New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-12
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boy was very small certain children used 20 come
and play house with him different represent
ing different members Of the family Another boy
was always the father. and day my boy, tired
OF his suhordiuation. tentatively suggestedshat no
be father once. 7 shall never forget the scorn
with which the girl who Was playing mother
turned upor him and said: what. & father! ana
no trousers Ny youthful son and heir meekly
withdrew al claims u was obvious that father
in kits impractcable- The dramatic instincts
OF children make them see what is ir or out OF
keeping iu the game. II YOU listen you will be
surprised 20 how all viii Weld their wishes at
times when one presents view Of the case forcioy
as the little girl did I'm this case.
THEIR DRAMATIC INSTINCT.
Another Illustration of their dramatic instinct
is thei- utter abandonment TO the game. one day
y saw small boy climbing over a grape arbor.
4 The father OF family resruiug his family I'm "a
storm az sea. believe Ct solneth:ng equally eK-
a tiny child co-lc barely talk As she vatcheg
F him ste c,esqed Ter tiny hands f. an access q
. imagination and exclaimed
/ - '0h husaard husband. DO not Re rash"
lie she hs6 simply Forgotten herself and was
. living u the part -, -.--
/ than wien I was a child I think my children
PaFea theT5 less nan ola p, Here plsvSd
othsr children seemed 20 play them To- the same
reason Tho kissing vas rot a specially important
Children viii play events out Of their own lives
Ing with exactly what they left or the nsht
before, with 2 morotony which "ou-d seem Hlh--
older people can sometimes set glimpse OF
watching chilGrcn's play one gentleman told ne
that he sat on a veranda a-1 listened to ms lwo
/ daughters The older said 90 Inc younger. Now
you must be conbed and washed and have clean
The motions Of the proposed actions were faith
fully performed. and then The little one set on 70
meet papa. The older one slipped aronnd anothes.
way and met ner in the person q the father And
give you my word' ssa ne . fgS ss Ssa ,hst
! child It made me feel very funny. can't believe
! DO IL that way. ana yet there was what went
before all correct and true 20 he
EDUCATED THROUGH PLAY.
a band OF boys who used 10 come to play with
ny hoy. became irnbued with the commercial spirit,
/ and played business all one winter. They kept
/ accounts and worked In arithmetic that they
would have felt abused 20 have been obliged TO do
J IN school In pursuance of playing business they
/ room TO another. Then they put on the cities and
! salIoao connections, ana bought ana soio goooSS
/ from point 10 point They insisted on real wool
sIiqRtesf idea thew were stUdyne lever Inter
Tered, except when they consulted me some moot
/ point, and then i always tried 70 think OF some
. game more interesting
In listening 70 play one will often be enabled
made by children. / listened TO children playing
clergyman said In the nam ne % h n. Fatb pay Ing
sor- ana into TIC hole you go
ceremonies, which they we're Incapable OF compre-
! Mrs. Hooper dealt gentle little feminine slap at
the other speakers OF the institute for their faulty
/ enuuciatiOn.
4 have been told that some OF the lecturers at
I the institute very difficult Of comprehension.
because Of their indstinctness OF arti.ulation'
said she y believe begin IN children's
earliest plays 10 insist clear articulation.
PhilOogists say that our language Is in state Of
fux. and that certain words which seem
quite ineXcusthle are IN the process az absorption
into irreprOaChab3e English.
7 am conservative enough 20 wish IL were not
80. and thar the purity OF the language might be
preserved But At least, II we are to talk slang.
. let Us tnu-ciate our slang correctly
Mrs Hooper announced her conservatism IN an
other Inc by dsprecating the trend q the educa-
tiOnal system toward more and more electives.
7 believe the individual who and does play"
said she is q more value 20 the community than
who does not. But that play should be made
the vehicle Tor conveying the entire education
am not so sure I hate 20 give up tic old academic
lines OF study. What 81 a IS a hoy going
70 make Who elects ri hrs studies. from the Hugh
School on? How IS his character 20 be rourded7
lie is going TO elect only those things which he
likes. Therefore be Is 10 be educated by what is
really play TO him. I knew boy whom every
branch OF Mathematics easy that. II lie
had not been required % pay some attention TO
languages. which he hated. nc would have
ouired no mental discipline ~ all"