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Show INFANT TRAINING. Miss Tcabody becamy first interested inter-ested in kindergaraten training by observing, some fourteen years ago, ! tho superior manner in which the little daughter of Senator Carl Churz 1 was being trained by her toverness in accordance with l-'reobel's system. From that time she. has b''en an earnest student of I-'reubel, and as the - ftdl iiieanimr and value of his treat discover' have become more clear to ucr, she has grown more enthusiastic year by year in her desire to see the system here advocated introduced not only into every schoolroom, but to every fireside honoml by the, presence of children. Liulh mother and nurse, she insists, should be abie lo guide Iheir little charge from its earliest tangible life, according to nature's h;e,Uet suggestions, interpreted by Fuebel with sucu marvelous wisdom. But the great child friend himsell decided that alter lac cuild is three or four years old bis true instincts demand de-mand that he should not be restricted to the experience of the family circle, for it does not allurd a suiheient scope for the development of those aclivilies which, in their combination, constitute life, hvery child netdj the stimulus to growth gained by tin; sympathy and companionship ol others ol his own age, and to recognize recog-nize early Ibe rqiul rights of self and neighbor, which conditions cannot enter. into bin training early enough in tho isolation of the nursery. Yet the earliest elevelopmt nt ul lilc, while ueec.-ariiy under the direction ol the-mother the-mother or nor-., is considered to be of infinitely more moment in the formation for-mation ol character than has ever been su-peeied by our ancestors. |