The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-15

queries so tdllA written de 10 bt Wlhii5
unintelligible. II sent 20 us in readable
shape We shall De glad 10 furnish answers.
JOHN JONES NEGOTIABLE NOTE
L hold John Jones' negotiable note FOR
$1,000 which matured December Slst'
1880 The interest on the note has been
paid up TO December 3lst. 1895, and dur
ing 1894. $4,000 was paid on the princi-
pal leaving balance on the original note
OF 10000 Is that balance barred by linn
itation on January lst. 1885, the original
note never having been renewed?
Yes
SIGNIFICANCE OF "MONSIGNOR."
VIII YOU be so kind as TO give the full
meaning Of the Catholic Title "Monsig-
nor" and very greatly oblige constant
reader of the Times?
"Monsignor" signifies "your highness,"
your grace" etc. 1t is an honorary IL
tie conferred upon certain priests at
tached TO the Court OF Rome.
KINDERGARTEN"
With the varied items Of interest given
us In your valuable paper, can you not
give MS in next issue an article setting
forth import and merits OF "kindergar-
temp,
Kindergarten: A German word mean
ing garden of children" IS the name
given by Friedrich Froebel TO kind of
play school, invented by him for further
ing the physical. moral and intellectual
growth of children between the ages OF
three and seven Froebels observation
OF the development OF organisms, and his
fondness for analogies drawn from trees
and plants. made him attach especial inn
portance TO our earliest years years IN
which. as he said. lies the tap-root OF
much OF the thought and feeling of af-
ter life Although the analogies of nature
had constantly been referred TO before
Troebel's days (irst the blade then the
ear. after that the full corn in the ear
and Bacon. speaking of education. had
said that the gardener bestows the great
est care on the young plants, the Renais-
sance left the imparting theory of edu-
cation so firmly fixed on the mind Of Eu-
rope that for two hundred years the de
V.loplnr theory could hardly get a hear
ing. and little was done 10 reduce II 10
practice before the attempt Of Pesiatozzi.
Peslatozzi and other great thinkers mot
ably Comenlus), who attaches much i'm
portance TO the first years Of life, looked
10 the mothers as the sole educator But
In the case OF the poor. the mother might
not have time TO attend 10 her children.
SO towards the end OF the last century,
Pcslatozzi planned and Oberlin, formed
day asylurns for young children: the ben
mother than the child. Schools of this
kind took In the Netherlands. the name Of
play-schoos. and In England where they
have especially thrlvon. OF Infant
schools" but Froebcls idea Of the Kin
dercarten differed essentially from that
Of tho rnfant schools He maintained
that there was something 10 do for young
children which even the ideal mother In
the ideal family could not do
Further importance In this connection
can be gotten from any OF the standard
'Cycipaedias.
MR.. KIPLING.
Is Rudyard Kipling naturalized In this
country
J. r.. ID.
No: he Is married 20 an American wo- |
man and lives in this country, but he is |
not naturalized.
WE CANNOT.
Can you give me any account OF III
mocea7'
ENQUIRER
We cannot There seen.s TO be and to
have been no such person Of any impor-
1Aace. either Ia mythology OF literature.