The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-30
PAPER ON CHILD STUDY.
Miss EstelIa Darragh Thoroughly
Entertains This Section.

The child study section met in the
lecture room Of the Central Presoyte-
rian church at 2:30 p. m. yesterday
There was a large number OF iadles,
both teachers and those interested IN
the subject. DR.. Helen w. BisseH made
a brief address after Supt. Parr had
called the meeting to order. She pro-
posed a plan for the federation OF
mothers club and asked all those ms
terested in the subject to hand their
names to Mr.. Parr.
Miss Estella Darragh, OF the Mankato
Normal school, gave an excellent paper
on "a Study Of Childrens Ideals,
based upon the study of 1850 children;
Miss Darragh in her paper Favored
strongly the furtherance Of child study
both IN the schools and mothers c!uD;
She thought a wave Of progress mad
swept across the schools Of this country
in the last few years and carried away
much of the lifeless mechanical grill
which had Characterized old educatlon-
It's place has been filed with Vltan-
zIng influence Of the study OF hunanlly'
She thought instruction given cnlldren'
Young children, those who attended the
i,indergarten and lower grades in this
latter day gave them higher Ideals OF
life. and that the teaching given now
had been tested long enough to prove
IFS efficiency. Miss Darragh said young
err children paid little attention TO the
outside world. At the age OF seven
years 4S per cent OF the children stud
led found their ideals in their fatner OF
their mother. Miss Darragh gave
dozen or more illustrations or chlldren
Who had been asked who they would
like TO resemble and their answers. In
nearly every case they gave the name
of some illustrious patriot. Not only
did they have a preference for great
MON hit the events which some or the
older children expressed a preference
for were the ideas which had peeI ac-
tuated by the noblest motives. Many
children, among the NUMBER stuuteu'
had shown a. remarkable liking Tor MS
tory The characters in literature be-
come secondary to the authors VINO
craated them. in the mind Of the older
person. but in the child the great men
of all times such as Caesar, Napoleoil'
washington, Lincoln and Grant en-
bodytng to a supreme degree the traits
previously admired in a chic ac
uuaintances, supplanted the AUTHORS
Child study is the study OF human ma
tUre. ~
would like to resemble, and he replied
that he thought he would like to look
Ike William Jennings Bryan. and When
asked to give his reasons for such
preference, on paper he wrote: {,
He has made as many as twenty speeches. IN
Just think. all this. and is but thirty-sx
America had ought to be proud OF such
smart man. 4+
Miss Darragh thought an important
result of historical instruction was the
increase in number. of patriotic children
coming from the lower and foreign
grade Of society. At the close OF MISS
Darragh's paper there was an open DIS
cugsion as to the best means OF 1mpart-
ing lofty and high ideals to the chliureh
entrusted to their care.
Fo1Iowfng the discussion on the above
subject there was a round table talk led
nv Supt. J. A. Tawney~ and Miss Lillian
RleisdelI on Moral Ideas and Moral
Training of Children"