, and many masters themselves having become enthusiastic collectors, judiciously encourage the boys under their care to collect and study stamps as interesting aids to their general studies. They watch o

the frigid dominie who will hear of nothing but a rigid attention to the tasks of the day. In the one case the lessons are prese

r age. The more pleasant the task can be made, the more ready will be the obedience with which the task will be performed. The openings for the judicious and helpful admi

ool life, could do this? Little-known countries and states are too often a puzzle to the ordinary schoolboy, which are familiar places to the stamp collecting youth. Ask the ordinary schoolboy in which continents are such places as Angola, Annam, Cura?ao, Funchal, Holkar, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nepaul, Reun

ly spends at the tuck shop. Some educationists have advocated the making and exhibiting of school collections of stamps as aids to stu

sh colonial stamps are distinguished by their Queen's heads; the stamps of Portugal and its colonies by the portraits of the rulers of Portugal; those of Germany by the German currency; those of F