The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-17

title pebble, which I had failed I
notice myself. Thus the windows {
the soul are thrown open and gran
panorama of gHvsr varying beaut
passes continually before the educate
eyes.
A nice sense of regard for the com
| fort of others may be cultivated b,
teaching him that it is necessary to b
clean, in order not to be offensive I,
th ose near him. He learns too tina,
the lower animals were not forgotten
by the Good Creator, but that the
senses were given them for this use.
To illustrate. some sample story i
told about thu sense of smell in the
faithful dog by which he was enabled
to find little cEild that had wandered
away.
Now the blind child is taught
through the sense of touch, many
things he could not learn in any other
way.
The hearing, the other higher sense
may be so cultivated that every sound
that falls upon the ear is not only
heard, but heard intelligently and is
correctly recorded on the brain,
If any one doubts the importance OF
this training, lot him consider how
few persons are really good listen ers
and when they do hear have cor
rect notion of what they have heard.
How few can discover rythm or
melody in the busy hum of every day
life, and few whose souls are gladened
by the song of bird or the laughter
of child. But to the trained ear
there is music every where. The
whole earth is attuned to that msl-
odiousstrain waiting out beyond the
limits of this sphere mingled with the
song eternal.
Through the songs and games of the
seasons the operations of nature are
brouA ht to notice.
From the bursting of the leaf buds
in the spring time, to the ripening of
the fruit in the autumnal season, he
passes wondering, mystified. In the
spring he holds in his tiny hand a
pumpkin seed, later he saw the luxur
ions vine with flowers adorning it,
now he beholds the great yellow
pumpkin almost as large as himself.
Could such o5jeet tleosoEs .ai.to arouse
all the higher sentiments of his
nature, and open his eyes to the
mysteries that are constantly going on
in the great wonderful world?
All his powers of observation are
brought into activity with. his eyes
opened he sees, and with sharpened
perception he conceives a correct
notion of tie wonders of this creation.
Through the occupations he becc mes
familiar with the vocations by which
a vast number of his fellow creatures
earn their daily bread.
Every one of these, through the
beautiful songs and games used TO
develope the idea, is dignified in his
child Thoughts.
Labor TO him is not something to be
dispisei and avoided.
He feels in his heart sincere respect
for the blacksmith, whose hammer is
heavy. but his arm is strong. To him
this sturdy smith is an ideal of manli-
ness and strength. Observe the glow
of intelligent appreciation on the
little face when you repeat Long
fellows poem the "Viilage Black
smith"
"Under the spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith mighty man is he,
With large and sinewey hands,"
And later on,
"His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns what'er he can
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man."
Here he finds. associated with
physical strength, the strength
of principle, and he very naturally
associates honest toll with honest
living.
He sees beneath the rough visage
and begrimed appearance the real
worth of this son of toll which makes
men truly natures noblemen. He is
not bli:ded by that false sentiment
too prevalent among his older brethren
who despise the toiler and withhold
honor for the very reason that honor
is due, that by honest toll brother
man is working out his destiny in life.
High indeed will be the achieve
ments of the kindergarten If it ami
hilates this puny sentiment, for in this
we find proof, that little humanity is
still in is swaddling clothes.
In the kindergarten the diyiner
part of the child's nature, the emotion,
is not left to develope by chance, but
is regarded by the true kindergarten
as sacred thing. The holy of holies
as it were.
In the human race the emotions iare
developed sooner than the reason,
hence the Importance of their early
developement in the right direction.
Throughout the years of instruction
the education of the heart must ad-
vance with that of the head, if a we'll
balanced character is to be developed.
All the exercises of the kindergar-
ten are. through the vivid Imagination
of the child, made real. He learns
through the songs and games to love
the tiniest creature. He learns to see
in the little worm frightful to the uu-
taught child. vision of the beautiful
butterfly. The birds egg becomes
sacred to him as he looks forward to
the time when sweet bird will burst
forth from the shell and charm him
with its song.
The bird and the worm and many
other little creatures he so often per-
sonates in song and game that 20 him
they seem like little brothers over
which he must exercise a protecting
care. And the divine command,