El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30

ordinary uses of coal. There are miner
vi b picks and thovels, and rail va
cars filled high with coal Jumps. and
mine, Gil to show where coal come
from. 1t is an interesting little stor.
told In words and pictures of the utmos
simplicity, and yet 1t 10 part OF IN
world q lore that nsny an elder coul'
not tell go we'll.
The children get perfectly absorbed
in their work taud forge t. the practical
tiles in their eaEernefs to devslop'
their ideas. Almost invariably wher
they cut out hen and her chicks anC
her coop, q favorite subject, they viii
get the most lifelike poses on all o
them but will have the hen three time
az big a. the coop she is marc nine
herself and her young ones into.
The art of these fret graders 10 de
cidedly of the impressionistio school
Their colored drawings of winter
spring, summer, and fall trees are
very broad in their execution, but ths
idea is always there. The winter have
snow on THAR branches or the snow IL
falling thickly, the spring trees are II
pink bloom, the GUNNER trees In full
dense green foliage, and the fall trees
have only few yellow leaves ON.
This 10 eminently IS it should be
The pupils can grow up to care for
their minds at the outset to the big
general effects in the world around
them and to develop in them the habit
OF wstching IL closely, 10 to broaden
their thoughts. To make them try for
perfection In detail in this work would
be to close their minds to everything
but the exact idea OF one minute phase
Of life.
This work is the logical developne Mt
of the Kindergarten idesls aud II car
ried out by sympathetic and intelli-
gent tescher is about the perfection of
modern Pedagogy.
The kind erRarten work does not
show so we'll in this exhibit, though
the neat weaving work, jolly folded
papers, and the pricked lice and cut
paper work IL all attractive and we'll
done. The lovely Slstine Madonna
presides over IL all. The little ones
always have the silent Influences OF
some of the worlds best and highest at
work on their consciousness.
But Miss Joues's kindergarten work
In the school itself, where are the
plants and the music and pictures, the
gay little games and the wonderful
songs, with the little courtesies to each
other, is 80 very much more, that the
exhibit without the children seems in
adequate.
The Douglas school work has its par
ticular interest though II @ main ideas
are tho same, as In the other schools,
but of course different scholars and Diff
ferent teachers work out greatly dit
ferent results from exactly the came
The Douglas school work
presents some very good maps and
drawings, and the exhibit shows intel
Iigent effort from both teachers and
pupils.
The work from the Aoy Mexican
school, besides showing some very
good work in drawings, maps, aud es-
sage, also has q certain quaintness of
phrase cropping out, q certain Mex
lean transportation of verbs and adisc-
tives. And we find essays on Hidalgo,
the father of Mexico, who IL compared
with George Washington. One little
one in her story of George Washing
ton begins with carefully speaking OF
Mt Vernon's big plantations" but in
the phrasing of the soutL west and says
and there was a fine cherry tree
growing on Georges fathers ranch"
The children are given sheets OF
paper at the head of which IL pasted
. little portrait of George Washing
ton and at the foot the mansion at
Mt Vernon. Then they are allow
10 writs whatever they want to of their
ideas about George Washington. The
have read to them about
him and the essays show very different
Impressions among the little folks.
One quaint essay from little Msxioas
reads:
Washington is man very good.
Washington is man very good for
The war.
Washington is the man more big Of
The U nited States.
Washington has q horse very pretty
Ind very black.
Washington has face very big and
7ery pretty.
Watch how the young one expresses
Tor private opinion of the face in the
portrait given to her to write about,
md how quickly she Rodifies 1t out of
and diplomacy. The :child's
is allowed full play i.
hsse studies.
The children of the higher grades
,sgin to study geography and then to
raw asps. One Of the interesting
eatures of the exhibit of the third
,rade is of maps of Ell Paso county
With their accounts OF the industries of
at home. The account Of
he Industries 10 illustrated by cattle
leads for stock raising, berries and
caves for fruit raising, the miner ana
lis pick for mining, and SO On.
Also this grade does Interesting work
a language lessons, in study ing poems
md illustrating them. This idea of
the children to draw 90
much is one of the best ideas of modern
pedagogy. 1t deveiopss the chilc' . in
elligense, his observation, and his
'owers of expire ssion, besides training |
lie fingers to deftness. The exhibits |
make an interesting psychologist al stu !
y. Oae can SEQ the ohildre.. working |
ut the ideas according TO their ewn in. |
ividuality.
The Alamo attracts ones attention |
nth the excelIan hing n nhfsa of nm -.