New-York tribune., 1905-01-05
FOR BELLEVUE'S TOTS.
Board of Education Establishes
kindergarten IN Hospital.

With little bandaged heads happily forgotten
and little game legs tucked under their dining
tables. eighteen oonvalescent children Bellevue
Hospital folded paper and drew pussy willows
and listened TO stories all yesterday afternoon.
They had been gathered from the various wards
for the kindergarten class which the Board OF Ed
ucation started at the hospital Tuesday. and it
was quite evident that they having very
fine time. Cesar and Nero and little Filomina
and Yeta and Richard and Willie all watched
with rapt attention while the teacher showed
them how to fold piece OF green paper into a
picture frame and then paste picture in the CEN
tire. Even poor little pale faced Tom who lay
moaning in his crib with a fractured knee close
10 the kindergarten tables became interested and
whispered 10 the nurse that he would Ike TO try.
too.
Certainly. Tom, dear" said the teacher I'm
glad you want to
So Tom was supplied with a square OF the green
paper and the nurse arranged the pillows that
he could sit up. But the effort proved too much
for him and the paper soon dropped from his thin
fingers
In a few days he will probably feel like having
something to do.' said the kindergarten. Miss II.
Vandeventer. but he IS suffering too much to-
day"
There were only two other children in the ward
who were not able join the class. little
boy who sat strapped in a chair in one corner
and the other a little girl strapped TO a board in
her crib. The kept calling Justify all the after
noon for a glass Of milk, which he did not in tbs
q picture book as good gold About half a
dozen children had been left in the other wards,
and these had all been provided with picture
books.
The kindergarten was started at the request Of
the hospital and was suggested by the superin-
tendent of the nurses training school, Miss De-
lano who had seen the benefits OF such in
struction in PHILADELPHIA hospital where she was
previously employed
Children often have TO spend many months in
c1id day
pity that they should waste so much time when
X isn't necessary. Most of children come with
fEaetgTed "a pes sTo v er education should be
interrupted and the tendency OF a hLt-e oef'4ft
The Kindergarten is the first OF the kind 70 De
opened by the BoaTd or baeeCio o1f bag 5e
raire5 one for some time the Childs Hospital in
F4fty-frst-st., and another was carried on for a
auspices Of the Hebrew shele1ng 5garaisn ns go
Tandeventer, who is. therefore, not entering a
@of course a hospital kindergarten has to be
somewhat different from an ordinary one, sala
MISS r1 SICK Children in the ward We won't be
see & - frscfuTed limbs as is the here can't
nisv many of the ordinary games; But there are
QUIET games that we can play ana lot OF other
The Board Of Education provides both the teacher
] 1tc @ Slowly the teacher arrived before the equip
sn and 4T be + e0F abas aTa Being Used
snetead OF the regular kindergarten tables. and
things were found among the hospital stores The
TIIssy willows for yesterdays lesson were provided
SyieE DeIano and Interested little folk great
~ After they had been drawn Miss Vandeventer
nassed them around 10 let the children feel their
soft coats. -, 49, - the .+a,, ..
si.e .tyTonId S tbev crv II we did, asked Nero.
..Nfavhe they'd scratch" suggested Cesar
N1Jse Vandeyenter assured them that the pussies
would neither cry nor scratch, but. nevertheless,
tbev y,ere rot to be pulled of the stems Because
little folk loved pussies was no reason why they
should pull them TO pieces. 49,. ,..os
! IL afternoon,
Of The morning because the morning is the ousy
time in a hospital, and all the chlIoren nave 10
have their various wounds dressed.