and weapons of metal. They cannot read or write, but they live more comfortably than savages, and are known as barbarous people.
Savage life. Photograph by Dr. Cook in South America.
Some of these people live in tents, and wander about from place to place with their herds, pitching their tents wherever there is grass for their animals. Many of the wandering desert tribes live in this manner.
We will now visit some people who live very much better than barbarous people. They are the Chinese, who are going to bed as we are getting up.
Barbarous life. Arabs eating dinner before the tent which is their only home.
Instead of tents they have comfortable houses. They build large cities, and make beautiful silks and many other things. They have books and schools, are industrious, and are adopting many modern customs and inventions. We call people who live like the Chinese partly or half civilized.
Half civilized life. A Chinese city. Compare this with one of our cities.
In the countries of the white race there are more books, and better schools and governments than anywhere else. We have churches, railways, steamers, telegraphs, and telephones. We build hospitals, and care for the poor. People living as we do are called fully civilized or enlightened.
Among enlightened people. Notice the large courthouse and the very tall buildings. The city is St. Louis, Mo.
For Recitation.—Name the five races of men. How do savages live? How do barbarous people live? How do civilized people live? How do enlightened people live?
LESSON XIX.
THE HEMISPHERES.
Preparatory Oral Work.—Let each pupil make a clay sphere and scratch on it some shapes to represent land. Color the rest of the sphere with blue ink or paint to represent water. Divide each sphere into halves. Teach meaning of terms sphere and hemisphere.
Sometimes the earth is called a sphere. The word sphere is only another name that is often used for a body shaped like a ball. When a sphere is divided into two equal parts, each half is called a hemisphere, that is a half sphere.
On the following pages we have maps of the two halves of the earth. One half is called the western hemisphere, and the other half is known as the eastern hemisphere.
