The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25

parts, describe, or nearly so, the circle
and all excresences on any one of thes,
preserve the same form.
| No mighty wave of ocean or tiny rip
pie of the smallest stream but rises anC
falls IN Its majesty or simple beauty il
curved lines. The devastating cyclone
encircling vast acres in its course, often
wheels around, as an after thought, and
takes away the one little remnant of q
ruined town. The moisture which the
sun coaxes up from one place is borne
away in a cloud and given to another in
snow and rain, these still retaining some
thing of the circle. But the beautiful is
one side of form, the practical another.
Straight lines find their place, and their
combinations are not unknown in Ma
ture. The beech nut and buckwheat
use slanting lines, and the horizontal and
vertical are seen everywhere. No COM
bination is forgotten in this wonderful
book, through the reading of which our
hearts are ever lifted in purer and sweet
er reverence to Him who wrote it.
And uniting color with these, the cult
Walton of perception, in Distinguishing
both, together with the ability to give
tangible expressions Of them, makes not
only the artisan, but the artist. And
the question at first, it seems to me, in
these particulars, as in music and other
things, is not SO much the present result,
as the strengthening of faculties which
are to be masters of all results. Iwould
make a strong plea for the introduction
into Primary schools under skilled di-
rection, for wrong way, is worse than
no way, the use of materials for the APP
plication of elementary principles of
Form and Color, the object bring per-
ception of thought, correctness of eye,
ability to compare ana express, skill of
hand in its relation to thought, the cult |
Walton of a love for the true, the beauti-
full and the good, to the exclusion of all
evil tendencies. With eight cubes COW
ering eight square inches on surface
child will not haye to learn that the
area of 2 rectangle or square equals the
product of its two dimensions, or with
the Invisible cube so often taken apart
and put together again, will not have
to study to see that the contents of a
solid equal the product of its three di- |
mensions, neither will it be troubled
about understanding the uniting of frac-
tional parts. The advantages of these
exercises are too numerous to be stated. |
But, some may say, 81 send my child. |
rem to school to learn to read and write, |
and to use figures. But child never
reads until he has learned to discern |
and compare forms, and when he is able
to do this he can read. The more at |
tractive and varied the objects with |
which he gains this ability the more
rapidly it will be reached. A child |
never writes until he is able TO control
the hand sufficiently to make what the
will dictates. He will gain this point
much more easily if practice is given in
the use of other things with the same
principle in all. All letters and figures
are composed of straight and curved
lines, and when he has learned how to
make these perfectly, he can write. So
with no other advantage this result in
reading and writing which, by many is
held to be most important, is greatly
facilitated and back of this an intelli-
gent understanding of what is read, and
easy composition of what is written may
also be counted. But there are still
higher gains, of which I shall write at
another time.
FRANCES A. B. DUNNING.