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Show CLOCKS U8ED A3 EDUCATORS Armour Institute Professor Pleads for Idea Used by Germans. "While traveling in Europe last summer," said Prof. Louis C. Monln of Armour Institute, Chicago, tho othor oth-or day, "I camo ncross n queer llttlo clock. It was comploto In all Its parts, but was not put together. It In Intended thnt children shall examine tho different parts of tho affair nnd then nrrango them so that tho clock will run. "I should llko to soo such a contrir-nnco contrir-nnco as this Introduced Into America. It intorcsts children, instructs them and gives them a natural prldo in car-Iry; car-Iry; for something that thoy havo cro-atcd. cro-atcd. "Over In Qermnny they call those llttlo contrivances 'tick-tacks,' and primary educators sot great store by them. In Chicago tho small boy Is given a locoraotlvo a miniature railroad. rail-road. Ho then proceeds to smash It to pieces, nnd his proud parents present pre-sent him with a toy electric launch. Ho nlso smashes that. Ab that boy grows up ho bocomes moro reckless. Instead of cherishing .ls possessions, ho has no regard for them." |