The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-11-02

| Gney can ma. ray particular dUGeH-
tion to the red in nature. All of these
lessons should be kept as close as pos
sible to nature. You will be surpris
ed at the number of red things brought.
| Flowers, leaves, stones, bits of cloth,
ribbon, paper, etc. And every shade
of red. Do not bother about the diff
| ferent kinds of red. Call them simply
light red, dark red or standard red.
Do not teach red by leaving children
point to certain piece of paper or
spot on the chart and say ''this is red. !"
| They will soon learn the position of
the colors from seeing others point.
Rather let them pick .out from SAM
/ Piles of many cOloTs, those which are
| red or give them something red to
match. When they can do this they
know red. And if they cannot do it
after little practice, they are color
blind. Men who do not know color
will not be employed as locomotive en-
gineers or in other service where col
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all of the standard colorS in the same
way. Orange will be one of the most
difficult on account of its being some
thing like yellow.
After the standards are known the
tints and shades may be taught. A
tint is a color under high degree of
illumination or in bright light. If
pigments are used, a tint is made by
mixing with the key color A shade
is color in shadow. If pigments are
used, black or some dark color is mix
ed with the key"
She then read supplementary pa
per on ILLUSTRATIVE Drawing" defin-
ing it as illustrations as used by the
teachers and illustrated by the pu-
pill.
The ability to sketch from the
blackboard is haven in the teachers
and easily acquired by few minutes
each day.
A blackboard sketch, the work of a
moment, should be made before the
class to give the best results. 1t
should be mental picture of the
idea. For blackboard sketching use
the side of piece of crayon an inch
or an inch and half long. Hold the
crayon firmly in horizontal position,
pressing it against the board to steady
the arm, drawing horizontal line.
Keep this up until the arm is firm and
will do your bidding.
She concluded by saying:
"Stand well back from the board,
but not so far as to appear awkward.
Try making simple objects Of vertical
and horizontal lines, a fence, door,
stone WALL gate and many others
of which you will think when once
you have made beginning. Prac-
tice making the circle at first rather
large Sand gradually smaller. Try
some simple fruit, based upon the
sphere as the apple orlorange. Try the
earth or moon floating in clouds. Prac-
tice, practice, practice.
One day we received visit from
young owl. The children observed
him, talked of him and finally drew
his picture. Some of the pictures
were frightful but everyone had big,
round eyes and a hooked bill. Use il
Illustrative drawing to develop the i'm
imagination"
''There is a future for drawing in
seen in either branch. Let us then
drdac. Let us draao EvERYTHINGw
The paper and the blackboard
sketching with which the paper was
profusely illustrated, was generally
discussed, after which the report of
the Committee on "Nature Study"
was read. The committee consisted
of Profs. q. o. Cox, A. M. Webster,
M. H. Robinson, M. V. O'Shea and
Miss Elizabeth Keysor.
Transaction of miscellaneous bust
ness concluded the afternoon session.
EVENING SESSION.
President Soaring made the address
of welcome He cordially welcomed
the members of the association to the
city and the schools, and remarked
that the large attendance from the
outside indicated the interest that
was being felt in the work. This is
the third semi-annual session, and he
hoped the result would show it had
been the best.
He thought the educational inter-
ests of Southern Minnesota justified a
permanent association in this part of
the state. He said Minnesota had
been little backward in the matter
of educational societies, and cited the
advancement in the state of Wiscon-
sin.
There never was time in the his
tory of this country, he said, when
the educational interests of the
United States demanded and received
such profound interest. The wonder
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