The morning times., 1897-02-19

for boys must be established, when the
stronger games may be enjoyed. 1t IS in
these games that self-reliance and fairness
may be inculcated. At Providence, Lin
coin Park, OF Brown University, is made
available for the boys TO play baseball
and the like and is very valuable. There
must be, also, rainy day" play grounds.
In these there are exercises, and also there
is reading in the proper time and place in
these grounds.
Another ground is opened nearly all the
time, and coasting grounds take the place
OF bah when winter comes. II is taken by
one society and another when not other
wise in use, and the fire department horses
even make use of them to roll and then TO
gallop about on the sod. The experiment
of public play ground anywhere would,
she was sure, be its own best reconlmenda-
ton and draw at once the resistless sup
port or united public opinion.
Mrs Birney said it had been suggested
that the Mothers greatest need just now
was little fresh air, and the windows
were opened.
An excursion was announced for Mount
Vernon on Saturday by boat or car. The
price for the round trip, Mrs. Birney said,
WAS 90 cents by boat, 3 cents by cars.
The boat fare includes admission TO the
grounds.
A request that delegates wear badges
with names was taken under adviSem"nt
DR.. Stanley Hall, of Clark University,
addressed the meeting upon Some Prac-
teal Results of Child Study" He con-
gratulated the promoters of the meeting
upon its splendid success. 1t was in line
OF the movement which had taken such a
prominent place in this decade That
movement was in scientific child study.
Thousands of measurements and ohserVa-
tions have shown that 43 per cent OF
school children are defective in sight, many
are defective in hearing, in palate and other
faults These are sometimes treated as
dullards whereas the fault is physical, not
mental.
Health is the first thing If the school
is running the health of the child he must
not he sent TO school. Herbert Spencer has
said that if child has not life enough
to play he must not be educated. He told
of one measurement in distant city where
seventeen kinds of bacteria We're found
under one child's finger-nails. In Paris
young doctors are employed to measure
every child when 1T is ready to start 10
school, and to make recommendations for
their health. These suggestions are prac-
tical as the use of milk. hours at play, and
the like. These are carried to their
parents.
The chiid's books suggested by Froebel
are coming into more general use These
are of many kinds, but perhaps the best
are just blank books. One mother kept "A
record of her little one S life by monthly
She put the pictures in gyroscope. and
saw the child grow. The misuse Of this
finer system of muscles, brought peculiar
personal habits, which sometimes grow
into disease. He knew one woman who
had habit of small consequence, which
had grown upon her until she is dying OF
it as truly as any man ever dies of
palsy.
The whole scientific world, he said,
had its microscopes turned on one thing;
that was growth. 1t was found that
mutation has much to do with growth
and education. Birds do not learn to
build their nests and to sing without older
birds to learn from.
Children show fears Of furs, of big eyes,
and of teeth. Studies of perssting in
stincts indicate that these may come from
dangers from animals ages ago-from ami
mails with big eyes, big teeth and shaggy
furs Aristotle had said that education
is mainly to teach TO fear Alright. The
| fact that more people really fear thunder
than fear almost anything else, is evi-
dence that education has not made much
progress.
The basis of the religious instinct, he
| said. was love. This was shown in the
study of children. If the true concepts Of
| the universe are put before the mind,
| and the child learns natural religion
| it will incline him toward holiness from
which no advances Of knowledge can shake
| him: where doubts will never assail him.
Adolescence, he said, was problem that
| should be studied Incur country con ditions
are so different from other countries that
| we need have most care. In the teens is
| the critical time. 1t is the time of religious
| conversions-of changes of all kinds We
| have no traditions running back SO far
as other nations With our mixed blood
| the time of adolescenceis greatly prolonged.
| There can be little doubt of this. In this
/ country it is probably true that the young
| person does not reach the narriageable a ge
| for ten years after this change commences.
Some say even longer time is necessary.
| IT is the time of temptation. 1t is the time
when excitement is necessary and tntllusi-
| asm must be aroused. If it is not given in
| wholesome ways it will come in the two
| wavs which are known as the bane OF mod
eru colleges Various nations provide In
| various ways for this period. That nation
| will longest exist which best provides for
! bringing young men and women success
fully through this period
The value of child study lies chiefly in the
proof that the chiIds individuality must be
respected. 1t is fact that the child must
| succeed in life by doing something better
than others do it. The thing to do is not
to set children up as plants in nursery
row, but to learn its bentand develop it in
that direction.
| Children are taught COW nearly all the
sciences in early life, and it is right. But
it is singular that astronomy IS not IN
cluded ia the number, for no science So leads
children toward a helpfulreligion.
y The evening session at Central Hall
had for it's first paper Reading Courses
for Mothers by Mrs. Margaret Z. Sang
ster After she had concluded Mrs Bir-
pey announced that all resolutions for
consideration must be sent to Room 2O6
at the Arlington by neqn today. Only
such as were gernane to this Letting would
| be considered.
Mrs SangSter, known by her verses
that have been read at nearly every fire
side i'll the country, is large, motherly