Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-23
CHILDREN AND ORA. ING.
What Peculiar Things Youngsters Dc
With a Pencil.

what Peculiar Things Youngsters Dc
With Pencil.
Children who have not attained the
age Of six years are not admitted to
grade work in the public schools. If
their parents insist on sending them to
school they are placed in the kinder
gartens, where they may enjoy the
blessings of the games and symbolic
exercises provided for them there.
In almost every instance the child
entering the kindergarten asks for
pencil and paper and declares that he
or she wants to draw pictures"
Few of the children select human be-
ings as a subject for sketching. The
majority turn to animals, principally
of the domestic order, and nine out of
ten of the children tell the teacher
that they are going to draw cat"
While the majority of these cats may
seem as if produced by the imprints of
a chickens foot, some of the children
accomplish things which would do
justice to those whose mind, eye and
hand have received more education.
In the assembling of the different OBJ
jects in the picture there is often pro-
duced a harmonious impression on the
eye. There is an attempt at filling in
the foreground and making provision
for middle distance and background
almost as if the little picture makers
had studied under experienced tutors.
One little boy was asked by his teach
er to draw a picture of horse. After
he had worked with the pencil for an
hour the teached tried to look at the
paper he was drawing on. The small
boy tore it up and began to weep.
"Why, Willie" said the teacher,
what on earth is the matter with
you?"
81 could only get two legs on him."
sobbed Willie. "His other legs was
behind them two"
A boy who was told to draw pic.
ture of a COW drew picture of a
barn. When the teacher asked about
the cow she was told that it was in the
barn, and she could not see it because
he had forgotten in drawing the pic
ture and had shut the barn door.
A child was asked by her teacher
what she would like best to draw.
After hesitating minute she an
swered:
"My mamma told my papa last night
she'd like to draw the interest outer the
bank, and my papa lighted with her
about it"
One of the teachers in the primary
department of one school directed the
pupils in her class to draw an elephant.
When she collected the drawings she
found that in most of them the pupil
had draw an object with four legs,
and beside it what appeared to be a
box. When she questioned the children
about the box part of the picture, they
explained in turn that it was the ele-
plants trunk and asked if elephants
did not carry trunks when travelling.
In one school, where many of the
pupils are children of socialists, one
of the teachers asked the pupils in her
class to draw anything they liked"
Sixteen of the children drew pictures
representing strikes tween the work
ingmen an the boss"
But in all of the primary schools the
cat seems to be the favorite subject,
dogs, chickens and horses coming next
in favor. And in almost every in
stance there is an individuality in each
picture produced which distinguishes
it from the work done by other child
artists.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.