Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-09


hengrin dove gray. That the names
are meaningless seems to have moth
ing to do with the case. No one would
ever dream that electrique designated
pinkish mauve or Ophelia pale sill
yer blue; and down the entire list is
found the same lack of reason for the
titles attached to the new shades.
kindergartens.
In the kindergarten Review are
many interesting and timely papers;
in fact, it is an unusually good num-
Der of an excellent review Every one
is interested in the Elizabeth reabody
house,-or houses, for it really occu-
pies two old, but well built houses, IS
and 81 Poplar street, Boston, in an
evil corner in an evil neighborhood
and SO much the better for the work
to be done. In the home there is first
the delightful kindergarten, rooms
needed by the residents and students,
then one floor, the second, of four
large rooms used for class and CLUB
rooms, children's library, sewing and
embroidery classes, children's savings
bank, evening classes in history
French, drawing, stenography, ETC.
The house needs money, of course, to
carry On endless classes in housekeep-
ing, carpentry, canes eating, as we'll as
music, dancing, etc. Mary j. Lychins-
ka Of the Pestalozzi- Froebel house,
Berlin, discusses s'Froebel, Stanley
Hall and Henriette Schrader,' chiefly
considering and deploring Stanley
Halls failure to understand Froebel in
his educational works. Mary Adair
writes on special schools as fields of
observation for kindergarten students.
There are several papers on plays,
very pretty stories and rhymes and
much good advice to kindergartners.
An extract from an extempore adj
dress by Miss Alice Woods of London,
Eng, speaks of a ''rock ahead which
she fears will wreck the standing and
influence Of kindergartens, unless pre-
vented; that is, the constant and grow
ing demands that young girls, students
from the training colleges, just going
out to test their own abilities, should
Immediately not only take the full re-
sponsibility Of kindergarten depart
ments, instead of acting as helpers
until they find how well they can do,
but should also train other teachers.
Miss Wood observes that lit is simply
impossible for young students to train
others when they leave the training
~
and no one has any right to expect
them to do it. And yet / think might
honestly say l scarcely ever get let
ter asking for trained student which
does not make this demand. 1t is
just this spurious training that is go
ing on throughout the whole country
that is leading people to think that
Froebelism is of no avail Spurious
training creates spurious kindergar5-
ners; these are springing up ali
around us, and unless we set our faces
firmly against this, we shall go to
ruin, I am afraid" Miss Wood says
that she constantly gets letters like
this about young and inexperienced
girl, which she quotes: "Will you
kindly tell me whether she is capable
of taking the entire responsibility Of
the kindergarten department which |
am just about to start, and of training
a young student?" 1t is Miss Woods
belief that these demands rise from
the desire to save money, though that
such saving is wasting is apparent to
any one of common sense. 1t must be
hoped that no such suicidal procedures
are going on in this country.
The Need of Physical Training.
Maud Gleason in the magazine enti-
tied Health-Culture, while heartily ap-
proving the opportunities given work
ing girls to add to their store OF knowl-
edge through the classes maintained
in all girls clubs and college settle
ments nowadays, deplores the l,tle at
tention paid to physical culture, and
SC to bodily health She refers to the
fact that in nearly every ward in the
city of New York evening schools
painting, wood carving, sewing and
cooking, the pupils being women who
support themselves; but she feels that
they do not go far enough, that when
the stenographer adds a knowledge
of Spanish and bookkeeping to her
stock in trade it is of little avail to
her, if she does it at the expense of
needed rest or bodily exercise. Mrs.
Gleason says:
would it not have profited her
more had she learned how to reserve
her nerve force and add to her vital
bank account, instead of exhausting
her entire surplus, leaving her poor In
deed Health is wealth, to one of her
class especially. The woman with
bright eye and ruddy cheek can obtain
a position twice as readily as her over
worked, nervous sister whose circula-
ton is impeded, causing muddy com
plexiOn, tired and listless air. Men
pay for work and they expect good
work; they do not care to hire a young
woman who is compelled to stay out
q day or two every little while on ac-
count of a sick headache or a sore