Show kindergarten h rare opportunity offered to login logan children IMPORTANT FACTS FOIL FOE miss hoping of the B Y college offers her ber services to conduct a glass class I 1 have a strong desire this morning to say a few words in favor of kindergartens I 1 do not mean kindergartens of chicago or boston or germany or any other city or country but I 1 mean kindergartens kinder 0 ahtens for logan loan it is true that a number of our good people are in favor of them thein and seem to have quite an interest in them through what they have read and heard of these beautiful institutions but it is true also that this improves the condition very little so long as this interest does not become an active power producing kindergartens to us as a result biow ow 0 ru hive have I 1 thought of the subject of kindergartens and how bow often have I 1 spoken of it too but I 1 have now conle come to the conclusion that we never have them until the people want them badly that the people will never thus want them till they have learned to appreciate them highly 0 and that they will never learn to appreciate them to tile alie desired extent until they have obtained i sufficient knowledge 0 of their virtues when the people learn to believe in fact to know that the kindergarten arten is not a device to kill 1 ill time r for the child until it shall have sense enough to leave the nursery and go into the regular schoolroom but that it renders the child happier because it keeps the and the body of the child in healthful exercise I 1 predict that we shall then have kindergartens yes just as soon as the belief has gained ground generally that to cause a perfect growth of the body bod y every function of the body every organ every nerve and muscle inest be exercised steadily and pro likewise that every faculty of the mind all thein the intellectual activities must le be exercised in order to produce mental growth and elopement developement dev and what of the moral cultivation or the soul of the child is this neglected verily no never in a true irue kinder kindergarten 6 arten on oil the contrary the occupations of the kindergarten der dor garten keep the soul as well as the mind and body in ill a healthful condition manual and digital dexterity cultivates the higher activities of the brain evolves the human being skill acquired in order to express love and create beauty and useful usefulness neEs is a strong factor in the development of the soul the nerves to of f touch carry to and from the brain currents of constructive power and these spiritualized spi ritualized by unselfish motives build up the soul itself thus the lite soul boul of the child keeps pace with his mind and his fiody bod y und and his big complete develop adient is assured perhaps this may seem to some parents and teachers too highly colored but I 1 believe it to be the truth take tile the children unhindered unlearned in the wisdom of the world as yet untainted with the boll boil of trodden ways and as close to the gate of heaven as when they came into our guiding I 1 care and the foil is as clearly re cestive tcp cep tive responsive and expressive express v as the body it is because our false fals methods have perverted it our oui clouds of unbelief have shadowed atour it our habits babits of selfishness have surrounded it and our horizons have shut it in that its spiritual anstin instincts CIS L become deadened deaden cd a the child advances begin the education of the soil soul or of the normal nature with faith in ill the he soul hunger and provision of the soul food let tho the soul foul grow ino into t recognition a of beauty truth purity virtue and harmony let it breathe in the air of love and faith exercise it in usefulness and loving ov kindness train the bolly body and the mind to minister to its supremacy pre macy ard and tile the soul of tile little child will wid run forward up a shining m way whither we shall do well if wo can have the faith to follow mothers and teachers let unlearn us learn to sit at the feet of nature in training our children chil dien either at home or in school for in my estimation it is the cardinal principle of modern education that thal systematic training should watch tho the spontaneous movement of the childs mind and adapt its poc processes esses to these let us all be full of enthusiasm for children and let us its earnestly seek to make our children happy and let me assure you once more the first aim of the kindergarten is ia to see to that tho the six sim years years I 1 spent in the kindergarten room were some of the best of my illy life sly illy whole heart was glowing vi with ith tile deepest interest in kindergarten work and though I 1 was afterwards called abrou through ii forced of circumstances to turn my attention in another direction I 1 have yet nor can I 1 ever lose it on my late visit to chicago and the worlds fair this interest was stirred up a again a in to a remarkable degree in taking n there a kindergarten course and spending sonic some time every lay day with theoe thebe wonderfully bright children with minds full of acl self activity and creativeness I 1 mentally exclaimed we must have kindergartens for our children never can become men and women of such great capacity as these boys and girls what in an inspiration it gave me die a again C and I 1 determined in my I 1 nind mind that after comino coming 0 back to quiet peaceful utah I 1 would raise raise my illy voice long iong and loud to call for kin kindergartens der garters and even commence in the midst of the so called haul times years and years have I 1 known that kindergarten instruction is the only kind that can lay the true basis of foundation for tit the natural and thorough li development of the child and remember this ignot is not a fancy but a reality I 1 have not imagined 0 but I 1 have s seen een tho the dif difference feren ce in childhood and youth between people who it have aye enjoyed kindar kindergarten arten instruction ion and those who had not i then should we ire not have it we must why do I 1 call upon mothers to cheate and to arouse their interest in behalf of such establishments Bec because atlee I 1 arn am fully aware that the connection is very close between home and kindergarten and again between kindergarten and school the kindergarten is as it were the mediator between homeard home and school further I 1 know that tho the kindergarten needs the full support of tile mother if elle ho is i ignorant borant concerning c arning tho the good of tile the kindergarten and in her ignorance 0 ridicules anything said faid or done there the greatest va value lue of the good work Is is lost loft lof t just as soon as the imoto mother ter community is converted to the kindergartens such institutions will come and of course the money for the them ni too during the last few years or since I 1 have visited some of tile the I 1 good people of logan 0 with a little kindergarten book I 1 have been asked several times to establish a kinder aeten here but I 1 could not then neither can I 1 now do it I 1 believe I 1 can at present do more 1 good in the line in which I 1 fill am working n trying to train and c educate ducate the youth of our people t to ti the best of my ability and I 1 arn am so pleased that I 1 shall soon gather them around me lite again in the school room according to my humble opinion kindergartners should be beautiful yo young allm ladies from between eighteen to twenty of a ago ID 0 full of life strength streith M th vigor etc and beaming with inspiration in their line inventing something new every day of their life and what 1 can do I 1 will do with pleasure if desired by mothers anti and may be by some teachers 1 I will ill every week devote one or two hours to that good cause and help the work along nil all I 1 can whatever kindergarten knowledge I 1 may have obtained or retained I 1 will be glad to g give ive to these people for nothing |