Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
Some Things I Saw at the Exposi.
tion and Fair.

C1OU anu = 81I.
As the Union depot was in our route,
and the morning trains were coming in
from all parts of the world and from
every direction, loaded with its thous-
ands of human freight, we started down
street to it, and, as each train came in
such crowd, such a mess, such jam.
We went up ON one of the bridges and
stood and looked and gazed and gazed.
Such a tangle! Engines with long
trains of cars moving, some one way,
some another. l thought to myself,
81 wonder if those engineers and con-
ductors know which way is home.
wonder if they will ever find their way
out of such a crowd" and such a mess
as they made, ringing of bells and toot-
ing of whistles, / had to feel of myself
to see if was in the body or out of the
body. Oh, did not hardly know [
was myself or somebody else. At last
Charley said, Il guess we have seen
enough of this, so let's go to the Kin
dergarten. - kindergarten, what's
that?" Don't you know that they
have schools where the little bits of
tots are sent to school to learn to read
without books and to do lots of nice
things?" "Well, let's go and see how
the thing works.
After awhile we came to a great big
building, l don't know how big it was
nor how high it was, but it has twenty
four rooms, with twenty-five lady teach
ers and sixteen hundred children.
Some of the rooms are filed with little
bits of tots that can hardly run along.
come to school and at noon this set all
go home and another set comes to take
their place in the afternoon. Ah, you
just ought to see these little bits Of tots
go through all of the exercises, accom-
organ played by pretty young lady.
When we were ushered in room No.
on the first floor we saw about seventy
five, about equally divided boys and
girls. There were no desks, but small
tables about as large as a sewing ma
chine table, made low, with little chairs
for the little tots to sit in, one at each
end of the table, boy at one end and
a girl at the other. These tables are
arrayed in rows and look like one long
table. At signal from the teacher
each boy and girl rises from the chair
and picks up the chair and sets it on top
of the table; then they carry the table
and set it against the wall. When all
of the tables are placed away, the boys
stand like little soldiers on one side of
the room and the girls on the other.
At given signal the boys advance to-
wards the girls, and, at signal, they
make the incest bow to the girls and
the girls return the salutation, and, as
they join hands, each couple prone
nades around the room once or twice.
Then at signal they, with double
quick, broke into a galopade. Ah, it
was just splendid to see them go
all of the different exercises
just as nice as grown folks. AS we sat
and watched how perfect in all of their
could but think of the
old red schoolhouse of my ga, B and
C's," and my sitting on the old slab
bench. How different. and yet while
these children make play of school,
they are farther along in study at six
years than in the old days at ten. The
modern mode of teaching is SO differ
ent. AS it is recess and you look out
upon the campus, such a sight! hun
dreds and hundreds of boys and girls;
each sex on their own side of the fence
like swarms of bees. Such sight!
After few pieces of music were played
by the fair musician for our especial
benefit, we take our hat and with our
best bow leave this living hive for other
scenes.
AS We are in the vicinity of the great
market we will start along through and
see what the people of St. Louis have
to eat. Here in tank are fresh lob |
sters right from the Atlantic Ocean,
alive and kicking. Here are fresh |
fresh fish of all sorts and
sizes-from the little red perch to great
big ugly catfish, half as long as man. |
We saw one great big fellow with his |
eyes set back about half way of his
body; the fore half was as large as the |
1ind half, shovel cat. Itfairly made |
,ne feel hungry to look at all of the
lifferent kinds of fish. By the way,
Jaw man scaling a big fish with a
and the way he made the
scales fly was caution. Meat! such
Quantities and of every species of ami
nal that man eats; fowls of all sorts
hat fly, both dead and alive. Fruits
uch golden, yellow pears and such
arge ones from California; from all