The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-04
AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING.
Normal Training School of the Free
Kindergarten md It's Work.

TO the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Nearly $4,000 have been collected and SUBJ
scribed for the Normal Training School of
the Free kindergarten of Indianapolis.
Plans and pictures of the future building
are being considered, and it is expected that
the edifice will please lovers of architecture
and be generally approved. The exterior is
to be simple, beautiful and graceful in
every way, and the interior will be as airy,
light and commodious as the hand of man
can make it. This school is intended for
the training of kindergarten teachers; they
pay for their training. People who wish to
do good" in the world have found meri-
torious object in the Free Kindergarten, for
this institution teaches small and often neg
lected children to do common, everyday
work well, such as washing. ironing bed
making, cooking, sweeping, busting, mend
ing, sewing, table setting, dish washing
scrubbing and the like; this is it's principal
good. Very cunning the chubby little chill
dren look, sweating over their little wash
tubs, cooking and ironing, with intent ener-
getic faces, skillfully handling their little
utensils, learning TO be exact. neat and in
dustrious. Many of the philanthropic move
ments OF this age are dubbed mischievous
Dy the knowing ones, and with good reason
enough, but movement that consists in
setting small children diligently at work
and giving them taste for work must be
commended. Here the philanthropist who
wants to refine and elevate humanity can
find good chance; beginning at the bottom
with small children. teaching them elegant
and refined ways of performing the daily
work of life. and teaching them the charm
and delight of working in the best manner.
This must be useful. A child once taught
TO serve a simple meal in a neat. delicate
and economical manner is taught one good
thing for life. Those who wish TO stop
drunkenness could not do better than by
helping on the Free kindergarten Training
School. Good cooking is the best preventive
of drunkenness, says Thomas de Quincy in
his famous essay on drunkenness which is
the finest disquisition on the subject ever
written, and good cookery is taught IN
small children in the free kindergartcns
Many a young fellow drops into intem-
perate drinking on account of the suffering
caused by poOrly-cOOked meals i'm his ston1-
ach. 1t may be possible that through the
influx Of the Latin tribes who are naturally
temperate, and through the incubation of
good manners in children, and through
other reasonable means the American neo
pie VIII yet become temperate nation An
American may be able, somewhere in the
future, 10 take glass OF beer or wine at
MS own table. sip IL properly, like a WELL
bred human being. get some good out of il
and do this without soaring his whole fam
lily, cat, dog and all, who think he is lost at
once. Temperance in the use of beer and
wine Is not an American trait at the pres
ent time, and yet wine is a beautiful form
OF fruit stored for winter use. and beer
helps plain meal prodigiously Nobody
wants drunkard in this world the LIQUOR
interest and the beer brewers least of all !.
the efforts of the teetotalers far have not
saved us, perhaps early instruction I'm good
manners In the free kindergarten NAV helm
towards general inclination to temperate
and good behavior in every way. The on
portunity OF learning the best and quickest
way of doing work dressmak king cutting
and everything else i'm the Free Kfndergar-
ten causes the mothers gladly TO send their
children to these schools. They see the
children acquiring not only knowledee bur
a certain nice, self-respecting way OF living
This work Is done through the teachers
from the Normal Training School
Indianapolis, Sept. 3. MARY DEAN.