The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-01
MISS SUSAN BLOW TO
TALK ON CHILD NATURE.
Prominent Educator Mt LawtOn
Memorial Friday Night.

Memorial Friday Night.
Friday night Savannahians are going
to have the rare and delightful oppor
tunity of hearing Miss Susan E. Blow
speak on child nature. 1t was, until
yesterday, considered impossible to
get Miss Blow here, owing to her very
tull itinerary, but, after much effort,
the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten
has secured her services. 1t would be
unfortunate if on a Southern tour, en-
bracing Knoxville, Asheville, Charles
ton, Atlanta, Birmingham and all the
other cities prominent in educational
lines, Savannah were omitted from
the list.
Kate Baldwin Free kindergarten, to
which, it will be remembered, the city
owes a very successful lecture from
Mrs. Lucretia Willard Treat of Grand
Rapids, Mich, three years ago, has
arranged matters on a basis that allows
of Miss Blows lecture being free to all
interested in children, child study and
education. The lecture will be held at
the Lawton Memorial Friday, April 8,
at $3.50 p. m, and admission is free to
all, no tickets of admission being re-
quired. This, of course, will insure a
large audience, and those wishing good
seats should be prompt. Everything,
heretofore, that has been done under the
auspices of the Kate Baldwin Free
Kindergarten has been so successful
that a most interesting evening may
safely be promised.
Miss Blow is a woman who enjoys
the distinguished position of being one
of the highest authorities in the edu-
cational world of to-day. She is we'll
known in st. Louis, Chicago, New York
and all the Northern and Western cit
les of prominence and has engagements
fr,r. 1Arafr fo,, Oh .-l,o
make them. DIR. William T. Harris,
the United States commissioner of edu-
cation says of Miss Blow that he
considers her intellectually second to
no other thinker or writer on educa-
ton of the present time, and she num-
bers among her friends and fellow
workers all the best educators of the
country.
Miss Blow has chiefly made her name
as the best translator and commentator
that Froebel has ever had, and her
original work, symbolic education is
considered to embody the highest kind
of philosophical thought. Her Letters
To a Mother" the latest of her works,
is especially well thought of in the ed
ucational world, and her series of
questions on "FroebeFS Mother Play
Book" are considered to be unequalled
in depth of scholarship and thought.
She is a practical educator, as we'll as
a philosopher, and a woman of most
charming personality, so she is we'll
fitted to advance the cause of educa-
ton. Her reputation is too wide to
allow any one city's claiming her at
present, but her earlier life was spent
in ST. Louis. Although primarily
Kindergarten and a most devoted stu
dent of Froebel, it may truly be said
that nothing educational is foreign to
her, and her presence is most eagerly
sought after at all educational conven-
lions.
Miss Blow is accompanied on her
Southern tour by Miss Harriet Mel
who represents the kindergarten sys-
tenn of Washington, D. c., and who
acts as her business manager and trav-
cling companion. While in Savannah
Miss Neil will be the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. George ]. Baldwin, and Miss
Blow will be with DR. and Mrs. T. P.
Warning. Savannah is indeed fortunate
to secure a visit from such a person.
age in the educational world, and no
doubt the opportunity will be much
appreciated.