HOME AND EDUCATION

...The readiness with which even the tiniest denizen of a Montessori Children's House will respond to such treatment is marvelous...

...It remains obscure to them how much time and toil it costs to make a living, and how much work is required to produce articles of food and other necessities of life...

...To its amazement it received a MILLION replies in the affirmative...

...5) They did not come to fights over impersonal questions in the corridors of their hotels...

...It is the flour blended with the corn,—which it does easily,—that makes of this dish something different...

...A doll's house made with their own hands under their father's direction was approaching completion when a fire destroyed both it and the family home...

...6) They did not arrive on the platform clasping toy elephants and bears...

...He will acquire the priceless treasure of good habits and moral power, and thus, by the simplest and most natural process, will develop the ability and inclination to work...

...Heath, "often by demanding out-of-season products, create chaotic market conditions...

...The garden-city movement should therefore be encouraged...

...But no manual training possesses so much educational value as garden work...

...Creamed Canned Corn IF to the contents of a can of corn, you will add, before removing it from the can, one heaping teaspoonful of flour, stirring thoroughly so that there will be no lumps, and then turn this into a small quantity of hot milk, in which you have put a lump of butter, you will find that a few moments' cooking will give you a cleliciously rich and creamy preparation, quite different from corn warmed in the ordinary way...

...It remained the ideal by which all other educational work was gauged...

...The people of Europe have long encouraged school gardening, and throughout Germany and other countries special attention has recently been given to the work...

...In order to buy their household supplies intelligently they should have a full knowledge of production, transportation and marketing...

...Not only did it seem to me that there was something wrong in our scheme of child rearing,—I felt also that there must be a terrible waste of time in deferring systematic education for four or five years...

...And yet of course disobedience,—the disobedience in particular that would result in bodily or moral harm to the little ones, cannot be permitted...

...In large cities, where every minute of time and every power of efficiency is utilized for business purposes, the necessity of diversion and free occupations become imperative...

...The children were the youngest I had ever seen in school, and at first glance they were having about the same training as in the ideal Kindergarten...

...In Zurich, there is an association whose exclusive object is to establish and conduct school gardens on city grounds and to develop through this means a healthy, industrious, and morally sound race...

...When this opportunity is shut off, the powers of soul waste away for want of action...

...I sought much advice, I read many books and tried many experiments, but never found what I felt was the true method of character building...

...Macy, her teacher, testifies, "I brought her up in the true Montessori spirit," and further adds, "I could have trained her in my own image...

...Thus is a bond of union created between parent and child, where formerly was division like unto that of dictator and subject...

...Our children may not all prove Helen Kellers, neither may we all have Annie Sullivan's ability to guard and guide them as wisely...

...I did try...

...There he can dig, sow and plant, cultivate and harvest...

...IN PARIS, according to The Independent, a newspaper asked the women of Prance whether or not they wanted to vote...

...The city children become familiar with ready-made products without realizing by what processes and of what materials they were made...

...while the occupations I saw did not appeal to me...

...The man who can spare a little time after his tiresome professional daily work to attend to his garden and flower beds, is fortunate indeed...

...The work performed for profit or for living has no attractions...

...But with this new point of view, we shall at least feel secure that little human beings shall have a larger measure of that liberty to live and develop as God and Nature intend, which we adults so jealously claim for ourselves...

...At the Republican Convention By ALICE DUER MILLER THE Republican convention and two woman suffrage conventions took place simultaneously in Chicago...

...This gives him a healthy exercise and an enjoyable pastime...

...As a remedial measure, manual training was introduced into city schools...

...Tested, and Found Good By ABBY HEDGE CORYELL III...

...It fills important demands for the protection of people's health, and at the same time promotes the moral hygiene...

...What matters all the progress in technics and science if it gives a man no happiness...

...I know— for I have seen...

...with restraint, but with sympathy, as things which the child has either unfortunately brought upon himself, or for which he is not accountable...

...the craving for higher things in life disappears, and in its stead come bitterness, hatred, and jealousy...

