The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-10-12

'u''nScN nalI was rOWucd TO tho
doors yesterday at the closing session
OIL inc state kindergarten meeting. by
the action of the board of control the
primary teachers were allowed the at
terioon for attendance at this meet
ing and they were out in full force.
TheH listened to delightful addresses
ana must have received much benefit.
Owing TO illness. Miss Anna w. Will
Hams, superintendent of public kinder
gariehs IN Philadelphia, was unable TO
be present. Her place was filed most
satisfactorily by Mrs. Wilson.
Miss Underwood. supervisor of kim
~hersartens in this city. presided. cap
tain May. chairman of the teachers
committee. was unable to be present.
and Superintendent George Howell
made the address of welcome for the
afternoon. Prof. Howell is greatly in
sympathy With the kindergarten move
ment and his address was valuable
from every point of view. lie began
most happily by quoting from George
Eliot, as expressing a universal
thought: II like not only To be loved
but | like to be told that | am loved"
He not only welcomed the delegates
of the state Kindergarten association,
but told them that they were welcome
to the homes and hearts of Scranton
people. He believed that the best edu-
cation was not always to be found in
books. but to be gained by social and
spiritual contact with cultured men
and women, and that these delegates
were not ordinary ones. but messon-
gers of wisdom. who will leave With
our schools the benefit of their eXp"i-
fence and study.
HAS DONE GOOD WORK.
The Scranton kindergarten in con-
nection with the public schools. have
been in existence but ten years, but it
is the concensus of opinion among the
primary teachers that the children
coming to them from the kindergarten
are more obedient. more confident. less
refractory and more alert than those
coming from the nursery. The speaker
said that he had ull faith in the kin
dergalt"ii system cNemplifI ing the
courage and wisdom Of Iroebel. the
child emancipation. lie particularly
emphasized the Importance. that ii is n
vital part OF the SchOO system ana not
d mor" a~ppendagc. and that there
should be no sudden transition, ne gulf
ol rhaSln. betWeen it and the primary
SchOo1. He WAS most earnest in urG-
ing the teachers to advance the idea
of coordination with the kindcrGai-
tens ana make their methods Il conf
mon ground. In conclusion. he hoped
that the visitors you'd go away carry
ing the news that We are doing in
Scranton all that can be done for the
| best interests of The child.
Mrs. l.. +. Wilson, tho state presi-
dent, made a pleasing response TO the
address of welcome. in which she CAV"
Il brief history of the state %associa-
ton, 1t began with less than a dozen
members in 1897. n now numbers
more than 100. Incidentally. she paid
a high tribute to tn" PENNSYLVANIA
legislature of 1901. which has made
free EindergartcnS u part of the pub
lie school system Of the state.
y pleasing portion of the programme
We're tive charming solos by Mrs. II.
II. Brady, .ir. She sang. Sweet Lav"n-
der" and "M~avourncen." Miss Anna
Mcleod acting as accompanied.
MISS ALLISON'S ADDRESS.
Miss Georgia Allison was next in-
troduced. She gave an excellent adj
dress. beautifully expressed II full OF
thought, ON Some Reasons Why the
kindergarten Should Have a Permam-
cnt Place in I~IduCation." 1t included
a brief review of the kindergarten
work in America. She divided it into
four periods. I'roebcl started the first
kindergarten in lS40. Eliza Peabody, a
relative of both Nathaniel Hawthorne
| and Horace Mann, became interested
In Froebel books. Went to Germany
and studied the system, returning to
Boston. from which it has spread far
and wide. Boston helped to define its
workings. The neNt movement was in
Florence, Mass. and was phi!anthropi-
cal in its tendency. looking toward re-
demp,ive plans. The national move
ment began in ST. Louis. while tho
fourth movement was IN Chicago, in
The work anon mothers. In Boston,
the development of ideals Was the
| handspring. The expression of self,
| the respect of the rights of others, IN"
best good for the family; tn" hone
and national life.
1t Was in Florence, Mass, that AIR.
| Hin CAV" the money Ia support the
| first Kindergarten. His gife was fol-
low ed by Miss quincy ShnW's work
in supporting thirty k~indersartenS in
Boston ion fourteen years.
Mrs. Phoebe \. Hearst supported all
! the k~indergdrtens in Washington, D..
| g.. until congress made them II part
| of the public school system. Others
| who could not give so largely, formed