The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
Sides of the Room Are Arranged Little Cells or Compartments

in rapid succession. In the primary stages of the teaching he suggests that about three pictures should be shown, the idea being to train the child to make mental observation quickly and to retain in the memory what has been seen. He says: The child necessar- fly acquires the habit of attention, and this is the beginning of acquiring a memory. The child knows what he sees, and mark this point, he learns to tell what he knows. You know, 1t has been said of men, having eyes they see not, and having ears they hear not and there Should have been added, and the poor dumb creatures cannot tell what little they know To one who observes. how debasins 1t all is. 1 call it the prostitution of God given faculties"
 Now, with the number one," con- tinues MT. Faust, T would continue the single object with the word and object pictures following in rapid sue cession until the pupils memory had so developed that he could follow at least ten pictures shown in this way at one drill. The pictures are changed at each recital so as to have new objects of interest The special aim at this time is rapidity in the succession of the pictures so that the mind to it's capacity worked rapidly and this is the one point that is very desirable to have fixed as a habit" MT. Faust claims that a mind well trained in this way will cover more ground in few mo- ments of time than will one of the slow going children of to-day in as many hours. He also makes the as- sertion that the mind can be so devel- oped to rapid thought that 1t becomes automatic in effect.
 The children who have been tagged No. are those who have gone through the training in which the pictures thrown upon the lens consist of only one object and one name and have reached such a stage of development that the pictures designed for them comprise two words and two objects. but in this instance both the objects shown are animals.
 The No. 3 grade pictures have three objects, two of which are animals and the third bird, and accompanying these objects are the three descriptive words-all monosyllables.
 No. follows in the same way, only there are two animals and two birds, and there are four words. and the dis syllables begin to appear, but they are such as the teacher would class as easy"
 Then the No. 5 follows under the
 
 birds and two animals in the picture and there are of course five words, mostly monosyllables, but the dissyl- fables are more frequent and 8 tr1f1e more difficult than in No. 4.
 When the child has gone through the five numbers he is then through with Department No. and Is ready for De partment No. 2, which is a duplicate or No. l and has its five acres or park | IL .<.F nsN,r and also an annex, which IS spacious apartment in which in tiers and rows under glass cases are ranged the nora to be found in the park. There Is also an aquarium we'll filled and flowers and animals in groups. all the work oi a skilled taxidermist. In the center of the annex there will be a great variety or seats, rests and inclines ana provls- lon for instructive games.
 In Department No. 2 the children will be numbered from one to five They would occupy the same peculiar cells, with the adjustable chair, foot rest and shoulder-clamp.
 The No. l children would be shown | pictures with six objects, of which there are four birds and two animals one bird and one animal named in dis | syllables and the others in monosyl- fables. The next grade would be five birds and one animal, and the next 1 four birds and one animal and the next three animals and three birds and in the fifth but two objects and some words.
 It is in this department that MT Faust would have the children begin to form sentences It will be seer from his arrangement of pictures thai the word and Is the first connecting word brought to their attention.
 In further explaining his theory MT Faust says: ''I would not give exact 1 ly the same succession of pictures t