...That, whereas I had been giving my children and grandchildren things to do, these children were doing things of themselves...

...It could be no more of a tax on the small intelligence to have things systematically presented for its consideration than to allow it to search aimlessly around, confused and bewildered by multitudes of objects unrelated to each other, and utterly beyond its comprehension or interest...

...Perhaps the time has come when the passage of the federal suffrage amendment by the Democratic party may be good politics...

...School Gardening in Europe FOLLOWING is a stimulating extract from an article by Johann Hepp in the Monatshefte fur den naturwissenschaftlichen Unter-richt, under the title "School Gardens in Zurich...

...But these, though they helped greatly, were not enough, and he was too busy a man to be able to give much time to the children...

...John L. Elliott before the Women's Conference of the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City...

...To so treat the little new human entity that it shall unfold itself, instead of making a mould into which the childish plastic material is to be forced for shaping into a pre-designed form...

...Instead the child is to be taught that he has the right to the enjoyment of his own will;—so long, that is, as it does not interfere with other people's equal right to theirs...

...The great picture in the world is the Madonna and the Child, but there is one higher vision than that—not one mother and child, but mothers and all children...

...Leisure time should be used with the view of giving the senses and the soul a proper nourishment that will enable the man to recover his inner balance lost during the hours of toil...

...This is liberty, not license...

...So the years,—the precious years in which so much more should have been accomplished, slipped by—and the youngest baby was a twelve-year-old girl before I at last saw the first Kindergarten that seemed to me what Froebel had meant that they should be...

...She must live the life of the community...

...4) They did not stand on the chairs and throw their bonnets in the air...

...What a relief to be able with a clear conscience, to allow one's self to show sympathy with a naughty little one—not the less dear on that account,—and without reproof, to try reasoning as soon as the first passion fit is passed...

...I said to the teacher, Miss George, "Of course you insist on their finishing everything they start to do...

...Just to state it shows the wonderful, the inestimable possibilities opened to every child...

...how they protect themselves from animals and the inclemency of the weather, and in what high degree their thriving is dependent upon the inexorable powers of nature, involving at the same time the welfare of the gardener and the farmer, and ultimately, of all mankind...

...It means that the parent's will is not to be forced on him, because it is the parent's will, and the child's duty is blind obedience...

...The city offers no visual example or stimulation for work, because actual work is done in the interiors of shops and business establishments...

...Miss George did not say much...

...So I had to wait and struggle blindly after something I knew my babies ought to have, but which I could not give them...

...it has been transformed into a consuming unit...

...I preferred to leave her to develop herself...

...The more monotonous becomes the work of the individual owing to the increasing division of manufacturing processes into ever simpler manipulations the more important and full of meaning will free occupation become...

...that is, over one sixth of the electoral college...

...Although womn are in a minority in the equal suffrage states, when one recalls that California went Progressive by only five hundred votes, it becomes apparent that in a close election their votes might prove the deciding factor in electing a President...

...The babies had bright red, yellow, green, purple and blue balls to play with, and when older grown were trained to notice leaves and flowers;—the lay of the lanscape forming peninsulas or islands, etc...

...she left me to draw my own conclusions, and gradually it dawned on me how radically different everything was from anything that I had ever seen before...

...The children's father, a true Montessorian before ever the Dottoressa was born,—gave advice and suggestions...

...Through it the children exercise the eye and hand, learn to handle tools and raw materials—all by actual work...

...The true sigificance of what we saw did not strike me at first...

...3) They did not even have a brass band in the building...

...Every pupil is given a plot of land for Whose planting and cultivation he alone is responsible...

...Of course you insist that they put away their things before beginning other occupations...

...A careful comparison of them leads to the following conclusion: Women are too unemotional to vote...

...City Housewives IN A RECENT four-State conference on coun- try life, Mrs...

...All either put me in opposition to my children or required the administration of punishments which though they might claim to be "natural" I felt unjust as it was mostly possible to trace the cause of the childish delinquency to some mismanagement of my own...

