The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-10-09

| the ifSt. Whatever was possible Tor
us or the parents to correct has been
corrected. The child is in as good
condition as we can place him for
the acquisition of knowledge. We are
ready for the. training of the special
senses, taste. touch, hearing. sight
| All ideas respecting nature and the
properties of things are limited to our
sensations. Here again we meet the
deaf and blind-the mentally deaf AMI
blind Elizabeth Harrison says:
The one thing that prevents us from
being what we might be is the dull
and stupid way in which we use our
senses
Again: Two seemingly parallel
lines may be but an inch apart at
their origin, but be ten feet apart at
HE end Of mile
The naturally dull perception may
be blunted still more, or sharpenei
| into wonderful acuteness. Strange
it is that when educators SO far back
as the time of ROsseua recognized
The value of sense training, it is only
within recent years, or not until the
advent of the kindergarten, that any
special attention was given to it.
The gifts. occupations and games and
indeed, all the exercises of the kind.
tend to develop the senses, and it is
. hopeful sign of the times that the
kindergarten leaven is beginning
70 work in the primary schools.
Glance moment at the special
senses to determine their compare
live value, and order of development
and the extent to which each may be
cultivated. Taste, the lowest sense
VI all. the one most neglected by edr-
Gators. has, without doubt, the great
est effect upon the morals, and dur
ing the first dozen years of q childs
life should be developed with the
same care as the control and use Of
,h@ muscles or any organs of the
body. t'roebpl, in his Education of
Man, says in the early years of a
chila's life his food is q matter of
Great impol antc. 1t may make him
INDECENT or active, dun or bright in
ert or vigorous; not for the present,
only, but for his entire life AT a
later period in life all the accumulate
; "a wealth canot procure for children
what greater insight and clearer Wis
ion might easily have supplied. How
: many children are taught--even urg-
, ed, to cat candy, pickles and highly
seasoned, rich ana indigestible foods.
EhiS does not mean that children
hou,d he totally deprived of these
nings, nut hat they should be taught
hat such things in abundance are
harmful and the sense of taste should
be used as a means for the cultivat
ion of moral SELF control When the
appetite is perverted and gets beyond
Sho control of the moral sense. the
importance Of care in forming tastes
is understood. for the effort at re-
forming is often a heart breaking
failure. The perfect character is the
} perfectly controlled will. Smell walks
4 hand in hand with taste, though its
development is slower. 1t aids as a
suile to the selection of food. is the
4 }.ief Dependence Of the chemist, a
j 0aver falling friend to the biologist
lids the physician i'll determining the
I nature on many diseases and affords
[ ms much aesthetic pleasure.
7 Ru The higher senses, touch, sight
2na hearing are the ones most con
O arnad in ini4l!ectual growth Organ
y = touch gives the child his rs
! knowledge Of the world. In the prog
= .ess from infancy to childhood Tho
sense OF touch is the main depend
II nee. BY. means Of it the child get!
i ais FIRST perception Of form. The ely,
j, profits by The knowledge gained ant
L by and by releases touch of the neccs
L ly Of examining the ball to find tina
. il is round, the basin 20 find that on
: ide is cuncave ana the other convex
| atc, or of measuring the distance
t. between objects by the amount o
y | muscular energy required to get from
II one to t.ze other. Il first all thing
g Within the range of vision seen
y eqaally hear to the child.
s. Who has not seen a little chilt
" grasp at something across the rOor
i and noted his look of ncomprehen
II sion al finding his hands empty?
G. Without the sense of touch the m,
= fial forms ON the earth would neve
10 We known. All would be alike, neitl
l. ~ smooth nor roueh, round nc
= square. blunt nor sharp. when tn
chill Grew to manhood he would h
rs unhing down stairs, over chair
- anywhere II people were deprive
10 II the sense of touch all industri;
~ oecupa ions would have to ccas
o, Note here the value Of manual trail
s. ing as carried on in our city schoo
or today
IN Tho extent to which touch may
ak cultivated is illustrated in the cas-
~, # Helen Mellar, who gets the though
&c If a friend by placing her fingers {
IS his lips and her thumb on his thro;
to IS h. speaks. Al the worlds ia
afser passing hcr hand over sever
or pieces Of statnary. she said: "Th
tai one feels sad" II was The statue
L. Melancholy,
ne The sense of hearing is next in Il
H. scale of ascent. Without it all cXis
he anle would be still as the chamber
'ul death. Through it comes some of Il
,er grea'est pleasures OF life But Il
an aesthetic value of hearing is t,
es, thoroughly Well known and appr
on. cia,ed 10 Be dwell upon. This sen
OF 100, is capable of wonderful guilty
no ton, as IS evidenced in the case
nm musicians Hunters and travele
us become 50 expert al measuring d
OIL tancsS BY sound that it serves the
Viii almost as we'll as sight.
lay BAT alas il is oS;ima.pd that fro