Show I TRAINING THE FEEBLE STEPS Cent School Was a Worthy Ancestor of the Kindergarten A cent school Is so 80 called because the tho children who come CODle to It bring brIn each one cent clutched tightly tight in a little hand or knotted In ill the tho corner of a a dally dull offering If the tho cent Is IB forgotten or lost on the way war tho rho child goes home homo for another that Is all and has scolding for fa I care carelessness carelessness into the tho bargain The littlest children go to It used to lo go rather for Indeed this should all nIl be In the tho past tense rather than the present the cent school being a thing of the thc past and as ono might say sa a n great grent aunt allot t of or tho the present kindergarten an nn anold anold old woman from the country countr who Is rather rathor plain in her ways way Eunice Swain would have havo thought ht a kinder kindergarten kindergarten kindergarten garten foolishness Her children did not come to school to be amused but butto butto butto to work She put pul them on benches In hor her big kitchen because It was warm there and sat In tho the dining room roam door and taught taugh l them or chastised them themas as ns the tho spirit bado liar her She Sho taught laught tho the three Rs Ra and an manners and truth toll toIl tollIng telling Ing and above all nil humility Impress Impressing ing In on these theBo Infants dally daily that they belonged to a generation not of vi vipers vipers 1 pers exactly but of weaklings L H Sturdevant In Atlantic |