...this, baldly stated, is the new conception...

...The city child has but fragmentary conceptions of nature's life...

...lives simply the life of the home," said Dr...

...And it will not lump if done as is suggested here...

...This little garden affords an admirable field of work and experimentation where the child learns through his own labor and experience his own failures and successes...

...It is not right to strike them, to shut them up in closets, or to stand them in corners and generally to antagonize them...

...ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL IT MEANS Light after Darkness;—Hope ful- filled;—a new world whose existence had been felt, but never known,—revealed...

...secure a majority of the presidential electors...

...Julian Heath, President National Housewives League, pointed out that it would be to the advantage of farmers if city housewives were trained in the spending of money...

...House and yard, gardens and vineyards, fields and forests, offer numberless opportunities for healthy, useful, interesting and diversified occupations in which a child can be employed...

...there he observes how the plants sprout, grow, bloom, and ripen...

...Gardening is superior to pasteboard, wood, and iron work conducted within the narrow limitations of school shops because it is done outdoors, in pure air and sunlight, and brings the children into contact with nature...

...Unfortunately I never found a book of his, or a satisfactory account of his theories...

...The Efficient Mother "NO MOTHER is what she ought to be if she...

...Politics might well be added to the list, for food and its distribution are tied up with so •many government regulations that no woman can hope to be well informed on the former who does not take the latter into account...

...And when fits of naughtiness come, as come they must under any system of life, these fits are to be dealt with as one does with those of sick persons...

...And I was surprised that when recess came the teachers and children just played "tag" and "Blind Man's Buff," good healthy old-fashioned games, but not improving, like the pretty Kindergarten plays...

...till one wet snowy day in February, 1912, I stumbled on a little school in Tarrytown, New York...

...2) They did not beat on tin pans, whirl rattles or give vent to rebel yells...

...Wo men vote for ninety-one electors...

...These housekeepers," said Mrs...

...If, as I was told, a baby learned more in the first hours, days, weeks and months of its existence than in succeeding months and years, should we not be able to utilize them in some ways not hurtful even to the tiny brain ? Surely it should be possible to put purpose in the eager little hands stretching out after bright colors...

...He will learn to organize his efforts in unison with the poivcrful throb of the community life...

...1) They did not shout for periods ranging from one to forty minutes...

...It was a really wonderful place where children, blindfolded, were trained to recognize cubes, oblongs and spheres by the sense of touch, where, in short, there was real sense training, with every faculty reached and made active...

...That is, he is not to be punished, only to be restrained until such time as he recovers his control of himself...

...The original text brings out in a force ful way the value of school gardens and how they have served the people of Zurich...

...You add, of course just before serving, a little salt and pepper...

...The family in the city is not a productive community any more...

...In Helen Keller, we have a shining example of what may happen when a rich nature has thus been left to unfold itself unhampered, free from interference, and with the appeal made to the child's own reason and will...

...Here also I got little help.The family physician when appealed to murmured something about Froebel, and I tried earnestly to get hold of his writings to discover his real thought, for I was convinced that there was much more in his philosophy, than what appeared in the Kindergartens that I visited...

...In order to make the questionaire a success, the paper hoped to receive 200,000 answers...

...Through these occupations the child becomes closely acquainted with nature in all its profuseness of forms and products...

...He is also to be taught that there are laws which he must obey, but these laws were made for his good, and that of all people, both big and small, so that big people have to obey too...

...This meant the opening of a whole new world of ideas, and month by month since that day the wonder and absolute rightness of it has grown, and little children have become more and more a source of intense interest...

...In his forceful and inspiring article, the writer says: "How fortunate is the country child who can take direct part in the full swing of work and bustle of the farm life...

...In educational circles this deficiency of city conditions in respect to education in work has been recognized long ago...

...Among the remedies for these evils of our modern industrial life the joys of garden occupations and flower planting are among the most important...

...Like many another, I had felt from the early days of my motherhood, that there was something wrong in our methods of bringing up our children...