Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-26
FREE KnNDERaARrEns.

eOuraging Work in other Cities In
This Helpful and Benevolent Line.
The interest felt In frse kindersArtsns in
this city is1apidly increasing, and, in view
of this fact, 1t may be we'll from time to
time to call attention to similar work done
in other cities of our land, thus encourag
ing and stimulating further efforts of our
broad minded and far seeing citizens who
desire to advance the moral status of Its
rising generation.
We have already presented resume of
the work in San Francisco subjoined
statements are from the report of the Kin
dergarten association of New York:
Through an interest in the kindergar-
ten thousands are Weakening to an interest
intelligent and elert-in the enormous
educational machine under the control of
our local AUTHORITIES. While experts and
public spirited men and women have long
been studying this subject and urging ad-
vsncement and reform, the ranks of those
who watch and study and demand have
been during the past three years very
greatly augmented. For the Intelligent
advocate of the kindergarten Ia not mere
advocate of the establishment of kinder
gartens; he or she is an advocate of educa-
tion-of the best and truest education, be-
ginning in the kindergarten and extending
through every grade Of our systems, both
of private and public instruction"
The friends of little children have dis
covered in the kindergarten a most potent
and economic means of building character
and laying the foundations for good citi-
zsnship."
"When you give to almost any other
charity or philanthropy, you are in doubt
whether, after all, you may not be doing
more harm than good. But when you,
through the kindergarten, start poor
child on bis journey in the right direction,
with faculties of mind and heart rightly
trained at the outset, you can have no
doubt. Such thing you have found In
the kindergarten work"
"The whole matter is crystal clear; for,
happily, where the protection of children
| is concerned, there is not any free trade
aide to the argument. We need the public
kindergarten educationally, as the vesti-
bale to our school work. We need 1t as a
philanthropie agent, leading the child
gently into right habits of thought, speech
| 1t to help in the absorption and amalga-
nation of our foreign element; for the
| social training, the opportunity for CO.
! operation, and the purely republican form
| of government in the kindergarten make
/ 1t of great value in the department of the
citizen virtues, as we'll as those of the In
dividual."
''The Kindergarten is not for tho poor
child alone, charity; neither is it for the
rich child alone, luxury, corrective or
antidote; but the ideas of which 1t tries to
be the expression are the proper ,atmos-
phere for every child.
1t is promise of health, happiness and
usefulness to many an unfortunate little
wsif, whose earthly Inheritance is utter
blackness, and whose moral blight can be
outgrown and succeeded by development
of Intelligence and love of virtue. The
child of poverty and vice has still within
him, however. overlaid by the sins of an
cestry, germ of good that is capable of
growth if reached in time.
Let US stretch out tender, strong hand,
and touching that poor germ Of good, lift.
ing its feeble head in a wilderness of evil,
help it to live and thrive and grow.
Y. w. @. A.
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