The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02
A H0USE-TO-HOUSE MUSEUM.
An ABLE FRENCH EDUCATIONAL.
SYSTEM IMPORTED INTO THIS
COUNTRY.

Ii Is n Travelling or Visiting Museum,
Whereby clubs, schools or Fami-
lies Can Subscribe and Have All
Kinds Of Natural History Curiosi-
ties brought Into Their Homes.
/ Scholars museums giving the sum
and substance of natural history in ac-
tual specimens and in portable, prac-
teal form are something new. These
museums can be passed on from school
to school, or from club TO club just as
the travelling libraries are conducted
! They ere admirably adapted for home
study rooms or for an average sized
household Wiling to give up wall space
10 che children's interests The COVER
ness or house mother with such a tidy ex-
! hiblt a. hand would never lack entertain
ment for her charges, and when dun
weather or accidents keeps some little
keen-wit indoors. or confined to an inva-
Has chair no better resource could then
be had 10 Danish restlessness.
The famous natural history collections
of the world are an in the big cities, in
| volying time, outlay to get to them. Some
few exclusive private schools have col
! lections to study FROM but the common
school children are denied the privilege.
! The scholars museum is intended 20 car
| ry the interest and resource of such muse
UNI collections INTO the homes, school
| rooms of every remote districts This IS
what the musee scholaire is doing for
! France.
The cards are two feet long ond pro-
! porIonately wide. The first % treat of
/ the vegetables and botanical Kingdom.
| giving some idea Of agriculture of the
! pests and insects that destroy grains.
fruits, cts. The pictures are apt and the
| specimens fastened to the cardboard in
durable practical fashion. These first les
! sons prepare the way for the ensuing Sc
ries which deal with the relation of these
growths, minerals and deposits to the
| worlds commerce and Industries. Natur-
| al history practically applied is the origi-
nal idea that finds expression on the cards
why, here's real coffee just like Susan
! gets TO The grocer's,' exclaimed a little
girl, her notwithstanding a the discovery
and one could tell from her look that the
relation between the foreign coffee plant
| pictured in natural colors and the table
luxury was, for The first time, brought
home 10 her.
And there's LITTLE sample of breadp'
she called. And look, Sadie! a flour mill
with men working In it and a sheaf of
wheat as it grows" And the two students
went on discovering familiar things traced
| back to their origin The dye-bearing
pants and samples of the stuffs coiored
with the matter constitute another chart.
Also three that give Oil These museum
"tab!eaux that is the French name, the
English call them cartoons-get right down
to bottom facts and rivet the scholars at
tention. Cotton is exhibited in the bah
then as e is after ginning, and a speci-
of eof nd ,f 7,F
ton cloth appended. The cards relating to
| earth deposits show the wood turned into
coat with Illustrations of the coal fields
and hints of the uses of coal oil and gas.
Samples of crude ores and metals are
supplemented with pictures of samples
of the things made of them, after passing
| through the smelters and refners' hands.
The lead copper and iron charts touch on
electricity on the telegraph, on the chem
lists interests, and the student sees sam
pies of car rails, lead wires, type and va
Iious illustrations of the uses of these sub
stances. Tin, zinc also the mineral sub
stances used 10 treat the metals such as
sulphur, vitrol and other chemists mater
lads come in for illustration.
Emile DegrOiie, the originator of the
musee scholarie, knew just what to n
clude and what to leave out of his illus
tratiOns. All dry. tedious details are avoid
ed and Just enough told of the industries
and their scientific side to whet the appe-
lite for knowledge Paper making is
treated, both in pulp and the finished pro-
duct, the fine and common kinds. Gays
river sands and soils leads TO pottery. of
which crude first form are shown-clay
pipes and ptatters, then the artistic fare
Size ware and light art glazing.
Glass making has. fun illustrations; and
the textiles, from the wool and cotton fab
RIGS of knitted stocking aud carpet; of fine
.u..Nn
stuffs made from hemp fax and grasses
TO illustrate them. Leather in all stages of
development have a place. The hairy, I'M
tanned hides of the different animals. the
| uncolored morocco and the beautifully
tinted leather also the uses made of the
| left over remnants and shavings are so
| entertainingly treated that no child who
| heard about them but would feel an in
terest in the texture and make of the next
sachel, shoe, pocketbook or goat bride
| that he came across.
Not all the museum is taken up thus
| practically Full charts concerning mol
lusks and creeping expenditures birds.
| hats and anima.culae are there to prompt
the embryo scientist, and the imaginative
child interested in one-eyed insects and
sea serpents. The elephant his haunts
and habits and the uses for lis tusks and
| the prehistoric land lizards who could
| stand up on their hind feet and feed off
| the tree tops.
To thoroughly master the museum would
| occupy normally bright child a couple
of years Just studying in desultory fash
ion. and the entire plant of charts wind
ing up with descriptive illustration of the
human anatomy and physiology costs $50.
The mounted specimens include one sam
pie of each department, fish, serpent,
beast, bird a full floral collection, espe-
ciaIly mounted, and complete exposition
of minerals, ores and fossil deposits The
educators who first imported the French
version and had it translated are the trus-
tees of the Brooklyn Arts and Sciences
Institute. They expect it to come into
common use for the public schools
throughout the union. as trustees from
BOSTON Chicago and st. Louis have writ
ten for samples. Olive f. Gunby.
THE LION Is MEAN SPIRITED.
The King of Beasts as Easy Temper