| Show I 4011 0 0 4 0 A HINT TO MOTHERS 41 + irr 411 0411 Fairu Tafes as Aids to Manaaement of Children 011 0 41411 III woman who wants to be ron Till up 10 date and cultivated I Ivloool nt 10 turn Ul her nOl at a last for fairy loin It evinced by the sInall profile 1 ot her wn friends families 1alry tale are the mOIl recent re-cent > fad In Juvenile education Teachers Teach-ers are finding out that they can touch almost I anything from geography to the Mother mathematics It they have a fairy tot hoon to hang It and that they will aim com to In regarded as fell factors of the youth ot the lalld by their ndllllrinc chargto Ivas fortunate Indhlduali nl ho lived In a day when learning Was nol sugarcoated sugar-coated and the pedagogue regarded a tout stick aa the moil subtle method ol Impraarlng the multiplication 1101 and other forma of learning upon the unnllllng Youthful mind will be Inter eated In knotting just how Jack the Giant Killer Cinderella and IUIL In Boots bid fair to oust the dull Gad grind > yitem of facts Whether or not the superintendent of I he kindergarten of the turnout Prate institute In Ilrooklyn U I the nrit to see I Ih advantage of the fairy tale or nth nt-h hai certainly mad more effective use of It than any educator yet heard ot llach year an exhibition In I given 01 Ilia wk dn In tile Institution the wk hoe Iodine all chipors from > the tiny tots In the normal klnlorrtn 10 Ih Young mn anti Women In the scien inc manual training and art depart nenta of the school This season attention woo riveted by ho remarkable exhibition of clay mod It 1 They vcn ol course crude nun I haped In white clay 1 such mwleli at the nngeri of little children of from S to 6 year of age might ba expected tom to-m like The nun were grouped and designated ai representing a story And i when one considered the age and trade latlv kill required In making former under roTh ro-Th Is I the Story of Iloblnon C tome to-me u wonderful creature In gray mull accompanied by a Man Friday hope Inferiority Is I Indicated by his letter lie 1 The footprlnti on the land the animal of tile Island the lalm tree the hut were all modeled In the clay 1 with an accuracy of detail that shows the hill underitood anatomical And botanical detail better than some older folk eeem lo Near to Cruio li I tile story ot meg fried the itrong one II Is I touched up with a care that showed the hero li I a favorite with the little ones Beside the there are other modeled stories favorite nursery fairy tale being be-ing chapter with Home thought of the leton to be derived from them The admiration ot the throng of vim 1 Itor led to many quotllon being niked of the young Yemen inoomberom 01 ilia faculty ot the kindergarten school on ot Iho great training ichooli from which students are lent to all parti of the country and whoa method art widely copied Tito fairy story and III reason were demonstrated one morning by tho little ton at nork on one ot tits starts referred to First In the bright cheerful school oom that looked Ilk a Pleasant nor Ail the teacher Mid Children I am olng to tell you a tory Hach chill woo eagerly attentive There to i a love ol fiction In children and In child people Then the leather I lal 10 II will ha about Cinderella I That was not tile lory but It will eye I the purpose Motor tile nnnounmnl i she proceeded to tell the itory In itmpl words Illuitratlng It with picture I or I fill sketches upon the bhukbuard In colored chulka When the hall nnltheil the recital the children wire allowed to ask questions Then the teacher expanded ex-panded I utHin her Piety She enforced the moral emihaelied the gentleness nl nbidlrnr ot Cinderella and her reword re-word made the wicked misters eepeclal ly I abhoirent and managed to make Cinderella care ot the fire an excuse for conveying a good deal of Interesting Information about lire The pumpkin coach was an excuse for telling how pumpkins grow for of returns all the children know about Pumpkins through Pumpkin i lei 1 Tito teacher managed to get Mine little platter mice I to represent rep-resent the six mice which the fairy