The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-27
: SOMETHING NEW.
Showing . Few object Lessons in
the Humane Kindergarten.

The gossips say that the earth is a
ball and that statement will do for
mere hard fact. But ever since elec-
tricity girdled it, it has been to the
mental vision a vast plain, with an
extent of two hundred million square
miles, from the very center of which
rises a high mountain fromEhose very
top the seer may daily observe the
whole.
With such an area for observation
it would be strange If there we're not
always something notable to report,
and this morning what especially
catches our eye is point in the city
of New York. There lives in that
city lady who is not only lover of
animals, but willing to work and make
personal sacrifices to show her affec-
tion. So great has always been her
sympathy with horses especially, that
speaking in the metaphorical sense
common to poets land are not lovers
and philanthrophists poets p she
laughingly declares that she was
"born in stable"
This lady, Mrs. Myles Standish, hav-
ing country place in the Berkshire
Hills, was especially impressed by the
thoughtless and ill-instructed treat
ment of horses among the rich, and
casting about for some means for
helping this, she was inspired to
gather some of the boys of her own
neighborhood into her own stable and
instruct them in the needs and proper
treatment of these good friends of
man.
The experiment was successful,
and, as every idea with life in it may
grow, this small beginning become a
movement in New York, which has
for its aim the conversion to humane
methods of thinking and acting, of
the entire generation.
This movement has nothing to do
with schools; its founder and her
helpers may be said to have simply
gone into the streets, picked up the
children and organized them into an
army of.workers under the name of
our "Animal Protective League
This army is divided into chapters,
of which the latest report describes
seventeen with such names as,
"Tiger Chapter, ""Young Defenders "
knights of the Round Table" Dew.
ey Chapter" "Lioness Chapter" "(this
chapter consisting of girls) and, beau
tiful to relate, there is "Deaf-Mutes
Chapter"
Each chapter has grown person to
lead it, so that it is thoroughly or.
ganized and managed, with regular
meetings and much enthusiasm. In.
deed, in the report it is stated that
MANY thousands could at once be
added to the membership of the
League, but they could not yet be ia.
ken care of or properly organized. In
the meantime, the League seeks to
make every chapter member re.
sponsible, active and expert force in
practicing and spreading kindness tc
animals. Every member, besides
having thorough training in gener'
al humane methods, the care of dogs
cats, ETC., is taught by actual dem.
onstration all the points of harness
and Harvesting, and is on the alert
for tight check-reins, improperly ad.
justed harness, and badly shod OF
overloaded horses, at the same time
seeking courteously to have the fault
remedied, without formally reporting
it, where possible.
Into this League are imported all
sorts of elements of interest, which
seem to make of each chapter real
Club; and within it are a Base Bal
Club with a, number of teams; a
Glee Club under direction of Mr.
Henry Burleigh, Soloist at St
Georges; a Scrap Book Committee
which pastes animals pictures inte
books and presents them to the
children's hospitals. And there is q
Swimming Club. A "Field Club" II
to make nature studies in the country
in summer outings.
Actually, the Chapters expect tt
camp out for some weeks this sum
mer! This organization costs some
thing. Beside great deal of work
there was expended for it last yea
over five thousand, FIVE hundred dol
lars.
Now, what have their promoter
got for. their money? Practically ;
great, growing, ramifying Society o
Children, a Society filed with inter
esting pursuits and companionshipe
and founded upon the principle o
loving kindness to all living crea
lures.
; These children are, according t
the proverb, the fathers land moth
ers) of very large number of tn
coming men and women of New Yorl
, Are they not certain to be real fact
or in raising the grade of its civilizs
tion. ~
Is there any city with populatio
, too highly humanized to need thl
infuence9 CRESTON SAND.