Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-14

In the house, and try to. show you the
parts in the Observation-Disclosures people
way of studying pictures.
Sixth Avenue-Aildered, aged yead 5.
was left to play with young coiored
girl to whom she was very much de-
voted. When her mother returned she
was amazsd to find that her child had
polished her face in order that sac might
be black like Susie.
Last fall, Mary, age 4, had birthday
party for her doll She set the table and
had supper She placed the largest doll
at a box, with a music book held opened,
to play during The banquet She said
Nellie doesn't know she is years OLD,
and I'm going to tell her." and holding
the doll up in front of her face, she SAID:
Does 90 know 90 is free years old to-
day?" And after answering for the doll
herself. she said, in amost caressing
voice: 20, you little monkeyr' She then
presented the doll with several presen.s 3,
which she had left concealed in another
room so she would not know of them.
This child had been to a birthday party
about two weeks before this time.
Fourth Avenue-Brdie, 2 vars old,
rocks her doll to sleep and puts 1t on the
bed. When she takes it up after very
short nap, she draws her little chair near
the CRATE to warm its feet. She is an
only child.
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.
Inc Iedc16r uOSS IOl escape we
less little critic and imitator. TWO girls
about u, with some younger children,
play school every Saturday. One is the
teacher, the other the principal, the
chairs being arranged as school desks.
Lucy. the teacher, initiates her own
teacher, especially in matters of discip-
line. AS she needs very little correction
herself, this is perhaps what makes the
greatest impression.
About two weeks ago a third grade
teacher received a chain bracelet, which
she has since worn to school. The next
day after this bracelet made it's first ap-
pearance, four or five little girls had
bracelets; and now nearly every girl In
that grade has some kind of a bracelet.
Two things are especially noticeable
when the mental power is strong. First,
the readiness of the world the child Gre
ates, and second, the trouble he takes and
the many things he adopts to make his
world more real.
In the story of a sand pile, published
in Scribner's Magazine for June, 1888, DR..
Stanley Hall describes an interesting ex-
pertinent made by the wife of Cam
bridge professor who had a load of sand
hauled from the beach and dumped in
the yard for her boys and to play in.
They were soon Joined by a number of
other boys. The story tells the evolution
of which this sand pile was the theater
for nine summers. The development and
peopling of the tract represented by the
sand involved the solution of difficulties,
ina ginative as they were, that appeared
to the boys no less real than those en-
countered by many a people in rising
from barbarism to civilization. The evo-
luton of the various tools and utensils,
the gradual monopolizing of the indus
tries by the most skillful boys, one be-
coming the carpenter, another the pot
ter, a third the editor of the local news
paper with a circulation of ten, the can
dlemaker, the storekeeper-all brought to
the boys realistic ideas of what was be-
ing done in the great world. But must
refer you to the article itself for the de-
tails This sand pile showed that imagi-
nation and imitation work together, etc.
FADS.
After an entertainment in the Powell
school wherein there was a military
drill by about twenty boys, the same
drill was taken up by the smaller. boys of
the lower grades. A variety of impro-
vised musical instruments were brought
into play, such as tin can drums, etc.
Two boys played the trombone with
great earnestness, the trombones being
two long sticks against which they would
slide their hands back and forth as they
marched Some had belts and some
had feathers in their caps and all were
as deeply interested as they marched
about the play ground, as though they
were supplied with the finest parapher-