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 curiosity. and it learns the Fundamental lessons Of life without knowing that 1t is being educatei
 From the pleasant room. with pleasant faces, kind voices, music and flowers, the child carries new ideas to it's home. and presently the mother Is interested. The teachers and the room have something for her ss well as for her child; and she too begins to learn cleanliness. order. the sweetness of life. More than this, she is taught to help the teacher by making her home like the Kindergarten; and so the influences and habits of the streets are fought and overcome. not only in the kindergarten but in the home, and the kindergarten becomes an oasis in the desert of the teneu.ent house life.
 .sThe street. with its evil edaca&ion---a school in which all kinds of vice are taught-has no enemy so effective, so thoroughgoing. g, dangerous, as the kin- dergarten; and nothing would clean New York morally more radically and -perma- ncntly than the opening of kindergartens in such numbers that all the children could be taken out of the streets and taught the primary lesson of wholesome
 
 This fight against the street the New York Kindergarten Association and simi- lar organizations in other cities are carry ing on at every point where they. can command the money to equip and support 6 school They are doing a work which the public schools cannot do; they are organizing the skirmish-line in the fight to save the children of the tenement house. This work Is fundamental: 1t is done at the most receptive age; and 1t Is the only real answer to that pathetic "cry of the children which rises in the streets of our great cities. and to which no gem erous man or woman can be indifferent. That cry ought to be heard and needed in every home in which children are loved and guarded"
 MEETING CRADLE
 CHAPTER U. D. 0. The regular monthly meeting of the Cradle of the Confederacy Chapter was held at the home of the President yes- terday afternoon at o'clock.
 There was a most enthusiastic meeting of about thirty ladies. A most interest ing report of the Tuscaloosa convention was made by the Chairman of the Cradle Chapter delegation. Other important re- ports were made by several committees Arrangements for the reception and card party were perfected and committees ap- pointed. The Chairman of each Commit tee is as follows:
 Decoration Committee, Mrs. J. Kirk man Jackson; Refreshment Committee, Mrs. Vincent Elmore: Committee on Ar Mrs. H. Weeden, Mrs. E. Mattel. Mrs. Wing, Mrs. Calhoun; Prize Committee. Mrs. W. B. Kelly.
 The following patronesses will add bril- lancy to the occasion:
 Mesdames J. l.. Gaston, J. l.. Hall, R. F. Ligon, Louis B. Farley. J. s. Pinck- ard Moses Sable, Sam Sabie. W. c. Oates, Joseph Norwood. Charles Moritz. w. J. Drum, Halls Janpey, Alex Rice, James P. Ferrall, Naham Greil, T. B. J. w. A. Sanford, ST.. L. l.. Hill, Jona- than Haralson. James s. Wilcox, J. A. Kirkpatrick, F. Persons, Leon Well, Ed. Trimble and R. P. Dexter.
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 The Brooklyn Eagle of the 2ith an- nounces an engagement in which Mont gomerians will be much interested. It is that of Miss Edythe Woodworth of Brooklyn and Mir. Robert Caldwell Whit ing, formerly of Montgomery. son of Mrs. Mary c. Whiting. The Eagle says:
 MT. and Mrs. A. L. woodworth of 75 Halsey Street. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edythe Wood worth. and Robert Caldwell Whiting of Manhattan
 NOTICE MUSIC STUDY CLUB.
 The eighth and final meeting of the season of the Music Study Club will be held this afternoon at 4:SO at the studio of Mrs. Bennett Griffin on Washington Street. A full attendance is desired.
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 NOTICE.
 The Ladies Aid Society of St. Mar garet's Hospital is urgently requested to meet this morning at Il o'clock at Weiss- ner's Hall.
 NOTICE.
 The Free Kindergarten at St. John's Church extends a cordial invitation to all in Kindergarten work, to be present at their exercises Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
 This Kindergarten has been in opera tion all the winter. It is now in flour ishing condition. having an average at- tendance of twenty-five pupils. and the daily increasing. We hope next winter to have from forty to fifty children AnniA Glenn peanher