The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Mrs. Sherwood Tells How to En-
tertain the Children.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE SMALL BOY
How the Young May be Taught to Play at
Being Useful-A Lesson in Sim
pie JugglerY.

NEW YORK, April 10, 1S91.-[special cor
respondence of THE HERALD. In the life
of Nine. Snetchine we read the following
account of the amusement of a clever child {:
1.-The occupation of courtier did not pre-
vent Mons. Soymonof from bestowing the
most assiduous care on the education of a
daughter who for six years was his only
child. He was struck by the progress of
her young intellect. She showed an apti-
tude for languages, music and drawing,
while she developed firmness of character,
a rare quality in child.
''She desired watch with an ardor which
transpired in all her movements. Her
father had promised her one. The watch
came and was worn with the keenest enjoy
ment, but suddenly new thought seized
upon little Sophia. She reflected that there
was something better than watch. To
relinquish it of her own accord she hurried
to her father and restored to him the object
of
HER PASSIONATE DESIRES
acknowledging the motive. Her father
looked at her, took the watch, shut it up in
a bureau drawer aud said no more about it.
NJ OOl - IIOlIS NSIS dUOl W I'LL
bronzes, medals and costly marbles. Sophia
was on terms of intimacy with these per-
sonages of fable and history, but she felt
an uncomfortable repugnance to a cabinet
full of mummies. The poor child blushed
for her weakness and one day when alone
opened the terrible door, ran straight to the
nearest mummy, took it up and embraced il
till her strength and courage gave away and
she fell down in swoon. At the noise Of
her fall her father fastened in, raised hel
in his arms and obtained from her not with
out difficulty an avowal of the terrors which
she had hitherto concealed from him. Bu
this supreme effort was as good for her as
victory. From that day the mummies Werl
TO her only common objects of interest ant
curiosity.
''sTUDIoUs AS WAS HER EDUCATION,
NJ. Soymonof did not Danish dolls Hi!
daughter loved them as friends and pre-
served this taste beyond her childish years
but elevated it by the admixture of an in
tellectual and often dramatic interest. Hel
dolls were generally of the largest size. Sh,
gave them each name and part to act, es
tablished connected relations between The
different individuals and kept up animated
Dialogues which occupied her imagination
vividly and became means of instruction
Playing dolls was for her an introduction
to ethics and knowledge Of the world.
GATHERINGS court was a succession o
continual ietes The fairy pantomines per
formed at the Hermitage were the first t
strike the imagination of the child who, a
yet. could not relish the tragedies Of Vol
taire She composed ballet which sh
called The Faithful Shepherdess and th
Tickle Shepherdess.' She writes in ner six
tieth year:
ONE OF THE LIvELIEsT PLEASURES
of my childhood was to compose festiv
decorations, which l loved to light up an
arrange upon the white marble Gimme
piece of my school room. The ardor whic
/ threw into designing, cutting out an
painting transparencies and finding en-
blems and notices for them was somethin
incredible. My heart beat high while tn
preparations were in progress, but the me
ment my illumination began to fade, an ID
effable devouring melancholy seized me-
This extract is invaluable, not only for it
historic importance, but for the keynot
which it sounds to child's nature.
The noble little Russian girl at the cour
of Catherine of Russia only found thos
pleasures lasting which came from hersel
and when she could invest the fairy pantC
mime with her own personality.
A fairy pantomime is possible TO the poor
est child, If some supreme intelligence,
AN OLDER SISTER OR AUNT,
Will lend her help. Inc 1alrleS can all be
pasteboard with strings as the motiv
power There can be no cheaper "corps d
balletp nor any more amusing.
And the story of the watch is signifcan
as showing that the wish once gratifie
ceased to be wish. She desired with
child's caprice to give it back to do some
thing else with it.
'sYou have done much for your child, NV
often hear. ''You have had a nurse,
nursery governess, fine pony for your boy
YOU take your children often to the play an
give them dancing parties, and yet they ar
not happy"
This is the sincere regret of many man
ma that she cannot make her children haI
DIV. Yet in a large town in house shut u
from our cold winter blasts what can sh
dog A good dog and a kind-hearted set c
servants will solve the problem better tina
all the intellect in the world. Grandmau
ma brings doll to the little girl, who look
it over and says:
THE DOLLY CANNOT BE UNDREssED;
do not want IT'D
1t is the dressing and the undressin
which are the delights of her heart
A boy wants to make noise first of a
things. Let him have a large upper {
lower room, drum, a tambourine, a bal
and there he should be allowed to kick OIL
the effervescence of early manhood. q
not follow him with all manner of prohib
tons. Constant nagging and faultfndin
is an offense against child's paradise Pr
him in a room for certain hours of the da
where no one need say: "Get down; don
do that: don't make so much noise.'' LIE
lm road and shout and climb over chair