New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-19
TRAINING LITTLE MINDS.
WHAT THE CHILDREN's AID SOCIETY IS
DOING FOR THE CHILDREN.
N ITS INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT TO-DAY WILL BE
THD WORK OF ITS COOKING AND

N ITS INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT TO-DAY WILL BE
THD WORK OF IT'S COOKING AND
rRUANr CLASSES
Tho trustees Of the Chldren's AID Society have
invited those interested In their industrial schools
10 attend exhibition OF their work to be given to-
day at the Of the society, No. lo5 East
Twenty-second-st.
The schools represented IN this exhibition are
known as the Industrial Schools OF the Chdren's
AID Society OF the City OF New-York. and are de-
signed to cooperate with the Board OF Education In
reaching and Influencing the children OF the poor
who are unified to attend the public schools They
will be found IN densely populated neighooThoods'
IN the midst 0: great poverty, and where the NORA
mental and physical training given by tho schools
Is mos, required.
There twenty schools Of the primary grade
and nineteen thoroughly organized kinderGartens as
auxliaries. The classes in the primary grades are
divided IN the manner and CONFORM TO the
same rules as those governing classes In similar
grades in the public schools OF this cty-the same
manual being a guide for all In addition to the
prescribed mental operations the schools OF the
Childrens Aid Society have migrated manual train
ing upon their scheme OF education as being best
adapted to interest and develop tho minds OF tho
children for whose particular oeneht they were de-
vised.
Embraced IN this scheme are free-hand drawing
wire-bending Venetian ironwork. cutting OF thin
for boys and cookery for both sexes
NATIONALITY AND AGES.
The children enrolled are nearly all OF foreign par
entage a large proportion being themselves OF alien
birth. They may be divided as follows SIX schoods
In which the pupils are composed entirety OF lteI-
ian Immigrants. assresatins between 20" ano ''o00
IN number: four schools. whose enrolment COM
nr,ses children OF Hebrew birth. their nationantes
heins chiefly Russian, Polish and Hungarian These
echools have a total OF about 1850. One school, SIT
mated In the midst Of Bohemian colony. is attend
ed wholly by children OF that nationality
The remaining eight schools are attendeo ny chill
oren representing a mixed population. few. indeed
,e,ns ~ American parentage. Tho total enrolment
in all the schools shown by the last annual re-
mort Is B2s These children are offspring OF IL
uterate, careless and shiftless parents Ihey re-
ou,rs TO be sought out and befrienceo ana 10 Keep
Them under the educatve influence OF Inc sc"oo'S
tnere must be manifested a genuine sympatdh a
wSich Will not acknowledge discouragement or de-
feat Their ages run from four ana one All ~ ~
twelve years. excepting IN the tfuai' c'A'se'' "
For children who are habitualy sfesui nsssss have
been organized The plan allows OF nuoh o1k mr.:
Msnsa orf ni has R1.e 1 Sa, N al
spoken Of in previous paragrapn, ano, IA ar,r r.,
more work o. s.s eu dasse. ar. limited
I'VE thirty pupils, hayn s sT' the
IN which the scholars engage; x,., .,o,rsv
The results secured have been highly eneo bs e.
,is tbe itie become interested and In time
The streets lose their attractiveness ana the reGon
s.rvcted how goes forth TO remunerauVe eHpiVy-
go. ~ IN higher grade in the grammar scnoois
The Children Aid society is ready TO lncie@re
rnrbe~ NJ such classes whenever and whereEeI ny
ert-eS ~ special funds be given Il ioi thls
onrnose They are expensive. but u Is an Uu.iay
fhat results in immense saving 10 'he ''' "a"
large $500. ~, .ao ,o-sav NJ the work
.hort time in operation. There VIII also 9e a,.o
specimens Of sewing. drawing ana nookinr Gases
yvsIl he orfe-ed The progress made IN mau , "
t,y viii he found 10 be especially intelesu"s'