The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-08
CARING FOR THE LITTLE ONES
KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM EXTEND
ING ITS FIELD OF WORK.

The Trinity Mothers Club Organ
tied and VIII Meet With the
Chatham Club-ChiId study the
Purpose of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Yamacraw kindergarten to Have
"Evenings" for Children Over the
kindergarten Age.
The mothers meeting last week at
Trinity Kindergarten was quite as
large and as enthusiastic as the meet
ing of the Chatham mothers the week
before. They approved SO heartily of
the action taken by the Chatham
mothers that they formed a similar
club with the following officers:
President--Mrs. r. w. Green.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. c. H. Sawyer,
Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. A. M. Johnson and
Mrs. Sax.
Secretary and Treasurer-Mrs. Vim
cent
The object of the club is child study.
Trinity and Chatham clubs will meet
together the third Wednesday in ev-
cry month. The next meeting will be
held at the Chatham Kindergarten
Dec. IS at o'clock. Visitors are al
ways welcome, and new members to
both clubs will be received. The year.
ly dues are nominal and will be used
to provide material for the art of
basketry, which will be taken UP la
ter on.
The formation of clubs for child
study and the study of education is a
national movement. In February,
1887. the National Congress of Mothers
was organized at Washington, D. c.,
with Mrs. Burney at it's head. A gen.
erous worker in educational fields,
Mrs. Hearst, gave the financial aid
necessary to establish it firmly. AT
first there was no thought of separate
organization in the states, but in the
fall of 1898 New York state began its
own work, with Mrs. Mears of Albany
as president. It's first meeting was
states have organized separate
branches, all of which are affiliated
with the National Congress of Moth
ers.
For the last three summers at Chau-
tauqua it has been Miss Bacl1us' good
fortune to know Miss Mary l.. Butler.
who is promoter of the movement, and
whose leaflets. have been used in many
mothers clubs over the country, as
and physical problems of the child's
growth She is much interested in the
work of the South in this direction,
and has promised her assistance to the
Savannah clubs.
The Yamacraw kindergarten is not
behind hand in good works, although
they take a different direction. AL a
meeting held at the kindergarten
Thursday afternoon. the mothers and
i ! To- L..
older boys and girls. One mother said
II feel quite satisfied about my little
ones they are being cared for in the
kindergarten by you ladies, but / sec
boys and girls from twelve TO twenty,
all shout here, who make my heart
ache. They have no special place to
go, nothing very much to do for amuse-
ment, and gradually they get into bad
habits. They are not bad, anyhow. at
first, but what they do is SO bad for
them"
Miss Hardee and her assistants at
once offered to open the Kindergarten
sometimes in the evenings to the boys
and girls, to let them use it as place
to play games, talk, and dance If they
care to do so. Some one will be there
to play the piano, aud as the large
hall is lighted and heated by the Edi-
son plant across the street, these mat
ters can be easily arranged. The first
social evening will be held some time
in January. Any one who would like
to help to make these evenings a sue
cess may confer with Miss Backus.
at her residence, No. .416 Waldburg
street. east, or by Georgia telephone
1881.
The kindergarten principals and stu
dents are set of busy people, to whom
outside assistance is always cordially
welcome. When one sees the various
kinds of activity that grow out of the
kindergarten work as a natural order
of things, one is indeed astonished at
its wide-spreading influence. Some one
has said that the kindergarten will
prove the lever that will lift the world.
and it looks indeed like true proph-
ecy.