Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-02
company has been organized at New Lon

company has been organized at New Lon
don with capital of 81 900 in forty shares
of $25 each. Twenty per cent. of this cap
ital has been paid in cash, and the balance
the value of certificates of the
agency for NewLondon county of the Amer
loan Automatic Lighting company. The
incorporators are Almarin T. Hale and
Frank B. Brsndegee, ten shares each, and
Frederick s. Gordon, twenty shares-all
of New London.
SOCIAL EVENT IN HARTFORD.
One of the social events this week of an
unusual order in Hartford will be a recep-
ton at the Athenaum there. These are
the ladies on the reception committee:
Mrs. Francis Goodwin, Mrs. Nathaniel
Shipman, Mrs. JIG. Patterson, Mrs. Henry
@. Robinson, Mrs. J. Hammond Trumbull,
Mrs. J. B. Gone, Mrs. Charles E. Gross,
Mrs. Jacob L. Greene, Mrs. Theodore Ly-
man, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, Mrs. Samuel
Colt, Mrs. g. Nichols Beach, Mrs. Frank
w. Cheney, Mrs. Knight D. Cheney, MIS-.
Franklin g. Whitmore, Mrs. Charles b.
Clark.
Manual Training With Respect to
Character
td6rIorQ Courant.l
The tendency manifest in oresent-day
educational methods to give MANUAL train
ing more prominence than it has received
in the past is, in part, based on unitarian
reasons. It is felt that good artisans and
mechanics have been lost and poor doctors
and lawyers substituted for them, because
of the neglect of this eide of life work and
personal development; it has also come to
be realized that substantial practical re-
turns are awaiting those who fit themselves
for usefulness in this field. The idea that
work Of the hand is necessarily of lower
kind than work of the brain-which goes
back to the scholastic and narrow notion
that the educated person must be white
handed-is now being set aside by the
broader view that brain and hand may ftly
60 together and that many a handioraft i'm
plies and demands trained thinking be-
hind it.
But there is a deeper side than this to
the use and function of manual training.
Those who have thought upon the subject
now believe and urge that the handiorafts
are of value in their bearing upon the
moral nature, upon the formation of
character. In an appendix to suggestive
work on the 'Moral Instruction of Chill
dren," by Felix Adler, included in the
helpful books known as the International
Education Series, may be found the adj
dress read by Mr.. Adler before the Me-
tional Conference of Charities and Correc-
lions at Buffalo four years ago aud entitled,
''The Influence of Manual Training on
Character" Herein the writer develops
his conviction that such training is of
especial fruitfulness in it's effect upon
the mental incoherenoy, the defective or
uniformed will power, of the young. He
thinks it superior for this purpose to the
ordinary studies of the school curriculum
such as history, geography and arithme-
tic-becauss it will interest the child more.
The child likes better what is objective,
concrete; hence the making of box proves
more attractive task than the doing of an
abstract sum; and thereby the attention is
fixed, the enthusiasm aroused, and the
whole nature, before languid, gets pleasure
out of the work, and, by so much, mokes
use of and strengthens the personal will
energy which is the backbone of all real
progress in education. Mr.. Adler would
have this philosophical fact grasped and
practically applied in public schools, and
not only there, but in reformatories as well.
he WOulQ, ZOO, make Ine uRIurAl WOrk DTOau
enough to include all training, SO that the
worker may have before him sn
ideal and strive to turn out something
complete and having aesthetic value, the
| resultant being definite end which has
some idea in It and that idea one which
shall draw on the whole nature of the han
diorsftsman, exercising the will, awaken
ing the intellect and stimulating the art
sense which, more or less latent, may be
found in almost all human beings.
In expressing this opinion Mr.. Adler
does but voice that Of the most earnest
and advanced thinkers on this subject ev-
erywhere, and it is one of the most enoour-
aging signs of our modern educational sys-
tenn that manual training is coming into
its rights and being accepted as no insig-
nifoant part of rounded and useful de-
velopment for the needs and activities OF
the day that is and is to be.