New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-02
MORE ABOUT THE KINDERGARTEN.

| SECOND DAYS SESSION OF THE FROEBEL UNION
PAPERS AND ADDRESSES by MISS ANN BUCK
LAND. PROFESSOR ADLER, MISS PEABODY. DIR.
sEGUIN. PROFESSOR BACHELOR AND THE REV.
| DIR. NEWTON.
The FrOebel Union met again yesterday
morning in tho chapel of tho Church of the Incarnation,
at Madson-ave. and Thiryhfth-st, with Thomas Cus-
ing. OF Boston. in tie chair. The half filed
with ladies and gentlemen who are interested In tie
kindergarten work which the Union established
! promote. Miss Elizabeth p Peabody read n paper by
Miss Anna auckland on The Use OF Stories in the Kin.
dergarten."
Fosbel notices that Of oil the mental faculties" the
paper asserted, the eshctc of the first to
fold in tho mind of the child and he concludes. there
| fore, that Its training and culture have immediate
claims on the educator. The first perceptions OF che
child OF beauty. We hud therefore, In the kinder
garten, that the means provided by which the
tnetc facnty may be developed and trained to keen
perception OF beauty In FORM color and sound well
as in character aud life. Artistic designs, les
sons form, combinations Of colors, drawing
modelling In clay flowers AMI beautiful natural Objects
music. poetry and imaginative literature all pro-
vlded rs to the rect education OF the child
IL is Of tho imaginative literature alone that have
now 10 speak.
"Stories are the chds first Introduction into that
grand world of the ideal In aud ife and the
FIRST and highest OF stories to enable the child to
form pure and noble ideal Of what q man
tions to tho children OF tho laws governing
lifc for they the lessons OF experience. Again.
n third use OF stories Is the they give child OF
world beyond his and thus next to cOmpanionshp,
they to destroy that egotsm which looks self
centre of all things Stories, too, develop sympathy or
the maglnaton OF the heart ana bring the power Of
ample to bear children. In the Of stories In the
kindergarten the stock should not be too large for chill
drcn delight in Old story and it cannot be thoroughly
understood nor can tanswor all of the purposes 1t is
meant to serve until it has been rcpeaedmany mesThe
stories for the kndergarfen should be Of bright and deli
cate fancy, sweet tender ana trne Stories divided
into ideal and realistic Under the former head comes
imaginative literature, such fairy stories, aiIegories
and fables II anaIyze OF the genuine old fairy
stories we shall nearly always hud That there is at the
heart Of 1t great spiritual truth which forms the
soul, IL were, Of the story Alegorles spirit
ualzed than fairy Stories and less inter
est while fables stories OF Imagination In that speech
Is given TO animals Realistic stories show to children
that the consequences which follow conduct arc sure
the sequence OF cause and effect. In telling n story
We must look for the leading item ana then make the
strong points Of the narrative keeping TO single
Line, and voidng episodes. Tho first person shond DO
used In order to make the story dramatic, aud TO keep
up TIA" cliildrrn's interest
Professor Felix Adler made address on tho rensous
why Inc children % the poor are ~ greater need 81 the
@al,rn system man Ips chliiitn OF e Wealthy:
hunanzipg infucnc" nj the aRc Of CHI drcn IN the kin
dcrtarIcn. These hnmnnzing Influences consist,
MT n laws. Thus the Wild young ARABIA Of the
eudiy t'c a"s ere infoicci with Kindness The chil-
Urn arc used to the haaa empe,s OF their parents but
n3Im AM - IN form hminc.3 TLcn az In iGlar
our Kindergarten 10 the Park and have ll>t of he
cluios AMI gcnous questions that they ask 1T such
Secondly. tie Kindergarten Il more necessary 10 The
poor than - the rcb rcclSe II dcy, Ols the elem OF
o. iLcr hnrd- :or tieir i've hood wv '''''
"Thiidly. the poor need this kinderearten training
Han The rich. Thls fact oughi stimulate bcncy irni
and Charitable people 10 realize tho good that Ag DO
neyr one H wor to say in TrsaTl 70 my cEpc,nscG
schol ~ F.rty-i. ar hist Nntb-.ivr. At first We
had only few schularssiX or ,gntior the impression
s.cncd 70 rrcynl that We were kidnapping society.
