washing machine into the area of the

larger washing machine. Methods like

this cannot be too severely condemned. Commercial geography, as it is now

widely taught in the public schools by

listing the various imports and exports of

countries and the products of different

cities, fails to give a clear idea of the

Guod Houstkccping

Fig. 18. Illustration Intended to Show that the Sale of Washing Machines has Increased Sevenfold in the Past Three Years

In comparing the two pictures it is not likely that the reader will obtain a ratio of seven to one. There is no way for the reader to tell on what basis the drawing was prepared, whether by height, area or volume. The title of this chart is also poor in that it does not name the two years for which the comparison is made

GRAPHIC METHODS

11,483.000 Bales of iOO lb

India

S,082,000

Egypt Russia

1,506.000

800,000

China, 775,000

Brazil 810,000

Tarr and McMurray' s New Geographies

Fig. 19. The Six Leading Cotton-producing Countries in 1910

This arrangement is a bad one to place before school children. The eye cannot fit one square into another on an area basis so as to get the correct ratio

relative importance of the materials listed. It frequently happens that the second or third item on a list may have only one-tenth the importance of the first item. Because the three names are given one after the other, the pupil is quite likely to consider the three items of equal United Stale, importauce, just as three