turned Into steeds for Clnierellai loach With theae she wnt nbl to Impart Im-part an object lesson In aUKIon suits traction multiplication and division You would marvel at the Interest thou children look In the lenonl Then the Hill folk were tklllfulty brought to ask questions shoot the I mice and were toll many simple Yet Intereitlnif facts About tin lIblll still life of IIi little rodents A cotillion l Interest In living Ililniiilaiil animal and fillsol unfailing Tho six lizards which acted its footmen and the old rat which was coachman were brought In und the toolloher told how nitonlthed they must have been When ClnII came to fetch lliHin and how Road I when ihe inlwl hour the Second night at the bill and they went buck to their own stressed and were free to run to their holes Then the teacher lol 1 th eager listener about the housekeeping In those holea and numbers ut Inlereitlng thing About the mice and lllurdl that tile battles did not know Indeed there teemed no i nd to the questions Ore children Asked and that the clever Young woman seemed Bbl to make them title After tile lesson story each child wo given aome loft clay on a board still 1011 lo put U Into form All had hai a chance to IInd out airlifting they wanted want-ed to know about tile story and some of the chll Iren had I proudly retoll It for the benenl of the claaa 1 The Illlle one tttnt to work actively and palnttuklilK ly contultlng the teacher often but scorning to Imitate the Mark of rival mol The beat group of figure wa put on exhibition In one of the Road t backrests where tile mil Orion like to look at It End I refresh their main cried in regard to the faclnalln I itory I Title ue or tile fairy trotle in educa lion hall several object Iivtry one know that n chill will learn In tiny when It fall 10 01nhh1 what is nut to It In the form of i fact Incidental the Young mind la I Informed on u wide rang ef subjects Illitory c stilog mythology art Music olr f fill count natural history road I olar i an all Included the Tonto r I h i ei In this notil I course r tu it I only Is I tire mind fell 1 null fi I ill i I Imagination la I cultltat d in I tl I al turn Im reiilt vivid I the iklllful tia hir m ik i Wautlful and wickIn 1 kIn k-In modeling the clay Ihe han 1 III in Hen are trained lo tplltv roll Ih eye to habit of keen tr 111 I on lly a happy day line coinr Ir th > at < IoItI when unreprovid It In p 0111 4 10 shoot up tile branlalk with ja4 the Giant Killer and boa Ilk Since the value of Ih f ilty ill I Ii been roved In school work th Is M ron why theme delightful 11 N i foiled hook ahoul I bi bnnl > n I fi n the youthful > am hat I n It recent fashion It the Moll t no It I wnto a quiet afternoon a Hill 11 anti the plllnlllry readling of a 10it story Ito III give 1 her Pose And qtit nl the child a Iotlllni occupation four whero children May In the Pani tt > < ran r-an ao delightfully rrhearic th stsirl 01 history and fairy Ion I tint II sun met Is I a specialty good tlm f r th Introduction to youthful mini I TIo > r too at that lima the baby n tnl I Is I i illarly receptive for all ol Iu nlu I rehearilng her annual fairy tell of t the bird and flowers and tr Children are etcn the dull > tif tlrm Imaglnatlt creatures and Ihr Mile mind crave the stimulus of th n derful Tito moral of the worst WIT story H I better than Iho moral 11M detective stories and ulld ncit rim that fall Into the hands of 10 IrIlIf children who have Jut patted Ih klr dergarlcn ng Moreover chllJr li > a subtle artistic taste tu VIM h II > 11 llorlea appeal In their cffc t they 0 i more likely to proto refining thin 111111 11 of the otherwise harmhti hut U hr warthy trash that In I Peeved UI as I III dreni literature Nearly all th I fairy tale 1 mull the belt tough t of pv thology are put Into itmpl hru I ot 1 for children Hawthorne and Mr 4 hate ilnilined some John HoI boautlful classic Tito King if 11 Ool leti Iilver Andrew Mns > IllueYIlowanl Oreen Fairy b I nt1 a hoI of others will afford an woild I lock for any one who 1 wlhn In lost the benefits of the fairy tale at 91 m thom t-hom IrTIIM < IvMJX |
