Show Pretending education Is the fashion PRACTICAL ot of th day The rhe boy at school Is confronted with facts Fancies which soften and beautify life Ufe are thought superfluous and fairy tales are often b banished from the nursery Not long ago a lady walked Into a village school and reprimanded a t teacher acher for telling the babies there a fairy story ston Letters In the papers followed and many agreed with the tho action Or of the visitor To teach a child what was not true was said to be unpardonable Nevertheless to listen to stories which are not nol true and to play games ot of pre pretence tence Is and always will wUl be a part of the childish program Go Into your own nursery and Let LetUs Letus Us pretend are the first words you hear The nursery table Is converted Into a boat the nursery floor Is the ocean the boys the sailors and Pirates and toe girls the maidens who are car carried carried ried off and eventually saved That It Is an all pretense enhances the joy of the whole thing Before childIsh eyes spreads a glorious world Who could he e so hardhearted as to dispel It |