The Monitor-register., 1896-04-17
NEWS Ar rHE oouNTY-sEAT.

SALEM, April 10, 1880.
AS to the good results of kindergarten
training there is no question. People
who have sent their little ones either to
private or to public schools, conducted
after Frobel's plan, know how much is
effected by this early direction of child
life. Primary school teachers who have
received pupils from kindergartens know
what that advantage means to them and
to the children. Communities in which
free kindergartens have been made parts
of the public school system have learned
to appreciate and understand the good
work that is done there. So far the
kindergartens in most American cities
nave mainly reached the children W h O
b ave least need of them. Those whose
home life is fostered and guarded by
parental intelligence and affecti on profit
by the study and play, the training of the
faculties of perception and expression,
that the kindergarten, based on the Ger
man masters wonderful knowledge and
love of the child, gives in such abundant
measure. But it is the children who
have the least care at home, those who
would otherwise learn the lessons of the
streets, those who have first been taught
to lisp in alien tongues, who need this
chance the most. The little child has a
wonderful capacity for learning MANY
things. 1t is all important that it should
get the right start. This will come with
the general introduction of the kinder
garten into the public school system, All
advan ced educators realize this fact. and
all who think at all upon the problem of
c~hildhood's training must recognize it,
too. The effort which the Womap's
Club, in this city, is making to promote
the establishment of free kindergartens
in our public schools is a wise and COM
m endable one, and ought to receive SUBJ
stsntia encouragement, and no doubt
will be favorably considered by the Board
of Education. 1t is a necessity as a part
of the curriculum of all public schools.
Horace Shoemaker has resigned the
position of organist of Broadway M. E..
Church and Miss Jennie D. Keen has
been elected in his stead.
Miss Bessie K. Hires gave a musical
reception to Mrs. Louis D. Pancoast on
Tuesday afternoon and evening, which
was attended by a large number of
guests, and the occasion proved equally
delightful to the hostess and guests,
Only ladies were present in the afternoon
and gentlemen attended in the evening.
A poll of the business men of this city
as to their Presidential preference has
been made by the Standard, and it finds
out of sixty-ive interviewed, thirty-two
for Mckinley, fourteen for Harrison,
thirteen for Reed, four for Morton, and
three for Allison. Mckinley is undoubt-
eddy the popular choice.
At the annual meeting of the Auxiliary
to the Y. M. G. A. the following officers
were elected for the coming year: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Robert Seagrave; LIST Vice
President. Miss Mary Hires; I'd Vice
President, Mrs. Albert Fl. Shape; Secre-
tary, Mrs. s. M. Price; Treasurer, Mrs.
Lizzie Robinson; Board of Managers,
Mrs. Robert Boon, Mrs. William B.
Hooyen, Mrs. j. Q. Davis, Mrs. Richard
Davis, Mrs. Thomas Dunn, Mrs. Charles
s. Lawson, Mrs. Harriet Lippincott, Mrs.
Alex. Hand, Mrs. Margaret Bilderback
and Miss Bullock.