The Portland daily press., 1882-10-12

only punishment is to be sent home The methods
OF the klndergartens are largely employed The
children are taught sewing, moulding in clay how
TO wash DISHES, dustiug, bed making, etc.
y III fkeu improvement has been noticed in the
manners q the children attending these schools.
Inc lnnuence upon the comfort and cleanliness of
1ne HOMES these children come FROM can not but be
gfeat ana benefcent Physicians testify to the
improved heath among the poorer classes result
ing nom these schools. There Is q great lack of
tesehers for these summer schools They are sup
ported by private funds.
Ihere y no more economical method of protect
ing society than by preventing crime. 1t costs
more 70 care for the pauper than to educate and
TRAM the child. An enlightened selfishness calls
ior preventive measures. In New York, crime has
diminished 20 per cent, owing to the childrens aid
society work.
he IDEAL vacation school will be in the country,
where heart, hand aud head all find instruction.
Miss Mary e. Eastman opened the discus
sion on the paper Of Miss Sewall and Endorsed
the views presented in bri ght and entertaining
speech calling out much applause and laugh
ter
we all need SHIT said, to leave once in
while the ruts to get outside of the drudgery
and routine of our daily lives. But what diff
erent results of health and help two who see
the same sights, bring back! What would 1
not give to see with the eyes of an Agassiz! I
am deeply impressed with the necessi-
ty OF summer vacations and summer
schools What we women want is not
only oul time and liberty, but instruction. We
want some wise student of natu re to tell what
there is in nature SO that we can really see
with our eyes and hear with our ears. The
best that come of us women can do is to patch
up, will not say our wisdom, but to patch up
our ignorance. daughter and applanse.)
Those of us who we're educated ten to twenty
years ago missed a great deal; we have all of
us missed great deal for much advance has
been made in education the last five years
and the best we can do now is to pick up what
we can, and We need instruction to help us
out. a lady who went with party OF chill
dren taken by the Fresh Air Fund, told mo a
pathetic story Of a poor girl who there and |
then saw tree for the first time; incredible as
it may seem. She had been brought up in a |
dance hall in Boston and had actual |
ly never seen tree. All of |
these children taken from the dirt and squalor |
of their homes for breath Of country air do |
not know how TO use their own eyes-they |
have to have their attention stimulated and |
guided. But their eyes compared with ours
are no poorer than ours compared to Agassiz
We need to be taught how to SEQ. I am cor
daily glad of these vacation schools and of |
the schools for little children and there is no
reason why the broad free methods employed |
in these, which were at first called play
schools, should not be Incorporated into our
school system. Another point to be noted is
that these summer schools have been sup
ported not by the State but by individuals of
large fortune and generosity. Miss Eastman
made an indignant protest against asking hard
worked teachers in the public schools to teach
in these summer schools.
Miss Eastman was followed by Mrs. Hen
rietta D. Walcott who spoke briefly of the
vacation school at Dedham and of the mis-
take made in announcing it as school for the
very poor. She urged that women owed it to
themselves to demand the same course of |
training in the public schools as in these vaca-
tion schools.
1.-THE evening session is continued on the first
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