Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-05

heir apparent" Just as Dolly Winthrop
said, in Silas Manner" IF you cam
bring your mind to brighten the child of
touching things, you must do what 20,
can to keep EN- out of the way. That
what do wi the pups as the lads are allay.
a-rearing. They will worry and gnaw-
worry and gnaw they viii, if it was one.
sunday. cap as hung anywhere so as they
could drag it. They know no difference
GOD help 'em it's the pushing O. the teeth
as sets 'em on, that's what it is" That's
exactly what it is with the restless child
It's the pushing of the teeth, the intellect
ual molars and bicuspids, SO to speak.
They are getting ready to masticate their
mental food.
Bodily vigor, mental activity and moral
integrity are indispensable to perfect life.
All these are cherished and developed in
the kindergarten. All these make the man
and woman and prepare them for efficient
work IN every department of life. Every
child should have the privilege of making
the most Of himself by unfolding all that is
IN him. As has been truly said THE
poor man suffers wrong when his educa-
ton Is so defective that he cannot use his
faculties Alright, when his senses are
blunted, his observation and judgment iu-
secure. This wrong to the poor man may
De avoided by early methodical training
IN the kindergarten, thus fitting them for
industrial pursuits. For in the kinder
garten development, whatever comes in at
the open door of the senses is turned into
practical power. Habits Of observation are
cultivated. Observing is more than seeing.
The child in the kindergarten is taught to
observe-that is, to notice with attention.
to see truly. What he learns in the kinder
garten IS calculated to make him keep his
eyes wide open to the world about him.
de Is taught TO think and that is the primal
thlno. Ihe kindergarten makes the knoWl-
eoge OF ideas wait upon the knowledge of
facts, just as 1t subordinates the cultivation
OF the memory to the development of fac.
ulty-every faculty of the child is to be de-
veloped. And this educating together, the
head, heart and hand, is the great need of
the nation to-day.
The kindergarten is the best agency for
setting In motion the physical, mental and
moral machinery of little child, that it
may do its own work in its own way. 1t
IS the rain and dew and sun to wake the
sleeping germ and bring it into self-activity
and growth. The heart as well as the head
comes in for its share of training. The
kindergarten regards right action to be
quite as important as rare scholarship. 1t
works for both, knowing that ignorance
and lack OF character in the masses will
never breed wisdom, so long as ignorance
ana lack OF character in the individual
breed folly. What we need to do is to
BRING more happiness into childhood, and
then we shall bring more of virtue, for
virtue kindles at the touch of iov." The
is the paradise of child
hood" Froebel insisted that education
and happiness should be welded. that
there should be as much pleasure in salts
tying intellectual hunger as physical hun
ger. And should not this be so? Is it
not more or less the fault of methods that
il is not so?
And just here l wish to saw that the
moral and religious Influences OF the
kindergarten can scarcely be overestimated.
The kindergarten does not attribute every
mistake of child to total dsprayity. tn
be perpetually telling a little child. even p
very naughty child, that there is no good
IN him, that he is vile and corrupt, is one
Of the very best ways of making a rascal
put OF him, If he has any spirit in him,
and OF making little hypocrite of him, if
he IS mean-spitited and weak. And this
holds equally true of all children, whether
hey come from the palatial homes of the
'lch or the wretched homes of the poor.
There is more ignorance than depravity
when little child goes wrong. He must
stumble and fall many times before ne
earns to walk uprightly, either physically |
)r spiritually. He must learn 10 climb
he stairs of moral difficulty as he learned |
o climb the household stairs. As we pa.
iently wait for the body to unfold and DO |
is best, wisely guiding it all the while, so |
mould we patiently wait for the souls IN +!
gliding. All education is growth, not |
reauon. And to all growth belongs the |
element OF time. A child goes to the |
,indergarten as an apprentice goes into |
n nop-1o ieafS something. ne knows III.
e. ne mas everything to find ont
;as arliu IS the tool-chest. His facul-
20 'ue implements. Suppose he
y. uss maze mistakes His mistakes
8 70 I IL uepfaVlty; We are none
aarnad o' y MN me trar. g of conduct"
T. tbe I;..i ma. are the stakes of child
ann,sr OIL 90 "a. penn ~ at work with the
ba na;I b S,,a naiis ging bis best TO drive
be na;i ' % po ,,-''i Ag his thumb instead of
Torst Of # ~ little fellow He has the
Nc has;, ~" See that irrepressible boy
one M O" ar faculties in him are tremen-
You ought to thank God for them.
-hey Ere the drive-wheels which rightly
lsed, will make him leader and COM
la' Ider among men. Train that boy in
% d through these faculties All the facul-
les have mates. Over against ombative-
ness stands benevolence. If the former is
likely TO get on the rampage, touch up the
latter. Ii courage is likely to mount into
touch up fear g little The primal
ideal OF all government should be to teach
a child to govern himself at the earliest
possible period. And 10 learn how to gov
ern himself child must be INDUCED in
self-government. The true teacher will be
aiming all the time at the child's enfran-
chisement-not in making him an unwill-
ing slave. The law of kindness bodied
forth in eye, and lip and hand, vii make
royal government. The rafters of love will
make home of law And this Is the
principle on which the kindergarten gov
erns It's pupils.
above all, the true kindergarten aims at
the cultivation OF the heart and soul in the
right direction, and leads them to the
Creator of all life and to personal union
vito him. The law OF duty is recognized
by the little ones as the law OF love. 1t is
the aim OF the kindergarten to lead the
little ones to their heavenly friend. They
are taught TO love him. They are taught to
love'one another, TO help one another, TO be
kind to one another, to care for one an
other. No one can love God who does not
love his fellows. The child in the kinder
garten is not only told to he good, but he is
actually helped to be good.
The very foundations on which true
character rests are laid in the kindergarten.
Habits OF virtue, truth, purity and truth
fitness, are here inculcated; and what is
character but crystallized habit?
\ republic tina. expects 10 survive. and to
increase in power and greatness. must see
to it that she does not carry within her the
seeds of her own dissolution 1t remains
forever true of nations as of individuals.
that ignorance and crime breed dissolution
and death.
AS to the moral effect of the kinder
garten, 8 little three-year-o can best tell
the story. A bright, little blonde lassie of
three years, belonging TO one of our kinder
gartens, was holding tightly the hand of
ner lady guardian, as they wandered
among the marvels of the Mechanics Insti-
tute Fair. 1t was high carnival with the
little kindergartners. This nervous little
midget was wild with DELIGHT a. the Won