LauchiVTl Now. however. we have over 1870 scholars.
The essential elements Of successiul KINDERGARTEN
for the hiren at noon free Of charge and an ample
Almost gu 81 our children orc taken from lhr lowest
AtgainO of s1lry. No children hhOld bc admitted unless
lr Nir Tor tlcin thrn4clYcS' now "" nave moved 20
Broadway aud F0rtyflthst, and there Il doubt that
tue Wincipe Of tree Kindergarten las been fully
''Thls. then. leads me to tho second part Of what
Wish 10 -a!. List Smirr tue question came NJ.
ec1u'ncco i "ur l.vag u nunb,ro gr .!uAi' ns To
thc ndTiaabln'y OF opening brn kindcrxnt~n m
W. cd ' to saT P' i" enc Fi nnG 10 G
ye"p iIOrb"'S idot 10 higher classes. Idon'i tiink
baf NE pine PIE VIII b. r'rrNrl with favor unless
can carry he Sys'em beyond The ago Of seven.
when the kinicg 'rcn method /, supposed stop The
hing 10 do ~ To hpr, lhr puIrip'e = rrtRiny with
view Of nndcls andilR some organized u schDnl for
ihrr are over forty prisons 80 the children I" hc
taugt make III ng IN the workshops. ono oi tn
strong objections TO Ire kin ers1rtn nrth0d IA that
TIE rhert ~ the ruti"n l. cost after c"a-rs be
tho rncpl" and VIII result III great ben III 10 The
wotk.nsmen."
pr. scun formerly Of Pari- spoke the necessity
~ Keeping strict witch upon thr first impressions tina,
are made MON a. ehllIS nlnd. by good stories
irHr the child how OcIprcss Its thoughts In after years
VII hn,ncy ana hrllllan.y .-..,..
Ing bow permanent were The first impressions which
chd rec yes from slorIet She advised nil mothers to
since one IS continually hniing new mcanngs In his
words. " # you would make u child religious" she
Froehcl for twenty years ana hc seems mrxhnustble
Wlrn speak At me rnlning school nsh NE teachers
d1 them od aud what bad TO learn from this how and
Aliss Icabody then hold up hugo yellow poster
hearing tie picture ~ " Dead wood Dick" haro thar
figures In very bloodthlrby In several hnlf-ima
story DnukT. 1hls formed the text for remarks on
I" pornicon, Influence ot such literature The mothers
OF Ameucu, she sud- must awake Ia the Importance OF
IN. question Of pure and Interesting stories for
Tucrr WAS largo audience in The after Don. wien
Professor Bltrhrlor OF Boston, srok" on the "Anao."s
'lnltrn aro beng taught inli-c BY the Gep OF color
Edwnid spring 0r NcwJrr"'y, aftcrward brgnn u
iwellllg upon tho necessity of tenchng children to
aill 1ll dsinSo leading idc" la clay Wok rather than
The Rev T. lIrber Newton spoke last evening before
eaIs he said. the child Is under The influence Of
he kindergaricl system those Jist preceding the
mr whom the STATE taxes him IN charge-tlc when
he character Is plastic and sily,nOdcllc1. Children
al b. saved by good society. and this Is the object OF
he SYSTEM Tho speaker d~et the success hit had
strnded The hindrtgnr'n In connection with lns own
huIrh. They hal Sixty or. seventy pupils. An that
vas best In them was drawn out, and the evil was
hcckrd.
The Rev. Mr. Vermllyc. OF Pttsburg. and Miss Pea
Ody nl-O spoke. TOays sessions will close the meet
uEB ui tho Union. ,
STERN BROTHERS' SPRING OPENING.