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daughter
between ten and twenty years of age. It will help parents in the
uncertain and difficult problem of rearing their children in a way that
will make them and keep them a joy in the home, rather than a
heartache, a heart break, and the saddest kind of a bereavement, which
is too often the case. Surely a dollar spent which may help avert this, is
worth far more than a hundred cents lying unused in a bank.
There are sixty-two picture outlines in the book, and with every picture
a ten-minute talk, with chalk illustration, which recites and impresses,
now, a great and noble deed of a truly noble man; now a kindly act with
a double blessing in it; again, a warning to those who unknowingly set
foot upon the devil's ground and find it a miry or slimy pit; or, it may
be a lesson from one of the world's great poets or historians, for the
author has evidently been a reader of great books with a mind to recall
many lessons learned therefrom.
THE PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS.

Page. INTRODUCTION: The Plan of the Book .......................... 7 The
Value of Chalk Talks ...................... 7 The Two-Scene
Method .......................... 8 Chalk Work on Paper ........................... 8
Materials Are Cheap ........................... 8 Important to
Beginners ........................ 8
EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS: The Drawing
Board ............................. 10 The Drawing Paper ............................. 10
The Chalk ..................................... 12
PREPARING TO GIVE THE CHALK TALK: The Method
Explained .......................... 12 Outlining the Right Picture ...................
13 Not an Artist, But a Teacher .................. 14 Finishing Part of the
Drawing in Advance ...... 14 The Value of Individuality .................... 14
International or Graded Lessons ............... 14 Talks for Special
Days ........................ 14 Talk vs. Chalk ................................ 16 Strive
Only for Good .......................... 16 Recording Your
Talks .......................... 16 A Word to Parents ............................. 16 A
Final Word to Pastors ....................... 18
INDEX: Talks for Special Days ........................ 205 Subject
Index ................................. 207

His pictured morals mend the mind And through the eye correct the
heart.
--GARRICK, on Hogarth.

INTRODUCTION.
~~The Plan of the Book.~~
In the preparation of this book the author has had two great plans in
mind:

To prepare a work which will enable _any person, who can speak to a
class or an audience, to give a helpful, inspiring illustrated talk_; to
place in the hands of parents everywhere a book to enable them to teach
the children a simple, fascinating method of drawing and, at the same
time make the great truths of life a part of their every-day learning.
Clear instructions are given as to the method of doing these two things.
Then come sixty-two complete talks of special appropriateness for
Christian teaching. If you are included in the following classes of
workers, the book should be of special value to you:
(a) Speakers who earnestly want to give illustrated talks, but who feel
that they "can't draw a straight line."
(b) Those who are experienced in chalk talk work and are seeking new
material.
(c) Teachers of the Uniform Lessons.
(d) Teachers of Graded Lessons.
(e) Sunday school superintendents, for platform work.
(f) Pastors, for use in prayer meetings and many other services of the
church.
(g) Temperance workers. In this department of work this book is
especially worthy of consideration.
(h) Those who need suggestions to help them work out their own
addresses.
(i) Parents for giving instruction in the home. It is a great truth that
such teaching is far more effective than any which the church or the
schools may provide.
~~The Value of Chalk Talks.~~
Scientists tell us that nothing which completely occupies the mind for

any length of time is ever forgotten.
This, then, is the reason that the chalk talk method of teaching is so
lastingly impressive. People forget everything else while watching a
speaker draw a picture. And if they do that, they can never completely
forget the words of the speaker or the picture he draws. A baby that
doesn't know one letter from another can understand some pictures as
well as you can. Try him once and see. And if he lives to be a hundred
years of age, he will receive more lasting impressions from pictures
than from what he reads. Your audience, therefore, may be depended
upon to be "right with you" from the beginning.
~~The Two-Scene Method.~~
Added to this feature of securing strict attention, we find in this book
another help in the same direction: Every talk is given in two "scenes"
or steps. The speaker draws part of the picture, while he speaks, and
then, at a little later period, adds the lines to complete the drawing and
bring the scene to a climax. In each talk, the upper picture is the first
scene, and