| Show rt ns in iii 3 Japan They Have Opened a New aNew and Congenial Profession to t Jap Japanese J japanese P anese Women and Nowhere in the World Have Chil Children dren so Perfectly Adapted Themselves to the Froebel Method of Education I I The kindergarten has s gone to Japan with rith other western we Ideas of education I and nowhere else In the world wedel does this most interesting ting method of or child in instruction attain the same aIDe picturesque ness It was introduced by some soles of o othe the missionaries but the Japanese have i accepted its principles and ideas with i enthusiasm and the foreign teachers meet with the intelligent cooperation of Japanese parents Several training schools have opened up a 8 new field fieldwork d f work to Japanese Ja e women for the girl graduates s have established e kinder kindergartens kindergartens er of their own In Kioto and Kobe kindergarten societies have been beeR mimed formed which publish a pe periodical periodical periodical in Japanese If the kindergarten appeals appe ls to ma mature mature mature ture Japanese e minds it is te still more at attractive attractive attractive 10 to the children c n ren themselves Their intellects a lust just as 8 keen as those of children Jn in th 4 west and they f B take a reB grea delight in the I A q GEE WITH wHITE WHITS SILK EH EM it ON f wor work which whick involves colors and anti their II I combinations for far every Japanese child I is born with artistic instincts and ev cv everything everything in the kindergarten naturally I appeals to him bim Whether a person per on is fond of children or not he could watch the operation of a Japanese kindergarten day after day without tiring The babies begin to troop in in the morning at t 9 S The kindergarten generally consists of two or three square rooms with ta 1 taC C tam straw mats on the floor The Japanese e never wear their shoes hoes when they enter a house to walk over this matting so it is iz always spotlessly clean In their own homes they kneel n cushions on the tn floor but in the kindergarten they have Ilave the same me little chairs and tables ta marked into squares aares which we vie use uee in this coon country try Leaving their gets or wooden shoes 8 in a stand made mace e for fr f r the purpose just out outside outside side th the door they enter in their ittIe white whit tabi socks and bow very low to the teachers before running to their I places i Japanese politeness is inculcated t fc when Mho a a child begin to o crawl a and as soon Boon as he can an stand staid he h is taught to tomake tomake tomake make a 41 Mt ar BO 50 Japanese children k el ren u tJ if all ages age wilt will make a deep et e I when occasion demands and aud that Is Ia very often with gravity ami aM unconsciousness when Yoa an aft small boy would ODd find himself covered with ith confusion The Japanese children who go to the kindergarten called a l pk like the Japanese dolls doll which our chil dren with i l except ex that their tb faces are really much prettier and more at attractive attractive attractive But hair is cut In the same fantastic fanta Uey way and their thou little Dilute kimonos and obIa are even more attractive in the original than III in the imitation Each Bach child is brought by an amah nurse nur or his mother or an older sister and aDd carries a l fUe berto Ubert or lunch boj packed at home It is made of lacquer in three com corn compartments one ODe on top of the other and each is 18 filled with Ith a different kind of food the most moat important of all aft being rice When noon comes the children sit down at the tables with their boxes a bowl of tea and hash hashi or ohop chop c r st 1 1 I p 1 c f 4 J I a d sticks before them At a signal the haahr hl ha ari a dipped Into the tee ten then convey rice bits of meat and pickles to the small mouths with won ivon wonderful wonderful rapidity There Is one fascinating occupation which Japanese children have in the kindergarten denied to boys and girls of other climates This is the raising of ot silk Bilk worms and finally winding the silk from their own cocoons A great feature of the Japanese e kindergarten e like all others is the custom of having havinga a mass of growing blooming flowers in each window The children ren love these passionately I When Then the last lut game has been played i ic b c k r S S t fi F t 1 F I i J H J J 1 A GOING A WAY GOWN SHOT WITH TONE OF op MAUVE and cud the last march the room m mover over the soft oft ift tata r is finished the children bow ceremoniously to t their teachers again in then rush rish off oft full tull of or to greet t whoever is waiting for or tb them m put on their outside garments called and their wooden pta gets in which they trudge home hometh the th older ones to finish out the day da with outdoor game games such as ing in season or called caled bamboo horse bor which Is always a ti source of or jo JOY to U the young Japanese buy ANNA BENJAMIN |
