The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-23

wrought in less than eighteen months, they would hardly have believed their eyes.
 The timid shy, crying awkwardnes5 of the first days has given place to q bright, happy, intelligent responsive ness that is marvellous to behold, and does great credit to the patient toll of the most efficient corps of teachers, whlose untiring efforts have wrought the change.
 For some time past the name of Washington has been often on their lips.
 They have learned the story of the early life of the young patriot and while hearing the story some busy fingers have pasted stars and stripes; others have sewed outlines of his early home, his hatchets and bunch of cherries on their sewing cards, while the littlest ones have pasted together yards of red, white and blue chains to adorn the room in honor of Washingtons birthday
 Yesterday the room was most taste fully decorated with flags and pictures
 f Washington, as we'll as with the many samples of the pretty work that the childrens little fingers had wrought in honor of the Father of his Country.
 It would be hard to describe the eager expectancy depicted on the faces of the little pnes as they gathered in the kin dergarten room. While waiting for the opening exercise they more than once broke over the bounds of strict order in the enthusiastic words of red, white and blue" or some other song they had recently learned.
 Forty-eight little tots were present, most of them under four years of age, and it was surprising how well they could sing their little songs or tell in childish words the story of Washing ton.
 To the usual meal of crackers and milk were added popcorn and candy and a small piece of apple. The candy was served in pretty paper cups deco rated with colored paper. As very little of it's contents was eaten at the table, each child's name was placed in his or her cup and they were allowed to take them home at the close of the day.
 The children sang several songs and executed some complicated and difficult marches that showed a good deal of in- telligence for such wee folks.
 The entire exercise demonstrate the fact that even at very early age chill dren are capable of receiving and re- taining a great deal of useful knowl- edge.
 Among the present membership are several whose improvement within the past eight months has been truly sur prising, and the saving of only few such as these would fully repay the cost of the work; but the time for fruit has not yet come and cannot be expected for some time. Who, then, can measure the vastness of the results that will in due time crown the labors of the work CTS in this field?
 We wish that the people of our city could be brought more closely in con- tact with this most excellent work, for we are certain that if it were fully ap preciated they would most gladly con- tribute liberally to it's support and ena- ble the society to open another room or even several more for the extension of this most important work.
 J. Preston Strong, Yale treasury build ing, is treasurer of the Elm City Kin dergarten association and will be glad to give any further information in re- gard to the work, or to receive contrib | ii 1tiOns